By Stephen Currie, A.K.A. Steve the Math Guy, lower school math specialist
February 2 was not just Groundhog Day this year; it was also the inaugural Family Math Morning, featuring Rachel’s first grade class. The children and many of their…
Part of our advice to juniors and seniors searching for colleges? Research to find out what really matter for you. College rankings, i.e. Top 100 Colleges, have little to tell you about whether a school is a good fit for…
Beacon’s favorite farm-to-table eatery, Kitchen Sink Food & Drink, will be hosting a community benefit for Poughkeepsie Day School on February 10 from 5-9pm. The regular menu will be available and 10% of all proceeds from the evening will go…
A key to making learning interesting is to connect the content to the lives of students. This can be tricky in history, when everything one studies is in the past. Connections are burgeoning this year for seventh graders, as they…
When children in the lower school study the people who lived in the eastern woodlands long ago, they learn that storytelling around the fire in the longhouse during the winter kept the spirit and imagination alive and helped forge connections…
by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood, ESL and middle school English teacher
Learning the basics of grammar presents challenges to native speakers and non-native speakers alike, but if we are to imbue these challenges with excitement, authenticity, and a bit of the unknown,…
Brent Boscarino, faculty advisor to the Enviroclub, which is now one of the well-established high school clubs, took a good portion of the high school E-day assembly in the James Earl Jones Theater to describe a new program – part…
The message from the recent report from Harvard, “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and The Common Good Through College Admissions,” is the mission of PDS college counseling.
“At the heart of the report is the notion that admissions…
By now you’ve accessed and reviewed your student’s PSAT score report. There are lots of numbers and graphs on that report. What do they mean? And perhaps more significant, as you review the report, how did your student do? Below…
By Brian Reid, grade 2 teacher
There is a long tradition of “community singing” at PDS. For years, classes in the lower elementary grades have gotten together to sing. This year the two second grade classes meet once every 8…
