We Encourage Exploration
Independent schools encourage students to learn about the world and about themselves.
Independent schools encourage students to learn about the world and about themselves.
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STEAM/Maker Program Inspires Creativity, Award-Winning Projects
A weekly in-depth STEAM/Maker program at The Spring Hill School lets all students in grades 1-6 deep-dive into activities that help them get creative while honing their science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills. Over the past two years, they’ve produced award-winning projects recognized across the Bay Area. Two Spring Hill parents — Diana Planson, […]
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Bolles First High School in Southeast to Acquire Anatomage Table
The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida is now one of just three private high schools in the world – and the only high school in the Southeast – to own an Anatomage table. The highly advanced human dissection table and anatomy visualization system is typically – if not exclusively – seen in hospital or university […]
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Milton Hershey School Students Use Technology to Enhance Educational Experience
Milton Hershey School has developed an Educational Technology Plan with the foundation of creating student-centered learning environments that are rich in problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity. Your child’s learning experience will be enhanced through the use of technology throughout his or her career at Milton Hershey School. In an ongoing effort to ensure our students […]
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Year-End Collaborative Program Relieves Stress, Re-Energizes School Community
The last few weeks of school can be stressful, what with upcoming finals or just year-end fatigue. Allendale Columbia School’s May Term combats this issue by transforming the final 12 days of the school year, re-energizing students and teachers, providing opportunities for collaboration, and fostering a love of learning. Students in grades 6-12 are given […]
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Innovative Schedule Supports Intensive Learning
In a variety of settings, ranging from their upper school campus to downtown Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and Paris, Hawken School students and teachers in grades 9-12 spent the three weeks between Thanksgiving and winter breaks immersed in “Intensives,” which offer hands-on, extensive study of a single subject. With the school’s unique schedule, students can practice […]
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Children Run their own Restaurant
Recently at The Miquon School, first graders were very keen on making food. The teachers saw this passion as an opportunity to build on their students’ food-related curiosity with a new unit that would touch on many first-grade level skills and concepts. “When asked if they would like to make their own real restaurant, the […]
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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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Outdoor Program Encourages Learning and Leadership
Located at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, The Waterford School’s signature Outdoor Program offers unique opportunities for students to prepare for and develop a lifetime connection with the wilderness, where learning becomes an adventure. Activities might include afternoon outings to the nearby mountains, or multi-day travels throughout northern and southern Utah. Each year, eager […]
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Zoolandia: Where Wild Ideas Are OK!
“How much does a lion cost?” “Should we build a lemonade stand or a T-shirt shop?” “What animals can we put in our water habitat?” “What can we do about the oil spill?” These are questions overheard during a session of Zoolandia, a game in which wild ideas are OK! For the past four years, […]
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Kindergarten Students Create Certified Schoolyard Habitat
Old Trail School Kindergarten students have successfully created a Certified Schoolyard Habitat® through the National Wildlife Foundation’s Garden for Wildlife program. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), America’s largest wildlife conservation and education organization. Old Trail School has joined with more than 5,000 schools nationwide that have transformed their schoolyards into thriving wildlife habitats that provide […]
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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 […]