Campus Life
Vermont 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 about [...]
National 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, [...]
10,000 Hours to Greatness: Unique Boarding School Programs Teach Every Student Skills for the Future
It has been argued that in order to excel at something or become an expert in a particular discipline, it takes 10,000 hours of work and practice. That is no doubt a great deal of time, which at 2 hours per day would take 13 years to reach.
But for high school students at many [...]
Getting to Know West Nottingham Academy
Jesse Roberts, West Nottingham Academy, Director of Admission, talks about the opportunities and experiences that set WNA apart.
A small coed boarding school with 120 students, WNA makes relationships paramount- student-student and faculty-student.
WNA, offers the requisite strong academics with the school’s emphasis on relationships and interaction overlaying everything the school does.
“What sets us apart is the [...]
The Unsung Part of Westover School’s Green Cup Accomplishment
Westover School recently held a ribbon cutting for its newly installed 158.60 kW solar energy system.
Motivated by Green Cup Challenge competition and a school-wide commitment to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, Westover’s consumption of grid electricity has declined by 37.5%.
Creative financing- like many non-profits, Westover’s capital spending has come under pressure from market declines [...]
Getting to Know Oldfields School
Parnell Hagerman, Associate Head, Oldfields School explores the practices & perspectives that help Oldfields reach every student in “very significant ways.”
Faculty dedication provides the foundation for the success and achievement for every Oldfields girl. They live their commitment to students through extra time and effort they make each day all the way through to their [...]
Student Tour Guides Take Viewers on a Tour of Vermont Academy
Vermont Academy is a 1:1 tablet school with students using tablet computers in classrooms, throughout the curriculum, and in most of their academic lives. Sophie and Julia show viewers that VA is far more than technology.
VA is very much about its connection to the school’s surroundings and its people.
Getting outside whether through an environmental science [...]
Student Produced Video Introduces The Hun School
Thanks to The Hun School for sharing this video of their October 2009 open house.
This quick student produced capsule of an admission open house provides families who couldn’t attend with an intro to Hun- from academics, faculty and family connections, and great Hun opportunities.
I love that Hun allowed one of its students to document the [...]
Getting to Know White Mountain School
Josh Lawton, White Mountain School, Director of Admission talks about the special opportunities and experiences available to WMS students.
WMS is the only school offering outdoor certification in Wilderness First Responding and Rock and Ice Climbing under the aegis of the American Mountain Guides Association.
Fundamentally, WMS believes that its consciously small, tightly knit community provides the [...]
Students Share their Perspectives on a Hyde School Education
Four Hyde School-Woodstock students share their perspectives and experiences about Hyde’s contributions to their personal and academic growth.
Ranging from a new ninth grade student to seniors preparing college applications, the students share the ways their Hyde lessons affect their daily lives and decisions and how they will carry these lessons to college and beyond.
Temple Grandin, Hampshire Country School Alumna, Subject of HBO Movie
Autistic; she thinks in pictures; she has difficulty reading social situations with people; author; and noted large animal veterinarian.
You listen to Temple Grandin speak and wonder “how did all of this complexity get wound into one person?”
Grandin is the subject of the upcoming HBO movie “Temple Grandin,” (Saturday, 6 February, 8-10 PM). Reviewing the [...]
Winter Diversions: The Search is On!
Editor’s Note: Winter is a long, slow time in boarding schools; there’s just know way around it.
The days are short and cold. In New England, the sun rises after 7AM and sets before 4:30 in the afternoon. Along with the seasons, students and faculty can find themselves in a rut- routine wise. The [...]
Visiting Our Sister School: Kents Hill travels to England
At Kents Hill School (Maine) we have a longstanding sister school relationship with Kent College Pembury in Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, England.
KCP is an all-girls, boarding and day school, elementary through seniors. Each year, KCP sends 2-3 girls to Kents Hill in the winter trimester, and we send 2-3 girls over to [...]
American Hebrew Academy Works to Defray Campus Visit/Interview Costs
The campus visit with its requisite school tour and interview- a boarding school a tradition and right of passage- have, like so much, come under economic and social pressure as families push against busy home, school and work schedules as well as financing a single purpose trip to visit a prospective school.
Affording such a trip- [...]
Getting to Know Fryeburg Academy
Headmaster Daniel Lee talks with us about Fryeburg Academy’s special opportunities as both an ‘Academy’ and as a boarding school drawing students from around the world.
-Founded in 1792 as part the the “Academy” movement, the school predates public education.
-Distinctly diverse school. Fryeburg is, simultaneously, the local public school and a boarding school.
-Americas most egalitarian [...]
