Region
Middle Atlantic
Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
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Headlines and Backstories
Culminating events get the headlines but the real work lies in the backstories. Every academic year at Kent School ends with students demonstrating their mastery of a subject area or participating in a full circle experience where students can showcase and share their knowledge. The work leading up to these events showcases our teachers’ continuing […]
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STARFEST: Create, Learn, Stargaze
There are so many reasons to love our rural, riverside campus and recently we added another one to the list. On a cool evening in February, the new moon and resulting dark night sky provided the perfect backdrop for our inaugural STARFEST. STARFEST was born from the discovery that our First Grade students, led by […]
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Small and Mighty Voices
The Kent School community recently saw the power of a child’s voice in action when Second Grader Lana recognized gender and racial disparity in a video presented by her Lower School Spanish teacher, Elizabeth Greenwell. Greenwell shared an animated video with her students to learn a song in Spanish. After watching the video, Lana noted […]
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'The Show Must Go On' – The Hill School Presents Its First Virtual Theatrical Performance
While many schools cancelled their theatrical performances due the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris McGriff, director of the Center For The Arts at The Hill School, saw an opportunity to do something that had never been done before at the School – put on a virtual production. McGriff wrote an original play titled “Jury Trial” and offered […]
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School Dog at Home
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, our Lower School teachers were finding it increasingly difficult to explain to some of their students why they could not return to school this year. Using Head of School, Nancy Mugele’s black lab, River, as inspiration, they created this story to share with students.
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Kent School's Grateful Story – A Video
Each year at Kent School, our Head of School, Nancy Mugele, chooses a word of the year that guides us in thoughts, actions and writing. This year, the word that guides is GRATEFUL. At the start of the school year, everyone at Kent School received a Gratitude Journal. We encourage students and employees to take […]
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Using Augmented Reality to Strengthen Community
“One of the things I love about our learning community is the way grade levels interact with each other,” says Mrs. Miller, the educational technology teacher. “While the buddy program formally matches younger students with older buddies, there are so many other ways students interact with one another. This project was great because the eighth […]
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Students at St. Paul’s School for Girls Build Living History Exhibit for Alumnae Weekend
Students in the Women’s History elective at St. Paul’s School for Girls (SPSG) partnered with the Development Office to create a Living History Exhibit on the history of SPSG, which was displayed for the school’s reunion weekend. Beginning with primary source research in the school’s archives, students brainstormed topics of interest, research questions, and initial […]
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Supporting the Kent School Community
Each year, students and employees at Kent School participate in Osprey Day, which is a day of service to our school. Students engage in projects to improve our campus and the surrounding area. In conjunction with Osprey Day, we created this video to urge support from parents and alumni to support the school’s annual fund […]
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What Makes Great Books for Early Readers? Just ask the kids at The Miquon School!
This winter the American Library Association (ALA) held its Youth Media Awards, revealing the year’s picks for best books, videos and materials for children—including the recipients of the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, and the Newbery book awards. Also familiar to many is the ALA’s Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, named for the children’s author better known […]
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Eighth Grade Poetry Becomes Blues Music
Poetry and cross curricular learning is alive, meaningful and robust at Kent School. Eighth Grade students study a blend of twentieth century literature, history, art and music throughout the academic year. The students read novels short stories, poems, plays and non-fiction articles to complete research papers. They read John Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury, Richard Connell, Langston […]
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Kent School Embraces Cross-Curricular Instruction
Kent School Inspires Deeper Learning with Cross-Curricular Instruction Teachers at Kent School have fully embraced the enhanced teaching and learning opportunities that come from cross-curricular instruction. Two recent projects illustrate the depth of student understanding when students can study one topic in different classes. Middle School Literature is selected based on the period of history […]
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#IMAGINEKentSchool
Kent School celebrates its Golden Anniversary this year. In celebration and recognition of this wonderful milestone, we created this video to introduce our theme of IMAGINE for the 2018-2019 academic year. With 50 years behind us, we look ahead to the next 50 years and IMAGINE our future with hope, joy and a vision for […]
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NEAL: Wetlands Field Day
Here at Powhatan, we use an approach called NEAL (Nature Enhanced Approach to Learning). NEAL is a lens through which we can teach any or all components of our curriculum. We use it to bring our students outside into the natural world and to bring the natural world indoors to our students. An authentic experience […]
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Kent School Links Middle School with Preschool Students
Kent School is offering a unique class called “Nature Buddies.” “Nature Buddies” links our Middle School students with our Little School students in a Chesapeake Bay Studies science exploration. “Nature Buddies” strengthens Kent School’s nationally recognized Chesapeake Bay Studies Program. Hannah Richardson, Middle School Science Teacher and Nature Buddies leader said, “This class brings students […]
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Kent School An Early Leader in Making Caring Common with Harvard GSE
Kent School is among the nation’s first schools and the only Preschool through Grade 8 school in Maryland to join a new national campaign to mobilize middle and high schools to prepare young people to be constructive community members and citizens who create a better world. Led by Harvard’s Making Caring Common project, the Caring […]
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Hill School Greek 3 Honors Students (and Teacher) Learn Virtually from Princeton Professor
Students in Mr. Turner’s Greek 3 Honors class had the opportunity to participate in a virtual class with Dr. Michael Flower, professor of classics at Princeton University. Author of a book on Xenophon’s “Anabasis,” Dr. Flower guided the class through lines of ancient Greek. Mr. Turner used this virtual lesson to connect what the students’ […]
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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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We Believe in Kent School
Each year our Head of School, Nancy Mugele chooses a “Word of the Year.” This year she selected BELIEVE. At Kent School, we use the word BELIEVE to inspire our students, teachers, and families to BELIEVE in the many facets of educational excellence, strong moral character, joy in our community and of course, to BELIEVE […]
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Why Shakespeare?
We’ve all seen it lately. Students – and adults – leaning over, glued to their mobile devices. It is so prevalent that there is a medical term defining it; text neck. More worrisome is the fear that students are not gaining the social skills necessary to succeed in a global world where collaboration and communication […]
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Running Club Benefits Social, Emotional, Academic Health
Thirty minutes before classes begin at Community Partnership School, students in the morning Running Club gather in a gated lot behind their school and begin doing laps, picking up a small stick each time one is completed. Physical Education teacher Nate Seidle, who began the program last year, calculated how many laps make a mile, […]
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How Problem-Solving and Cooperation Foster Competition
At Montgomery School, physical education classes are designed to build important life skills. Physical Education teacher, Ryan Naylor, enjoys challenging students to collaborate, communicate, and think creatively and critically, all while having lots of fun! He created a form of “Frogger” that requires students to use strategic thinking skills as they dart across the gym […]
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Kent School Students Use Chesapeake Bay Tributary as Classroom
In mid-September Emily Harris, Watershed Coordinator of the Chester River Association, visited Kent School to train and certify Grade 8 students to become Chester Testers. Kent School’s Grade 8 students will be responsible for testing and reporting on water quality samples they take from the Urieville Lake Branch. Ms. Harris explained the role of the […]
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This is The Hill
As “The Family Boarding School,” The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) is a purposefully small and close learning community — a place where academic excellence is based on a challenging curriculum and innovative teaching; a faculty of dedicated teachers involved with many aspects of our students’ daily lives; and a structured, supportive environment. This video provides […]
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School-Museum Collaboration Challenges Students to Engage, Empathize, Reflect
A new interdisciplinary and creative partnership between The Washington School for Girls and the Phillips Collection brought a museum experience to life for fourth and sixth graders. During numerous visits to the Collection, they studied artist Jacob Lawrence’s exhibit, “The Migration Series,” along with the works of contemporary African American artists McArther Binion and Whitfield […]
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Kent School First Grade Students Write Persuasively
Cheryl Plummer, First Grade teacher at Kent School in Chestertown, MD incorporated many teaching methods and learning opportunities into a request for a new classroom rug. Students wrote persuasive arguments using their weekly vocabulary words. They determined how large the new rug should to accommodate next year’s class by conducting interviews with the Admission Office. […]
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4 Ways to Bring STEAM to Life with Elementary Students
At Milton Hershey School, our STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) curriculum is a major part of students’ education beginning in elementary school. In our dynamic Innovation Lab designed for first through fourth-graders, students complete interactive activities that revolve around science, technology, computer programming, art, and robotics. With introductions to design thinking, coding, engineering, […]
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Milton Hershey School Students Use Technology to Enhance Educational Experience
Milton Hershey School has developed an Educational Technology Plan with the foundation of creating student-centered learning environments that are rich in problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity. Your child’s learning experience will be enhanced through the use of technology throughout his or her career at Milton Hershey School. In an ongoing effort to ensure our students […]
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Milton Hershey School Students Attend Global Summit in Peru
A group of 25 Milton Hershey School high school students and four staff members recently returned from a 9-day international trip to Peru where they attended a Global Leadership Summit on Global Citizenship, organized by Education First. The two-day leadership summit gave students the opportunity to hear from world-renowned speakers, attend educational workshops, collaborate with […]
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Ready, Set, Print!
Can a 3D printer replicate a real-life playground? Flint Hill Middle School Math teacher Erin McKavitt sought to answer this question with her Pre-Algebra classes this year. Last fall, in partnership with KOMPAN, the School opened three new, state-of-the-art playgrounds for its Lower and Middle School students. And inside the classroom, students had the opportunity […]
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Nurturing Leadership & Research Skills in Middle School
At Capitol Hill Day School, developing self-reflection and critical thinking skills is part of the curriculum for all students, from prekindergarten through 8th grade. In every classroom and on 300+ field trips each year, students are encouraged to ask questions, collect and analyze data, and present their findings. Beginning in 6th grade, Capitol Hill Day […]
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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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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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A Design Thinking Approach to Community Service
Students in Mrs. Diane Richards’ Intro to Design Thinking class are introduced to a five-step plan of creative problem-solving based on a human-centered approach. Last year, Mrs. Richards and students Michael Vanelli ‘19 and Maggie Pearson ’18 learned The Ricketts Center, the local Olivet boys’ and girls’ club, was not usually open on Saturdays due […]
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Miquon Uses the Electoral College to Select the ‘National Doughnut’
On the heels of the U.S. Presidential election, 5th and 6th graders at The Miquon School entered their own contest to determine a campus favorite. Electing the national doughnut simulated the presidential race, complete with campaigning, balloting and calculating votes. Simulation, an educational technique used in a variety of settings, presents students an opportunity to […]
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Children Run their own Restaurant
Recently at The Miquon School, first graders were very keen on making food. The teachers saw this passion as an opportunity to build on their students’ food-related curiosity with a new unit that would touch on many first-grade level skills and concepts. “When asked if they would like to make their own real restaurant, the […]
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Food Preservation
Students in Milton Hershey School’s Culinary Arts career technical pathway examine the many ways food can be preserved. See how they learn about the decades-old issue of keeping the over-abundance of crops and meats fresh for winter consumption. In this unit, the students prepare various meats to be smoked, make cider and quarter apples for […]
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Leadership Conference
Milton Hershey School Student Government Association hosted its third annual leadership conference for hundreds of MHS middle and high school students. This year, the theme of the conference was focused on aspiring students to be a “difference maker” in the life of another person or within their community.
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Besties
Children see the world in a wonderful way, they see the perfect world, and it’s a great reflection of their innocence. Milton Hershey School is what our country and maybe the world really could be, if people really took the time to get to know and understand one another. That creates a bond that surpasses […]
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Kent School Students Read Wonder and Host Speaker
On Tuesday, December 6 Vermont educator Sam Drazin will lead two engaging speaking engagements at Kent School in Chestertown. Mr. Drazin will address Kent School’s Middle School students in an assembly Later, parents and the community-at-large are invited to hear Mr. Drazin speak. Admission is free and pre-registration is required. Drazin was born with Treacher […]
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2016 Cooking Competition
On Friday, November 4, James River Day School eighth graders participated in the sixth annual cooking competition. Divided into teams, eighth grade students chose recipes and planned their menus. Later, the students shopped for and cooked a meal for a panel of judges. The students aimed to create tasty, beautiful, and nutritious meals while on […]
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Kent School Students Learn from Terrapins
For ten consecutive years, Kent School, serving Preschool through Grade 8 on the bank of the Chester River in historic Chestertown, MD has raised terrapins in the classroom in conjunction with several environmental organizations as part of the Lower School Bay Studies curriculum. The School’s most recent partnership with The National Aquarium in Baltimore began […]
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Art and Service Collide at Kent School
Kent School is hosting an Empty Bowls event to benefit The Kent County Food Pantry. Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger, personalized by artists and art organizations on a community level. The event is open to the public and admission is free. Guests will enjoy a variety of homemade soups and breads […]
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Leadership Program Teaches Skills for College, Work, and Life
Edmund Burke School’s signature Leadership Program is designed to give students in grades 6-12 the skills they need for life after graduation: how to listen, collaborate, manage a diverse group, and inspire an audience. This fits into Burke’s mission of preparing students to make positive contributions to the world. Eighth graders design and create events […]
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Terrapin Research in Lower School Science
For ten consecutive years, Kent School, serving Preschool through Grade 8 on the bank of the Chester River in historic Chestertown, MD has raised terrapins in the classroom in conjunction with several environmental organizations as part of the Lower School Bay Studies curriculum. The School’s most recent partnership with The National Aquarium in Baltimore began […]
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Wetlands Field Day
Our third graders have been studying the importance of the wetlands on the Crocker Conservancy. Students put on their muck boots and waded into the wetlands to discover which plants and insects were thriving in our calcareous muck fen. Students measured the temperature, pH, and levels of dissolved oxygen in the stream bordering the wetland […]
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Students Encourage Culture Change on Sexual Assault and Consent
In November, a group of Georgetown Day School students will host a Summit on Sexual Assault & Consent for Washington, D.C.-area independent school students, examining the implications of sexual assault at the high school level. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the complexity of sexual assault and consent issues guided by experts in this […]
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Building Bridges Between Cultures with Language at The Hill School
At The Hill School, our faculty support students in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the dorms, on the stage, and in the community. We created a series of videos that profile our dedicated faculty members who embrace what it means to live and learn at The Family Boarding School. In this video, Ms. […]
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Stone Ridge students design and build at the commercial maker space Tech Shop.
Summer at Stone Ridge is a great time to be creative and do your own thing. The summer Stone Ridge/Tech Shop maker class allows students to develop their own design concept and then build the design using state of the art commercial manufacturing equipment. By enrolling as members of a commercial maker-space at Tech Shop […]
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Middle School Entrepreneurs Take On The “Shark Tank”
Gladwyne Montessori’s 7th and 8th grade students capped off their yearlong Entrepreneurship studies with presentations to a carefully chosen panel of potential “investors” in Gladwyne Montessori’s Shark Tank. Following the style of the popular television show for entrepreneurs, students presented business plan proposals for the new companies they created going over profits, business goals, marketing […]
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Middle School Student Builds a Robotic Prosthetic Hand
Students in the Middle School Robotics club were asked to find to choose a real-world problem which they could solve through robotics. Jodie, an 8th grade student, created a robotic hand to help patients who may have lost their own hand.
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Dance Movement and Music Help Students Develop Personal, Environmental Connections
Baltimore Lab School students recently collaborated with dance therapist and architect Martha Raquel Herrera Muñoz and the non-profit PlanetArt Fund in a series of three-day workshops to create ocean awareness. Through dance movement and music, Muñoz, along with BLS faculty members Zac Lawhon and Jackie Lesh, helped students in grades 6-12 explore the concept of […]
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Interactive STEAM Fair Brings School Community Even Closer
This year, The Langley School hosted its first-ever STEAM Fair to celebrate its interdisciplinary, inquiry-based approach to learning and discovery through science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. In keeping with the school’s Arc of Development model, which underscores the ways in which the curriculum builds upon itself, the hands-on activity stations spanned all ages. More […]
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Beyond The Classroom at St. James Academy
Discovery, exploration, and inquiry are encouraged at St. James Academy. Administrators and teachers foster each child’s love of learning and encourage their creativity all while trying to protect their innocence and curiosity. One of the milestones of the St. James Academy’s Eighth Grade experience is the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program’s Community Project. This student-led […]
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The Hill School Is My Home
The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) has a flourishing performing arts program that includes outstanding instrumental and vocal ensembles. In 2016, the a cappella Hilltones and Hilltrebles poured their creative talents into this music video production that highlights key Hill community values and students’ emotional connections to the School, while also providing a scenic tour of […]
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Celebrating Women’s History Month: Amelia Earhart
Third-graders gave first-person presentations on presidents and famous people to their classmates. In celebration of Women’s History Month in March, one student dressed up as Amelia Earhart.
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A STEAM approach to Learning at Milton Hershey School
Milton Hershey School strives to provide unique and amazing learning opportunities for our students. A team of senior computer science students and their teacher completed construction of what is known as an ‘AR Sandbox.’ Learn what ‘AR’ is and how MHS students are learning from this eye-opening STEAM experience.
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Bristle Bots: How to use a Design Challenge to engage learners
Fifth graders recently completed a fun and engaging design challenge. Students were only given a list of available materials and tools in which to create a ‘Bristle Bot’ made from parts of an electronic toothbrush. The students worked in small teams, facilitating collaboration among the group. Students discussed ideas before building, reinforcing communication skills as […]
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Balancing Fun and Seriousness: Embracing the Multiple Roles of a Faculty Member at The Family Boarding School
At The Hill School, our faculty support students in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the dorms, on the stage, and in the community. We created a series of videos that profile our dedicated faculty members who embrace what it means to live and learn at The Family Boarding School. In this video, Ms. […]
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Students Spaceflight Experiment Heading to Space Station
400 students…209 proposals…35 semi-finalists…3 finalists…and then there was one team: Skylar Jordan and Amanda Kay, sophomores whose experiment “Shewanella oneidensis and Iron Ions in Microgravity” was selected to go to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. Students in grades 8-12 participated in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) at Bullis, developing proposals for […]
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Latin, Greek, and Life Lessons with Dr. Lake at The Hill School
At The Hill School, our faculty support students in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the dorms, on the stage, and in the community. We created a series of videos that profile our dedicated faculty members who embrace what it means to live and learn at The Family Boarding School. In this video, Patrick […]
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Small and Close Learning Community at The Hill School Fosters Meaningful Relationships Between Students and Faculty
At The Hill School, our faculty support students in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the dorms, on the stage, and in the community. We created a series of videos that profile our dedicated faculty members who embrace what it means to live and learn at The Family Boarding School. In this video, Mr. […]
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Arts and Honor: A Conversation with Ellen Nelson
At The Hill School, our faculty support students in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the dorms, on the stage, and in the community. We created a series of videos that profile our dedicated faculty members who embrace what it means to live and learn at The Family Boarding School. In this video, Mrs. […]
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“Flipped” AP Calculus Class Reimagines Learning
The “flipped” AP Calculus classroom at Bullis School shifts the mindset of what a traditional math class looks like, and it’s helped students become more independent, less-stressed learners. Lessons are studied at home, and “homework” is done in class. Back in 2010, teacher Stacey Roshan decided to completely change the classroom dynamic, starting with how […]
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Genius Hour: Learning How to Learn
Genius Hour is often described as a classroom version of a practice at Google, where engineers spend 20% of their time on pet projects of their choice; it’s estimated that about 50% of Google projects have emerged from this creative time. Fifth grade teacher Chris Loeffler introduced the concept to students by going through the […]
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Engineering at The Hill School
This year, The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) introduced a new and distinctive engineering program, Engineering 3 (E3), created by Timothy Jump, Hill’s director of the Quadrivium Engineering and Design program. This short video provides a lively overview of this class at Hill and shares a glimpse of Hill’s student and faculty excitement about E3. This […]
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Creating Synergy: Math & Art
In Betsy Bennati’s fifth grade math class, students are discovering fractions and creating works of art. When Mrs. Bennati first introduced the unit on fractions, she noticed her students were struggling with the concept. In an effort to combat the initial nerves of learning something new and complex, she asked students to use a ruler. […]
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Internship Program Proves Experience IS the Best Teacher
Each February, a two-week Winter Internship program at The Field School allows students to immerse themselves in the “real world.” It’s a little different for each of them — volunteering in a senior center; tutoring younger students; shadowing a Member of Congress; or experiencing the workplace alongside a zoologist, doctor, or art gallery curator. Holly […]
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Shakespeare & 21st Century Skills
Traditions and rituals help cement a school’s identity while signaling what a school values. This tradition has been a part of the school since the early 1960s, and the annual Shakespeare play is rite of passage for the eighth grade class. And while the play itself is a massive undertaking for these students, there are […]
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Researching the Day of the Dead
For the November 1st and 2nd Day of the Dead holiday, Montgomery School students in Chester Springs, PA, turned their sixth grade Spanish classroom into a “graveyard!” Each student was asked to pick a famous Hispanic who has passed away, research them, and then create a tombstone for that person. The tombstones were then set […]
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Connecting the Dots
The Germantown Friends School Lower School is covered in dots. No, it’s not a Chickenpox outbreak! It’s a mind-opening, community-focused art project that began with the best-selling children’s book The Dot. In the book, by Peter H. Reynolds, a young girl believes that she is unable to draw. Her teacher tells her, “Just make a […]
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Friends School Baltimore fourth, fifth graders partner with Baltimore City Public School peers on World Peace Game
Over 11 weeks beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, 15 Friends School 4th and 5th graders and 15 of their counterparts from Robert W. Coleman Elementary in the city’s Mondawmin community will gather twice weekly at Friends for an after-school club dedicated to playing the World Peace Game. (Note: Mondawmin was among the communities affected […]
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Roland Park Country School Repurposes Library to Encourage Active Learning
Libraries everywhere are reinventing themselves into places of active learning where “students can interact with content, technology, the space and each other.”1 Libraries are “becoming less about the housing of books and more about connecting learners to knowledge.” Rather than emphasizing quiet for individual study, the goal is to encourage collaboration and creativity. The modern […]
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Finding success through failure
In partnership with the World Pediatric Project and VCU, a group of eleventh-grade students at The Steward School (an independent JK-12 school located in Richmond, Virginia) was given the chance for a hands-on project that explored independent research, design, systems thinking and innovative technologies during the spring of 2015. The WPP purchased blood pressure monitors […]
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Respect Assembly at Green Acres School
At today’s Lower School Assembly, students explored what it means to respect others, how to treat each other well, and how kindness begets more kindness. They closed with a song about peace—relying upon lyrics in Hebrew, Arabic, and English!
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Upper School Retreat: Setting The Tone For The Year
One of the oldest and most enduring traditions at Powhatan is the Upper School Retreat. A wonderful event that encourages teamwork and collaboration through two days worth of fun and sometimes challenging events, it is an experience that bonds classmates and teachers alike. “It sets the tone for the year,” says Ann Robb, Upper School […]
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STEAM Project Turns “Paradise Lost” into Innovative Exploration
When sophomores at Stone Ridge School begin their foray into John Milton’s Paradise Lost, a unique STEAM project encourages their scientific exploration and inquiry in a cross-disciplinary context — “something like Satan on the brink of the Abyss embarking on his own epic journey,” says Upper School English teacher Stephany Fontanone. In this lesson, traditional […]
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New Partnership Means the Sky’s the Limit as Girls Develop Drones
Last fall, a group of Foxcroft School students were the only all-girls’ team to participate in the Kashmir World Foundation’s (KWF) Da Vinci Drone Challenge, part of a worldwide initiative to develop unmanned aerial vehicles to help save endangered species from poachers. They learned the fundamental components and electronics of remotely operated aerial vehicles, built […]
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Real-World Projects Spark Girls’ Interest in Science
How do middle schoolers at St. Catherine’s School engage in design thinking and experience the engineering process? One example is by learning to build underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). In coordination with their Robotics Genius Hour curriculum, and utilizing the school’s innovative maker spaces, girls gain hands-on experience with tools, electrical circuits, and switches as […]
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Milton Hershey School: On the Cutting-Edge of Cancer Research
While students around the state are spending their days sleeping in and relaxing, rising Milton Hershey School senior Lucas Sproule is participating in an internship at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and setting a course for his future. It’s a personal endeavor for the student who lost his grandmother to kidney cancer. “I have […]
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Emerging Leader Program with The Hershey Company
When MHS senior Ethan Stratton shops, he looks at products differently than most other consumers. That’s because he spent his summer interning with the Marketing and Sales Department of The Hershey Company. “I’m seeing how a company markets and sells their product, and everything that goes into it. My mentors here are building on what […]
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Green Acres School Certified as a Maryland Green School
On April 30, the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) announced Green Acres School’s certification as a 2015 Maryland Green School. The award is the culmination of two years of demonstrating and documenting a continuous effort to integrate sustainable environmental management practices, environmental education curriculum, professional development opportunities, and community engagement into the […]
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Jon Shirley, Former President of Microsoft, Makes $5 Million Gift to The Hill School to Fund New Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Technology Program and Facility
Jon Shirley, of Medina, Wash., retired president of Microsoft Corporation, philanthropist, and renowned art and car collector, has made an extraordinary $5 million gift to The Hill School – a gift that will immediately advance the boarding high school’s new engineering-related curriculum and facility. Shirley is a member of The Hill School’s class of 1956 […]
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Second Graders Share, Embrace Their Identities
Inside a display more like an art installation than a classroom project, fifty second graders at Georgetown Day School presented a living museum about the most important things in their world: each other. Standing on chairs, they spoke eye-to-eye with visitors and described their multidimensional identities in a socio-culturally informed context. Throughout the “Identity Project,” […]
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Fifth Grade Science: Teaching Measurement Via NEAL
At Powhatan School we use an approach called Nature Enhanced Approach to Learning (NEAL). NEAL is a lens through which we can teach any or all components of our curriculum. We use it to bring our students outside into the natural world and to bring the natural world indoors to our students. Mrs. Kesler, a […]
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What is a Bottle Brick Bench and Why Build One?
During the past two academic years, RPCS students have been collecting plastic waste and plastic bottles in order to create and build a bottle brick bench – the second one to be built in the state of Maryland. Martha Barss, Environmental Education and Sustainability Coordinator, along with the 4th and 5th Grades have been directing […]
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The Geometry of Field Day
Being able to solve equations or do difficult geometry problems are very important skills to help students have success in future classes. But if we want students to really understand why we study mathematics, they need to see and understand how it is really used. This goes back to our school motto- we learn not […]
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Beyond STEM- St. Andrew’s Design Thinking and Innovation Initiative
So much of school is educating about the known, not the new. There is a thousand years of the known at our backs and a planet full of novel opportunity before us. To venture in the threshold of originality means to sometimes step into uncertainty and away from the traditional methods that often govern our […]
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Teach. Reach. Feed. Lead. – Campus Kitchen Project- A Recipe for Service and Leadership
Shared meals for some can fill both mental as well as physical hunger which is why St. Andrew’s Episcopal School was the second high school in the nation to become a Campus Kitchen site. Meals provide comfort for the present and hope for the coming day. Nearly 25% of the Washington, D.C. community is food […]
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Teacher-Student Research Teams Transform Learning
In April, a team of six teachers and six students from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School flew to Harvard University to work with Graduate School of Education (HGSE) faculty on an original research project for The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL). The nationally recognized center seeks to enhance teacher quality and student achievement through […]
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Milton Hershey School: Hatching an Idea in Algebra Class
For some, algebra, with all its letters and symbols, formulas and equations, can seem confusing. Learn how Milton Hershey School teachers are doing with baby chicks to encourage exponential growth in their students.
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Houseparents at Milton Hershey School
Houseparents at Milton Hershey School significantly impact the lives of our students. Because houseparents work so closely with students, houseparents are important role models, teaching students life lessons and core values. As a residential school, we truly care for the needs of the whole child, and houseparents play a substantial role in ensuring student success. […]
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Alumni Return Home for Career Day
Milton Hershey School alumni returned to campus to offer career advice to current MHS high school students. Students could hear from those working in career paths such as business, medical, journalism, and law enforcement. Learn more about the success of our alumni in the video below, and how their knowledge helps to motivate our students.
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Inspiring others to love and appreciate our beautiful world!
Liz, Class of 2015 at St. Paul’s School for Girls, was challenged by her English teacher, Michelle Stoll, to write a poem celebrating our beautiful Earth. Liz wrote a lovely poem, which was then submitted to the Department of Natural Resources poetry contest for the 2013-2014 year. She captured the prize last spring as the […]
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, The Hill School Class of ’67, speaks on preparation for life
The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) recently presented Pennsylvania’s Governor, Dr. Tom Wolf, a member of Hill’s class of 1967, with its Sixth Form Leadership Award. Enjoy this short video of highlights from his speech. Governor Wolf was selected for this honor by the sixth form (senior) class. The award acknowledges an individual who, through his […]
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Milton Hershey School: The Art of Happiness
Visual and Performing Arts students at Milton Hershey School were challenged to create art designs depicting happiness with partner Hershey Company’s candy products. The art is now displayed in Target’s headquarters. The VPA Department offers your child a wide variety of sequential classes, activities and performing groups in all of the arts. The department offers […]
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Milton Hershey School: Recipe for Success
Milton Hershey School® students won first place in the Pennsylvania ProStart Culinary Invitational, held in State College on Feb. 25. It was hosted by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation in conjunction with the PA Restaurant & Lodging Association. “We are incredibly proud of the students. They dedicated a lot of time preparing for this […]
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Who Killed Kay Daver? Foxcroft School’s K2M Competition
What’s a little snow when you can go solve a murder mystery at Foxcroft School’s super fun STEM competition? Six-plus inches on a February morning wasn’t enough to deter 50 students from three schools from participating in the fourth annual Expedition K2M: The STEM Summit. The unique, girls-only interscholastic team competition organized by Foxcroft’s Math […]
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Milton Hershey School Houseparents Feel Right At Home
A normal dinner time conversation for Meka and Gerald Sanders may be a bit louder than yours, but this pair of Milton Hershey School® houseparents wouldn’t change it for anything. Meka and Gerald are in their sixth year as houseparents at Milton Hershey School, and at any given time can manage up to 12 middle […]
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Milton Hershey School: Transitional Living
Milton Hershey School high school seniors live in apartment style residences with four other students of the same gender and are given support from residential living staff members, in a program known as Transitional Living. The program’s organization allows an experiential environment where students regularly make decisions involving the use of practical skills such as, […]
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Milton Hershey School: One Girl’s Grit
A Milton Hershey School student is profiled for her perseverance and drive to overcome hardship. At MHS, our commitment to excellence shows in everything we do, and for more than 100 years, we have been providing a brighter future for our students.
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Milton Hershey School: Hands-On Learning with Hershey Entertainment & Resorts
Milton Hershey School has partnerships with The Hershey Company, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, and the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center give our students excellent opportunities for on-the-job learning. These world-renowned companies provide our students with co-op experiences, internships, job shadowing and part-time employment.
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Milton Hershey School: The Temple Program
Milton Hershey School has partnered with Temple University to offer college-level courses to eligible high school seniors. The new program is one of the latest examples of the school’s commitment to promoting postsecondary success for students from underprivileged backgrounds. Efforts to expand college access for low income high school graduates have been ongoing at MHS […]
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Milton Hershey School Students Skype with Author
A group of elementary students had the opportunity to Skype with children’s illustrator/author Aaron Becker. It was a wonderful time for students to interact with someone they admire. It also was a great lesson on how to incorporate technology into their school work. At MHS, every student’s learning experience is enhanced through the use of […]
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Milton Hershey School Leaders For Life
What does leadership look like? This is just one of the many topics Milton Hershey School® students explored during the Leaders for Life conference hosted by Student Government Association in Feb. 2015. “A leader is not arrogant,” said junior Shaelah Best. “It takes a lot of humility. You have to be willing to make other […]
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Carson Long Military Academy: Ethical Peer Leadership
At Carson Long Military Academy, “choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong” is instilled from the first day. Ryan Estep ‘16 writes, “To me, it means that no matter what the situation is, as a leader I am obligated to make the right decision.” All Carson Long students enter at the same level. […]
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Learning to Code by Breaking it Down: Lower and Middle School Students Enhance Problem-Solving Skills with Coding and Programming
Shipley places a strong emphasis on teaching computer science skills from the time students enter Lower School. But the goal is not to prepare all students to pursue computer science in college and beyond. Shipley helps students translate coding skills into valuable skills for all subject areas and life situations. Students in Kindergarten through first […]
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Third Grade Invention Convention
Montgomery School students in Mrs. Baumeister’s third grade classroom are wading through junk, and having the time of their lives! Their “Invention Convention” is tied to the study of Greek culture and history. As their teacher explains, “The Greeks are known for inventing many things we still use today. Right now, I am very grateful […]
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Turning the Unknown into Your Own
At The Miquon School, the not knowing is often what keeps our brains engaged; it makes learning an ever expanding puzzle that simply needs someone curious enough to pick up the pieces and keep at it. Curious and persistent are two adjectives we could use to describe most of our students. At Miquon, we think […]
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Tradition and Innovation: At Home at The Hill School — The Family Boarding School
What are the benefits of a school like The Hill School, in Pottstown, Pa.? The Hill is a purposefully small and close learning community that offers a challenging liberal arts curriculum, a highly dedicated faculty, a breadth of advanced and honors course offerings including interdisciplinary classes, and a structured atmosphere of high expectations as well […]
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Gilman’s Parade of Presidents
Gilman’s first graders represented our country’s leadership at the annual Presidential Parade. All 43 American presidents took oaths of office, sang patriotic songs, and presented their research on American leaders to a crowd of families, faculty, and staff.
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Fourth Graders Become Journalists in New Video Series
Effective communication is a critical competency for the modern learner. In Flint Hill’s Lower School, students are given multiple opportunities during each day to develop and refine their oral, written and visual communication skills, including: in Morning Meetings, conferences with their teachers, participating in class discussions, and presenting during Inspiration. Earlier this year, some of […]
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Gilman’s Living Wax Museum
Gilman’s third graders presented a living wax museum full of famous faces from the past and present. Visitors press a button and the statues come to life, sharing facts and details about the lives of historic men and women – this annual project is a great way for students to present their research and practice […]
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Middle School Students “Go Green” at Innovative Event
They came with curiosity and left as leaders! More than 240 students from 11 middle schools in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland joined forces at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School (Alexandria, Va.) for the seventh-annual Students for Sustainability (S4S) Conference on January 26. It was a day of hands-on education, brainstorming, and bonding to make […]
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The Make.a.Difference 8th Grade Project
Montgomery School’s Make.a.Difference project is an intensive, yearlong 8th grade project in which students focus on a person or organization who has made a positive difference in the world. Completed as part of the language arts curriculum, the project involves extensive research, report writing, letter writing, reflection, community service, technology, the arts, and oral presentation […]
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Imagining a Perfect World
As a follow up to one of their summer reading books, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Sixth grade students at Montgomery School in Chester Springs, PA, imagine creating their own utopian community, as they complete ten writing assignments. The students write paragraphs explaining community’s name; the symbolism of the motto and seal they’ve created; and […]
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6th Graders Build SeaPerch Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles
Amid a flurry of excitement and activity, the sixth graders built SeaPerch underwater remotely operated vehicles in science class this fall. They then put their work to the test by attempting to successfully run their vehicles through hoops, into crates, and all around a large pool. “When I told the students they would be building […]
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Settlers in the Woods
Inspired by the work of John Hunter, 5th grade Valley School teacher, Tracy Courtney, undertook a new application for teaching U.S. colonization: the woods. Students deeply explored the academic side of this period of history, but core to the curriculum was the opportunity for students to experience the successes, failures and challenges that the colonists […]
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STEM Career Fair Introduces Girls to Endless Possibilities
Career fields involving science, technology, engineering and math are some of the fastest growing, but are still dominated by men. The Bryn Mawr School aims to change that. “There’s a lot of stereotypes and societal biases that women aren’t good at math, women aren’t good in science,” said Eric Elton, Bryn Mawr’s STEM director. “And […]
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At Rosemont School, the Arts are Essential
At Rosemont School of the Holy Child, arts are not options, electives, or subjects to fit in around so-called core studies such as math and science. Here, arts are essential. Rosemont School infuses creative and performing arts across the entire educational spectrum, from 3 Years through 8th grade. “The blending of the arts in the core […]
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Students Experience, Enjoy “Green Cuisine”
Sidwell Friends has been committed to cleaner and greener food since 2004; its “Green Cuisine” program now incorporates, wherever possible, ingredients and practices that are truly sustainable. Teaching “food intelligence” is an important factor. The menu planning, preparation methods, ingredients, and dishes make everyone on campus more mindful. “Meatless Menus” emphasize that eating less meat […]
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Trout in the Classroom
Inspired science teacher, Carole Wright, brought the Trout in the Classroom Program to Valley School of Ligonier in 2013. Each November, the trout eggs arrive with much celebration in order to engage the entire campus in the important responsibility of raising the native Brook Trout from eggs. Students take the lead in sorting and counting […]
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Governor-Elect of Pennsylvania does The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) proud
The Hill School is proud to say that the Governor-Elect of Pennsylvania is a Hill School graduate of the Class of 1967. Tom Wolf spoke to Hill students and faculty on campus last spring — not so much as a campaigner, but as an invited guest for the School’s series of activities related to the […]
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The Oldfields Experience: May Program
Galloping across the beaches of the Irish coast, nailing drywall in New Orleans, touring the ruins in Pompeii, developing code for an original video game – the May Program can take students just about anywhere! May Program offers a life changing opportunity for our students. Officially inaugurated in 1971, this popular tradition is still perfectly […]
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BUILDING A STRONG SCHOOL COMMUNITY
The Jemicy Lower and Middle School Buddy Program began almost a decade ago at the suggestion of a Middle School teacher who predicted that the pairing of younger and older students would be mutually beneficial. Every student, 1st through 8th grade, has a buddy, sometimes two. Some have been matched because of common interests or […]
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Kindergartners Study, Celebrate Monarch Butterflies
Early in the fall, a procession of kindergartners dressed as caterpillars, butterflies, blue jays, woodland animals, and stinkbugs marches from the kindergarten building at The Park School of Baltimore to a nearby open meadow. For decades, the youngest learners at Park have begun their school year by studying the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and its […]
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Rocket Physics
Many say it’s a rite of passage among Gilman’s Upper School science students: the rocket launch. Every year, physics students take their class outside to launch air rockets across the football field and predict the landing site. Will they land on target? Take a look.
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Research Project Connects Students with Their Community
Seventh grade history students at Calvert School in Baltimore spend three months a year researching their school’s hometown. “The City Project” asks each student to select an area of interest, focus on a particular topic and time period, and use a variety of required research techniques—including personal interviews, primary and secondary sources, and photographs—to gather […]
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Middle Schoolers Expand Social, Emotional Skills in Special Activities
The middle school years are marked by tremendous physical, emotional, and cognitive change as children learn to navigate their increasingly complex world. To help them build critical social and emotional skills, Friends School of Baltimore sets aside special days for students at these grade levels to explore personal and cultural values, health and wellness, and […]
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School’s Initiative Promotes New Opportunities for Women
A recent initiative at Roland Park Country School to address historical gender gaps offers qualified students curricular and research opportunities that promote the representation and success of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The STEM Institute, founded in 2012, is a “school-within-a-school” series of semester-long research apprenticeships that may be taken […]
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Arabic program speaks volumes at The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.)
The new Arabic program at The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) has people talking. With the arrival this year of instructor Yassine Benzinane, Arabic was added to the School’s Spanish, French, and Chinese modern languages, as well as Latin and Greek. Benzinane, educated in Morocco, also teaches French classes and can teach Spanish, in addition to […]
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Teaching to Your Passions: From Classroom to Retirement
Karen Buglass is no stranger to making her passions part of her career. With her first Master’s Degree in City Planning, she spent 17 years as a strategic planner at Boston Edison. It was during this time, that Karen played an integral part in starting and planning Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Teaching and […]
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Creating Opportunities for Girls in Computer Science
In 2012-2013, the Online School for Girls prepared 14 girls to take the AP® Computer Science exam — more girls than were prepared by schools in 18 different states: New Hampshire, Iowa, Delaware, Rhode Island, Idaho, New Mexico, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, Nevada, Vermont, Kansas, Louisiana, Alaska, North Dakota, Montana, Mississippi, and Wyoming (according to […]
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Girls Bridging Communities: project based, collaborative, and connected learning for girls.
Girls Bridging Communities (GBC) summer camp took place the last two weeks of July at The Ellis School. Founded by Ellis Alumni Chelsea Canedy, 13′ and co-sponsored by The Ellis School, GBC engages middle school girls from across the Pittsburgh region to explore robotics, maker education and collaboration/leadership skills. Through peer mentoring, high school student […]
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Wyoming Seminary STEM School marks two successful years
In two short years, Wyoming Seminary’s STEM School has had a transformative impact on Sem’s students, faculty, parents and the local community. New programs such as the STEM Lecture series, the STEM Foundations course for freshmen, STEM-tastic Saturdays at the Lower School, and STEM Science Nights at both Lower and Upper Schools are a only […]
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Miller School of Albemarle Cycling Program
The Miller School of Albemarle (MSA) Cycling team is an internationally recognized high school road cycling and mountain biking program. The team is a varsity sport and competes in both high school and USA Cycling events throughout the year. The team works with some of the world’s top-ranked junior cyclists and prepares them for racing […]
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McLean School. Transformational.
Success Starts Here. If your child is bright—but swimming against the current to learn—McLean School may be a great fit. We serve students with mild to moderate learning differences—including language-based differences, ADHD, or anxiety—who thrive in a kind, student-centered academic and social environment. We also serve traditional learners who simply do better with smaller classes, […]
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The Hill School accepted into ethical education program
The Hill School – along with only four other schools in the country – has been accepted into the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education (CSEE) Recognition Program for Excellence in Ethical Education. Last summer, Ellen Nelson, Hill’s chairman of the Arts Department and adviser to the Honor Council, met David Streight, CSEE’s executive director, […]
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MAD Lab Inspires Children to Challenge Themselves – and Create
Rosemont School of the Holy Child in Rosemont, PA has created a cutting-edge space to ignite the Middle School student’s curiosity. The MAD (Media, Arts, Design) Lab has focused more on process than product by giving our students the opportunity to tinker, collaborate, and create. By manipulating objects, re-imagining them and creating something new out […]
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Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Seniors in Environmental Course Create Solar Lights
Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Environmental Science students created solar lights with Mrs. Meg Tredinnick to complete their unit on Renewable Energy. The lights will charge in the sunshine and glow when there is no sun. The students had to learn some basic electronics and how to solder to make them. Another exercise […]
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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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First Graders Engineer Apple Containers, Sailboats, and More!
Pop into the first grade classroom and you are likely to encounter small clusters of children huddled around a collection of foam trays, felt, colored straws, Scotch tape, and all manner of handy supplies. There will be much negotiating, demonstrating, and a general flurry of activity. This is what STEM looks like in first grade. […]
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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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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. […]
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Maker Faire at The Philadelphia School (TPS)
The creativity, ingenuity, and sheer exuberance of our students were on full display in mid-March at the The Philadelphia School’s first Maker Faire – an interactive celebration of learning and discovery inspired by the Maker movement (see www.makerfaire.com). Every student from preschool through eighth grade participated – individually or in groups – creating art, exploring […]
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Building Global Partnerships One Gesture At A Time
The Philadelphia wind is harsh; it is seven-fifteen on a Monday morning in early April. The unzipped jackets of middle school girls flap open against their uniform shirts. They’re carrying buckets of water, a small brown basket lined with a blue kitchen towel, a plastic pail of layer’s grain, a handful of spinach, one shovel, […]
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Community Partnership School, in three words.
Founded in 2006, Community Partnership School (CPS) is an innovative, independent elementary school, dedicated to providing an affordable, high-quality education to children from low-wealth, low-income backgrounds in North Philadelphia. In this video you’ll see Community Partnership School through the eyes of those at the heart of everything–our incredible students and amazing teachers!
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Environmental Stewardship
We have shared our environmental strategy and its link with our business model with all of our students. We presented the cost benefits of our environmental leadership to our students and demonstrated how it is possible to blend operational efficiency with environmental excellence.
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Sewickley Academy Fourth Graders Are Full of Drive
Sewickley Academy’s Grade 4 students were challenged to design, build, and program Lego cars as a final project in computer class and did a phenomenal job! Their cars, controlled by a computer keyboard, had many unique features that demonstrate creative thinking and problem solving such as a distance sensor that makes the car go in […]
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Sewickley Academy Students Tackle LGBTQ Conversations
Former NFL player and current LGBTQ advocate Wade Davis shared his amazing story and inspiring message with the Sewickley Academy community on April 16, 2014. He spoke about his journey through an extremely religious childhood, his dream of playing for the NFL, his 20 plus years of silence about being gay, and his current work […]
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Business School in Middle School
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 taught us a great many things. Money is fragile and we all need a better understanding of finances. There is no better place to start this process than 5th grade at The Woods Academy. This year we added a formal course for our 5th graders called, Business School. Personal Finance, […]
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Project Based Learning: Fifth Grade Greek Fair
During the months of February and March, students worked in grade level small groups to research various aspects of ancient Greek life. Research focused on addressing the question, “How did the ancient Greeks’ way of life compare to our lives today?” Students gathered information using a variety of text and online resources. When the research […]
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Studying Medieval Cathedrals In the Modern World
Fifth graders at The Episcopal Academy, a Pre-K-12 school in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, have been studying and learning about medieval cathedrals for decades. They tour a local cathedral, design their own unique structure, and work in teams to examine their history—why cathedrals were built, what was involved in construction, and how they functioned. The addition […]
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Middle School Games Encourage Responsibility, Collaboration
Inspired by award-winning game designer Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk, middle schoolers at United Friends School (UFS) in Quakertown, PA, invented their own series of games they hoped would create new habits and foster real collaboration among players—ideas that could transfer into the real world. “Games for Social Change” began with students examining, playing, and writing […]
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Hill School student featured in Philadelphia Inquirer for scientific, philanthropic endeavors
A quick glance at Hill School sixth former David Lee’s resume is both impressive and exhausting. David has taken – and excelled in – many of The Hill’s most challenging courses during his four years here, resulting in early acceptance to Brown University. Outside of the classroom, he has extensive science lab experience and currently […]
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Second Grade Project Is “Out of This World”
If you’re thinking of taking a tour of our solar system, consider picking up a travel brochure from second graders at Montgomery School in Chester Springs, PA. In Julie Dattilo’s science class, you’ll find out why Venus is the ultimate honeymoon destination; how to lose weight on the Winter Mercury Tour (gravity gets the credit); […]
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Chesapeake Bay Fellows Intend to Make a Difference
Two juniors at Norfolk Academy are writing and illustrating a children’s book, “No More Mermaids,” depicting long-time problems in the Chesapeake Bay. Along with 15 other classmates in grades 9-11, they’re Chesapeake Bay Fellows, involved in a nascent four-year, multidisciplinary and experiential course of study offered through the school’s Center for Civic and Global Leadership. […]
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Kindness Boomerang
“It’s important to me to teach my class not just to be good students, but to be good people,” said second grade teacher Bridget Runkle. “I want to get across the idea that it’s important to do the right thing when no one is looking. At the second-grade age,” she continued, “there’s a big temptation […]
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Carson Long Military Academy’s Student-Planned Blood Drive Exceeds Goal!
As part of his JROTC service learning requirements at Carson Long Military Academy, senior cadet Christopher Johnson was tasked with planning and implementing a major project. He decided to organize a blood drive. Yesterday at Carson Long, after months of coordinating with Carson Long faculty, staff, and students – and representatives from the American Red […]
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The Ellis School: Artificial Limb Lab – “The BAZAD”
The “button and zipping assistive device” (BAZAD), meant to make it easier for people with severe arthritis to perform daily tasks – recently won the top prize at the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Pittsburgh Virtual Engineering Design Competition. The competition is funded by The National Science Foundation and brings engineering design into high school […]
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Thanks and encouragement for Hill School teachers who shape the future
One of the goals of The Hill School (Pottstown, PA) is for the school to be recognized as both the most traditional and most innovative boarding school in the country, according to Headmaster Zachary G. Lehman. The key to such an inspiring educational environment — and one that truly prepares students well for college, careers, […]
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The Hill School’s Humanities Program gets a Traditional and Innovative Update
With a gift from The Hill School’s loyal alumnus Jim Alexandre ’75 and his wife, Julie, the humanities program now has an updated home in the Levis ’45-Alexandre ’75 Center for The Humanities — a beautifully redesigned space that exemplifies the Pottstown, Pa. school’s goal of being the most traditional and most innovative boarding school […]
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Students Learn to “Speak Truth to Power” in Civil Rights Reenactments
Teachers at Friends School Haverford often reinforce the Quaker testimonies of equality, peace, and peaceful conflict resolution through play, social interactions, and making connections to powerful stories. But when preschoolers, kindergartners, and their middle school partners—who gather weekly to talk and share different experiences—began working together on their social justice unit, they quickly realized that […]
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Mindfulness: A Pathway to Success for Collegiate Students
The Collegiate School’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program helps students develop an increasingly important skill for success in college and beyond. Schools and colleges across the country have reported a rise in problems related to stress management, so about seven years ago, Collegiate School began offering a two-week-long Freshman Health and Wellness MBSR class for […]
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Carson Long Military Academy Students Encourage Elementary School Children to Read
One of the goals that emerged from community service planning at Carson Long was the desire to encourage children to read. At the same time, faculty and students were made aware of the local elementary school’s program for children who do not have a parent or guardian at home during the afterschool hours. The result […]
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The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) celebrates Honor Awareness Week with emphasis on “Integrity” theme
The Hill School’s annual Honor Awareness Week, Jan. 10-17, 2014, included a series of events focused on “Integrity,” also The Hill’s academic theme for the year. To kick off this community event, the School welcomed Dr. David Gruder, a psychologist and founder of “Integrity Revolution” to address the student body and faculty and meet with […]
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Authentic Learning through Applecore
AppleCore is Wilmington Friends’ student IT support team. Members volunteer study hall time to work at the help desk–“The Orchard”–as the first level of tech support for our 1:1 laptop program (recently recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program). “When they announced that we were going with the 1:1, a lot of my friends were nervous. […]
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Girls’ ice hockey at The Hill School aims to be an elite program
Ari Baum, coach of the girls’ varsity ice hockey team at The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.), aims to ensure that the sport is “an elite program” at the 163-year-old school which first admitted girls in 1998. Also an instructor of economics and dorm parent among his many roles, Baum is proud of the academic as […]
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The SSFS Team Change is making a difference
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead Driven to personify the Mead quotation that hangs on their homepage’s wall, SSFS Juniors Haley Crim and Sirah Bah of Team Change have taken the initiative to create a […]
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A different kind of Christmas “classic” is enjoyed by scholars at The Hill School
The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) has historically enjoyed excellent classical languages and theology departments; Hill students benefit from Latin and Greek offerings ranging from elementary Latin and Greek through Advanced Placement Virgil and other advanced courses, and all Hill students must take at least one year of a course in religious studies so that they […]
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Milton Hershey School: Making Math Meaningful
The Algebra II teachers at Milton Hershey School do everything to make math meaningful to their students….including launching rockets into the sky so kids can learn about parabolic paths! Founded in 1909 by chocolate industrialist Milton S. Hershey and his wife Catherine, Milton Hershey School is a private residential school, located in Hershey, PA, that […]
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Milton Hershey School: Giving of the Green
During the Christmas season, Elementary and Middle Division students at Milton Hershey School have the opportunity to shop for their loved ones at an event known as “Milton’s Christmas Workshop.” A variety of brand new gifts are donated by staff of the school, and sold to students for just a dollar each. All in the […]
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A “No Phone” Rule Rings True at The Hill School Leadership Retreat
Dormitories at The Hill School are led by prefects — juniors and seniors who are selected in a competitive process and who willingly give up their free time to enforce expectations, serve as resources and confidants, and create a safe, constructive living environment. This year’s prefect training included a two-day, off-campus retreat at a nearby […]
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Milton Hershey School Carpentry Students Break Ground On Home
Milton Hershey School advanced carpentry students broke ground on a new staff home. The class learned the fundamentals skills required of a residential carpenter and will now participate in the phases of onsite construction in framing and finishing a house. Construction/Carpentry is one of 11 career pathways in the School’s Career/Technical Education programs. In the […]
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Learning Chinese (Mandarin) in Traditional and Innovative Ways
The Chinese (Mandarin) students at Sandy Spring Friends School employ a combination of traditional and progressive methods to master the Chinese language. Teacher Kexin Zhang believes that there are powerful technological tools to be taken advantage of in the modern era, but there is no replacement for human-to-human interaction in learning a new language. In […]
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Entrepreneurship Program Headed Toward Shark Tank!
The Entrepreneurship program is one of Bullis’ new signature programs program introduced this year, offering students the opportunity to develop business expertise and acumen through the innovation of their own ideas. Along with regular classes to learn business concepts and professional speakers visiting campus to share their experiences, students in the Entrepreneurship Capstone class are […]
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Football at The Hill School: Student-athletes challenge themselves on and off the field
This short video includes interviews with diverse student-athletes who talk about how Hill challenges its football players to stretch themselves both on and off the field — building leadership skills and preparing for the opportunity to play in college, while having fun, too.
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Hackathon! Bullis Computer Programming Students Compete for Cookies
Computer programming may not typically generate high levels of drama and fun competition, but at Bullis’ first annual Hackathon both were clearly evident, along with plenty of smiles all around. Intro to Computer Programming Teacher Alex Reinhardt created the first annual Bullis Hackathon, in which he invited students from his class and from AP Computer […]
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The Archaeological Dig
The 9th grade Archaeological Dig is designed for ninth grade students as part of their World History class and provides students with a hands-on approach to the study of ancient cultures. In partnership with the Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Anthropology Department, students learn how flintknappers made stone tools, used stone drills to make pendants, and […]
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Green Valley: A Metropolitan Community
Second graders at The Ellis School participate in a cross-disciplinary project-based learning unit each year where they design and build a model of a metropolitan community. In their roles as city planners, students made decisions about the placement of their newly constructed services in the Central Business District, city or suburban neighborhoods or outlying areas. […]
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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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The Nation of 4th Grade – An Economy of Scale
When Alyssa M. ’21 opens her wallet, she sees more than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s faces. Neatly tucked behind the $1s and $5s are several bills in the currency of Harrisburg Academy’s 4th grade teachers—“Bender Bucks” and “Sherman Dollars.” Mari Bender and Karla Sherman have developed their own micro-economies in their classrooms this year, […]
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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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Experiential Leadership Training for all Middle School Students
Each fall, Middle School students embark on a one day field experience to hone their leadership skills. Whether they participate in rock climbing, low ropes courses, team-building activities, white water rafting, or zip-lining, students encourage one another, overcome fears, tackle real-world issues and learn the true meaning of being a leader. A Seventh Grader commented, […]
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What does it mean to be an educated girl
On Friday, October 11, St. Catherine’s School celebrated International Day of the Girl, as declared by the United Nations. The school created a special video, “What it means to be an educated girl,” to raise awareness within our school community and beyond. A variety of events took place on campus including more than 1,100 students, […]
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Wyoming Seminary fosters leadership skills at retreat
One week before the start of school at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, members of Sem’s student government arrived at local Camp Orchard Hill thinking they were going to just learn about leadership. After 24 hours of spending time swimming, swinging in the air, playing games, and eating marshmallows at a campfire, as well as […]
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Experiential Learning on the Water
Experiential Learning on the Water 10/7/2013 Mr. Willy Fluharty “Yes, you are the sum of your experiences. Each new experience is just another building block in the foundation of your personality. That is why we are embarking on the Schooner Virginia for this weekend adventure. You may not like it, you may love it, either […]
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The Active Classroom for Girls
At The Ellis School we believe that active learning helps girls to visualize, hypothesize, and improve their intuition about conceptual models of scientific phenomena in all areas of STEM. Furthermore, active learning deploys a collaborative, hands-on environment utilizing desktop experiments, online assignments, and educational technologies to engage students in constructing their own knowledge, rather than […]
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Building Empathy for Girls Education Across the Globe
Girls in all divisions watched segments of the film Girl Rising, which explores the personal stories of girls around the world as they struggle for equal access to education. The Upper School Gender & Power class engaged in design thinking methods and developed “How Might We” questions based on research of issues around girls’ education […]
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For Girls, by Girls Leadership Conference at The Agnes Irwin School
150 girls from 19 public and private schools in the Philadelphia region took a big step toward exploring leadership in September by attending the “Leading for Change” conference hosted by The Agnes Irwin School. The conference was the realization of the hard work of a student group that serves as a liaison between the Center […]
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Engineering Bootcamp at Tower Hill School
Tower Hill School (DE) students tackle challenges that introduce engineering principles in an elective course called Engineering Bootcamp. Concepts like stress, strain, torque, and stability have real meaning as students stack textbooks on towers they created from PVC pipes and twine. For another project, the concept of aerodynamics underlies the performance of stomp rockets constructed […]
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School Shows Excellence in the Community
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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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For a Leg Up, Milton Hershey School Students Tackle Multiple Trades
Training in law, public safety, and security at the Milton Hershey School pushed juniors Ryan Blom and Valkyrie Speaker out of their comfort zones and into real-world scenarios. It’s exactly what MHS wants to happen to give students a competitive edge over their peers after high school. In one practical certification test, the students must […]