"Girls’ boarding schools"
Boarding Schools Confront Flu Season
With community members living in close proximity to each other boarding schools present an environment in which flu and other bugs can spread quickly and easily. However with some planning and use of flexible scheduling Chatham Hall and Hargrave Military Academy were recently subjects of a local news story (Boarding Schools Face Tough Flue Challenges) [...]
Read MoreChatham Hall Receives Largest Girls’ School Gift Ever
Chatham Hall announced today that the school received a $31 million gift from the estate of alumna Elizabeth Beckwith Nilsen ’31 (The Nilsen Gift: Chatham Hall Receives Largest Gift in History of Girls’ Schools). Ms. Nilsen directed the funds be made part unrestricted endowment. Dora Thomas, Chair of the Chatham Hall Board of Trustees expressed [...]
Read MoreMiss Hall’s School Highlights Two Articles from The New York Times
I have to admit; I was remiss in not putting these two articles together while I was traveling and in the middle of two books a couple of weeks ago when the New York Times ran them: “The Women’s Crusade” Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn “The Way We Live Now, The Power of the [...]
Read MoreDirector Brings His Zest for Theater to Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy
After directing success in Atlanta, Sam Ross and his wife Elizabeth moved cross country to La Cañada Flintridge. Since moving from Atlanta about 10 years ago, Ross has been working to bring his Shakespeare company, the La Cañada Flintridge Shakespeare Festival and Conservatory program to life. Arriving in La Cañada Flintridge, Ross discovered the Flintridge [...]
Read MoreEthel Walker School Joins Farm Based Education and the Local Farm and Produce Movement
As member of the Community Farm of Simsbury (CFS), Ethel Walker School (Simsbury, CT) will be participating in the renewal of Simsbury’s Town Farm. CFS has leased 38 tillable acres from the Town of Simsbury with plans to make the land and farming a place of lessons, learning and contributions to the community. CFS will [...]
Read MoreA Visit to San Domenico School
Many thanks to the admission office at San Domenico School for giving me a tour of the campus during a recent visit to the Bay Area. You can see what I saw by viewing the photo gallery below. If you’re not familiar with San Domenico, it’s a Catholic K-12 school in San Anselmo, CA that [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Photo of the Day: Miss Hall’s School
Miss Hall’s School, Pittsfield, MA (Girls Boarding/Day School, Grades 9-12) Miss Hall’s students participating in their Horizon’s program, an “experiential, off-campus learning program. Part of the academic program, Horizons gives Miss Hall’s students opportunities to volunteer and intern each week at social service and cultural organizations, businesses, and professional offices.”
Read MoreIn Any Market, the Down Portion of the Cycle Offers Buying Opportunities: Private Schools Are No Different- Carpe Diem
In a piece for SmartMoney (The Private School Pinch), Neil Parmer makes the case for the current private school admission cycle as a buyers opportunity. He doesn’t sugar coat the costs but he makes the case for- and provides ideas and examples- of the negotiating and buying opportunities available to parents. Boarding and private schools [...]
Read MoreThe Benefits of Girls Schools: now on to longitudinal studies
Huffington Post contributor Susan Sawyers also posted some thoughts about the National Coalition of Girls Schools study confirming benefits for girls in single gender schools (Are Single Sex Schools Good for Girls?). While nothing earth shattering, her comments are an interesting, “yes, but…”Clearly, single gender education cultivates some benefits. Is it a panacea? No. The [...]
Read MoreLasting Power of Girls Schools: more than anecdotal
Highlighted in the current National Coalition of Girls’ Schools newsletter is a UCLA study confirming the lasting affects of a girls school education on graduates. I find the most interesting aspect of the study coming from its longitudinal view. Alumnae seem to carry and benefit from their girls school experiences deep into college and graduate [...]
Read MoreWestover School and Brass City Ballet Expand Their Collaboration
Westover School and Brass City Ballet have expanded their five year joint program with a new opportunity beginning fall 2009. The new program will “provide more intensive ballet instruction for Westover students and bring new talent to Brass City Ballet.” The expanded program offers Westover students the opportunity to become members of Brass City Ballet’s [...]
Read MoreSt. Timothy School’s Students Give Perspective to a Professional Organizer
Hannah McConnaughay, an Outreach Education and Training Associate at the Interfaith Youth Core of Chicago contributed today’s installment of the Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog (Finding Citizen Change-Makers at Boarding School). A Chicago native she found herself wistful, sad, irritated, and a little jealous that she would miss President Obama’s inauguration. On inauguration day she [...]
Read MoreFive Cool Things to Know About Westover School
Today I’m taking folks at Westover School, a girls boarding school in Middlebury, CT, through my social media workshop. As with each workshop, my desire is to be both theoretical and practical. One goal the workshop is to collaborate with the school to produce a finished blog post (missing accomplished!). As homework, my Westover friends [...]
Read MoreAnnie Wright School Reaches Two Milestones
Congratulations to Annie Wright School. The school is celebrating its 125th year (2009)– during this time the school has grown from 46 students to 453 girls from 21 countries. (The News Tribune) The schools founding “fulfilled the dreams of the Right Rev. John Adams Paddock and railroad executive-developer Charles Wright to establish a school for [...]
Read MoreOur First Boarding School Visiting Day
In our three years of interviewing, we just went to our first open house/visiting day and wished we had attended more. Our day at this pretty, well-kept girls’ school began with a warm welcome by the admissions staff and breakfast in the dining hall. From the beginning I knew I would like the school as [...]
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