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…
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…
Service Learning: Making in Many Ways
This week will bring the end to a series of days that the middle school has spent in service learning this fall. Service has had a long tradition in the middle school. Five years ago, we began making connections with…
A Portrait of Us
Building community means getting to know each other. And that means time. Last week we had the first ASA (all-school-activity) of the year and it was a lot of fun.
This year teachers have divided up the activities for the…
A Day on the Field in Fall and More
On the first day of school, when I led our first middle school assembly, I made the pronouncement that, even though we would give each student a schedule on the first day of school, there would be few days that…