Tonight, the two fifth grade classes had their film festivals, simultaneously. I got to watch only a bit of the second, since my daughter’s group was in the first group. All of the films turned out great. I will be creating links to each of the offerings from each festival so that you can see [...]
Entries from May 30th, 2007
My Current Puzzle
May 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I wonder sometimes why I say yes to different duties and responsibilities, but one of the tasks that I am currently responsible for is creating our high school schedule. Right now I am trying to start with scheduling our rising seniors. Imagine this puzzle, trying to create a schedule based upon 48 students who have [...]
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When Students are Empowered to Help Change the World
May 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Every Monday and Wednesday mornings, all 550+ students, faculty, administration, and staff, enter our theater to participate in Morning Exercise, or better known on campus as Morning Ex. Historically, this was the headmaster’s class and when originated, calisthenics were part of this curriculum. Today, we are treated to presentations from teachers sharing their passions, to [...]
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Mother’s Day Reflections
May 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I enjoyed a wonderful Mother’s Day, honoring the wife of my two girls, by waking up with the dog at 6:00 a.m. and then after just dozing off, waking up with my youngest to start “her” Mother’s Day breakfast, which I ended up doing most of the work. After breakfast, I did the dishes and [...]
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How Technology Has Begun to Change Teaching and Learning at North Shore
May 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized, teaching and learning
On Thursday morning, Tom Doar, our Head of School, wandered into the library where I was getting ready to help work with our fifth graders on their iMovie project which I wrote about last week. He told me:
On Tuesday evening, at a meeting of the strategic plan committee chairs, Pam Whalley, our Lower School Head [...]
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