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Independent schools educate the whole child, supporting students as they grow intellectually and become physically and emotionally fit.
Independent schools educate the whole child, supporting students as they grow intellectually and become physically and emotionally fit.
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Dutchess Day School Celebrates Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds
The dining room at Dutchess Day School looked a bit different over four days in mid-January. The school’s chef had prepared an array of foods specifically chosen for their brain benefits, allowing students of all ages to sample such items as salmon roe, pomegranate juice, blueberries, and sardines. They were delighted; and when they sat […]
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Multiple Intelligences: A Unique Program Aimed At Students’ Strengths
Anyone visiting a classroom at New City School will most likely find groups of students working together—solving a complex problem, acting out an historical event, building models of a new insect species, or maybe even using percussion instruments to represent individual components of the digestive system. The school follows the principles of Howard Gardner’s theory […]
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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 […]
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Girls’ ice hockey at The Hill School aims to be an elite program
Ari Baum, coach of the girls’ varsity ice hockey team at The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.), aims to ensure that the sport is “an elite program” at the 163-year-old school which first admitted girls in 1998. Also an instructor of economics and dorm parent among his many roles, Baum is proud of the academic as […]
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Turning Point School’s Dirt to Dish Program Expands
Turning Point’s Dirt to Dish Program is constantly expanding. We started two summers ago as our Middle School students used produce from our garden along with dairy products and bread from local farmers to serve snack to the entire Summer Camp every day. We have now expanded the garden three fold and have reinstituted our […]
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Students and Horses Become Teammates
Freshmen at Thacher School, a coed boarding school in Ojai, California, begin learning the value of teamwork and the power of true friendship on their very first day of school, thanks to the Horse Program. Each student is partnered with a horse that lives on the property, an idea that traces back to the school’s […]
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Football at The Hill School: Student-athletes challenge themselves on and off the field
This short video includes interviews with diverse student-athletes who talk about how Hill challenges its football players to stretch themselves both on and off the field — building leadership skills and preparing for the opportunity to play in college, while having fun, too.
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Hill School wrestlers hit the mat, and the books
This short video highlights The Hill School’s wrestling program, which welcomes both new and seasoned wrestlers and looks for student-athletes who are highly motivated academically as well as athletically. The head wrestling coach, Mark Pearson, Ph.D. — Hill class of ’78 — is an English teacher and author whose most recent book “Famous Last Lines” […]
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Student Says School Saved His Life
In my junior high classroom, Grandparents’ Day fell on a Friday, and every Friday my students read aloud their writing assignments from that week in small groups. I assigned a short essay on how my students see their grandparents in themselves, and that Friday invited the attending grandparents to come and listen to the essays […]
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Stellar Parents Make Stellar Student
We believe that education doesn’t stop when you end the school day. At the Summit, parental involvement is encourage and celebrated through open houses and classroom volunteers.
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Learning by Doing: John Burroughs and Slabsides
Being located in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York, we are surrounded by local history and service opportunities to preserve such history. Therefore, as part of our interdisciplinary curriculum in the Middle School at Poughkeepsie Day, the teachers and students have been immersed in learning about the nature writer John Burroughs, along with doing […]
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Building Community at Wolf Ridge Environmental Center
Each year, Friends School of Minnesota seventh and eighth graders spend a week at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, Minnesota. We do this trip to learn about the natural environment of the area and to build community among ourselves. We spend the week taking classes. This year’s classes were animal signs, orienteering, ropes […]