Grade Level
Upper
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The Hill School Celebrates Diversity Week — Every Week
The Hill School, in Pottstown, Pa., is a very diverse place. Our 500 boarding and day students are drawn from 29 states and 25 foreign countries. Students of color make up 37 percent of our students, and 19 percent of our young men and young women are international. Recently our students were invited to help […]
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Urban Planning & Building Resiliency at Sewickley Academy
On May 6, Sewickley Academy’s Grade 9 social studies classes took place in the city of Pittsburgh. Grade 9 Human Geography students participated in an “Amazing Race” experience, where teams of students traveled to four different places in Pittsburgh that connect to their study of urban environments. Students were faced with the challenge of using […]
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Milton Hershey School: The PA Farm Show
Students from the Milton Hershey School who showed animals at the Pennsylvania Farm Show sharpened their skills in the school’s AEE program. One student, junior Elijah Shirk from Bellefonte, PA, picked up seven ribbons in the week long event. To learn more about the AEE Program at Milton Hershey School, visit http://www.mhs-pa.org/programs/aee.
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Idealism and Humanity at San Francisco Waldorf High School
Through the Idealism and Humanity class at San Francisco Waldorf High School, ninth graders discover themselves within a group and explore ways to resolve differences of beliefs and ideals within society.
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Near Space Balloon Launch
Members of Trinity-Pawling’s Robotics and Engineering Club launched their first payload into near space earlier this year. The “Taccolytes”(the group’s name pays homage to a Renaissance engineer and contemporary of DaVinci) spent several weeks planning the launch of “Resilience I”. Students were responsible for ensuring the structural integrity of the airframe and payload; the establishment […]
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Be the Change
“If a Providence Day student leaves here ready to be an agent for change, ready to make the world a better place, then I think we’ve done as good of a job as we could possibly do as educators.” – Mr. Lee Tappy, Freshman Class Dean With that mission in mind, the entire 144-member Class […]
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International Baccalaureate Biology Students Raise and Release Brook Trout
Stoneleigh-Burnham School students in IB Biology recently completed their months-long “Trout in the Classroom” project by releasing the Brook Trout they had raised into a state-approved river near the Greenfield, Mass., school. The project began in December when Stoneleigh-Burnham School received 200 eggs from a hatchery in Palmer, Mass. On January 10, the eggs began […]
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Doing Business: Students Take On Real-life Marketing Challenge for McDonald’s
Advising McDonald’s Corporation on its marketing strategy is not something the typical teen would expect to do on a school day, but 10 Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Upper School students recently had just this opportunity when they were invited to participate in an independent study project to help the regional office of McDonald’s communicate more […]
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Outdoor Opportunities at Conserve School
Students talk about the opportunities for exploring and learning about the natural world while spending a semester at Conserve School.
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Our Global Family
HIES currently maintains formal sister-school relationships with high schools in Sapporo, Japan, Briey, France, Cape Town, South Africa, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The purpose of the HIES sister-school program is to promote cultural awareness and sensitivity, as well as to facilitate foreign language study where applicable. To this end, students hold regular video-conferences with their […]
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Students Stay at School to Serve Their Community
Students at St. Mary’s Ryken are experiencing a different kind of community service – this spring, the community came to them. The newly formed Southern Maryland Community Resources group sought to provide a special needs ministry for those who have “aged out” of the activities provided by the public schools. To help get the program […]
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The Flipped Classroom: Turning learning on its head
For several classes at St. Mary’s Ryken the sequence of classroom learning has been turned on its head or “flipped.” What it means is that students watch a teacher-created video on the lesson at home, and then come into class the next day to work on the problems, questions, essays, etc., associated with the lesson. […]