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Laurel School Students Express Concern for Human Impact
Fifth Graders at Laurel School, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, learn about renewable energy sources and human impact on the environment through a project inspired by the work of Ansel Adams who used photography to capture the beauty he saw in nature and to share with the world his environmental concerns. Laurel Fifth Graders do the […]
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Global Perspective Inspires Fourth Graders to Find Solutions
Presbyterian Day School wants to foster critical, creative, and sophisticated thinkers. Teachers make use of Harvard’s “Visible Thinking” routines, and students frequently explore issues from a global perspective. This spring, after reading Linda Sue Park’s book, A Long Walk to Water, featuring two children from southern Sudan and their country’s ongoing struggle to get clean […]
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Aspen Academy Presents . . . .
Aspen Academy students performed in two school-wide musicals this year. “The Sound of Music” was presented in the fall and just last week, “The Little Mermaid” opened. Our theatre program brings together actors ranging in age from second grade to eighth grade. The students offer support to each other and work together as a team […]
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Young String Students on Pizzacato
Second-grade string students at Ranney School (an independent Age 3-Grade 12 school in Tinton Falls, NJ) learn to properly hold and identify the parts of their instruments, execute pizzicato articulation on all strings, read and decode music notation, and perform, with accompaniment, several songs from our method book – this is just after two practices! […]
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Inquiry-Based Projects Lead to Real-Life Solutions
Research on learning and the brain has shown that an integrated, inter-disciplinary approach to independently motivated study promotes increased engagement. That’s why all K-8 students at Punahou School now participate in inquiry-based projects. Take the Kaho‘olawe project, during which a seventh grade team’s English, social studies, science, and math classes focused on Hawai’i’s smallest island, […]
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Concert Choir Helps Students Learn Through Living
The commitment cuts their hour-long lunch break by half, but each day 120 students in grades 8-12—more than 40 percent of the Indian Springs School (ISS) student body—file into their Rehearsal Room or Concert Hall. Many are already fine singers; others simply love music and want to participate in the school’s most popular and longest-running […]
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Language Immersion Comes Alive in Partnership with Technology
Can you teach a robot to speak Spanish? At Missoula International School, students use computer software and LEGOS® to build robots programmed to solve real-life problems in a total Spanish immersion classroom. K-1 teacher John Kratz pioneered the program at MIS in 2013; today it’s being integrated into every classroom and offered in after-school and […]
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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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Students Become Teachers in Third Grade Rainforest
Third graders at Topeka Collegiate School are on a mission to spread the word about the world’s endangered rainforests. They’ve created a rainforest of their own, with tropical plants and animals. After weeks of research, they are experts brimming with information as they guide visitors through their habitat. “Don’t worry,” smiles a third grader to […]
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Brain Research Influences Creativity in Teaching, Learning
Colorado Academy connects current brain research in neuroscience to its broad liberal arts and sciences program. Teachers study not just what students need to know to be successful in the future, but how learning takes shape, developing classes to strengthen culture and character in students at all grade levels. In their Global Perspectives course, freshmen explore divergent […]
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Open Window School Positively Impacts Community
Twice a year, Parent Association PiP (Positive Impact Project) Co-Chairs organize community service events. This spring, the weekend before Earth Day, about 40 Open Window parents, kids and staff members met up to help with a native planting project at a nearby trailhead replacing previous non-native plants with native plants that can survive without additional […]