2007

Grandparents and Special Friends

Some came from New York City and much further - including Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Denmark. Other came from…

17 years ago

Heard on the Hustings

"You don't make a hog fatter by weighing it." Everyone went to school and that makes everyone an expert on…

17 years ago

Wintry mix

There's a good article in the local paper on the inexact science of school weather closing. Our recent spell of…

17 years ago

Thanksgiving Time

When the night winds whistle through the trees and blow the crisp brown leaves a-crackling down, When the autumn moon…

17 years ago

Stone Soup and a New Partnership

Becoming a global citizen has to begin close to home. For students it begins with how they treat each other…

17 years ago

Accident or design

There's a great new exhibit of student work on the walls. It emphasizes the role of accident in design. It…

17 years ago

Any Relevance for Education?

"We used to fool ourselves…We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our…

17 years ago

Take Another Picture

Year two of the lower school Take One Picture project* and the picture is (drumroll please): Fantasy Castle with Men…

17 years ago

Get out of my Face(book)

Here's an interesting (but not surprising) twist on the ubiquitous social networking and web 2.0. Students in the UK are…

17 years ago

Becoming Citizens of the World

NAIS is working on a PGP (Principles of Good Practice) for Global Citizenship. Here is a draft. They are seeking…

17 years ago

It’s the Teachers …

"It's the teachers...." I refrain from adding the usual last word to that phrase because it seems unnecessarily rude but,…

17 years ago

Community

Halloween and time for some fun. It's one thing to talk about the importance of school community and quite another…

17 years ago

Stop Praising Students

There's a good article in the latest Educational Leadership: "The Perils and Promise of Praise". It's by Carol Dweck. The…

17 years ago

College Information Evening

We had a well-attended college information evening for ninth and tenth grade families last week. Ninth and tenth grade is…

17 years ago

Kids in School

Who's zooming whom? New kids on the block received a warm welcome last week. Daisy and Clover - five months…

17 years ago