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The Hill School's Wallach Scholarship for Military Families Wants a Few Good Potential Leaders
Amelia Sniffin, Hill ’19, was the first ever recipient of the Wallach Family Military Scholarship, created through an endowment from alumnus Marshall Wallach ’61 and his wife and sons. This scholarship funds an annual need-based scholarship that can cover up to 100 percent of each recipient’s demonstrated need. The award, provided by the Wallachs to […]
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Gamifying the History Classroom
What does it mean to gamify your classroom? History teacher Sara Shreve-Price has been exploring this idea with a Civil War game she developed for her US History class this December. The game is organized on Canvas as a series of levels each representing a period from 1844-1877. Students work through quests along the way […]
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Broadway’s Hamilton Meets Harvard Business School
Gann Academy is beta-testing a novel approach to teaching American history as part of a pilot program developed by Harvard Business School. The program asks students to step into critical historical moments when difficult decisions were made, assume the personas of key figures, then argue their positions. “It’s a fascinating way of having students relive […]
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Gann Academy's Arabic Program is Opening New Doors for Students
Ninth grader Danielle Bejerano’s first language is Hebrew, her second language is English, and Arabic will now be her third. Danielle is taking first-year Arabic at Gann, one of several world languages students can study in addition to Hebrew. Two levels of Arabic are currently offered, with plans to add additional classes in the coming […]
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Student-Led Gender Equality Club Offers “Beacon of Hope” to Worried High Schoolers
When Indian Springs School senior Katie Wiatrak saw sexism affecting current events, including the 2016 presidential election, she looked in vain for a place to discuss it with her peers. “So I decided to build one,” says Katie. “I gathered my closest friends and the head of school, and together we founded the Gender Equality […]
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Meditation Practices Help Students Remember Who They Are
Four years ago, Hackley English Department Chair Dr. Richard Robinson began starting every class with a breathing meditation exercise. At first, he says, it was an experiment for his 10th-12th graders. “I wanted to see what would happen. They’d come into the classroom with their brains full of so much stuff — in a way […]
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Students Hone Leadership, Collaborative Skills in Challenging “Call to Adventure”
For about one-third of every school year, participants in the “Call to Adventure” Affinity Group at South Kent School challenge themselves and develop strong leadership skills through activities such as making small cliff/waterfall jumps, navigating caves, and climbing mountains. One example occurs each spring, when a group of 11th, 12th, and post-graduate students aims for […]
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Connecting People and Place—with Purpose
Connecting students to their local environment and community is an effective way to infuse learning with immediacy, relevance, and an expanded sense of possibility. Experiential learning weeks—or “spring intensives”—that help our freshman and sophomore classes take advantage of all that the city of St. Louis has to offer are the most recent examples of such […]
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Innovative Literature Course Examines Voice, Community, Service
This year, juniors in Kent Denver School’s English classes are researching, designing, proposing, and executing service projects that require them to think explicitly about their own values and communities — family, places of worship, school, city, state, country, and even the world. Before school began, they got a flavor for what was to come through […]
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Upper School Club Helps Students Gain New Perspectives on Community, Diversity
An Upper School club at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School provides an affinity space for students who identify as Black/African-American. Called Unapologetic, the club is a forum to discuss inequities and grow a sense of community for students of color. The club helps students find mentors and discuss opportunities and challenges they experience in the school […]
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Bolles Community Helps Clean Up After Irma
Numerous students, parents, faculty, staff and administrators volunteered their time on September 12 to help clean falling branches and other debris on the San Jose, Whitehurst and Bartram Campuses in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The entire girls’ and boys’ boarding program joined the efforts along with day students and parents from various grade levels. […]
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Saving Money with Solar Energy
If you think of the many ways a school impacts its community, you probably think about what’s going on inside its walls. But on top of the Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia, its solar arrays are improving the local environment, saving the school money, and contributing to the education of its students. Lovett is an […]