Grade Level
Middle
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Children Helping Children at Jonathan’s Place
Jonathan’s Place, a Garland-based temporary homeless shelter for children and girls’ treatment center, received special gifts March 25th from a group of students from The Winston School in Dallas. Students in the Middle School Student Government and members of the Upper School Leadership Team joined forces to load and install landscaping mulch throughout areas of […]
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McLean School. Transformational.
Success Starts Here. If your child is bright—but swimming against the current to learn—McLean School may be a great fit. We serve students with mild to moderate learning differences—including language-based differences, ADHD, or anxiety—who thrive in a kind, student-centered academic and social environment. We also serve traditional learners who simply do better with smaller classes, […]
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Students at The Grosse Pointe Academy Become Scientists, Inventors and Innovators
Enjoy this animated introduction to The Grosse Pointe Academy’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) initiative. Watch how students used iPads and took advantage of the Innovation and Design Center to discover new ways to learn.
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Grosse Pointe Academy Middle School Students Get R.E.A.L.
The Grosse Pointe Academy initiated a pilot elective program this past school year for its middle school students called “R.E.A.L.” (Real world Experiences and Applied Learning). Each elective class met once a month through the spring for a total of five sessions, and students chose from a variety of options. “One of the goals of […]
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Designing for Innovation
What do you get when you bring together faculty teams from each division and frame mission-focused inquiry around a design thinking framework? You get our first successful Innovation Institute. Over a five-day period this summer, a diverse group of faculty came together to explore the concept of time and how it impacts teaching and learning […]
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Public Park Mural
2013-14 Friends School of Minnesota middle school student council worked all year on a mural in Horton Park across the street from the school. Students wanted to give back to our community through service using the Quaker values of simplicity, peace, community, justice, and integrity.They wanted to make Horton Park a place that is more […]
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Cardigan’s Charles C. Gates Invention & Innovation Competition
The Gates program at Cardigan began seven years ago, thanks to the inspiration of past parent, Diane Wallach P’06, whose late father, Charlie Gates, was himself an inventor and innovator. With the support of the Gates Frontier Fund, the Charles C. Gates Invention & Innovation Competition program was able to get off the ground in […]
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iPad Program Puts Dana Hall on Leading Edge of Mobile Learning
Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Mass. launched a 1:1 iPad Program for students and faculty. Teachers adjusted their curricula accordingly, making sure that students get the most out of what the innovative devices have to offer. In just one school year, iPads have become an integral part of daily life at Dana Hall. Both in […]
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MAD Lab Inspires Children to Challenge Themselves – and Create
Rosemont School of the Holy Child in Rosemont, PA has created a cutting-edge space to ignite the Middle School student’s curiosity. The MAD (Media, Arts, Design) Lab has focused more on process than product by giving our students the opportunity to tinker, collaborate, and create. By manipulating objects, re-imagining them and creating something new out […]
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Ninth Annual Bissell Grogan Symposium
Brimmer and May School held its ninth annual Kenyon Bissell Grogan Humanities Symposium, Seeking a Better World: Individuals Working for Change. The Keynote speaker, Dr. Jonathan Gruber, P ’18, spoke about “Health Care Reform in the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future.”Mr. Gruber addressed why our health care system is broken and why we need to […]
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“Battle of the Books” Challenges Students to Think Analytically and Creatively
In March, Middle School students accepted a new challenge from their teachers that combined writing, reading comprehension, and artistic ability. The annual “Battle of the Books” competition would still encourage students to read, write, and think more imaginatively, but a new “triathlon” format would give them the freedom to combine a variety of skill sets […]
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Taking “Journeys,” Exploring Challenges
Three times a year, K-12 students at Journeys School of Teton Science Schools in Jackson, Wyoming, examine and explore solutions to issues in their world. Aptly named “journeys,” each unit of study is intentionally designed to teach students to understand and weigh the social, economic, and ecological components of local and global communities, and to […]