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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Everything I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten
On Tuesday, after morning work was complete, students were offered some choice activities. All thirteen students chose to explore trains together. With interest and curiosity I watched and listened as they began playing together. Would they be able to make this work with all thirteen of them? Would I need to intervene? How would they […]
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Microsoft Kinect and Some Molecular Dancing
Kids love video games but some remain unenthused about molecular geometry – I tried to fix that.
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Communal Understanding through Drawings, Post-Its, and Poetry
Students were asked to analyze a vignette in House on Mango Street and create a shared bulletin filled with student work and community. They first drew a visual image, based on a vignette, meant to create an emotion. Students then completed a gallery walk and posted comments on each other’s work regarding the artistic decisions […]
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Making Meaning at Walnut Hill
A highlight of life at Walnut Hill School, whose students are all accomplished artists aspiring to higher-level study, are the Making Meaning assemblies, when groups of students share their experiences in collaborative work with the school community. At Walnut Hill, creativity is not about lightning strikes of inspiration or impassioned emoting: it’s about process— what […]
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High School Rock Band
The Summit’s High School Rock Band has fans not only at the school but also in the community where they perform at several public events.
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The Active Classroom for Girls
At The Ellis School we believe that active learning helps girls to visualize, hypothesize, and improve their intuition about conceptual models of scientific phenomena in all areas of STEM. Furthermore, active learning deploys a collaborative, hands-on environment utilizing desktop experiments, online assignments, and educational technologies to engage students in constructing their own knowledge, rather than […]
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Animation and Dance Collaborations at the Putney School Summer Programs
The verdant pastures and unfurling meadows of Southern Vermont are an inspiring place to develop creative work. Each summer students come from all over the country and the world to actively participate in a unique community at the Putney School Summer Programs. A pastoral residential setting where students create compelling work in Visual Art, Music, […]
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Middle Schoolers Program “Electric Costumes” at The Willows Community School
Design thinking is quite literally a “bright spot” at The Willows Community School. Director of Technology Amy Dugré recently offered a middle school elective, “Light it Up!” where students worked with circuit boards and LED lights to create some ingenious gadgets—including illuminated clothing! The class evolved as faculty prepared for this year’s Family Arts Night, […]
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Drawing Together Day 2013
Inspired by former arts faculty members, Drawing Together Day on September 9, 2013, brought back a tradition to the Catlin Gabel campus: a time when people of all ages take time to draw. Students from preschool through 12th grade and their teachers, and staff members, all spent one hour on a beautiful late summer afternoon […]
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Using Modern Technology to Recreate Antiquity: Casting Roman Coins in Fay School’s Innovation Lab
Fay Latin teacher Emily Gifford was looking for a creative way to help her seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students learn about ancient Roman currency. Her solution: have students cast ancient coins using 21st-century methods! After researching Roman currency, students designed their own coins to include a Latin epigram and a representation of Roman art. […]
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Engineering Bootcamp at Tower Hill School
Tower Hill School (DE) students tackle challenges that introduce engineering principles in an elective course called Engineering Bootcamp. Concepts like stress, strain, torque, and stability have real meaning as students stack textbooks on towers they created from PVC pipes and twine. For another project, the concept of aerodynamics underlies the performance of stomp rockets constructed […]
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Learning Science And Math By Doing
La Jolla Country Day School prides itself on pursuing the best approach available for the best education possible. It is not a slave to any particular curricular approach. As technology has allowed students more hands-on learning options, we have formed great partnerships to bring our students the best education available today.