Grade Level
Upper
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Cooperation, leadership, and respect
Oak Ridge Military Academy Head Dan Nobles tells of an eighth-grade girl who convinced her parents to bring her to the school. “I’m a leader, and I want to know more about leadership,” she said. At Oak Ridge every student has regular opportunities to practice leadership, but it’s not just so that kids can feel […]
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Global languages set students apart
College admission offices are often surprised by applications from students at Albuquerque Academy, where transcripts carry a stunning variety of modern languages. Beginning as early as eighth grade, Albuquerque Academy students expand their horizons beyond more traditional languages by opting into a rotating group of offerings that has so far included Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, […]
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Learning about the world and themselves through internships, service, and civic engagement
Each Wednesday throughout the school year, Madeira School students leave the classroom and campus behind—all day!—for a challenging sequence of self-exploration, service, civic engagement, and internship experiences. Taking advantage of Madeira’s Washington, D.C.-area location and connections forged over decades, the Co-Curriculum might be said to culminate in the eleventh grade, with each student interning in […]
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Unique Environmental Immersion Program Offers Students Sustainable Living and Learning Experience
Choate Rosemary Hall’s Kohler Environmental Center is the 24/7 home to students in a unique, year-long Environmental Immersion Program. Residing and eating at the Center while taking environmentally focused science and humanities classes there, students literally take control of their own environment. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern and situated on a previously unused campus […]
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Courage. Integrity. Leadership. Curiosity. Concern.
A lone figure faces an audience, ready for what feels like the test of a lifetime: “Audition” at Hyde School, where everybody — parents, students, teachers —sings an unaccompanied solo. Terrifying? Sure. But humiliating? No way. As Hyde president Malcolm Gauld says, “You don’t laugh at somebody when you know you’re next.” Audition is a […]
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Living Machine™
Environmental sustainability is a watchword at Darrow School, where solar energy, wind power, energy conservation, and organic food production are parts of the fabric of school life. The Living Machine™, an environmentally advanced treatment facility, processes wastewater from campus buildings via a bio-mimetic system using bacterial and mechanical filtration, with students performing many of the […]
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Game Design Encourages Computer Science for All
While computer games are still anathema at some schools, Porter-Gaud School embraces them as deep learning activities for every high school student. In their required ninth-grade computer science course and in an array of electives, Porter-Gaud students experience a “multimedia, multitasking, total immersion in technology.” A high point of the ninth-grade course is the game […]
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Menlo’s Bridge to Engineering, Science, and Technology
Secondary school enrollments in computer science, engineering, and physics are notoriously skewed toward boys. But not at Menlo School, thanks in large measure to M-BEST: Menlo’s Bridge to Engineering, Science, and Technology. Approximately 40% of Menlo girls participate in this intensive program in which students research a topic each month and build curricula for day-long […]