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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Put on Your Math Goggles! Exploring Measurement Using Josef Albers’ Squares
Fifth graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a hands-on exploration of measurement using the visual arts as a lens. In order to challenge fifth graders’ proportional reasoning skills, students learned about the German-born American artist, Josef Albers (1888-1976), and were introduced to images of his influential series […]
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Maker Culture Evolving at the French American International School
This year the French American International School of San Francisco developed FAIS Creates, an after-school maker club. Over the course of the year, our group of 15 students in grades 6-8 completed a variety of hands-on projects, including work with Arduino, sewing and crafting, robotics, and fabrication. Next fall, our school will unveil a new […]
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Maker Faire at The Philadelphia School (TPS)
The creativity, ingenuity, and sheer exuberance of our students were on full display in mid-March at the The Philadelphia School’s first Maker Faire – an interactive celebration of learning and discovery inspired by the Maker movement (see www.makerfaire.com). Every student from preschool through eighth grade participated – individually or in groups – creating art, exploring […]
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Lighting a SPARQ: Good Shepherd Episcopal School launches new learning center
An 8-year-old imagines a dinosaur, designs a sketch, and watches as a Makerbot 3D printer brings his T-Rex to life. On the other side of a frosted glass divider, a group of eighth-graders produces a fictional news broadcast with green-screen technology. No, this isn’t a science museum; it’s a glimpse of what’s possible in the […]
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Environmental Stewardship
We have shared our environmental strategy and its link with our business model with all of our students. We presented the cost benefits of our environmental leadership to our students and demonstrated how it is possible to blend operational efficiency with environmental excellence.
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Visiting Scholar Challenges Students to See From a New Creative Lens
The All Saints’ Episcopal School Tad Bird Honors College presented Sedrick Huckaby, a Fort Worth native and Guggenheim Fellow, as part of the Visiting Scholar Series. For two weeks, Huckaby worked with All Saints’ students grades PK-12, on art and the creative process. Throughout his visit, 10 original works of Huckaby’s art were hung in […]
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Constructing Communities of Paper & Growing Communities of Learners
Our Community Construction Project is causing a lot of excitement this week during first grade social studies. Before spring vacation, the class learned about the concepts of needs and wants within the context of a community. The children listed everything they thought should be in a community. During another class session everyone worked together to […]
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Students Honor Famous Bard During 32nd Annual Shakespeare Week
Every winter, the Upper School students of the Episcopal School of Dallas showcase their artistic writing, acting, and film editing skills in honor of Shakespeare Week. This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the event during which English classes foster discussions about the famous Bard of Avon’s themes and character development, as well as writing […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Exploring M.C. Escher’s Tantalizing Tessellations
Fifth graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a hands-on geometry exploration using the visual arts as a lens. In order to make the teaching and learning of transformations more engaging and meaningful to students, the fifth grade mathematics teacher introduced students to the work of the Dutch […]
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The Ellis School: Artificial Limb Lab – “The BAZAD”
The “button and zipping assistive device” (BAZAD), meant to make it easier for people with severe arthritis to perform daily tasks – recently won the top prize at the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Pittsburgh Virtual Engineering Design Competition. The competition is funded by The National Science Foundation and brings engineering design into high school […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Counting with Georges Seurat
Pre-K children enrolled in All Saints’ Episcopal School’s Early Childhood Program recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a counting activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about and viewed several images of the artwork of Georges Seurat, the French pointillist painter known for his “dotted” artwork. The children marveled […]
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Horsing Around at New Roads Elementary School
When Visual Arts department chair and instructor Marcia Moore set out to plan an elementary school art project for the arrival of the “Year of the Horse” this past Lunar New Year, she decided to go big. Students from Kindergarten to fifth grade would collaborate on the creation of a herd of large-scale horse sculptures […]