Teaching our youth that they will experience both wins and losses – and how to take the next step following either outcome – is one of the most important lessons we can impart to them. And mentoring students to work effectively in team configurations is one of the most evergreen, and difficult, lessons we can share in steering the outcomes of competition toward wins.
Read MoreWhat a strange year this has been for our graduating students. COVID was certainly their "senior surprise" — but other challenges materialized as well. Their grit in powering through it and asking for social and emotional support when needed yielded realistic strategies they’ll tap when life presents new obstacles and crises.
Read MoreHow do you maintain COVID-19 mitigation protocols when making music — an art form that requires exhaling breath forcefully to play wind instruments? You get creative, like our Adelson Arts Chair, David Philippus, who discovered that everyday objects can effectively block air flow.
Read MoreDiplomacy, policy, and governance today requires understanding the intricacies of national origins. What would a nation look like if the relative influence of its founders — or the actions of pivotal leaders along the way — varied from the course of events we recognize as history? High school students tackle a PBL addressing this theme applied to Modern Israel.
Read MoreScience fairs and expos provide exciting opportunities for kids to work as scientists. Stop rehashing overused projects, like “Model Volcano,” and follow these tips to help your kid develop a project based on his or her own authentic question.
Read MoreParents want schools to offer computer science, but most don’t. Here are four, fabulous, free, fun ways to get your kid, tween, or teen coding!
Read MoreKnowing the personalities of your young coders — from the chuteless skydiver to the angst-ridden artist — is the first step toward creating positive instructional experiences in computer science.
Read MoreConducting their problem-solving in an applied context showed students that computing a final velocity or a “delta t” is not the end of a problem, but the beginning of a solution – the solution to protecting heads from crash injuries.
Read MoreMost high schools require that students take two to three years of a world language. But what constitutes a world language -- do programming languages qualify?
Read MoreThe decline of civics education, coupled with the ability of unchecked social media communications to make every voice count – regardless of whether that voice is researched and reasoned or not — is undermining our democracy.
Read MoreHuman capital matters. Showcase your teachers to parents, and potential parents, frequently.
Read MoreWhat if history were taught not as a series of static facts imbuing its learners with “knowledge,” but as a collection of information and interconnections which can be reshuffled and replayed to provide insights and inform strategies relevant to today’s world?
Read MoreWhat does it take to create a school where teachers love to teach and students love to learn?
Read More"How did woolly mammoths go extinct?" Examining the delicate balance of life in the most recent ice age, middle schoolers engage in systems modeling, using STELLA software, to understand interacting variables and their impacts on the fate of the mammoths.
Read More“It seems obvious how abstracting the game can lead to me building a soccer app, or even writing control code for a soccer-playing robot." — Leanne
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