Girls School Blog
What’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.
Read MoreSeeing Boarding School Teachers in a Different Light: Grier School’s Jocelyn Hrzic Dances Before Her Students
An article that arrived on my desktop this morning gives me chance to highlight something that I know from experience but that we don’t too often get to highlight. A trait that sets some boarding school faculty apart is the fact that they are practicioners of their subject areas. It’s always interesting to come across [...]
Read MoreOne Boarding School’s Community Wide Internship Program
Allison Smith explores Miss Hall’s School‘s Horizons Program. Horizons is an internship based community service program that begins in a student’s ninth grade year. Year one has students working in the greenhouse growing and caring for plants while learning basic business principles in a classroom setting. 10th through 12th grade girls go off campus to [...]
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant’s Notes on Westover School
Westover School offers a highly academic, all female campus- a very intellectual environment- where each girl gains a voice and a sense of confidence. ‘Y Girls’ are free to be themselves. You can take yourself seriously; you can have a social sense of responsibility; learn to take a role that is global; and gain a [...]
Read MoreA Pendulum Too Far: Is it time to pay attention to boys education?
Lisa Wolfe published a thoughtful musing on the current state of boys education over at The Daily Beast, “Boys’ Self Esteem Problems.” She begins, interestingly, with a question posited by a colleague of mine about 20 years ago. We had been sitting through faculty meetings, over a few years, with topic-after-topic, idea-after-idea, and speaker-after-speaker covering [...]
Read MoreSo Exactly Why Do Boarding School Admission Officers Travel the World?
International trips are a piece of the boarding school admission world. International students are an integral part of the American boarding school fabric but, exactly how, and why, international students and families seek, connect, and choose boarding schools remains a little foggy. Stacie Grant, Director of Development at San Domenico School (CA) is blogging while [...]
Read MoreWorking in Boarding Schools Runs in the Family
One of those small world connections over the weekend- last week we published my video tour of Wyoming Seminary with associate admission director Kevin Blaum. He spoke modestly about his accomplished, Sem alumnae, daughters. Today, I get to highlight one daughter, Caroline Blaum. She was the subject of an article at Examiner.com (Oldfields Builds Field [...]
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Miss Hall’s School
Tour the Miss Hall’s School campus with Allison Smith, assistant director of admission. As you watch, keep an eye out for the sense of community that weaves its way into every stop. Ms. Smith introduces viewers to Miss Hall’s palces, spaces, rhythms, and routines. The tour opens in the ‘Living Room.’ Restored and decorated to [...]
Read MoreEthel Walker School Celebrates 100 Years
The 2010-2011 academic year marks 100 years of girls eduction at Ethel Walker School. The opening chapel service featured reflections designed to make the community cognizant of the special place Ethel Walker holds in the hearts and minds of its faculty and alumni, but also the value that girls education and girls schools bring to [...]
Read MoreAn Appreciation of All Girls Education
As great supporters of single gender education- girls and boys, this appreciation of her girls school experience was a nice find. At Mommy CEO, Sabrina Parsons has written a post exploring how her Castilleja School experiences shaped her and contribute to her success (Girls’ School Graduates Have and Edge). She touches on much of the [...]
Read MorePerspectives from an All-Girls Boarding School
Editor’s note: With this post we welcome, Marisa Peacock as an AdmissionsQuest onBoarding Schools contributor. Marisa is a graduate of Worcester Academy and worked in the communications office of The Maderia School. Marisa became a supporter and spokesperson for the all girls secondary experience in a non-linear fashion. She did not attend an all girls [...]
Read MoreTake a Tour of San Domenico School Through the Eyes of Two Appreciative Students
San Domenico School students Abby and Elle (student body president and vice president, respectively) take viewers on a guided tour of San Domenico’s beautiful campus. They talk about the Freshman Foundations program- an integrated humanities curriculum- and provide insight in to the sharing of ideas fostered through use of a Harkness table. Abby and Ellie [...]
Read MoreWhy a Family Should Consider a Girls Boarding School
Westover School head Ann Pollina joins us for short conversation covering “why should a family consider and an all girls’ boarding school?” Pollina makes he case that the question requires two answers, one for the entire family, and the other for the student. Pollina explores how a girls school provides an environment unlike any other. [...]
Read MoreDr. David Behrs San Domenico School New Head Of School
San Domenico School, a co-ed PK-8; all girls boarding high school in San Anselmo, CA, has appointed Dr. David Behrs Head of School effective 2 August 2010. Dr. Behrs presently serves as the 15th president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) in Indiana. Glenn Snyder. San Domenico search committee chair remarks of Dr. Behrs SMWC tenure: [...]
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 [...]
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