"Eagle Hill School Blog"
A Return to Eagle Hill School
This was my second visit to Eagle Hill School and changes continue happening all over campus. Eagle Hill has a beautiful, brand new, student center that serves the school and the wider/town community- much like the school’s theater. Eagle Hill School educates students with learning differences, including ADD, ADHD, in grades eight through twelve. Faculty [...]
Read MoreGetting to Know Eagle Hill School
Dana Harbert, Admission Director, sat down with me for a Getting to Know interview to introduce the approaches that make Eagle Hill School unique in its role as a college preparatory boarding school for students with learning differences and ADD. Highlights from our conversation include: -Flexible academics and approaches to learning differences. -Strong Arts program [...]
Read MoreAn 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 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 [...]
Read MoreEagle Hill School Set to Open Curtain on New Cultural Center
Back in March, we wrote about Eagle Hill School‘s role as a cultural hub in central Massachusetts and spoke of my hardhat tour of the school’s under-construction Cultural Center. As summer draws to a close, the school is now set to draw the curtain on their sparkling new facility. The Cultural Center will house two [...]
Read MoreImpressions of Eagle Hill School
My visit to Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, MA this past Wednesday (3/19/08) reminded me of the importance that tone plays in the life of a school. In its work with learning (dis)abilities, tone provides the foundation for students and faculty at Eagle Hill. All relationships-from those in the dormitory to those in the classroom, [...]
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