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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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From struggling to excelling-TCS students make the grade!
Since most teens with learning differences find school difficult and unrewarding, but are attracted to the wages and activity offered in the working world, The Cottage School class day is modeled as if it were a job. Each student enrolls as if they are being hired. They follow a business casual dress code and issued […]
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STEAM Students Work on Product Business Project
Students in the STEAM Lab are currently working on a product business project. The class has been divided into creative, production, and business teams to figure out how best to bring a concept through production and into a lucrative business. Using the vinyl cutter and steam press that STEAM Director Chris Hardman acquired with his […]
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A Dynamic Space for Innovation
Opened in September 2013, the Innovation Center represents CEE’s commitment to leading edge education. This dynamic learning space offers students and teachers the technology, space, and tools to engage in transformative experiences and explore new possibilities. Truly a 21st Century learning environment, the space includes many features that nurture big ideas, collaboration, and self-guided learning. […]
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21st Century Electives Offered at Jacksonville Country Day School
Electives that students usually don’t see until their first semester of college are being offered at the sixth grade level at Jacksonville Country Day School (JCDS). JCDS offers sixth grade students a list of electives such as 3D printing, video production, computer coding, and sculpting. These STEAM-involved elective classes are held every sixth day of […]
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Coding the Future at Jacksonville Country Day School
This school year, all of the students at Jacksonville Country Day School participated in the “Hour of Code.” Organized by Code.org, the goal of this global event is to get students to spend an hour programming during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 8-14). The day kicked off with an assembly to get students excited about […]
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Old Trail School Students Join Worldwide Movement to get 100 Million+ Students to Code
Old Trail School students, teachers and parents participated with students across the globe in the Hour of Code project in December. This event was held in conjunction with Computer Science Week and was sponsored by Tynker.com, Code.org and a variety of other websites and apps during the month of December. The Hour of Code is […]
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STEM Career Fair Introduces Girls to Endless Possibilities
Career fields involving science, technology, engineering and math are some of the fastest growing, but are still dominated by men. The Bryn Mawr School aims to change that. “There’s a lot of stereotypes and societal biases that women aren’t good at math, women aren’t good in science,” said Eric Elton, Bryn Mawr’s STEM director. “And […]
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Finding a Different Mindset: Girls Learn from Positive Stereotypes
Inspired by the work noted social psychologist Claude Steele began on stereotype threat, Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls designed programming to counteract the effects that girls, a group negatively stereotyped in terms of math and science ability, may feel in high-stakes testing situations. For the past five years, Laurel has educated its upper […]
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Integrating Technology into the Art Classroom
Technology has been a core component of the Lower School Art curriculum for many years at Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ). Beginning in the Early Childhood program, students have access to drawing apps on the school’s iPads. As they move into the elementary grades, art students are introduced to Photoshop to retouch images on the […]
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Program Asks Students for a Lifetime Commitment to Wellness
Ashley Hall’s PAWS (Personal Awareness and Wellness Seminar) program launched in 2010, garnering national attention for its innovative merger of three existing programs—academic management, wellness, and college counseling. Pressure on adolescent girls is enormous, the school believes, and takes a toll on their mental health. The program is targeted by grade level: advisors begin talking […]
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School’s Initiative Promotes New Opportunities for Women
A recent initiative at Roland Park Country School to address historical gender gaps offers qualified students curricular and research opportunities that promote the representation and success of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The STEM Institute, founded in 2012, is a “school-within-a-school” series of semester-long research apprenticeships that may be taken […]
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Dancing her way to the U.S. Naval Academy
Our Class of 2014 graduates are off to some incredible places this fall! After graduating as a three-year dance major from Walnut Hill, Rosie Silverstein ’14 will be attending the U.S. Naval Academy. She took time to share her thoughts on her Walnut Hill experience and her upcoming training and education. 1) What made you […]