We Spark Creativity
Independent schools champion the natural creativity in every child, growing creative problem solvers and nurturing artistic skills.
Independent schools champion the natural creativity in every child, growing creative problem solvers and nurturing artistic skills.
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Brimmer and May Students Launch Digital News Site
At 7:45 a.m., students launched The Gator (BMGator.com), the student news site of Brimmer and May. Replete with not just written content, but also podcasts, videos, photos, live stream, and other interactive content, viewers will enjoy prime access to campus news and events. The site runs on WordPress, the same platform that powers many of […]
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Teaching to Your Passions: From Classroom to Retirement
Karen Buglass is no stranger to making her passions part of her career. With her first Master’s Degree in City Planning, she spent 17 years as a strategic planner at Boston Edison. It was during this time, that Karen played an integral part in starting and planning Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Teaching and […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Creating and Interpreting Bar Graphs Using “The Starry Night”
Kindergarteners enrolled at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a rich, interdisciplinary activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about and viewed several images of the artwork of Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter best known for his self-portraits, paintings of sunflowers and irises, […]
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French American 8th Grader Uses Design Lab to Prototype Yo-Yo
Eighth-grade student Elliot Irving loves to yo-yo. This past summer Elliot took the hobby a step further and decided to design his very own unresponsive yo-yo. “[It’s] a yo-yo meant for tricks,” says Elliot, “and it doesn’t come up when you tug on it. It requires a bind to come up.” On a road trip […]
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Winter Greenhouse Project at Purnell School
Many schools have beautiful greenhouses that were built to allow students to study botany and gardening through meaningful hands on experiential learning. However, many of these greenhouses fall by the wayside during the cold winter months simply because we don’t know what to do with them! Teachers and students should consider taking on the challenge […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Math in a Jasper Johns
Second graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in an exploration of place value using the visual arts as a lens. Students learned about the American painter, Jasper Johns (1930 – present), famous for his iconic targets, maps, and flags, and then created their own color numeral in the […]
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Mosaic
This project was the result of a faculty enrichment experience which was made possible by The Rumson Country Day School 2012-13 Blake Award. This grant provides annual funding to selected RCDS faculty and staff for the purposes of professional enrichment through special classes or travel. Faculty Enrichment Grant winner, Melissa Petersen, Art Department Chair attended […]
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Writing Program Helps Students Find the Right Direction
Thomas Jefferson (TJ) School puts a high priority on cultivating an independent mind; so the new extracurricular Writer-in-Residence program for students in grades 7-12 is an exciting addition to this year’s schedule. Led by 2007 TJ graduate Nate Myers, who returns to the school after several years in the Los Angeles film industry, the program […]
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St. George’s Independent School Opens Science and Innovation Lab for Lower School Students at Germantown Campus
St. George’s Independent School recently opened the Science and Innovation Lab for lower school students at its Germantown campus. Borrowing from processes used in the engineering and technology fields, the lab facilitates brainstorming and working in small groups to solve problems in creative and unconventional ways. Similar labs are planned for the Memphis and Collierville […]
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All Students are Composers!
LREI’s Young Composers & Improvisors Workshop helps every student become a composer. Beginning in 5th grade students learn how music works by composing their own original pieces. Over 160 pieces are performed each year by professional musicians at public young composer concerts. The progressive curriculum allows for every student to begin composing regardless of experience. […]
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Students Join Global Challenge for Creative Play
Preparations are under way for the third annual Global Cardboard Challenge at The Wilson School on October 11. Sponsored by the Imagination Foundation, children from all over the world are invited to enjoy a day of play while building “something amazing out of cardboard, recycled materials, and imagination.” Last year, Wilson was the only St. […]
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Inly School Has Fun With Creativity Cans
Inly School, an independent Montessori school on Boston’s South Shore, hosted a Creativity Can event. All K–8 students gathered in the Meehan Family Artsbarn for one hour to make creatures using Faber-Castell Creativity Cans. It was a joy to see what each student came up with. All of the creatures were totally unique. But the […]