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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Seven Hills students build a city filled with young entrepreneurs
Where can you find stores like Pie4U, Spin Land or Wild Rabbit Bookmarks? Box City, of course! Each fall our 5th graders embark on an entrepreneurial journey to design and start a small business. This unit of study provides students the opportunity to think critically and mathematically, problem-solve, apply creativity and develop an innovative idea. […]
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STEAM in Action: From Garden to (Lab) Table to Canvas
This fall, third- and fourth-graders at Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) had the opportunity to work in the Upper School chemistry lab alongside their older peers as part of a cross-disciplinary, cross-divisional STEAM project. First, they created dye harvested from flowers that they planted in the school’s community garden last spring. Students had a great […]
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New Principia School Centers Spotlight Student-Centered Learning
This fall, two newly renovated, technologically advanced learning spaces—overseen by professionals with industry experience—are lighting up learning across disciplines at Principia Upper School. Whether for books or big screens, individual study or group projects, research or problem solving—the IDEA Center has become the go-to place for students (and faculty). The “IDEA” in IDEA Center represents . […]
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Lower School Students Show Respect for Art through Emojis
In this video, Ranney Lower School students discuss in their words what it means to respect art. They describe their thoughts by designing their own emojis.
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Old Trail School – Welcome Back Students
Students were treated to a new video at the first Head of School Assembly of the 2016-17 school year. David Chottiner (Intermediate and Middle School Director) created the video featuring faculty and staff having fun to Can’t Stop the Feeling. Thanks to Mr. Chottiner for a great start to the school year.
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Stone Ridge students design and build at the commercial maker space Tech Shop.
Summer at Stone Ridge is a great time to be creative and do your own thing. The summer Stone Ridge/Tech Shop maker class allows students to develop their own design concept and then build the design using state of the art commercial manufacturing equipment. By enrolling as members of a commercial maker-space at Tech Shop […]
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A Unique Spin on the Classic Oral Book Report
Our 6th grade reading class put a spin on the classic oral book report. Each sixth grader chose a book to read, then selected a character from the book to portray in full costume and with props. We made trading cards which had the character’s photo on the front and three questions on the back […]
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Middle School Student Builds a Robotic Prosthetic Hand
Students in the Middle School Robotics club were asked to find to choose a real-world problem which they could solve through robotics. Jodie, an 8th grade student, created a robotic hand to help patients who may have lost their own hand.
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From Paper to Product
In a unique product design project, fifth-grade art students took their ideas to paper, manipulated them on the computer and then presented them in three dimensions. Not only did the students have to invent and name a product, but they also had to create it and package it.
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Musicians Master the Art and Responsibility of Live Performance
With every note they play, students in Kent Denver School’s award-winning R&B group, The Quincy Ave. Rhythm Band, envelop listeners in a rich cocoon of emotion and song. DownBeat magazine recently named the ensemble the Best High School Band in the Country in the pop/rock/blues category—the seventh time in a decade the school has received […]
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Poetry Delights, Educates K-5 Students’ Hearts and Minds
Every spring, The Cooper School’s students embark on an eight-week study of poetry, with individual units of curriculum for each grade level. They analyze how poets use literary devices to convey meaning through their writing and explore how language, structure, and meaning intersect. Two poems by each student are published in the school’s annual award-winning […]
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Light Up Their Learning
This year we launched the opening of our new learning space, The Launch Pad. A space stocked with materials for creativity, design, and learning for our PreK through 4th grade students. As part of our work in this space, we encouraged our Kindergarten students to work with materials such as playdough, battery packs, and simple […]