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Independent schools prepare students for success in college, career, and life.
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AUP Speaks (and is heard!)
To culminate the inaugural year of American University Preparatory School (AUP) in Los Angeles, the school hosted an event called AUP Speaks. The event took place on Friday, May 29th at the L.A. Hotel Downtown. Guests included academics from UCLA and USC, local non-profits, community leaders, consulate representatives, and independent professionals. AUP Speaks was created […]
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Global Perspective Inspires Fourth Graders to Find Solutions
Presbyterian Day School wants to foster critical, creative, and sophisticated thinkers. Teachers make use of Harvard’s “Visible Thinking” routines, and students frequently explore issues from a global perspective. This spring, after reading Linda Sue Park’s book, A Long Walk to Water, featuring two children from southern Sudan and their country’s ongoing struggle to get clean […]
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What is a Bottle Brick Bench and Why Build One?
During the past two academic years, RPCS students have been collecting plastic waste and plastic bottles in order to create and build a bottle brick bench – the second one to be built in the state of Maryland. Martha Barss, Environmental Education and Sustainability Coordinator, along with the 4th and 5th Grades have been directing […]
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Walker’s Ecology Students Share Importance of Honeybees with Second Graders
On Wednesday, May 15, sixth grade students in The Ethel Walker School’s Ecology class traveled to an elementary school in Simsbury, Connecticut to present to second grade students about the importance of honeybees. The Walker’s students discussed the process of pollination, threats to the honeybee population, and why honeybees should be protected. The students were […]
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Language Immersion Comes Alive in Partnership with Technology
Can you teach a robot to speak Spanish? At Missoula International School, students use computer software and LEGOS® to build robots programmed to solve real-life problems in a total Spanish immersion classroom. K-1 teacher John Kratz pioneered the program at MIS in 2013; today it’s being integrated into every classroom and offered in after-school and […]
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Teach. Reach. Feed. Lead. – Campus Kitchen Project- A Recipe for Service and Leadership
Shared meals for some can fill both mental as well as physical hunger which is why St. Andrew’s Episcopal School was the second high school in the nation to become a Campus Kitchen site. Meals provide comfort for the present and hope for the coming day. Nearly 25% of the Washington, D.C. community is food […]
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Teacher-Student Research Teams Transform Learning
In April, a team of six teachers and six students from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School flew to Harvard University to work with Graduate School of Education (HGSE) faculty on an original research project for The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL). The nationally recognized center seeks to enhance teacher quality and student achievement through […]
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Brain Research Influences Creativity in Teaching, Learning
Colorado Academy connects current brain research in neuroscience to its broad liberal arts and sciences program. Teachers study not just what students need to know to be successful in the future, but how learning takes shape, developing classes to strengthen culture and character in students at all grade levels. In their Global Perspectives course, freshmen explore divergent […]
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Alumni Return Home for Career Day
Milton Hershey School alumni returned to campus to offer career advice to current MHS high school students. Students could hear from those working in career paths such as business, medical, journalism, and law enforcement. Learn more about the success of our alumni in the video below, and how their knowledge helps to motivate our students.
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#EarthDay #wintermatters
We care about climate in western Maine and are teaming up with the author of DEEP The Story of Skiing and The Future of Snow and watching the film Chasing Ice to start our Earth Day events. Campus energy use tours, a celebration of local foods, vernal pool tours, reclaiming run off water for gardening, […]
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Maker’s Movement Comes to Rowland Hall
The quest to solve problems by making tools from available materials has marked the advancement of cultures and satisfied the human desire to invent since the beginning of time. Right now the Maker Movement, based on the idea of constructing knowledge by building physical artifacts with real-world applications, is taking the country by storm. Two […]
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Milton Hershey School: Recipe for Success
Milton Hershey School® students won first place in the Pennsylvania ProStart Culinary Invitational, held in State College on Feb. 25. It was hosted by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation in conjunction with the PA Restaurant & Lodging Association. “We are incredibly proud of the students. They dedicated a lot of time preparing for this […]