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Independent schools prepare students for success in college, career, and life.
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Coding to Take Over Classrooms for Computer Science Education Week
Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) students are once again participating in the Hour of Code Week, taking place December 7-13, in celebration of Computer Science Education Week. Students in all divisions, starting in Kindergarten, will be coding through Code.org and Scratch Jr. programs that incorporate fun, age-appropriate animation. In addition, high school students taking computer […]
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Annual cultural exchange broadens students’ view of the world
Over the past 16 years, the Seven Hills School has partnered with students and teachers from Kita-City, a ward within Tokyo, Japan, to take part in a cross-cultural exchange that has enriched the lives of students and educators from both countries. During a very special week each November, our entire school community excitedly welcomes a […]
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Advice to My 30 Year Old Self
Students from Julia Morgan School for Girls, a 6-8 grade middle school in Oakland, CA, were asked what advice they would give to their 30 year old self. The video was produced by Career Girls, a local non-profit organization dedicated to highlighting diverse women role models for girls.
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Roland Park Country School Repurposes Library to Encourage Active Learning
Libraries everywhere are reinventing themselves into places of active learning where “students can interact with content, technology, the space and each other.”1 Libraries are “becoming less about the housing of books and more about connecting learners to knowledge.” Rather than emphasizing quiet for individual study, the goal is to encourage collaboration and creativity. The modern […]
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Inspiring Life-Long Learners, Big and Small
Learning isn’t just for the little ones at The Wilson School. Wilson’s faculty and trustees jumped right into their own learning this academic year with a special evening session on the first night of school with Professor Edward Hess, author of “Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization.” In his presentation […]
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Real-World Projects Spark Girls’ Interest in Science
How do middle schoolers at St. Catherine’s School engage in design thinking and experience the engineering process? One example is by learning to build underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). In coordination with their Robotics Genius Hour curriculum, and utilizing the school’s innovative maker spaces, girls gain hands-on experience with tools, electrical circuits, and switches as […]
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Emerging Leader Program with The Hershey Company
When MHS senior Ethan Stratton shops, he looks at products differently than most other consumers. That’s because he spent his summer interning with the Marketing and Sales Department of The Hershey Company. “I’m seeing how a company markets and sells their product, and everything that goes into it. My mentors here are building on what […]
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Students Visit Hiroshima, Rally for Peace
Seventy years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Harker students joined students from Russia, Japan and the United States for the 18th annual Critical Issues Forum, a student conference on nuclear disarmament held in Hiroshima. The forum, April 2-4, was co-sponsored by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury […]
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Green Acres School Certified as a Maryland Green School
On April 30, the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) announced Green Acres School’s certification as a 2015 Maryland Green School. The award is the culmination of two years of demonstrating and documenting a continuous effort to integrate sustainable environmental management practices, environmental education curriculum, professional development opportunities, and community engagement into the […]
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Turning Point School Awarded International Certification
Turning Point School was recently awarded International Certification through the Council of International Schools (CIS). The pursuit of this certification has been an exciting priority and goal for the entire school community over the past two years, and Turning Point is proud to be only the third school school in the United States to earn […]
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Jon Shirley, Former President of Microsoft, Makes $5 Million Gift to The Hill School to Fund New Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Technology Program and Facility
Jon Shirley, of Medina, Wash., retired president of Microsoft Corporation, philanthropist, and renowned art and car collector, has made an extraordinary $5 million gift to The Hill School – a gift that will immediately advance the boarding high school’s new engineering-related curriculum and facility. Shirley is a member of The Hill School’s class of 1956 […]
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Teach the Future Fellowship
St. Andrew’s School has launched a community-wide professional development initiative to create meaningful movement forward for our own school, as well as partner with other schools, innovators, and entrepreneurs, to bring about change for the betterment of our students and community. Teach the Future Fellowship is a grass roots organization of likeminded educators who commit […]