Grade Level
Middle
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Lighting a SPARQ: Good Shepherd Episcopal School launches new learning center
An 8-year-old imagines a dinosaur, designs a sketch, and watches as a Makerbot 3D printer brings his T-Rex to life. On the other side of a frosted glass divider, a group of eighth-graders produces a fictional news broadcast with green-screen technology. No, this isn’t a science museum; it’s a glimpse of what’s possible in the […]
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Building Global Partnerships One Gesture At A Time
The Philadelphia wind is harsh; it is seven-fifteen on a Monday morning in early April. The unzipped jackets of middle school girls flap open against their uniform shirts. They’re carrying buckets of water, a small brown basket lined with a blue kitchen towel, a plastic pail of layer’s grain, a handful of spinach, one shovel, […]
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Ready for a Promising Future
What does the future hold for Winsor girls? In this video, they reflect on what’s ahead for them and their school. In a world of change, they talk about the constancy of friendships and “real community” and the confidence of being ready for anything.
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Environmental Stewardship
We have shared our environmental strategy and its link with our business model with all of our students. We presented the cost benefits of our environmental leadership to our students and demonstrated how it is possible to blend operational efficiency with environmental excellence.
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Business School in Middle School
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 taught us a great many things. Money is fragile and we all need a better understanding of finances. There is no better place to start this process than 5th grade at The Woods Academy. This year we added a formal course for our 5th graders called, Business School. Personal Finance, […]
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Middle School Games Encourage Responsibility, Collaboration
Inspired by award-winning game designer Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk, middle schoolers at United Friends School (UFS) in Quakertown, PA, invented their own series of games they hoped would create new habits and foster real collaboration among players—ideas that could transfer into the real world. “Games for Social Change” began with students examining, playing, and writing […]
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GarageBand Class Creates Mini-Soundtracks
Students in the GarageBand App class at Tuxedo Park School were busy this past trimester creating exciting sound projects. For their final project, each student selected an excerpt from a literary work that they have read at Tuxedo Park School, recorded a voice narrating the passage (which serves as the voiceover), and then created a […]
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Visiting Scholar Challenges Students to See From a New Creative Lens
The All Saints’ Episcopal School Tad Bird Honors College presented Sedrick Huckaby, a Fort Worth native and Guggenheim Fellow, as part of the Visiting Scholar Series. For two weeks, Huckaby worked with All Saints’ students grades PK-12, on art and the creative process. Throughout his visit, 10 original works of Huckaby’s art were hung in […]
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KidLead Program Teaches Leadership in Lower- and Middle School
The desire to lead is what unites the graduates of KidLead, Harker’s successful after-school offering for lower and middle school students. Several years ago, Harker became one of the first schools nationwide to implement KidLead, an executive-caliber, globally recognized leadership training program designed especially for preteens. “It attempts to focus on developing leaders who have […]
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Bosque Students Making an Environmental Splash
When Mirabelle, a senior at Bosque School in Albuquerque, slipped and fell into the ice-lined Rio Grande River last December, her safety gear protected her; she was fine. She was actually more focused on the samples she’d been scooping up, which later tested positive for the chemical toluene. Those results were added to the data […]
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Mark Speckman
Mark Speckman, a highly respected and successful college football coach, spoke to Palmer Trinity students and teachers about “figuring it out” during a special convocation last week. Mr. Speckman was born without hands, and he has only four toes. But none of this has stopped him from enjoying life and being successful, both on and […]
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A Sense of Community
As the Nigerian proverb states, “It takes a village to raise a child”. For this reason, the decision of which school to send our son was an important one. While we certainly sought a school with strong academics, talented teachers, and differentiated instruction, we also looked for elements of character development, community service, and school […]