We’ve had a wonderful spring season in Athletics this year with all three sports going into post-season. All the teams and coaches have played their hearts out and it’s been wonderful to see their efforts and teamwork pay off with…
We live in a whirled world of change: we’re overloaded, stressed out, with limited resources and endless possibilities. We’re already working as hard as we can. We are bombarded with an abundance of options and new ideas. We need nimble…
On May 1st, students make a decision as to which college they will attend. The weeks that follow are invariably filled with around the water cooler conversations concerning “the college list”. At times, there is a temptation to interpret the…
Feedback is crucial to learning. The closer the feedback to the effort, the better the learner can begin to integrate the feedback into the next try. Each year our sixth graders get nearly immediate feedback as they build and program…
We had such fun last week in the Lower School. The Dansical was a wonderful collaborative effort that lifted our spirits and the children were gracious hosts to the Grandparents and Special Friends who were able to visit on Friday.…
In a recent article from The Journal of College Admissions (Spring 2015), Steffany Perez from Oakwood School (CA) notes that the most important part of the college search process is to “let go”. More often than not, when I meet…
Last week, Wayne Toepp and his middle school Installation Art class arrived in the Learning Commons with a bunch of cardboard squares and triangles, some lights and hot glue guns. Over the next hour and a half, a new structure…
Literary magazines filled with art, prose and poetry inhabit many surfaces throughout Kenyon. They attest to the fact that high school students are prolific and talented writers and artists. They write, perform, and display on a regular basis….and some are…
There is so much going on in the high school, it is hard to keep up. This post cannot possibly do justice to all of the activity of recent weeks. Here are a few tidbits – recent happenings and upcoming…
I began the symposium year with great optimism, and even as the hard work set in I managed to preserve this.
Just before we left for winter break, each seventh and eighth grader made a commitment to begin to answer…
