Grade Level
Upper
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Cardboard Challenge
Inspired by the story of Caine’s Arcade (see video on YouTube), our upper school students joined forces with businesses in the community to launch a “Day of Play” for our lower schoolers and other elementary aged children in the community. While the event was designed to appeal to lower schoolers, upper schoolers found leadership opportunities […]
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Hill School wrestlers hit the mat, and the books
This short video highlights The Hill School’s wrestling program, which welcomes both new and seasoned wrestlers and looks for student-athletes who are highly motivated academically as well as athletically. The head wrestling coach, Mark Pearson, Ph.D. — Hill class of ’78 — is an English teacher and author whose most recent book “Famous Last Lines” […]
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The Hill School joins forces with community to demonstrate it “CARES”
On October 25, 2013 — the day before National Make a Difference Day – all 505 students from The Hill School plus faculty members and staff joined forces with Pottstown, Pa. volunteers to put a 700-volunteer clean-up crew on the streets of Hill’s shared community. This “Pottstown CARES” (Community, Awareness, Responsibility, Empowerment, and Sustainability) endeavor […]
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2013 OCS and NCO Leadership Schools
From August 18 to August 24, 2013, Hargrave Military Academy hosted its 2013 Officer Candidate School (OCS) and Non-Commissioned Officer School (NCO). Led by COL Mike Cloy (USA, Ret.), the Academy’s military department prepared Hargrave Cadets for leadership rolls for the 2013-2014 Academic year. Highlights from the week are shown.
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Torch: Helping Light the Way
In the rich tapestry that is student life, I cannot think of a more important and delicate thread that weaves through a school than the examples set by its emerging student leaders. At Sandy Spring Friends School, this exemplary fiber intertwines with the Quaker testimonies of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship (commonly referred […]
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Tree Planting at The Awty International School Supports Sustainability Projects
Our school planted a native Texas oak tree on school campus on October 4th 2013 and registered it on ForestNation website. The tree was dedicated to Ms Kristi Winegarden, a science teacher who, a couple of years ago, started our sustainability committee’s work and long-term objectives toward recycling, reusing and reducing. She is now teaching […]
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OES Winterim Off Campus
Oregon Episcopal School Upper School students have the option to take a trip off campus for a one week Winterim. These trips are a lot of fun, but more importantly they cultivate the character of our students. Every Winterim trip is focused on Service Learning and/or Language Immersion.
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Putting physics into action
Upper School physics instructor Dr. Matt Greenwolfe saw a problem last year in his mechanics course. He knew his students were learning what they needed through their worksheet problems, but they weren’t having that knowledge reinforced by seeing it in action. Like the good scientist he is, Greenwolfe approached the problem, studied it and then […]
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Microsoft Kinect and Some Molecular Dancing
Kids love video games but some remain unenthused about molecular geometry – I tried to fix that.
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Vermont Commons School Students Run a A Campaign for Health Care in South Sudan
Tenth-grade students at Vermont Commons School (VCS) partnered with the Sudan Development Foundation (SUDEF) to create a video about SUDEF’s work bringing health services to villages in rural South Sudan. The partnership grew out of a Challenge 20/20 project undertaken in the students’ Global Studies class, taught by Mark Cline Lucey. The VCS students were […]
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Communal Understanding through Drawings, Post-Its, and Poetry
Students were asked to analyze a vignette in House on Mango Street and create a shared bulletin filled with student work and community. They first drew a visual image, based on a vignette, meant to create an emotion. Students then completed a gallery walk and posted comments on each other’s work regarding the artistic decisions […]
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Student Says School Saved His Life
In my junior high classroom, Grandparents’ Day fell on a Friday, and every Friday my students read aloud their writing assignments from that week in small groups. I assigned a short essay on how my students see their grandparents in themselves, and that Friday invited the attending grandparents to come and listen to the essays […]