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Middle School Program Emphasizes Social, Emotional Learning
In their weekly Advisory period, Middle Schoolers at Independent Day School tackle a framework of role-playing exercises that build from grades 6-8. They focus progressively on empathy and communication, bullying prevention, emotion management and coping, problem solving, goal setting and decision making, and substance abuse prevention. It’s part of the school’s social and emotional learning […]
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School Community Learns to Eat Right Now
Since 2002, Calhoun School’s award-winning Eat Right Now program, led by Chef Bobo, has promoted healthier attitudes about food and nutrition that have affected the entire school community. The key: All dishes are prepared from scratch with fresh ingredients and great flavor—bought locally and in season—offered in portion-controlled servings. The excitement began with the realization […]
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Program Asks Students for a Lifetime Commitment to Wellness
Ashley Hall’s PAWS (Personal Awareness and Wellness Seminar) program launched in 2010, garnering national attention for its innovative merger of three existing programs—academic management, wellness, and college counseling. Pressure on adolescent girls is enormous, the school believes, and takes a toll on their mental health. The program is targeted by grade level: advisors begin talking […]
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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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Wilderness Trips Take Kids Out of Their Comfort Zone
The Rumson Country Day School uses a hands-on approach, encouraging students to learn by doing and to experiment with different methods of solving problems. Instead of just memorizing facts or reading about others’ experiences, our students learn by doing, making discoveries and experimenting with knowledge firsthand. RCDS’ fifth-through-eighth-grade wilderness adventures provide children with exciting opportunities […]
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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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Banned Books Week at the St. Francis de Sales Library
The St. Francis de Sales Library is home to the Middle and Upper School students at Visitation Academy in St. Louis. During the celebration of Banned Books Week, 9/22-9/26/14, the library held different activities each day complete with prizes. Some of the activities were: “Caught! Reading a Banned Book” (Guess the faculty member hidden behind […]
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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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Aspen Academy’s 5th Grade Cardboard Challenge
Aspen Academy fifth graders began their school year in science by creating and sharing the first annual Aspen Academy Cardboard Arcade as part of the global cardboard challenge project. Students were asked to build something awesome out of cardboard, recycled materials, and (most important) their imagination. They decided to create an arcade and invited fellow […]