Boarding Schools & Social Media
Hurricane Irene Swallows The Hun School’s Athletic Fields
Hurricane Irene’s affects- especially flooding from New Jersey to Vermont- are ongoing and well documented. Here’s a short video capturing the rise of the rain-swollen Stony Brook river as the Irene produced waters swallow The Hun School‘s (a co-ed boarding school in Princeton, NJ) athletic fields.
Read MoreAn Assistant Head Ruminates on Educational Directions and Policy
Delphian School Assistant Headmaster Mark Siegel keeps an interesting blog (Thinking About Education) where he shares articles, comments, and musings on the changing state of education. It’s a light policy manifesto for eduction reform. Siegel finds interesting articles, and angles, covering any, and all, topics on education- from parental control, to testing, to student/childhood development, [...]
Read MoreA Guided Student Tour of Baylor School [Video]
Seniors Tenley and Ryan share Baylor School‘s campus and their student experiences. Strong opportunities drew both to Baylor. Baylor in the mold of a great school has helped both students flourish in their areas of strength while stretching them to discover and broaden their talents in other areas. Tenley was drawn to Baylor on the [...]
Read MoreAndover Song Reaches the Hearts of Students and Alumni
We got a note a few days back calling our attention to “The Andover Song.” It’s an original song and music video that work to capture, and express, the notions that Andover is more than a school and more than the sum of its parts. The production is slick and well done. The Phillips Andover [...]
Read MoreStudents Bring Tilton School’s ‘The Power of Potential’ to Life
Tilton School is bringing the school’s new campaign, The Power of Potential, to life through student and faculty voices. Tilton has created a dedicated social blog called The P.O.P. Zone designed to bring student and faculty thoughts, projects, and experiences directly to audiences. Launched this past spring, The P.O.P. Zone currently features the voices of nine students [...]
Read MoreFrom Gould Academy to Expedition Impossible
Expedition Impossible competitor, and Gould Academy alumnus (2003), Eric Bach spends a few minutes with Peter talking about how one goes from Gould, and Bethel, Maine, to participating in a Mark Burnett produced reality television show in Morocco. Expedition Impossible features thirteen teams of three, racing through ten epic stages, through the Moroccan Sahara; Bach [...]
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Delphian School
Delphian School (Sheridan, OR) rising senior Alison ’12 shares the insights, and high notes, of her school experience. Throughout Delphian’s programs students are taught to practice independence and use good judgement. Delphian programs teach independence, and personal responsibility through self direction. Academics and college counseling feature studentdirected pursuits shaped and guided by adults. Students work [...]
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Perkiomen School
2009 Perkiomen School alumnus J.J. takes viewers on a campus tour while sharing his school experiences and insights. Two themes run throughout J.J.’s tour: The opportunity to try and experience new things Strong relationships- students-to-faculty and student-to-student Perkiomen seems to have a place for both the novice and the experienced student in all parts of [...]
Read MoreA Good Lesson for Schools: Portsmouth Abbey Monks Outreach Using Social Media
“If this is the way the younger generation are looking things up and are communicating, then this is the place to be,” Abbot Caedmon Holmes. (Monks Embrace Web to Reach Recruits, NYT) The Portsmouth Abbey Monastery monks know they aren’t getting any younger and their ranks aren’t growing fast enough to keep the order vibrant. So [...]
Read MoreHear from a Delphian Grad: From Student to Video Producer
Delphian School alumna Courtney Perkins ’04 talks about her early professional life and the ways that she continues using the lessons of her Delphian education. She credits her time in Delphian’s photography and video labs along with Delphian college counselors as building blocks in her collegiate and professional work. Delphian’s rigorous course work, the school’s [...]
Read MoreWhat’s New at Darrow School
Darrow School‘s Craig Westcott talks about Darrow’s new wind turbine installation and the ways that the wind turbine, the school’s solar array, and the school’s waste water treatment program provides students with the opportunity to study the integration of science, technology, mathematics, and sustainability.
Read MoreHeadmaster’s Holiday: An Accidental Documentary Project
Proctor Academy‘s Chuck Will scored an accidental coup when he issued a camera to a Proctor student named Eli who was supposed to take some ‘day-in-life pictures’ for Chuck (Ferris Berlow’s Day Off). Little did Chuck know Eli would return the camera 24 hours later with 327 pictures. Unbeknownst to Chuck, Eli picked up the [...]
Read MoreA Boarding School Offering Adventure & Travel
http://www.youtube.com/embed/DvrLju_wBkY We recently posted an interview with Lowell Whiteman School admission director, Derek Svennungsen, over on the Western Boarding Schools Association blog (Lowell Whiteman School: Local Outdoor Adventure and Global Travel). Regular readers might remember our announcement that we’re doing some production work with WBSA as they get their blog up and running. Derek shared [...]
Read MoreTop 5 Boarding School Videos
We gather and produce video year-round as part of our efforts to educate families about boarding school and to help boarding schools tell their stories. We feature them on our site and via our YouTube Boarding Schools Channel and many of our videos are linked to our AdmissionsQuestPro member school profiles and school websites. As [...]
Read MoreFan of the X Games? Gould Academy has been developing great snowboarders and skateboarders since 1995
Dave Bean, director of Gould Academy‘s skateboard program, talks about Gould’s exciting new program, Skate School. For years, Gould’s onSnow program has been a destination for students interested in strong academics and top notch high school snowboarding & skiing opportunities for years. Gould’s Skate School build on this commitment to the sports that make the X [...]
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