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…
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…
Making x 2: Trees More Important and for Maker Faire
Our sixth graders have been particularly busy this week, making final preparations for the Maker Faire coming up this weekend, on Saturday, November 14. In their science class, with their teacher, Emma Sears, students have been wrestling with the question…
Of the World, Around the World and Out of this World
Last week middle school covered the world and beyond.
Seventh graders study water this year with middle school teacher, Emma Sears. Water is a a very earthly topic, but some of its life is hard to see. High school science…
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…
Lower School Teachers Had a Busy Summer
Lower-school teachers were busy this summer. In addition to resting a bit they ran summer camps, studied, taught and travelled near and far. Their adventures also included professional development sponsored by PDS. They attended STEM to STEAM offered by NYSAIS…