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Student-Led Gender Equality Club Offers “Beacon of Hope” to Worried High Schoolers
When Indian Springs School senior Katie Wiatrak saw sexism affecting current events, including the 2016 presidential election, she looked in vain for a place to discuss it with her peers. “So I decided to build one,” says Katie. “I gathered my closest friends and the head of school, and together we founded the Gender Equality […]
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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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Meditation Practices Help Students Remember Who They Are
Four years ago, Hackley English Department Chair Dr. Richard Robinson began starting every class with a breathing meditation exercise. At first, he says, it was an experiment for his 10th-12th graders. “I wanted to see what would happen. They’d come into the classroom with their brains full of so much stuff — in a way […]
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Students Plant Seeds, Grow Empathy, Care for Others Through Community Service
Throughout the year, students at The Bright School bring canned goods, donate change, and harvest produce from their on-campus garden to give to a local food pantry that helps those in need in the community. The youngest students plant and harvest vegetables in the Early Childhood Gardens, designated last year as the first Katie’s Krops […]
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Career Pathways Excites Middle School Students About Their Future
Sixth graders gazed into their future thanks to the debut of a new Career Pathways event at Seven Hills. This “career day” style event began as a way for parents to volunteer their time by sharing professional expertise, and to give students a broader sense of how they might turn their interests, skills, and passions […]
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International Day of the Girl Film Fest
The Girls’ School of Austin celebrated International Day of the Girl with a Day of the Girl Film Fest on October 11th, 2017. Students watched movies staring inspirational women and characters including “Moana”, “Makers: Women in Space”, and “Miss Representation”.
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Celebrating International Day of the Girl Around the World
In celebration of the International Day of the Girl, Columbus School for Girls middle school students hosted Google hangouts throughout the day (October 11) to connect classrooms of girls around the world on the topic of GIRLS! Twenty-one schools participated in six different chats, representing 12 U.S. states and 4 Canadian provinces. Sessions offered students […]
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Old Trail School Students Send Donations to Houston
Students in Old Trail School’s Trail to Service middle school elective class led a community-wide collection of supplies for children impacted by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas in late August. Donations including school supplies, bottled water, paper products, clothing and more will be put to good use by the Houston Children’s Charity, a non-profit organization […]
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Innovative Literature Course Examines Voice, Community, Service
This year, juniors in Kent Denver School’s English classes are researching, designing, proposing, and executing service projects that require them to think explicitly about their own values and communities — family, places of worship, school, city, state, country, and even the world. Before school began, they got a flavor for what was to come through […]
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Upper School Club Helps Students Gain New Perspectives on Community, Diversity
An Upper School club at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School provides an affinity space for students who identify as Black/African-American. Called Unapologetic, the club is a forum to discuss inequities and grow a sense of community for students of color. The club helps students find mentors and discuss opportunities and challenges they experience in the school […]
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Burke's Students Harness Green Technologies
Sixth graders in Dr. Tone Rawlings’ science class recently tried out a technique that’s making international news when they attempted to make plastic-less, or edible, water bottles. The technology has been in the news quite a bit lately, as the British company Skipping Rocks Lab is prototyping a way to deliver vital hydration without using […]
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Environmental Stewardship Begins With One Small Square
In first grade, students and their teachers leave the Riverdale campus and venture into a special place, a “small square” of woods on the grounds of neighboring Wave Hill, a public garden operated by the City of New York. Every two weeks, they walk out the school gate, unlock the Wave Hill gate, and climb […]