We Challenge Minds
Independent schools offer challenging academics and engaging programs to help children develop a life-long love of learning.
Independent schools offer challenging academics and engaging programs to help children develop a life-long love of learning.
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“Flipped” AP Calculus Class Reimagines Learning
The “flipped” AP Calculus classroom at Bullis School shifts the mindset of what a traditional math class looks like, and it’s helped students become more independent, less-stressed learners. Lessons are studied at home, and “homework” is done in class. Back in 2010, teacher Stacey Roshan decided to completely change the classroom dynamic, starting with how […]
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School-wide Hour of Code Event at Stoneleigh-Burnham
The entire Stoneleigh-Burnham School student community, along with many adults, participated in a registered international Hour of Code on December 9, 2015. Part of Computer Science Education Week, the Hour of Code is an introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. Andrea Tehan Carnes, STEAM coordinator […]
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Girls, Tinkering, and Science
The Hewitt School sixth graders in this video have been challenged to apply their knowledge of potential and kinetic energy in constructing a “Rube Goldberg” machine that will use a series of mechanical steps to ring a bell. And while the assignment is pretty lo-tech, that really doesn’t matter. Research tells us that girls learn […]
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Letting Go the Reins at the Middle School Harkness Table
Five years ago Shore Country Day School decided to embrace the Harkness pedagogy as a way to teach primary sources in our Grade 8 history curriculum. It has been so successful that we have incorporated elements of it down into the lower grades. Developing a classroom of fully engaged middle schoolers makes a lot of […]
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Students Excel in Public Speaking and Head to World Championship
At the International Independent Schools Public Speaking Competition (IISPSC) in Toronto Oct. 23-26, Stoneleigh-Burnham School placed first among U.S. schools, and Claire Lane ’16 earned a spot at the world championship. Lane was the top speaker in Dramatic Interpretation. Lane will join Clara Swartzentruber ’16 at the World Debating and Public Speaking Championship in March […]
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BlendEd Program Fosters Self-Motivated Education
Juniors and seniors at Marin Academy have a unique opportunity to take classes with peers and teachers from their own and four other Bay Area schools — The Athenian School, The College Preparatory School, Lick-Wilmerding High School, and The Urban School — in a partnership that combines face-to-face instruction with online learning. The Bay Area […]
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Acceleration Comes to Light in Dunn School’s Physics Class
At Dunn School in Los Olivos, California, juniors and seniors saw free-fall in a whole new way, thanks to a newly-designed physics course. Students approximated free-fall by attaching a small strobe light to a heavy ball (to minimize the effects of air resistance); then they photographed the strobe light as it fell. They took this […]
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Milton Hershey School: On the Cutting-Edge of Cancer Research
While students around the state are spending their days sleeping in and relaxing, rising Milton Hershey School senior Lucas Sproule is participating in an internship at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and setting a course for his future. It’s a personal endeavor for the student who lost his grandmother to kidney cancer. “I have […]
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An Interdisciplinary Project Goes Global
In an elective, Mark Day School Upper Division students learned that engineering the right product means respecting the process and really listening to your users. In fall 2014, “tinkerer in residence” David St. Martin presented the 7th and 8th grade students in his fabrication class with statistics about the impact of inefficient cooking stoves on […]
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Minecraft at Iolani
‘Iolani School teacher Gabriel Yanagihara is combining popular technology with traditional studies, and he is changing the landscape of learning for his students. Required reading is no longer just that- in Minecraft classes, students recreate the physical layout of a book within the game, as well as build new communities, explore space, and join the […]
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Igniting a Spark: The High School Classroom as a Neuroscience Laboratory
Last fall, Trevor students collaborated with a group of NYU neuroscientists, performing groundbreaking experiments that explored brain activity during learning. The study, entitled “Crowdsourcing neuroscience: Neural oscillations and human social dynamics,” tried to determine what happens when a group of brains synchronize with one another–and to understand the consequences of this synchrony in terms of […]
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RMA Cadets earn Chinese Studies HSK Certification
Riverside Military Academy’s Chinese Studies Program is providing exciting opportunities for our cadets as they gain an edge in the world of international business, government, and related fields! RMA offers a unique environment with over 500 cadets representing 27 countries around the world including China. In appreciation of the immense impact China has on the […]