Preparing for Spring Exams
From my inbox this morning, a good piece on preparing for upcoming exams from our colleagues at Summit Educational Group. May 2013 Final exams I know. I know. Everybody gives advice from all different directions when it comes to taking exams. I can still instantly riff on the exam advice I’d give to my classes. [...]
Read MoreSpring and Summer Admission: Potential Pitfalls
Many families arrive to the admission process deep into the school year—even into the summer. This later, compressed, admission timeline carries a few potential pitfalls of which families need to be aware. As we remind families, very good schools continue working with families and admitting students deep into the summer and early fall. Every type [...]
Read MoreChoosing the Boarding School That’s Right For You: People Matter
This story came to me via the grapevine last week, about a student, who believed that he had found the perfect school, but, after his accepted student revisit, found that his dream wasn’t his dream at all. In fact, it was something of a nightmare. Full disclosure, I verified that this story is, indeed, true. [...]
Read MoreTeacher Appreciation Week: Share Your Stories
Today, I’m going to lobby for connecting the boarding school internal to the external. As were fond of observing, boarding schools work so well because they do such a good job of focusing internally — while the the rest of the world can go on unconnected. Great faculty make a boarding school hum and make [...]
Read MoreThree Reasons an American Student Chose a Canadian Boarding School
I visited a few minutes with Shawnigan Lake student, Rosa about how she chose Shawnigan Lake, one of Canada’s largest boarding schools, as student coming from California’s Bay Area. Boarding school, and Shawnigan’s international student experience, in particular, offered Rosa opportunities that stretched her beyond her comfort zone. Rosa concludes her interview offering three things that [...]
Read MorePaper vs. Screens: The Evolving Equation
Scientific American writer Ferris Jabr has a good distillation of the evolving science and understandings of the differences in brain functions and affects when reading a physical book vs. using a tablet/screen/e-reader. In The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens, Jabr poses some large and, largely unreseovled, questions as [...]
Read MoreAsheville Releases In-house Built App for iPhone and iPad
Asheville isn’t the first school to release an iPhone/iPad app devoted to covering and following school happenings, “Asheville School App Now Available on App Store.” But, they are the first that I know of- to have built the app in-house. Asheville Technology Coordinator Charles Long and Director of Communications Bob Williams created the app. And, [...]
Read MoreGrand River Academy Joins with John Carroll University to Create Aspire Program
Grand River Academy and John Carroll University are combining resources to create The Aspire Program. Aspire will allow Grand River’s qualified international students to begin their collegiate careers while at Grand River as well as the opportunity to be admitted to John Carroll at the conclusion of their Grand River/Aspire experience. GRA international students holding [...]
Read MorePhoto Essay: Greenwood School Gettysburg Address
This small photo essay accompanies the post about Greenwood’s Gettysburg Address recitation right of passage. Learn more about the Ken Burns Greenwood School Documentary.
Read MoreKen Burns Explores the Greenwood School’s Gettysburg Address Recitation
If you’re of a certain age, been a U.S history student during the past two decades, and/or a PBS aficionado, you know Ken Burns interest in the civil war through his exhaustive 1990 documentary The Civil War. The Civil War still stands as benchmark among documentary films for its length, audience size, and quality of [...]
Read MoreBoston Globe Profiles Tilton’s Wayne Selden
In “Roxbury native Wayne Selden has shown strong moves,” Globe Correspondent, Paul Lazdowski chronicles Selden’s growth from Roxbury; to Tilton; to McDonald’s All-American; and his commitment to Bill Self’s Kansas basketball program. Selden’s story strikes me as interesting for a couple reasons. First, he’s not a post-graduate. He didn’t attend Tilton for a one-year experience [...]
Read MoreGrowing Up: Kate Miller Sheds Her Addiction
I muse a lot about ADD/ADHD medication. My time teaching in the classroom and working in student life paralleled the 0-100 MPH rise of attention deficit diagnosis and treatment. And, in all of this, I’ve seen way too many easy scripts written and ADD/ADHD prescription pills sold among peers. I’ve written before that I get [...]
Read MoreChris Burch ’72 Makes $1.3 Million Gift to Tilton School
Tilton alumnus Chris Burch’s recent $1.3 million gift to Tilton is the largest single gift ever made to the school. Introducing Burch, Tilton head Peter Saliba offered: “We’re lucky today to have a visitor to campus, Mr. Chris Burch, class of 1972…He’s been a great alumnus to the school. I am pleased to announce that Mr. J. [...]
Read MoreSouth Kent School March Madness Connections
Multi-screening last night with the tournament final on in the background, came across a couple of interesting articles connected to South Kent School. First, from NJ.com, “Final Four 2013: The “Odd Couple,” Louisville’s Russ Smith and Michigan’s Nik Stauskas,” writer Brendan Prunty recounts the building of the friendship between Louisville’s Russ Smith and Michigan’s Nik [...]
Read MorePrep School Players in the Men’s 2013 NCAA Basketball Men’s Final Four
It’s time for this year’s installment of prep school alumni on the rosters of Final Four teams. Prep school alumni play a large role on three of this year’s Final Four teams. Interestingly, Wichita State has no prep school players in its roster. Equally as interesting, there are more prep school players in this year’s [...]
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