2009

And speaking of adventure ….

This just in from Costa Rica:Perla  and Jimena are with a Spanish immersion trip.They seem to be having an amazing…

15 years ago

The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: Twitter up. Powerpoint down.

For those who enjoy lists:  The top 100 tools for learning. This is the 3rd year learning professionals from all…

15 years ago

Setting your socks on fire

Looking through old PDS school photos  – pictures of children working with tools, wading waist deep in muddy ponds and…

15 years ago

Music and Arts lag. Can poetry be far behind?

This week in the NYTimes – news of a rather discouraging report about music and arts education across the US.…

15 years ago

Good news for wool gatherers

A wandering mind heads toward insight WSJ article  reports on findings that suggest: …our brain may be most actively engaged…

15 years ago

Are you phobic?

How many words are there in the English language? Estimates vary but most agree there are quite a few.  And…

15 years ago

Butterfly Waystation

The sixth grade began planning this in science class in the fall when the monarchs stop by PDS on their…

15 years ago

Science Symposium 2009

The sixth annual Science Symposium meant  7th and 8th graders ready to share their work with the school community. As…

15 years ago

Early One Morning

A bird  the color of a stop sign. High on a tree at the Buttercup Farm Sanctuary.  A scarlet tanager.…

15 years ago

What a Concert!

Last fall Gabe ('11) made a  Intensive Studies project proposal to Liz. It involved composing music, delving into theory,  harmony,…

16 years ago

Thicker than water

I was sorry to miss this event but Lynn sent me pictures.This was a lesson in viscosity. They started with…

16 years ago

The Pirates of Penzance

A hearing mistake  means a boy indentured to a pirate not a ship's pilot. Pirate or pilot, orphan or  often…

16 years ago

Brain Surgery

Can you tell the anterior cortex, amygdala, and  parietal lobe from  the optic chiasma and  the corpus collosum? If not…

16 years ago

Then and Now

Steve found this photograph in the basement. Along the bottom it says: Kindergarten Thru Ninth Grade Established 1934. And on…

16 years ago

Winter Recital

Great Winter Recital on Thursday with music from J.S. Bach to James Taylor via Debussy and Charlie Parker along with…

16 years ago