West Coast Boarding Schools Blog
An Assistant Head Ruminates on Educational Directions and Policy
Delphian School Assistant Headmaster Mark Siegel keeps an interesting blog (Thinking About Education) where he shares articles, comments, and musings on the changing state of education. It’s a light policy manifesto for eduction reform. Siegel finds interesting articles, and angles, covering any, and all, topics on education- from parental control, to testing, to student/childhood development, [...]
Read MoreA Two Time Winner of Best of State
Congratulations to Wasatch Academy for being a repeat winner of ‘Best of State’ in the category of Public/Private Schools K-12 by The Utah Best of State Organization. Wasatch was chosen from more than 800 public and private K-12 in Utah for the honor. Wasatch head, Joseph Loftin reflected on the honor: “It’s a wonderful honor [...]
Read MoreReflecting on His Boarding School Education
Watch the full episode. See more Morning Classical Music with Suzanne Nance. Maine Public Broadcasting’s Suzanne Nance visited with Liang Wang (Idyllwild Arts Academy ’99) at length in a 36 minute interview. Interspersed with performances, the ranging interview covers his work at Bowdoin International Music Festival, his coming to America, and his work. Wang came to America [...]
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Delphian School
Delphian School (Sheridan, OR) rising senior Alison ’12 shares the insights, and high notes, of her school experience. Throughout Delphian’s programs students are taught to practice independence and use good judgement. Delphian programs teach independence, and personal responsibility through self direction. Academics and college counseling feature studentdirected pursuits shaped and guided by adults. Students work [...]
Read MoreEngaging. Trying Something New. Doing Something at Which You’re Not Yet Skilled. That’s Boarding School.
Brentwood College School admission director Clayton Johnson has a post over on the Brentwood Admissions Blog that captures a great boarding school strength- personal risk and effort. Clayton muses about what he learned during his one year coaching Junior “B” Girls volleyball. By his reckoning this one season bears responsibility for his bald pate. “Why? [...]
Read MoreHear from a Delphian Grad: From Student to Video Producer
Delphian School alumna Courtney Perkins ’04 talks about her early professional life and the ways that she continues using the lessons of her Delphian education. She credits her time in Delphian’s photography and video labs along with Delphian college counselors as building blocks in her collegiate and professional work. Delphian’s rigorous course work, the school’s [...]
Read MoreMakes total sense: American Idol & Idyllwild Arts
Idyllwild Arts Academy grad Casey Abrams, and former Idyllwild student Julie Zorilla, are the subjects of KPSP’s Katie Cagle’s story highlighting their continuing success on American Idol. Abrams, a 2009 Idyllwild alumnus, wowed judges with his singing. Singing is just a piece of the multi-talented Abrams’ abilities. As a senior, Abrams focused on composing. “At his [...]
Read MoreICEF is Coming to Vancouver in May!
Many schools use educational consultants to help them find and select suitable students. It makes sense. Why fly half-way across the world to find students when you can hire someone on the ground in any specific country to find students for you? These consultants (sometimes referred to as agents) vary in ability and professionalism, so [...]
Read MoreA Boarding School Offering Adventure & Travel
http://www.youtube.com/embed/DvrLju_wBkY We recently posted an interview with Lowell Whiteman School admission director, Derek Svennungsen, over on the Western Boarding Schools Association blog (Lowell Whiteman School: Local Outdoor Adventure and Global Travel). Regular readers might remember our announcement that we’re doing some production work with WBSA as they get their blog up and running. Derek shared [...]
Read MoreWestern Boarding Schools Association Begins Blogging (with a little help from AdmissionsQuest)
If you read widely in the boarding school world, you might have noticed that our bylines now appear outside of AdmissionsQuest. We’re working the Western Boarding Schools Association (WBSA) to establish their brand new blog. WBSA established it to offer their site visitors with perspectives that are hard to find in school profiles. Over the [...]
Read MoreWaiting for Your Private School Admission Decision: Lessons from the College Placement Office
Hector Martinez, The Webb Schools‘ (Claremont, CA) college guidance director, has posted a nice piece at Webblogs (The Waiting Game). Although, he’s speaking to seniors and their parents in the throes of the college admission process, some of comments apply to families working through the boarding school admission process. His high notes: No one likes to [...]
Read MoreNorth by Northwest
Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada is roughly the same circumference as England. With less than 800,000 inhabitants, it is mostly mountains, rivers, lakes, beaches and trees, all surrounded by the Pacific Ocean: a stunningly beautiful island blessed with the warmest weather in Canada and the most breathtaking scenery one can imagine. It also boasts [...]
Read MoreLest We Forget Our Teenagers Are Children
We have a wonderful tradition at Webb, just prior to our students leaving for winter holiday. Our boys line the walkways to the girls’ dormitories with candles in preparation for an evening of caroling, hot chocolate and, of course, Santa Clause (actually one of our revered venerable teachers but, then, no one is telling). They [...]
Read MoreDispelling the Boarding Myth
More and more frequently, the parents I see in my office feel confused and guilty. Why confused? They are confused because, it was not their decision to be in my office in the first place! They are there because their son or daughter has insisted that they visit our school. Why? Because a larger percentage [...]
Read MoreOregon Episcopal School Juniors Win $100,000 Siemens Prize
File this under, “An incredible accomplishment.” Oregon Episcopal School juniors Akash Krishnan ’12 and Matt Fernandez ’12 received $100,000 after their project: “The Recognition of Emotion in Human Speech,” was selected the winner in the Siemens Competition for Math, Science, and Technology. Krishnan and Fernandez developed a computer algorithm to “that can analyze speech and [...]
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