Grade Level
Upper
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Year-End Collaborative Program Relieves Stress, Re-Energizes School Community
The last few weeks of school can be stressful, what with upcoming finals or just year-end fatigue. Allendale Columbia School’s May Term combats this issue by transforming the final 12 days of the school year, re-energizing students and teachers, providing opportunities for collaboration, and fostering a love of learning. Students in grades 6-12 are given […]
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Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) student's mobile app named a "World's Hottest Start-up"
Manshu Sharma, Hill ’17, has been offered the chance to present to leading business leaders and innovators at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 13-16, 2017, in recognition of a mobile app he and other high school students founded. His group, creators of the meetHere networking app, are not only the only […]
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The Global Citizenship Institute Helps Students Create Action Plans to Address Issues of Local and Global Significance
Global citizenship is an essential part of education in our highly interconnected 21st century world. As students and teachers we have a responsibility to understand the impact of these interconnected systems on the world at large. The Global Citizenship Institute is is an innovative collaboration between Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria and St. Mark’s School […]
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It All Started With A Conversation
Starting in the 2014-2015 school year, scholars at E.A.Young Academy in North Texas were frustrated as they began to learn about educational inequality in third world countries. They scholars knew they were few in number and felt helpless to make a difference for such a large, complex problem. Over time, they researched ways to help […]
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Project-Based Learning Activities Turn Students into Experts
For seniors taking Charleston Collegiate School’s year-long Exhibition of Mastery program, individually created scholarly projects require problem-solving, researching, and presentation skills. Supported by a team of faculty, outside advisors, and students, seniors become experts on their topics, and the results are examined and evaluated in a unique, public demonstration of knowledge—symposium-style exhibitions before the CCS […]
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Learning Experiences Help Students Find Their Potential, Attain Their Dreams
Eagle Rock School students aren’t admitted as freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors, but rather as adolescents interested in taking control of their lives and learning. They must complete a minimum of six trimesters, time for sufficient personal growth and character development. Graduation is based on demonstrated competencies rather than more traditional “seat time” and grades. […]
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STEM Brought to Artistic Live
The Bullis Upper School hosted renowned sculptor and lecturer Rebecca Kamen as artist-in-residence to teach 11th grade biology students to create artistic visualizations of biology concepts. Ms. Kamen investigates and demonstrates how art and creativity can enhance innovation and understanding of science. Her artwork considers a wide array of scientific fields to capture and re-imagine […]
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Nature is…
This year Conserve School decided to change things up on picture day by inviting students and staff to not only get their picture taken, but to also respond to the prompt – Nature is. Conserve School’s focus is environmental stewardship and this creative activity allowed individuals to explore both their own thoughts about nature and […]
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From Ideas to Prototypes: Hands-on Projects Cultivate Design Mindsets
As sixth graders, science students at Castilleja School begin developing skills as designers and engineers while creating interactive devices. They learn about sensors and actuators, programming, troubleshooting, and how to face frustrations that arise from failed iterations while celebrating improvements and successes, however incremental. Fast forward to the senior year elective, “Biology and Economics of […]
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Innovative Schedule Supports Intensive Learning
In a variety of settings, ranging from their upper school campus to downtown Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and Paris, Hawken School students and teachers in grades 9-12 spent the three weeks between Thanksgiving and winter breaks immersed in “Intensives,” which offer hands-on, extensive study of a single subject. With the school’s unique schedule, students can practice […]
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Students' Art Installations Demonstrate Plight of Girls' Education Worldwide
Throughout the 2016-17 school year, Ranney School students in Monmouth County, NJ, have been working on a special cross-disciplinary project to support Global Peace & Justice, which is #16 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a follow-on program to the school’s 2015-16 SDG partnership with the UN and Monmouth University, the History […]
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Peace & Justice Project: Phase II Photography
The Peace & Justice Project at Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) continues, with Upper School photography students creating projects that demonstrate peace in nonverbal ways. Throughout the 2016-17 school year, students will be working on special projects to support Global Peace & Justice, which is #16 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The […]