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Oakwood Friends's School - Teaching in Revolutionary Times
5/2008 - n my sixteenth year of headship and in my eighth at Oakwood, I have been granted a new and different view of our school and our students.
A Miss Hall's School Teacher's Reflections on Grading AP Exams
3/2007 - One of the great challenges and delights of my teaching career at Miss Hall’s has been the opportunity to teach Advance Placement European History.
The Art of Writing ... Math Texts: A Fay School Teacher Describes
12/2006 - My grandmother always thought I would write the great American novel. You know grandmothers — they think we can move mountains and wrestle with angels.
Masters Thesis: A Serious Study Experience at The Masters School
8/2006 - In 2000, when I was teaching an Advanced Placement history course, I felt that my students were being forced to rush through as many topics as possible in a short period of time, 
Arts and Academics at Interlochen Arts Academy
7/2006 - The arts have always been the focus of Interlochen Arts Academy. From its very beginning, the school’s reputation in arts training has drawn students with exceptional talent in dance, music, theatre arts, visual arts ...
Leadership Development at The Culver Academies
9/2005 - The popular concept of a pre-college military academy is that of a disciplined environment where you might send a “difficult” youth ...
The Eighth-Grade Speech: A Wyoming Seminary Educational Tradition
4/2005 - It’s time. All the research, writing, rewriting, organizing, practicing and fretting are finished. The PowerPoint presentation is ready and loaded on your laptop, and the big screen has been set up behind you ... 
Principles in Practice at Oakwood Friends School
3/2005 - What is it about a Friends school, and Oakwood Friends School in particular, that distinguishes it from other schools?  
On Living and Learning at Cranbrook Schools
11/2005 - It’s a very old question as to what is the appropriate order of teaching science disciplines. As recently as the late 19th century, as science became part of the public school curriculum ... 
Starting High School Science with Physics in the 8th Grade
5/2004 - It’s a very old question as to what is the appropriate order of teaching science disciplines. As recently as the late 19th century, as science became part of the public school curriculum ... 
E-Learning at Cranbrook: Up Close and Personal
4/2004 - Recently, a few teachers at Cranbrook started using a technology that seemed like an anathema to the culture. They enhanced their classrooms by adding Moodle, an e-learning software ...
Colorado Academy - Appreciating the Art of Writing in Elementary School
3/2004 - A highlight in the lower school is the Visiting Authors Program – a unique opportunity for our youngest students to become inspired by the stories of the authors themselves ... 
Beyond Teepees, Buffalos and Horses - Native Amer. Studies at Duchess Day
12/2003 - If you ask second graders about Native Americans, they'll say “teepees, buffalos and horses."... 
The Culver Academies: Designing a Curriculum for the 21st Century
4/2003 - Back in the 1930s, Culver embarked upon an ambitious program of analysis and restructuring. Then, "distinguished advisers from Harvard, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin were called in ... 
The Case for Interactive White Boards in the Classroom
2/2003 - As schools increasingly look to employ technology to improve student learning, interactive white boards can facilitate that aspiration ...
On Teaching, On School, On George - Cogitations of a Math Teacher 
610/2002  -  We have become uniquely challenged, I think, in our efforts to remain true to our schizophrenic mission of a boarding/day school 
Appalachian Spring: A Senior Demonstration at Asheville School
3/2002 - When I have read the Little House on the Prairie sseries to my three children, I find that in Wilder’s day students were obligated to demonstrate to the entire town community mastery of their subjects ...