Boarding Schools in the Community
Proctor Academy’s Native American Connections
Editor’s note: When we visited Proctor Academy’s campus in June, Aaron Thomas was kind enough to take time during our tour to talk about why he values Proctor. We had no idea that Aaron would open up a great back story that we had never heard. Aaron hails from the Navaho Nation and he attends [...]
Read MoreTop 5 Ways to Green Your Boarding School
Editor’s note: We came across a post by Kelly Wilson who’s an editor for Teaching Resource Center. While she comes at environmental responsibility from more of an economic and efficiency perspective, she’s written a nice practical piece for students interested in campus conservation. She does a nice job establishing that living frugally and efficiently grows [...]
Read MoreA New Boarding School & A New Boarding Program
The past couple weeks have brought stories of a new boarding program in Maine and a new boarding school in Granby, MA. John Bapst Memorial High School (Bangor, ME) will add an international student program beginning fall 2011. John Bapst principal, Mel MacKay and school trustees spent eight months studying the expansion touring schools and [...]
Read MoreMountain Running Teacher Qualifies for World Mountain Running Championship
Boarding school teachers are known for having wade ranging talents and bringing them to their school communities. Fountain Valley School has one of these diverse talents in math and science teacher Tommy Manning. Manning placed sixth in the Mount Washington Road Race on June 19th. “…Manning finished the grueling 7.6-mile course in 1 hour, 3 [...]
Read MoreNew Hampton School Offers Day Student Merit Scholarship
With the school’s offering of the International Baccalaureate (IB), New Hampton will award four $5,000 merit scholarships to local day students whose prospects and achievements qualify them as “candidates to take IB classes or enroll in the school’s two-year, IB Diploma Program in their junior and senior years.” (New Hampton School Announces Ninth Grade Day [...]
Read MoreTABS Collects Boarding School Earth Day Stories
Boarding schools have long kept environmental practices at the fore of student and faculty minds. The sound practices and philosophies of a respectful environmental outlook make for good teaching, conservative consumption, and, in the case of many boarding schools, ways to connect and understand rural school settings. Bluntly, for large residential operations, conservation keeps the [...]
Read MoreRenowned Climate Expert Dr. Jorgen Randers Helps Dedicate Hawaii Preparatory’s Energy Lab
We wrote about Hawaii Preparatory Academy‘s Energy Lab last October (Hawaii Preparatory Academy to Become Home to Energy Lab) and we’re pleased to see that it’s become a reality just in time to coincide with Earth Day 2010. HPA invited Dr. Jorgen Randers to speak at the Energy Lab’s dedication. Professor Randers researches, teaches, and [...]
Read MoreShowcasing the 2010 Green Cup Challenge Video Entries
As big fans of the Green Schools Alliance‘s Green Cup Challenge and promoters of boarding schools, we collected the boarding school entries to the 2010 Green Cup Challenge video contest and made them available on our Boarding School Videos blog. Here you can see how boarding schools participate in the Green Cup Challenge. Like our own [...]
Read MoreRoss School Installs Solar Panels: Benefits From Economic Stimulus Grant
Ross School has received a more than $200,000 grant to install solar panels on the school’s Barn Building. The grant comes through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). “…According to school officials, it currently costs roughly $12,000 annually to power the Barn Building, where the 49.2 kilowatt system will be installed. [...]
Read MoreVermont Academy Featured for its Green Initiatives
The blog, Green Is Sexy, highlights Vermont Academy environmental initiatives and policies as part of their CFL Spotlight series. Of course it took me a second to get the CFL reference. VA is on top of their eco-concious practices and policies with a Bottled Water Initiative, composting, recycling, organic and local source movements. Most interesting [...]
Read MoreOhio State’s Jim Tressel Would Make a Great Boarding School Teacher
In a quiet, but very public first (unconfirmed), Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel addresses- in a thoughtful, human, and understanding way- what is, essentially, the ‘third rail’ in college athletics- gay athletes. I’ve seen Tressel’s interview with Outlook Columbus noted at Yahoo Sports and at ESPN.com. Writing for Yahoo Sports, Dan Wetzel captures this [...]
Read MoreNational Association Director Marks onBoarding School’s 500th Post
Editor’s Note: For our 500th blog post, we invited friend and Independent Educational Consultants Association, Executive Director, Mark Sklarow to comment and reflect on onBoarding Schools’ contributions to families and the larger boarding school community. Many thanks, Mark, for the kind words. For those who live, eat and breathe boarding schools on a regular basis, [...]
Read MoreSt. Andrew’s-Sewanee Announces Scholarships for Leadership, Academics & Service
St. Andrews-Sewanee School (Sewanee, TN) offers a great opportunity for highly qualified students considering a boarding school education. Under the Claiborne Scholars program, St. Andrews-Sewanee has available merit scholarships (1/2-1/4 tuition) available to new boarding 9th & 10th grade students. Qualifying students are chosen on the basis of “a strong academic record and exhibit leadership [...]
Read MoreHaitian Earthquake Aid: How is your school helping?
As we watch Haiti and its people in need of love, compassion, support, food, water, and health care, one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s rhetorical questions comes to mind. “Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” Most of us are not in a position to help physically, but we can contribute [...]
Read MoreInsight Into the Current State of Boarding and Private School Finances
Concord Monitor writer Karen Langley published a piece in last Sunday’s paper (Private Schools Weather Downturn: Many approaches taken to cut costs) covering the state of enrollment and finances of New Hampshire private schools. She touches on the obvious- financial aid requests are up for all schools, endowment growth and income are down. Of note, [...]
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