Winterfest 2015
We had a warm and community focused ending to this amazing week. The last school week of 2015 could not have been better– from Food Bowl to Mozambique to the concert and today’s end of year festivities, everyone shone.
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Music for Every Student
We use the letters MSLC to represent our middle school learning commons, and our middle school learning community. It was all about the community in our first ever, middle school concert.
This fall, we undertook an ambitious program. Every student…
PDSPA Announces Faculty Grant Program
We are pleased to announce the PDSPA Faculty Grant Program in Josie Holford’s honor. The PDSPA is proud to support our faculty in their creative, innovative endeavors in the classroom through this grant program. The faculty may now apply, individually…
Holiday Message from PDSPA
Amid all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, the Poughkeepsie Day School Parents Association would like to wish a warm and wonderful Winter Break to students, families, faculty and staff. Be happy, stay healthy, and come back in…
Food Bowl Launches Design 2016
What if you could create a school program that combined empathy for the cause of food justice with engineering, design and English Language Arts? What if that very program required collaboration with organizations outside of school, as well as massive…
Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)
By Jay Celuch, high school Spanish teacher
Anyone who has ever studied a language other than his or her native tongue would agree: becoming comfortable with thinking in and speaking a language is the best way to learn and remember…
Commitment Leads to Meaningful Work for Mozambique…and our Students
Education brings the world to students. Knowledge opens minds. As technology advances, finding its place in the classroom has been seen as important over and over again. Moveable type made textbooks possible, television and video made seeing breaking news and…
Fun with Fluency…and Beyond!
By David Jordan, grade 4 teacher
A great deal of children’s math experiences at PDS are constructive, experiential and built around meaningful contexts. Mathematics is treated no differently than other content areas in that we believe it should be inquiry-based…
Cross-country Team Highlights
By Anya (2016)
This past cross-country season proved to be one of our most successful seasons yet. I have been honored to be part of such a supportive team for the past four years and I am so proud of…
Is Water the New Oil?
Before I took the water course I thought that water was a thing we would have forever. Now…I know that we should be careful of how we use clean water and we should not just throw it about. I also…