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Upper
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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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The Hill School accepted into ethical education program
The Hill School – along with only four other schools in the country – has been accepted into the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education (CSEE) Recognition Program for Excellence in Ethical Education. Last summer, Ellen Nelson, Hill’s chairman of the Arts Department and adviser to the Honor Council, met David Streight, CSEE’s executive director, […]
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Alum Is on Path to Improve Global Healthcare
Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) Alum Anna Rose Johnson ’08 is one of those students who, in a phrase, never stops. She is a perpetual thinker and an assiduous worker. She is confident, passionate and determined to fight for a better world. And over the past six years, starting with the launch of her own […]
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Engineering Class Visits Draper Labs in Cambridge, MA
Upper School Engineering students visited Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA. They met with a rocket scientist who showed them a video demonstration of GENIE, a completely autonomous rocket and planetary landing guidance system. A few Draper employees demonstrated a quadrotor drone equipped with a camera guided GPS system for navigating areas not receptive to conventional […]
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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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Trinity Hall Students Design Sustainable Furniture
At Trinity Hall, an all-girls college preparatory high school in Monmouth County, NJ, students use their own creativity together with hands-on projects to promote an understanding and appreciation of the engineering design process. The engineering thought process is so important to the school’s interdisciplinary curriculum that students are required to take four years of engineering/design […]
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International Day Emphasizes Global Learning, Cultural Appreciation
International Day celebrations at Wasatch Academy actually span nearly a week each spring, anchored by two highlights: the International Day Showcase and the International Food Court. Throughout the year, students from the nearly 40 countries represented on campus—including Liberia, France, Korea, Iran, Canada, and Ecuador—meld together as one community. Celebrating their differences is a way […]
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Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Seniors in Environmental Course Create Solar Lights
Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Environmental Science students created solar lights with Mrs. Meg Tredinnick to complete their unit on Renewable Energy. The lights will charge in the sunshine and glow when there is no sun. The students had to learn some basic electronics and how to solder to make them. Another exercise […]
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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 […]
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Consciousness-Based Education Equals Success for Maharishi School Students
It’s been an exciting year at Maharishi School, an open-enrollment preschool-grade 12 school in Fairfield, IA, with students garnering accolades in such diverse fields as creative problem-solving, science, and sports. Senior Avery Travis, a National Merit Scholar, credits her school’s “Consciousness-based Education” program for widespread student success, including her own. In May, six Maharishi School […]
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Cadet Leaders Become the Best They Can Be
Along with academics and individual achievements, leadership is one of the important core values cadets learn at Missouri Military Academy (MMA), a boys’ 6-12 college prep boarding school in Mexico, MO. Each spring, a process known as “designation” is a much-anticipated opportunity for juniors to earn a prestigious leadership position in their final year at […]
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Campsite Cleanup Crew
Conserve School is fortunate to be located adjacent to the Sylvania Wilderness & Recreation Area. Students and staff develop a special fondness for the wilderness area so it feels especially good to be able to give back and support it so that others can experience the joys of this unique place. Each spring students participate […]