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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St. Luke’s Was Hacked
St. Luke’s School hosted its second annual 48-hour Hackathon. More than sixty students (and a few parents) participated, including 12 students and faculty guests from Wooster School. The goal of the Hackathon is to immerse in creating something…anything. A toy, a game, a serious solution to a problem. Something you wish existed but doesn’t—yet. “We […]
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Yes We Can! Middle Schoolers Build A Life-Sized Woolly Mammoth
You know those dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History? A Riverdale Country School group built one during Project Week. It was an audacious idea, and it succeeded through a combination of imagination, improvisation, and teamwork. To begin, they went to the American Museum of Natural History to study the skeletons of dinosaurs and […]
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Engineering at The Hill School
This year, The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) introduced a new and distinctive engineering program, Engineering 3 (E3), created by Timothy Jump, Hill’s director of the Quadrivium Engineering and Design program. This short video provides a lively overview of this class at Hill and shares a glimpse of Hill’s student and faculty excitement about E3. This […]
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Creating Synergy: Math & Art
In Betsy Bennati’s fifth grade math class, students are discovering fractions and creating works of art. When Mrs. Bennati first introduced the unit on fractions, she noticed her students were struggling with the concept. In an effort to combat the initial nerves of learning something new and complex, she asked students to use a ruler. […]
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An FIS student composer’s piece goes global
On Monday, 2 November, a young FIS composer got to hear his award-winning composition being performed by peers in Beijing via Skype. Having earned the distinction of “Highly Commended Work” in the Association for Music in International Schools’ (AMIS) Young Composers’ competition, Grade 11 Richard Blaquière’s “Prelude and Fugue for Strings” was prepared by the […]
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Inspired by S.A.I.L. – Science & Art Integrated Learning
Shore’s unique S.A.I.L. (Science and Art Integrated Learning) program for pre-k through third grade encourages learners to explore the world through creativity. Young students learn to appreciate the beauty and wonder of the natural world through hands-on explorations as both artists and scientists, and through experimentation with a variety of media. Children are inspired and […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Circles Art
Pre-Kindergarteners enrolled in the Early Childhood Program at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a mathematics activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about the American painter, Wayne Thiebaud (1920 – present), and used his “Seven Suckers” (1970) as a springboard to discussing attributes and […]
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Researching the Day of the Dead
For the November 1st and 2nd Day of the Dead holiday, Montgomery School students in Chester Springs, PA, turned their sixth grade Spanish classroom into a “graveyard!” Each student was asked to pick a famous Hispanic who has passed away, research them, and then create a tombstone for that person. The tombstones were then set […]
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‘Iolani School’s Redesigned Art Space
‘Iolani School redesigned its Lower School art room to provide a more open and creative space for students. Here, a special “hands on” project demonstrates why the arts at ‘Iolani are alive and thriving.
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Rectangles in a Mark Rothko
Pre-Kindergarteners enrolled in the Early Childhood Program at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a mathematics activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about the abstract expressionist, Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), and used his colorful canvasses as a springboard to discussing attributes of rectangles. […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Triangles in Op Art
Pre-Kindergarteners enrolled in the Early Childhood Program at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a mathematics activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about the British Optical (“Op”) artist, Bridget Riley, (1931 – present), and used her “Turquoise Cerise Olive Interlacing Triangle” as a springboard […]
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STEAM Project Lets Middle School Girls Design Wearable Technology
At Sacred Heart Greenwich, art and design are seen as essential vehicles for promoting innovation through creativity. Last spring, knowing that the field of electronic textiles—where art and technology intersect—strongly appeals to middle school girls, teachers asked students in these grade levels to imagine the future of wearable technologies and the concept of “smart” clothing. […]