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  • We Challenge Minds
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    Ashley Hall Students Recite the Gettysburg Address

    To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Ashley Hall’s fifth grade students memorized and recited the speech for a class assignment. The students were featured on the local news for their effort as well as learntheaddress.org, a project started by documentarian Ken Burns to collect recordings of the Address.

    6 Recommendations
  • We Challenge Minds

    History 7 Students Simulate Hunter-Gatherer Life

    Hopkins students in History 7 have been studying hominid evolution and early human societies. In order to better answer the question, “Why did homo sapiens migrate around the world?” students engaged in a simulation of Hunter-Gatherer life on the glade between Baldwin Hall and Heath Commons. Divided into rival clans and using tessellation cubes as […]

    9 Recommendations
  • We Challenge Minds

    Science Gets Real

    For Greensboro Day School’s 8th grade science teacher, Tim Martin, it started in 2009 when he was selected as a Polar TREC teacher and accompanied an international scientific research expedition to Siberia to participate in the Lake El’gygytgyn drilling project. From there, his passion for bringing real-life experiments to his classroom grew. “One of the […]

    3 Recommendations 1 Comment
  • We Strengthen Communities

    Lake Washington Girls Middle School Service Project

    Over 45 students from Lake Washington Girls Middle School participated in a two-day service event in partnership with St. Clouds restaurant and Angeline’s Women’s Center. On the first day of this event, students met at St.Clouds restaurant, located in Seattle’s Madrona neighborhood, with bags of food donations and unbridled enthusiasm. John Platt, an Executive Chef […]

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  • We Strengthen Communities

    “Crêpes for Cameroon” makes a difference across the globe

    When they learned that their international French-speaking pen pals in Central Africa didn’t have the same educational access that they themselves enjoy at Hathaway Brown, students in Rebecca Graham’s French class decided to do something about it. The girls were so motivated to help in any way they could that they organized a special “Crêpes […]

    8 Recommendations
  • We Spark Creativity
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    LREI Students Cultivate Their Creative Confidence

    Fostering creativity is a key element of the LREI experience and one that is at the center of how we structure learning opportunities for students. So we were intrigued to read about the current OpenIDEO challenge, “How might we inspire young people to cultivate their creative confidence?” OpenIDEO is an innovation platform that brings people […]

    1 Recommendation
  • We Inspire Leadership

    Leading by Example

    What makes a leader? A leader in Middle School is hard to define. I teach MS Math, and a leader in my classroom is not the first one with the correct answer, or the one to always receive a 100 on the weekly timed test. A leader in my classroom is the student who stops […]

    5 Recommendations
  • We Strengthen Communities

    St. Mary’s Goes to Beautiful Lengths to Help Cancer Patients

    At St. Mary’s, an Early Education to Grade 8, private IB school, the month of October is dedicated to educating the school’s community about cancer. “Through assemblies designed to teach students about healthy lifestyles through diet, exercise and sun care– to students’ service learning opportunities, we want our community to feel empowered to affect change,” […]

    3 Recommendations
  • We Shape the Future
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    Beekeeping at Catlin Gabel School

    This video was made for the NAIS 2013-2014 Teachers of the Future group, which is creating and posting lessons online that combine issues of social equity, environmental sustainability, and technology use. We began keeping bees at Catlin Gabel School as a Garden Club, a group of students, teachers, parents, and staff that oversees our 2,000+ […]

    5 Recommendations 1 Comment
  • We Inspire Leadership

    Experiential Leadership Training for all Middle School Students

    Each fall, Middle School students embark on a one day field experience to hone their leadership skills. Whether they participate in rock climbing, low ropes courses, team-building activities, white water rafting, or zip-lining, students encourage one another, overcome fears, tackle real-world issues and learn the true meaning of being a leader. A Seventh Grader commented, […]

    5 Recommendations
  • We Challenge Minds

    Down by the Riverside: Middle School Math, Science and Humanities

    Friends School of Minnesota 7th and 8th graders go on monthly field trips to Crosby Farm Regional Park on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Paul. This interdisciplinary exploration combines math, science, geography, writing, and art with a focus on environmental education. Each month, they gather by the Mississippi to take river notes, […]

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    The Gift of Teaching

    A teacher’s dream is to work for a school that creates curriculum that resonates and to see students grow through curiosity and self-confidence. At Applewild School, a K-8 independent, co-educational day school with a rigorous accelerated curriculum in Fitchburg, MA, these goals are more than attainable: they’re heartily encouraged. Todd Goodwin is a US History […]

    3 Recommendations 1 Comment

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