Learning Differences
Landmark Students Recognized: 2010 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards
Landmark School students received 23 Gold and Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions in this year’s competition which included 6,500 individual and 500 portfolio submissions.
Beth Jamieson, Head of Landmark School’s Art Department said in a school release:
“It is very exciting and affirming for our students to have been recognized by the Boston Globe Scholastic Art & [...]
Afternoons at Proctor Academy: Many Talents, Many Perspectives
Editor’s note: we’ve covered the benefits & importance of afternoon athletics and activities in several posts. Physical recreation, drama productions, and club meetings provide outlets adding richness and breadth of experience to boarding school students. Kim Hurlbutt of Proctor Academy’s development office contributes this piece presenting Proctor’s thinking on the broadening of afternoon and activities [...]
Read MoreTemple 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 [...]
Brehm Preparatory School Makes the Jump to High Level Basketball
In “It’s Not Just Basketball,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer Bryan Burwell chronicles the rise of international calibre high school basketball at Brehm Preparatory School.
Brehm sudden ascention in the international and collegiate basketball scene has raised some eyebrows. In Brehm’s story, you see and hear the echoes of the reasons other boarding schools commit to [...]
An Educational Consultant Visits Eagle Hill School
Eagle Hill School (Hardwick, MA) educates eighth through twelfth grade students with learning (dis)abilities, including Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Faculty are committed to providing an intimate and individualized course of study for each student within a traditional boarding school setting. I found the community to be both encouraging and supportive, honoring the individual, valuing learning [...]
Read MoreGetting to Know Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School
Today’s edition of Getting to Know introduces Lisa Zannella, Director of Admission, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School (Waltham, MA).
Highlights from the conversation include learning about their specialized Ninth Grade Program, the type of student that excels at the school, CHCH’s learning center & ESL programs and how the school creates customized learning environments for each student.
Getting to [...]
Read MoreGetting to Know Bachman Academy
Let me introduce you to Becki Patterson from Bachman Academy (Mc Donald, TN). A small boarding school of 30, Bachman offers a hands-on learning environment for students with learning differences.
Read MoreMom Authors Heartfelt, Well-Written Take Why and How Her Family Chose A Learning Differences Boarding School
If you’ve been around boarding schools any length of time, you’ve seen this story line play-out- child struggles in school, family isn’t sure what to do and searches for answers, student is tested, a learning difference is uncovered a course of action results.
Boy, if it really were that neat.
That quick description does no justice to [...]
A Sad Passing: Pine Ridge School Announces June 5th Closing
We saw today in the Burlington Free Press that Pine Ridge School (Williston, VT) will close after graduation in June.
Twenty faculty member will lose their positions; Pine Ridge will help students and their families find schools for the fall during these final months.
Pine Ridge had restructured and changed its mission over the past few [...]
Blessing or Curse: Can ADHD Be Both?
Having worked their way into the open and everyday conversations and perspectives of education over the last couple of decades, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by the latest wrinkle in the ADD and ADHD world of definition and treatment. We’ve certainly known that students with ADD/ADHD are more than capable of harnessing their talents [...]
Read MoreAn Insiders View of Dublin School
As the past admission director at Dublin School, a co-ed small boarding school in Dublin, NH, I’m now forced to look differently at the school- with consultant’s eye. I now have to think about Dublin using a consultant’s critique:
“Does the school do what it says it does; what kind of students will do well here; and are [...]
A Consultant’s Impressions of The Winchendon School
My notes from a recent visit to The Winchendon School…
I didn’t expect to be so taken by the beautiful campus; beyond beauty, the campus boasts a golf course, new academic building and new ice hockey rink. The student body appears very diverse and multicultural.
Winchendon is working to expand the strength of [...]
Cardigan Mountain School: Personalized Education through the Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills
Update: For those interested in learning more about the program, checkout my podcast, Cardigan Mountain School Introduces PEAKS, with Cardigan’s Brian Beale, Associate Director of Admission, & Ryan Feeley, English Teacher & Summer Session Director.
During a visit to Cardigan Mountain School (an all-boys, junior boarding school in Canaan, NH), I saw a school in the [...]
The Greenwood School Featured on PBS
Looks like I’m a little late to the game on this one, but I wanted to bring attention to this segment on The Greenwood School that aired over the winter on PBS’s National Education Report. Tom wrote about his visit to Greenwood’s campus in an earlier post about junior boarding schools for LD students. The [...]
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