Videos
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Students flex their creative muscles and design thinking at SF Day School
Thanks to the overwhelming support and generosity of our community, San Francisco Day School was able to enhance our campus with new “Innovate & Create” design spaces. With flexible design spaces and tools, our students are empowered to embrace their journey as learners and to explore “productive failure” through experimentation. They learn the value of […]
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Peace & Justice Project: Phase II Photography
The Peace & Justice Project at Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) continues, with Upper School photography students creating projects that demonstrate peace in nonverbal ways. Throughout the 2016-17 school year, students will be working on special projects to support Global Peace & Justice, which is #16 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The […]
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The Peace & Justice Project: Phase I
Throughout the 2016-17 school year, Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) students will be working on special projects to support Global Peace & Justice, which is #16 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a follow-on program to last year’s SDG partnership with the UN and Monmouth University, the History and Art Departments will […]
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A Design Thinking Approach to Community Service
Students in Mrs. Diane Richards’ Intro to Design Thinking class are introduced to a five-step plan of creative problem-solving based on a human-centered approach. Last year, Mrs. Richards and students Michael Vanelli ‘19 and Maggie Pearson ’18 learned The Ricketts Center, the local Olivet boys’ and girls’ club, was not usually open on Saturdays due […]
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Food Preservation
Students in Milton Hershey School’s Culinary Arts career technical pathway examine the many ways food can be preserved. See how they learn about the decades-old issue of keeping the over-abundance of crops and meats fresh for winter consumption. In this unit, the students prepare various meats to be smoked, make cider and quarter apples for […]
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Leadership Conference
Milton Hershey School Student Government Association hosted its third annual leadership conference for hundreds of MHS middle and high school students. This year, the theme of the conference was focused on aspiring students to be a “difference maker” in the life of another person or within their community.
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Besties
Children see the world in a wonderful way, they see the perfect world, and it’s a great reflection of their innocence. Milton Hershey School is what our country and maybe the world really could be, if people really took the time to get to know and understand one another. That creates a bond that surpasses […]
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Learning in Two Languages: A Young Bilingual Scientist Describes Experiments in French & English
A bilingual immersion program isn’t only learning two languages simultaneously—it’s learning, understanding, analyzing, and communicating concepts in two languages. In this video, one of our 3rd graders describes two science experiments; one in French, and the other in English.
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Unique 3D Paper Sculptures (“Boxes” to us!)
After initially starting by making cubes from nets (flat pieces of paper), students use a workshop time to create unique designs from one large or small piece of grid paper. Each new design has to be more complicated than the next. http://peterjenningswilson.weebly.com/boxes.html
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Engaging and Appreciating Diversity and Difference
At Principia Middle School, the entire student body is revved up about REV, a new element in the core program that involves every learner from sixth through eighth grade and is expanding horizons. “REV is a revolutionary idea involving revolving classes that reveal revelations in student thinking,” as one eighth-grader put it in a tongue […]
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2016 Cooking Competition
On Friday, November 4, James River Day School eighth graders participated in the sixth annual cooking competition. Divided into teams, eighth grade students chose recipes and planned their menus. Later, the students shopped for and cooked a meal for a panel of judges. The students aimed to create tasty, beautiful, and nutritious meals while on […]
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Kent School Students Learn from Terrapins
For ten consecutive years, Kent School, serving Preschool through Grade 8 on the bank of the Chester River in historic Chestertown, MD has raised terrapins in the classroom in conjunction with several environmental organizations as part of the Lower School Bay Studies curriculum. The School’s most recent partnership with The National Aquarium in Baltimore began […]