Grade Level
Upper
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Engaging Alumni: The School of Today
Graduates of ‘Iolani School return to campus to experience being students again. While they discover that ‘Iolani’s excellence is being perpetuated, they also learn about the fun, innovative and creative ways students of today are learning. Alumni visit the Sullivan Center for Innovation and Leadership where real-world studies take place each day.
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An FIS student composer’s piece goes global
On Monday, 2 November, a young FIS composer got to hear his award-winning composition being performed by peers in Beijing via Skype. Having earned the distinction of “Highly Commended Work” in the Association for Music in International Schools’ (AMIS) Young Composers’ competition, Grade 11 Richard Blaquière’s “Prelude and Fugue for Strings” was prepared by the […]
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Battle Ground Academy: Success Starts Here
Battle Ground Academy is an independent, coeducational K-12 school in the heart of Franklin, Tennessee. Our mission is to ignite and nurture student curiosity, intellect, and character.
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Students Excel in Public Speaking and Head to World Championship
At the International Independent Schools Public Speaking Competition (IISPSC) in Toronto Oct. 23-26, Stoneleigh-Burnham School placed first among U.S. schools, and Claire Lane ’16 earned a spot at the world championship. Lane was the top speaker in Dramatic Interpretation. Lane will join Clara Swartzentruber ’16 at the World Debating and Public Speaking Championship in March […]
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The Ethics Institute at Kent Place School’s Ethics in Action Program Spends Weekend at Georgetown University
Five teams of students and teachers from Kent Place School and Trinity Hall spent the weekend at Georgetown University’s EthicsLab to explore the over-arching question: What are the ethical issues involving food in your school community? The Ethics Institute at Kent Place School partnered with Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics’ Ethics Lab to launch […]
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‘Iolani School’s Redesigned Art Space
‘Iolani School redesigned its Lower School art room to provide a more open and creative space for students. Here, a special “hands on” project demonstrates why the arts at ‘Iolani are alive and thriving.
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Student Researchers Head to the Top of the World for Arctic Expedition
In July, with temperatures rising in California, 12 students from The Harker School traveled to the Arctic for a special two-week research expedition focused on environmental issues including the impact of global warming. They visited Frogner Park and the Fram Museum, where Norway’s first ship built for polar research is kept. “We ran around the […]
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Roland Park Country School Repurposes Library to Encourage Active Learning
Libraries everywhere are reinventing themselves into places of active learning where “students can interact with content, technology, the space and each other.”1 Libraries are “becoming less about the housing of books and more about connecting learners to knowledge.” Rather than emphasizing quiet for individual study, the goal is to encourage collaboration and creativity. The modern […]
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Semester Program Empowers Students To Become Change Agents
High school juniors accepted into the Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki spend half a year using the natural world as their laboratory, learning the patterns and details of Maine’s coastal ecosystems and discovering how best to form environmentally sustainable communities. The curriculum also allows students to remain on track with academic coursework at their own […]
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UCLA Professor Talks to New Roads School’s GLASS Student Club About the Biological Link Between Body-Shaming and Obesity
While it’s no surprise that, particularly for young women, body-shaming causes emotional harm, it turns out that merely labeling a child as ‘too fat’ may trigger a hormonal response from the body that keeps him or her overweight even a decade later. This discovery was made by Dr. Janet Tomiyama, a distinguished professor in Health […]
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Into The Fringe: Harker Cast Performs in Scotland
Opening night: Director Laura Lang-Ree has her cast dreaming of Scotland. “You can’t even imagine what it’s going to be like,” she said. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the oldest of its kind. Harker’s participation started in 2007; the cast of “Pippin” performed in 2011. “It’s mind-blowing, the innovation and the quality of work that […]
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Students Go Beyond Academics in One-to-One Learning
Two classes are never alike at Oxford Academy, a boarding school for young men ages 13-20. Oxford’s one-to-one classes allow students to work in partnership with their teachers to build a course that’s not only right for their learning profile, but also incorporates their personal interests and hands-on activities. In an Applied Mathematics course, one […]