Videos
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What If We Thought About Learning Differently?
All Saints’ Honors College students engaged in a dynamic class exercise where they embarked to observe, analyze, understand, and communicate about systems. As a Visiting Scholar, Grant Lichtman spent the day at All Saints’ and led Honors College students in this exercise based on his book, The Falconer. The book serves as as a yearlong […]
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Hawken School Entrepreneurship Program
Hawken School pioneered the teaching of entrepreneurship to high school and middle school students in problem-based courses using the Lean Launch Pad (LLP) methodology. The result? Students developed skills, knowledge and character that prepares them for their world in ways that traditional courses have not. Hawken’s first-ever 3-credit semester program in entrepreneurship was featured in […]
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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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Common Ground: History and Literature in Real Life
Upper School students at St. Mary’s Episcopal School have found a way to illustrate the connection between history and literature. This collaborative project uses information literacy and technology tools to help students discover the universal truths between these two disciplines. The project offers students an answer to the age-old question, “Why do we need to […]
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Good Shepherd Participates in the White House Student Video Competition!
Did you know the White House is interested in educational technology? This year, they sponsored the first ever Student Film Festival and invited K-12 students to create a video to share the ways technology is being used in their schools. Some of our students put together an amazing video with the help of Candace Henry […]
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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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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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Blended Learning Increases Student Achievement
Math Teacher Chris Mabley and STI eLearning Consultant Michael Dolan adapt learning to each student’s pace, path and style. Management of students, each learning different topics, was supported by online software. Compared to a traditional class, student study time was reduced and teacher time for enriched personalized instruction increased. The extra time could also be […]
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The Other Side of the Mason Dixon Line
My ultimate goal as a history teacher is to instill in my students effective habits of mind, one of which is to appreciate diverse perspectives. It makes sense, then, to seek another point of view when introducing the Civil War. This brief video tells the tale of students at two schools, one in Massachusetts and […]
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Students Build Parthenon Model Using a 3D Printer
Students in Saint Andrew’s School 7th Grade Latin Class used a Design Cycle Engineering model to investigate ( they did a lot of research and created keynote presentations about Greek architecture and specifically the Parthenon ), plan ( they then had to plan out how the ancient architects built the structure and how they could […]
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Student-Driven iPad Dream becomes iPad Reality at ‘Iolani School
What makes the story of ‘Iolani School’s One-to-One iPad Initiative inspiring is that the idea was completely student driven. In less than a year, the seed that three students planted has grown into an Initiative that puts iPads in the hands of 1,880 students in kindergarten to twelfth grade. In this video, you’ll meet Blake, […]
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Orchard’s Preschool Restaurant
This lovely project was completely driven by our delightful preschool students. One afternoon a student found a pad and pencil on the table. The student began to pretend to take food orders from his peers. The afternoon progressed from there with pretend food being delivered around the classroom. The students and their teachers then decided […]