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Independent schools prepare students for success in college, career, and life.
Independent schools prepare students for success in college, career, and life.
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It All Started With A Conversation
Starting in the 2014-2015 school year, scholars at E.A.Young Academy in North Texas were frustrated as they began to learn about educational inequality in third world countries. They scholars knew they were few in number and felt helpless to make a difference for such a large, complex problem. Over time, they researched ways to help […]
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Learning Experiences Help Students Find Their Potential, Attain Their Dreams
Eagle Rock School students aren’t admitted as freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors, but rather as adolescents interested in taking control of their lives and learning. They must complete a minimum of six trimesters, time for sufficient personal growth and character development. Graduation is based on demonstrated competencies rather than more traditional “seat time” and grades. […]
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Middle School Summit Offers Solutions to Local, Global Problems
When it comes to major environmental challenges, who solves our problems? Who stewards our resources? How does climate change impact me, and vice versa? What’s the role of government in fixing environmental, economic, and social problems? These questions guided Journeys School sixth, seventh, and eighth graders as they embarked on “The California Drought Summit,” a […]
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Students' Art Installations Demonstrate Plight of Girls' Education Worldwide
Throughout the 2016-17 school year, Ranney School students in Monmouth County, NJ, have been working on a special cross-disciplinary project to support Global Peace & Justice, which is #16 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a follow-on program to the school’s 2015-16 SDG partnership with the UN and Monmouth University, the History […]
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NAIS and the Only Responsible Stance on Anthropogenic Climate Change
ABSTRACT OF AN ESSAY I WROTE: We owe it to our NAIS students to have challenging, respectful conversations that acknowledge that we are rooted in and dependent upon nature and that we are responsible for protecting nature for future generations. Further, we in NAIS should loudly proclaim that we recognize that human-induced climate change is […]
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Students Memorialize Their State’s Past, Commit to Creating a Better Future
Last summer, a group of Altamont School seniors and two faculty members travelled from Birmingham to Montgomery to join in the Community Remembrance Project. Sponsored by the Equal Justice Initiative, the Remembrance Project represents indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. Participants from across the state collected soil from […]
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Students Reflect on the Elections
On the heels of a notable election, teachable moments surfaced as students at Woodland School—a school where approximately half of all families have at least one member of the family born outside the United States—pored over the results. Rather than dodging questions or feelings regarding the election, Woodland students were encouraged to ask questions, engage […]
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Old Trail School Middle School Students Create Civility Contracts During Election Season
Middle School students at Old Trail School have created Civility Contracts to practice and encourage respectful discussion and behavior during the weeks preceding the presidential election. Students agreed to listen to each other’s points of view, accept feedback if someone “crossed the line into a personal attack,” agree to disagree, and seek common ground. They […]
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Erez Kaganovitz, Creator Of Humans Of Tel Aviv, Visits Old Trail School
Old Trail School welcomed Erez Kaganovitz in September. He is the creator of Humans of Tel Aviv, a series of online photos and memoirs telling stories of the many people of the city. This visit was part of a continuing collaboration with Classrooms Without Borders, and was made possible thanks to a generous gift from […]
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Leadership Program Teaches Skills for College, Work, and Life
Edmund Burke School’s signature Leadership Program is designed to give students in grades 6-12 the skills they need for life after graduation: how to listen, collaborate, manage a diverse group, and inspire an audience. This fits into Burke’s mission of preparing students to make positive contributions to the world. Eighth graders design and create events […]
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Salt marsh planting; Admiral Farragut Academy students work together to save the world
Dozens of Kindergarteners…and first-graders and second-graders, in fact the entire student body — Upper and Lower School — spent a portion of their day on September 8 getting muddy planting hundreds of plugs of salt marsh grass in the school’s nursery, which sits just outside of Sari Deitche’s biology classroom. For many, it was the […]
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Business and Entrepreneurship Program Challenges Girls to Aim Higher
Minyi Jiang, a sophomore at Annie Wright Upper School, hopes to work on Wall Street some day. Since she doesn’t think books alone will fully enable her to see the real world, she hopes to gain a deeper, more authentic understanding of economics and finance from one of her school’s signature programs, The Girls’ Business […]