Girls School Blog
A Guided Tour of Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Stoneleigh-Burnham School students Hannah and Mary share their thoughts on the SBS experience. Academics at Stoneleigh-Burnham translate into college success. Stoneleigh girls work through a series of introductory foundational classes before moving on to advanced, or IB, level classes in the 11th and 12th grades. Core curriculum classes include work across the subject areas with [...]
Read MoreWhat is the International Baccalaureate (IB)?
Stoneleigh-Burnham School English teacher, Alex Bogel explains the synthesis that underlies the International Baccalaureate (IB). The IB and Stoneleigh-Burnham’s IB program work to blur artificial academic constructs, breaking down boundaries between traditional academic subjects- humanities, sciences, the fine and performing arts. The object is to begin seeing connections- how thoughts, ideas, creations, actions and practices [...]
Read More“Room for Debate” Adds Voices to the Single Gender School Question
For the second time in a little over a week, we find a topic resonating, among the boarding/private school community as the topic of discussion in The New York Times “Room for Debate” series. Recently “Room for Debate” covered ADHD; last week the experts with perspectives examine single gender schools. We penned a post on [...]
Read MoreThe Loyalty of a Girls School Graduate
For the second time in recent memory, we’ve found a boarding school connection in The Wall Street Journal’s “Donor of the Day” column. Melanie Grayce West chronicles the lasting affects of a Westover School education in the professional and personal life of Charlotte B. Beyer in “Nurturing Young Women to Be Wall Street Leaders.” Rising [...]
Read MoreChinese-American Student Exchange: It’s a mutual two way highway across the Pacific
We hear much about Chinese students looking to America for education options ranging from boarding school to college. An interesting short article in the Marin Independent Journal last week shows the pan pacific cross cultural and cross educational interest is a two way process. In “Marin Voice: Marin schools can lead the trend toward Asia,” [...]
Read MoreMiss Porter’s School Head Challenges “The Pseudoscience of Single Sex Schooling”
I didn’t think we’d have to have to wait too long for the professional reply to “The Pseudoscience of Single Sex Schooling” (see our response). We didn’t even have to wait a full weekend. Miss Porter’s head Katherine Windsor posted her professional response to the paper over the weekend, “Dr. Windsor: The Truth About Single-Sex Schools.” With research at [...]
Read MoreSingle Gender Schools Don’t Work?
Wow, we’re suffering from whiplash and waiting for the fireworks. On Friday we wrote (Understanding Boys’ Friendships) about Niobe Way’s Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. Today, we write about the non-profit group American Council for CoEducational Schooling. They may be non-profit but, boy, do they seem to have an ax to [...]
Read MoreLooking At Girls Schools? Here’s Why You Should Consider One (Part II)
Editor’s note: This is part two of Vivian Elba’s contribution to the blog. Part one, Looking At Girls Schools? Here’s Why You Should Consider One, ran yesterday. Both installments observes the lasting influence of the girls school experience. Vivian Elba is the Director of Communications at The Ethel Walker School, a day and boarding school for [...]
Read MoreLooking At Girls Schools? Here’s Why You Should Consider One
Editors note: Vivian Elba, Director of Marketing & Communications at The Ethel Walker School, sent us this contribution. She’s got the voice and fervor of convert who discovered the power of girls education later in life. Vivian observes the lasting influence of milestones, relationships, and lessons that seem to be instilled with greater frequency and stronger [...]
Read MoreGrads Recommend Savoring Every Second of Your Boarding School Orientation
As the late afternoon shadows begin to lengthen, and Labor Day nears, it’s time to focus some attention to the first few days of school- especially orientation. Many of you- students and faculty- will begin school in earnest just after Labor Day. That means new student orientation followed by the arrival of returning students and [...]
Read MoreCelebrating 100 Years at Ethel Walker School
The Hartford Courant’s Julia Stagis has written a first-class, condensed, history of Ethel Walker School‘s first 100 years. Stagis does good work tying together Walker’s written histories and the thoughts of current students. “Ethel Walker School Celebrates 100 Years” frames the school’s 2011-2012 centennial year through an historical account of Walker’s beginnings framed with thoughts [...]
Read MoreMiss Hall’s School Head Jeannie Norris To Retire
Jeannie Norris announced on April 22 that she will leave Miss Hall’s School effective June 2012. In a letter to the community, she explains that the announcement is not sudden, but, rather, a natural evolution for which she, and the the MHS trustees, have been planning. Her letter also captures that lasting affects and power [...]
Read MorePurnell School Featured on the Discovery Channel
Purnell School was one of the subjects on an installment of The Profiles Series. Discovery’s Education Profile episode explores educational institutions that focus on “nourishing the abilities of the individual and developing the whole student…”- exemplifying the best in 21st century education. The Purnell segment explores the ways that Purnell helps its girls build foundations [...]
Read MoreStoneleigh-Burnham School Adopts the IB
Stoneleigh-Burnham School (Greenfield, MA) joins the growing list of American boarding schools adopting the International Baccalaureate program to shape their acdemic programs. Stoneleigh becomes the third girls boarding school, and the first in New England girls boarding school, to adopt the IB. Stoneleigh is currently wrapping up its IB accredidation and adoption process. SB-S will [...]
Read MoreWhat’s New at Salem Academy
Lucia Uldrick, Salem Academy introduces the school’s perspective broadening January Term. Ninth and tenth grades students stay on campus taking courses that offer a different take, or, angle on traditional academic studies while juniors and seniors go off-campus working in internships in professional fields. Another part of student body travels internationally.
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