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Independent schools prepare students for success in college, career, and life.
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Listen Up: A Digital Storytelling project
Watch as Mid-Pacific middle school students, with the help of their teacher, listen to their families and use learned digital storytelling skills to build empathy and share amazing stories of human connection before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mid-Pacific’s middle school program embeds social-emotional learning into academic programming because students develop socially and emotionally at […]
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Durham E-cademy – Day 1
Durham Academy’s spring break began on March 6. Due to health and safety concerns related to COVID-19, the school decided to suspend on-campus instruction and activities. DA’s 200+ faculty and staff returned from spring break and in 48 hours, launched an online version of DA for 1,227 students in grades Pre-K through 12. The first […]
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ESD Students Renovate Lab for Digital Fabrication Across Disciplines
What if students could modify rocket fins for their physics project or utilize a laser cutter to aid in their in-depth independent study on microfluids or create a feature for their newest sculpture project using CAD? They can … in The Episcopal School of Dallas’ Fab Lab. Our newly enclosed space supports coursework from all […]
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Kent School Embraces Cross-Curricular Instruction
Kent School Inspires Deeper Learning with Cross-Curricular Instruction Teachers at Kent School have fully embraced the enhanced teaching and learning opportunities that come from cross-curricular instruction. Two recent projects illustrate the depth of student understanding when students can study one topic in different classes. Middle School Literature is selected based on the period of history […]
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Marymount School's Atmospheric Science Class Announce Results of Global Survey
Do students ages 13 to 18 believe global warming is naturally induced, human induced or both? How do teenagers develop their belief system with regard to climate change. The students in the senior elective Atmospheric Science at Marymount School of New York sought to answer these questions (and more) with the 2018 Global Survey on […]
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Teamwork: The Key to Peacemaking as a Solution to Current Geopolitical Crises for Fifth Grade Students Participating in a Weeklong Session of the World Peace Game at Oakhill Day School
GLADSTONE, MO – In early March 2018, one week before Spring Break, Oakhill Day School’s twenty-five fifth-grade students attempted to solve some of the world’s greatest crises. The students were playing the “World Peace Game,” an interactive simulation in which students take the roles of state cabinets and world organizations in an attempt to solve […]
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Social Emotional Learning: Helping Students Reach Their Full Potential
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) can be hard to spot to an unfamiliar eye, but subtlety is part of its effectiveness at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, where the SEL curriculum spans kindergarten through twelfth grade. Activities include Lower Schoolers identifying emotions during morning meeting, Middle Schoolers working with test anxiety in advisory, and Upper Schoolers joining […]
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Social Justice Program Shows Students Multiple Perspectives, Real-Life Experiences
The Class of 2018 at The Cambridge School of Weston will be the first to complete the school’s four-year social justice graduation requirement. Students must take at least 12 courses that reflect the diverse viewpoints, complexity, and richness of the multicultural world they live in. They explore multiple perspectives, examine models of social change, and […]
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Engineering Diploma Program Helps Students Build Their Futures
Students at Pinewood Preparatory School who might be thinking of pursuing an engineering degree in college—and possibly even a future career—now have a chance to get an early start. Starting this year, the Engineering Diploma program exposes high school students to a variety of concepts, skills, and applications that, once completed, will provide a solid […]
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Princeton Montessori Students Garner Attention of Distinguished University Professor
A group of Princeton Montessori elementary students received unexpected accolades from Rattan Lal, University Professor of Soil Science at Ohio State University and President of the International Union of Soil Science. Professor Lal was quoted in a December 2017 New York Times article titled, “Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet.” The students […]
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Old Trail School Grade 7 Students Receive Rookie of the Year Award in Future City Competition
Old Trail School Grade 7 students participated in the Future City Competition and traveled to Columbus on January 20 for the Ohio Regional Competition. Future City is a project-based learning program in which students imagine, research, design and build cities of the future. With the engineering design process and project management front and center, students […]
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Student-Led Gender Equality Club Offers “Beacon of Hope” to Worried High Schoolers
When Indian Springs School senior Katie Wiatrak saw sexism affecting current events, including the 2016 presidential election, she looked in vain for a place to discuss it with her peers. “So I decided to build one,” says Katie. “I gathered my closest friends and the head of school, and together we founded the Gender Equality […]