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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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Learning by Doing: John Burroughs and Slabsides
Being located in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York, we are surrounded by local history and service opportunities to preserve such history. Therefore, as part of our interdisciplinary curriculum in the Middle School at Poughkeepsie Day, the teachers and students have been immersed in learning about the nature writer John Burroughs, along with doing […]
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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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Global Read Aloud Twitter Chat
Poughkeepsie Day School middle school students took part in a live Global Read Aloud Twitter chat today. It was organized and moderated by Shirley Rinaldi (@8rinaldi) who teaches @PoughkeepsieDay. She invited classes to join via Twitter, Edmodo and GRA groups. Taking part were students in schools in Chicago, Colorado, New York, South Carolina, Wisconsin and […]
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Real-World Engineering
Students at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, are exploring real-world engineering solutions from the outside-in. According to Lisa Damour, Ph.D., Consulting Psychologist and Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, female students are looking beyond traditional barriers to find meaning in the human applications of STEM projects. The “outside” motivation of finding […]
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Westchester Middle Schoolers Donate Time to Community
Students in grades 6 – 8 at Westchester Country Day School spend one Friday each quarter serving in their community. The students visit with residents in nursing homes, tutor at elementary schools, and participate in on-campus service opportunities such as picking-up trash, maintaining trails on the 53-acre campus, and helping in lower school classrooms. Service […]
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Blake Legacy Day 2013: All-community; All service
One Friday each fall, the entire Blake community comes together for Legacy Day – a day of community building centered on service. Legacy Day is a special time when students, faculty, staff and alumni gather with the common purpose of strengthening commitments to lifelong learning, community service and world citizenship. Each year the service work […]
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Plunging into the Maker world at Marymount
Marymount School of New York City’s Fab Lab is short for “fabrication lab,” but could just as easily mean “fabulous.” Marymount girls can plunge into the Maker world and follow the design process from idea to prototype using what one Fab Lab visitor described as “a ridiculous number of machines.” These machines allow students to […]
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Hockaday partners with Dallas public schools
Hockaday girls work hard at their own studies, but in a single academic year they also logged more than 12,000 hours providing tutoring and academic enrichment for students in underserved public schools in the Dallas Independent School District. Initially a community service program, the partnership has evolved into a true service learning opportunity in which […]
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Sixth graders pursue world peace
Sixth graders at Milwaukee Montessori School spend seven weeks each year honing their roles as national leaders, diplomats, arms dealers, bankers, United Nations officials, and even a high-level saboteur, all in the quest for global equity, peace, and justice. Milwaukee Montessori’s World Peace Game is the culminating experience for sixth graders, a chance for students […]
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Courage. Integrity. Leadership. Curiosity. Concern.
A lone figure faces an audience, ready for what feels like the test of a lifetime: “Audition” at Hyde School, where everybody — parents, students, teachers —sings an unaccompanied solo. Terrifying? Sure. But humiliating? No way. As Hyde president Malcolm Gauld says, “You don’t laugh at somebody when you know you’re next.” Audition is a […]
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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 […]