Boarding School Students
Graduation Also Means Faculty Retirements
Make sure you thank your teachers as the end of the year approaches. Especially those who connected you to their subjects or those who showed you the potential of their subjects in the “real world.”
Read MoreGrowing your school’s food
Katie Isaacson talks about the role that Midland School’s organic garden plays in the school community. Midland (a coed boarding school in Los Olivos, CA) cultivates 10 acres for both production and education. The school eats seasonally from the farm bounty putting-up by freezing or canning the surplus. A chalk board in the dining hall charts produce [...]
Read MoreParticipating in the World’s Largest and Most Prestigious Arts Festival
St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School thespians will be showcased at the American High School Theatre Festival (AHSTF) in Edinburgh.
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Stevenson School
Learn from a Stevenson School junior about the opportunities & strengths of a Stevenson education.
Read MorePutting the Cool in Boarding School
As part of WFSP’s Cool Schools series, reporter Mark Dixson filed four reports covering some of the uncommon, specialized experiences available to Marvelwood students.
Read MoreAn All-Nighter: Not the brightest idea
As final exams and due dates approach, we’ve all looked to the overnight space in our calendar and said, “I’ll stay-up all night and get that done.” But is it a good idea?
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Gould Academy
A Gould Academy student share her insights into what it’s like to be a student at Gould. Two programs that she shares will strike viewers as setting Gould apart. The first is Gould’s On Snow program. Adjacent to Sunday River ski area, Gould encourages and designs its programs so that students make maximum use of [...]
Read MoreShattuck-St. Mary’s Wins Boys Hockey National Championship
Congratulations to the Shattuck-St. Mary’s boys hockey team. The teams won the U18 Tier 1 National Championship for second straight year marking their fourth championship out of the last six.
Read MoreBasketball Pressure That Has Nothing to do With the Game
I’m a sports fan. But, I must say, there are times when I wish I weren’t and those times almost always have to do with the hypocrisy of intercollegiate athletics and the NCAA. Whether it’s the governing body’s insistence in some faux notion of amateurism that never existed; to a student first, athlete second assertion [...]
Read MoreNEPSAC Prep School Basketball Tournament Winners
We’ll catching-up on some sports news that happened over spring break during a few posts this week. First, the ever-popular boys basketball tournaments.
Read MoreBattling Summer Sloths: Cool Camp Options for Kids!
As the second half of the school year winds down, many adolescents are envisioning what their summer will consist of: Wii marathons, iCarly reruns, and trips to the mall. If this doesn’t sound like the ideal way for your child to spend their two and a half months of freedom, then now is a great [...]
Read MoreInternational Students Share their Take on Boarding School
Ridley College seniors explore why they were drawn to Ridley as international students, what they’ve found at Ridley, and how this shapes their college search.
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Ridley College
Ridley College (a coed boarding school in St. Catharines, Ontario) student Jackie takes viewers on tour of the Ridley campus introducing the campus and programs. Jackie appreciates the concurrent family and international perspectives that she finds at Ridley. Ridley academics feature an engaged approach with lots of hands-on learning, seminars, and exploration. Ridley students enjoy [...]
Read MoreFinding A Hopeful Future in High School Students
Mohamed El-Erian uses his Reuters column “Learning From Tomorrow’s Leaders” to reflect on a recent experience he had working with high school students. El-Erian sounds like a teacher whose students just had a ‘eureka’ moment. Reflecting on students’ thinking and outlooks after leading a problem solving exercises on large scale issues, El-Erian comes aware optimistic, [...]
Read MoreNational Football Signing Day: A (Very) Rough Boarding School Report
I’ve done this in past but never found it so difficult to find press and announcements of boarding school players signing football letters of intent.
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