Grade Level
Upper
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Milton Hershey School: Hatching an Idea in Algebra Class
For some, algebra, with all its letters and symbols, formulas and equations, can seem confusing. Learn how Milton Hershey School teachers are doing with baby chicks to encourage exponential growth in their students.
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Houseparents at Milton Hershey School
Houseparents at Milton Hershey School significantly impact the lives of our students. Because houseparents work so closely with students, houseparents are important role models, teaching students life lessons and core values. As a residential school, we truly care for the needs of the whole child, and houseparents play a substantial role in ensuring student success. […]
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Alumni Return Home for Career Day
Milton Hershey School alumni returned to campus to offer career advice to current MHS high school students. Students could hear from those working in career paths such as business, medical, journalism, and law enforcement. Learn more about the success of our alumni in the video below, and how their knowledge helps to motivate our students.
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#EarthDay #wintermatters
We care about climate in western Maine and are teaming up with the author of DEEP The Story of Skiing and The Future of Snow and watching the film Chasing Ice to start our Earth Day events. Campus energy use tours, a celebration of local foods, vernal pool tours, reclaiming run off water for gardening, […]
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Would Working With Wood Change your Working?
Though the Tuxedo Park School Art Program has always incorporated a wide variety of materials, with the expansion of our tools and materials Mrs. Sweeney is taking the students’ knowledge of and experience with wood to new heights. In Upper School, students work together to build a bench out of reclaimed pallet wood. In Middle […]
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Building our solar future at Midland School
For over a decade, Midland 10th graders have annually helped install a 3-kW grid-tied solar array alongside faculty members and a professional electrician after writing technical reports on how photovoltaic systems work. Each array meets another 3% of our school’s electricity needs; currently 30% of our needs are met with student-installed arrays, and at this […]
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Inspiring others to love and appreciate our beautiful world!
Liz, Class of 2015 at St. Paul’s School for Girls, was challenged by her English teacher, Michelle Stoll, to write a poem celebrating our beautiful Earth. Liz wrote a lovely poem, which was then submitted to the Department of Natural Resources poetry contest for the 2013-2014 year. She captured the prize last spring as the […]
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Outdoor Center Offers Challenges, Teaches Life Lessons
Imagine a week of no homework, no uniforms, no tests or quizzes, and no classroom confines. That’s what students at The Linsly School in Wheeling, WV, get to experience each year at their second campus, the Linsly Outdoor Center (LOC) in Hookstown, PA. There’s no worrying about grades either; the goal is to build life-long […]
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, The Hill School Class of ’67, speaks on preparation for life
The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) recently presented Pennsylvania’s Governor, Dr. Tom Wolf, a member of Hill’s class of 1967, with its Sixth Form Leadership Award. Enjoy this short video of highlights from his speech. Governor Wolf was selected for this honor by the sixth form (senior) class. The award acknowledges an individual who, through his […]
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Maker’s Movement Comes to Rowland Hall
The quest to solve problems by making tools from available materials has marked the advancement of cultures and satisfied the human desire to invent since the beginning of time. Right now the Maker Movement, based on the idea of constructing knowledge by building physical artifacts with real-world applications, is taking the country by storm. Two […]
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Dance Concert Lands on a Visceral Level
This year’s annual Rowland Hall dance concert titled, “Ground,” featured 87 Rowland Hall students, ages 11 to 18, and dance forms ranging from ballet to modern to hip-hop. The evening began with a high-speed chase throughout the theatre and culminated in an intimate reflection on dancers’ experiences of joy, sadness, and anger. This performance engaged […]
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Milton Hershey School: The Art of Happiness
Visual and Performing Arts students at Milton Hershey School were challenged to create art designs depicting happiness with partner Hershey Company’s candy products. The art is now displayed in Target’s headquarters. The VPA Department offers your child a wide variety of sequential classes, activities and performing groups in all of the arts. The department offers […]