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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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Small and Close Learning Community at The Hill School Fosters Meaningful Relationships Between Students and Faculty
At The Hill School, our faculty support students in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the dorms, on the stage, and in the community. We created a series of videos that profile our dedicated faculty members who embrace what it means to live and learn at The Family Boarding School. In this video, Mr. […]
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Ranney Students Partner with UN & Monmouth Univ. to Educate Others about Global Sustainability
Upper School students at Ranney School (Tinton Falls, N J) have embarked on a first-of-its-kind partnership with the United Nations and Monmouth University (West Long Branch, NJ) to educate the community about global sustainable development goals. As part of this unique project, students visited UN Headquarters in New York City in Feb. 2016 to participate […]
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Design and Fabrication at ‘Iolani School
‘Iolani School students in one of the Wet Lab classes needed a way to photograph and analyze specimens under the microscope. But holding up their iPads and iPhones to take the photos proved to be ineffective and unwieldy. The Design and Fabrication class seized the opportunity to find a solution for their fellow classmates by […]
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Turning Point School – A Deep Dive into Global Citizenship
Recently, Turning Point School was honored to be recognized by the Council of International Schools as a school that is shaping the future on international education. In a blog post titled “Turning Point School – A Deep Dive into Global Citizenship,” the Council of International Schools interviewed Head of School Deborah Richman on the school’s […]
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Online School Partnership Provides Advanced Chinese Language Learning
Eighth grade Chinese immersion students graduating from the Chinese American International School (CAIS) are ready to begin tackling advanced-level challenges in Chinese, but they often exhaust existing course offerings after only a year or two at their new high schools. This year, CAIS is piloting a fully online course in advanced Chinese with students in […]
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Mirman School Launches Groundbreaking MirmanX Program
Mirman School is excited to announce the launch of MirmanX, a unique program offering funding and support for its students to tackle “moonshot” projects that have the potential to help a community in a meaningful and tangible way. “The idea behind MirmanX is to help students achieve far-reaching goals in an open-source environment supported by […]
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Week of Code Expands to P.E. and the Arts
Burke’s hosted its second annual week of Hour of Code activities in December. Close to 75 activities kept students in all grades busy throughout each day of the week, from early Open Code before classes started to playing coding games in Tree House after school. We saw students taking part in activities such as: -Coding […]
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Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service Make It Into Change.org’s 2015- Year in Change Video
The Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service at Julia Morgan School for Girls in Oakland, CA is honored to have been chosen out of 200,000 petitions to be included in Change.org’s 2015 – Year in Change video. The girls are featured around 15 seconds into the video about their petition to pass the ERA.
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Open Window School Student Experiment to Be Tested on the International Space Station
An experiment developed by a team of students at Open Window School to test the effects of microgravity on the growth of Arabidopsis in Martian soil simulant will be conducted aboard the International Space Station later next year. The findings could help to better understand how to grow plants in a future human colony on […]
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From Maps to Mosaics . . . to Solutions in Principia Middle School
In this globalized, high-tech world—where existing information is rapidly superseded by new “facts”—high school graduates face exciting opportunities and unforeseen challenges. “We cannot solve problems that are coming up in the world through one lens,” says Principia School’s Dean of Innovation and Academics Peter Dry. “We need to be able to look at and grapple […]
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Connected Learning for a Connected World
Most schools teach different subjects in isolation. Math teachers don’t know what children are learning in science class and vice versa. Students move from subject to subject but typically there is no integration. At Jacksonville Country Day School, all learning is connected. Teachers continually meet to collaborate and find the connections between different subjects. Individual […]
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Internship Program Proves Experience IS the Best Teacher
Each February, a two-week Winter Internship program at The Field School allows students to immerse themselves in the “real world.” It’s a little different for each of them — volunteering in a senior center; tutoring younger students; shadowing a Member of Congress; or experiencing the workplace alongside a zoologist, doctor, or art gallery curator. Holly […]