Green Boarding Schools
Berkshire School Goes Solar
Lowering electricity prices and consumption in Massachusetts is serious business. Berkshire School doing something about it for their campus.
Read MoreA Living Experiment: How One Boarding School Strives for Greener Living
Linda Tischler covers Choate‘s new Kohler Environmental Living Center in a Fast Company article titled, “Prep Schools Lead The Way On Sustainable Living.” A gift from alumnus Herbert V. Kohler, the $20 million center will house 15-20 juniors who will be divided into teams that will compete in their efforts to live in a net [...]
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 MoreWorcester Academy Green Cup Challenge Video LOL
Worcester Academy‘s video entry into the Green Cup 2011 Challenge found my inbox. It’s high camp- but effective high camp- featuring a supernatural, omniscient enforcer of environmental conciousness. It left me remembering the Japanese Ultraman series and thinking “I want to wear the green suit.”
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant’s Notes on South Kent School
I love going back in time at a school like South Kent. South Kent School boys live and work in a family-style, structured, boarding school community. South Kent has a powerful program that builds strong relationships between students and faculty. As each student gains new friendships, respect for each other, and academic confidence, he gains [...]
Read MoreCate School Marks 100 Years and Concludes $65 million Campaign
Congratulations & happy 100th to Cate School. The school celebrates 100 years of students living and learning through founder Curtis Wolsey Cate’s belief in: “…a simple, active life with certain daily chores to be performed; early, cold-water bathing, out of door living and playing; serious studying and reading, choral singing, good music, and a sympathetic attitude [...]
Read MoreEducation is to be Experienced: A Video Tour with The Athenian School Head Eric Niles
Eric Niles, Head of School, at The Athenian School (Danville, CA in the East Bay) takes viewers on a summer campus tour. Campus is quiet and Niles nicely captures what an Athenian education means. Emphasizing a safe and accepting community, Athenian is an upper and lower day school with a boarding program for 9-12 grade [...]
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 MoreTop 5 Ways to Green Your Boarding School
Editor’s note: We came across a post by Kelly Wilson who’s an editor for Teaching Resource Center. While she comes at environmental responsibility from more of an economic and efficiency perspective, she’s written a nice practical piece for students interested in campus conservation. She does a nice job establishing that living frugally and efficiently grows [...]
Read MoreShowcasing a Bay Area Boarding School! Woodside Priory Head of School Takes you on a Campus Tour
Tim Molak, Woodside Priory School Head, weaves Woodside’s connection to place throughout his campus tour with AdmissionsQuest’s Peter Baron. Woodside’s geography and physical plant help make Woodside an engaged and contemplative community. Woodside’s five Benedictine values- hospitality, spirituality, individuality, community, and integrity- come to life through the school’s campus and programs. Tour highlights include, Founders [...]
Read MoreNew Hampton School Puts Commitment into Practice: Installs Solar Water Heater on Dorm
Here’s a little bit more about New Hampton School‘s renewable energy commitment mentioned in the previous post about TABS’s collection of boarding school Earth Day stories and initiatives. New Hampton, working with Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative (PAREI) modeled the solar installation on the school’s Veazey dormitory on a New England Barn raising. Student and [...]
Read MoreTABS Collects Boarding School Earth Day Stories
Boarding schools have long kept environmental practices at the fore of student and faculty minds. The sound practices and philosophies of a respectful environmental outlook make for good teaching, conservative consumption, and, in the case of many boarding schools, ways to connect and understand rural school settings. Bluntly, for large residential operations, conservation keeps the [...]
Read MoreRenowned Climate Expert Dr. Jorgen Randers Helps Dedicate Hawaii Preparatory’s Energy Lab
We wrote about Hawaii Preparatory Academy‘s Energy Lab last October (Hawaii Preparatory Academy to Become Home to Energy Lab) and we’re pleased to see that it’s become a reality just in time to coincide with Earth Day 2010. HPA invited Dr. Jorgen Randers to speak at the Energy Lab’s dedication. Professor Randers researches, teaches, and [...]
Read MoreBuxton Students Learn & Share from their 2010 All School Trip to Nicaragua
Fulfilling one the tenets of progressive education, Buxton School students and faculty travel to a locale each March for a period of immersion and perspective broadening. The school travelled Nicaragua for ten days this past March. Students are still working on their documentary video of the trip- editing a reported 55 hours of footage. The [...]
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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