Campus Life Blog
Starting the Year Off Right: Communicating with Your Roommate
Celeste Brooks at Randolph-Macon Academy has posted, “Boarding School: 12 Ways to Ease into Living with a Roommate, Part 2,” the second half of her school arrival piece. Again, she’s hit some topics that we haven’t paid quite so much attention to in our writings. This second installment looks directly at strategies, and ways, to [...]
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 MoreA Guided Tour of St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School
St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School students Jacob, Joshua, and Charley share their thoughts and insights into what makes SA-S a vibrant, tightly-knit community. To this observer, the strength and breadth of the SA-S student experience proves quite remarkable. The arts, sciences, humanities, and athletics all offer strong wide-ranging opportunities for students. Jacob explores the academic offerings highlighting [...]
Read MoreTake A Guided Tour of The Webb School
The Webb School (Bell Buckle, TN) juniors Radha and Sarah share their insights and appreciations of their Webb School school life. They touch on the school traditions of Senior Boards, the Junior Room, a connection to natural beauty, chapel, and public speaking. Webb requires a public speaking demonstration of each student, each year. Ninth graders perform [...]
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 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 MoreMy child needs a change!
Do you have a teenager who seems unmotivated and under-stimulated in his or her school? Is it perhaps more than just ‘a phase’? Are you worried that their current school is unable to provide the necessary academic challenge, extra-curricular opportunities, structure and accountability that you feel is your child requires? Are you worried about the [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling Head Talks Boys Education While Participating in Social Media
Confirming the growing power, and influence, of student produced- less formal- media, Trinity-Pawling School headmaster, Arch Smith sat for a video interview with student vloggers Teddy and Ian. This conversation dovetails nicely with yesterday’s post (Reality Coming Into Relief: Boys Education Needs Attention) covering Thomas Mortenson’s study “Economic Change Effects on Men And Implications for [...]
Read MoreThis Isn’t Your Parents’ School Food
As food has gained currency in the wider culture, it’s also gained currency and relevance in the independent school world. You can’t find a school today that doesn’t have an interest in sustainability, reducing waste, healthy eating, and local/regional foods. New York Times’ Jenny Anderson’s article “Tater Tots? At Prep Schools, Try the Rutabaga Fries” [...]
Read MoreSewickley Academy Addresses Student Athlete Concussions
With the growing body of data surrounding the long-term, cumulative affects of head injuries making the news almost daily, it’s interesting to see a school talk about, and confront, the issue head-on. Mandi Semple at Sewickley Academy covers her school’s approach in “Concussions: Prevention, Diagnosis, Recovery.” The piece shows how quickly our understanding of head [...]
Read MoreSchool’s (Almost) Out For Summer…Now What to Do?
The start of the New Year clearly symbolizes one thing for students…the halfway point of the school year! Though the seasons may differ for students residing in different parts of the world, many still refer to the months of June and July as “summer” and begin looking ahead to their break from school. However, this [...]
Read MoreBaylor School Dishes Up International Specialties
Gary Klein, Catering Director at Baylor School, provides a unique experience to those who frequent the school’s dining hall for meals. Klein’s extensive travels throughout the world coupled with his culinary background gives him the ability to serve dishes that are the envy of many boarding schools. “These [boarding] students are far from home, and [...]
Read MoreHear What’s New at New Hampton School
At the TABS (The Association of Boarding Schools) conference we found a few minutes catch-up on campus happening at several schools. We asked each interviewee to tell viewers about something new on campus for 2010-2011. Our first video post from TABS, features New Hampton School admission director Suzanne Buck talking about the arrival of the [...]
Read MoreChristchurch School Boarding Program To Go Coed in 2012
Christchurch School announced last week that girls will become part of the school’s boarding program beginning fall 2012. Founded as a boys school in 1921, girls have been part of Christchurch as day students since 1973. From the Christchurch announcement: “…In 2009, the Christchurch School Board of Governors commissioned a consultant to study coeducational boarding [...]
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