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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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 ...
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9/2005 - The popular concept of a pre-college military academy is that of a disciplined environment where you might send a
“difficult” youth ...
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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 ...
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3/2005 - What is it about a Friends school, and Oakwood Friends School in particular, that distinguishes it from other schools?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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12/2003 - If you ask second graders about Native Americans, they'll say “teepees, buffalos and horses."...
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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 ...
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2/2003 - As schools increasingly look to employ technology to improve student learning, interactive white
boards can facilitate that aspiration ...
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610/2002 -
We have become uniquely challenged, I think, in our efforts to remain true to our schizophrenic mission of a
boarding/day school
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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 ...
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