Lego Missions in Grade 6
Who doesn’t love a robot? Even with robots in our daily lives, it is still a fantasy to think of what else could be engineered to help us. Our sixth graders work each spring, to imagine robots. They also spend…
Almost Time to Finish Up
Counting down until the end of the school year is a bittersweet experience. Sometimes it seems as though just when we have the students performing at their highest level, the year is over. The end of the year is full…
Preparing to Lead a Conference
I kinda like it. It’s nice to have some responsibility. It’s good to show my parents my perspective.
Leading a conference sounds like an ambitious undertaking. The leader has the responsibility for making sure that all attendees learn and all…
Collaborative Music Program offers Professional-level Engagment
By Damon Banks, adjunct music teacher
The high school music program is not just a set of courses. It is both a space and a culture of collaboration and learning that brings in workshop experts such as Paul Beretta (drums)…
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.
With…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Halloween with All the School
Our well loved, Halloween tradition:
Gather in All School Activity groups
Dress your senior(s) in recyclable materials
Carve a few pumpkins
Move to the theater
Have a senior fashion show
Oooh and Aaah over the pumpkins
Middle schoolers get an…