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School of the Week: Montgomery Bell Academy
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Montgomery Bell Academy/Nashville, Tennessee/715 Boys in Grade 7-12/Founded 1867. Who is your school’s best-loved/legendary...
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School of the Week: Cape Cod Academy
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Cape Cod Academy/Osterville, MA/320/pre-K-12/1976. Who is your school’s best-loved/legendary teacher? To pick out one teacher from...
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Who Needs STEM?
Call it the 21st century education curse: you can barely skim through your blog roll or scour an independent school’s website without stumbling upon frequent allusions to STEM education. The...
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School of the Week: San Francisco Day School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: San Francisco Day School • San Francisco, CA • 400 students in grades K – 8 • Founded in 1981 Who is your school’s...
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School of the Week: Blue Ridge School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Founded in 1909, Blue Ridge School is located in St. George, Virginia, about 18 miles northwest of Charlottesville next to the...
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School of the Week: Community School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Community School Sun Valley, Idaho PK-12th grade – 370 students Established 1973, first graduating class 1977 Who is your school’s...
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3 Underrated Job Qualifications
When most of us read job descriptions, we laser-focus on the boring stuff: years of experience required, degree requirements, outline of duties. Sometimes, though, peppered among bullet points like...
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School of the Week: Darlington School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Founded in 1905, Darlington School is an independent, college-preparatory day and boarding school in Rome, Georgia. Darlington...
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Tech Corner: Navigating BYOD at Schools
Tech Corner is a bi-weekly feature that explores some of the tech-related conversations educators are having. Have any suggestions for a Tech Corner column? Leave a comment and let us know! What is...
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School of the Week: The Agnes Irwin School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: The Agnes Irwin School/Rosemont, PA/Enrollment: 701 (2012-2013)/PreK-12th grade, all-girls’ college preparatory school/Founded...
View ArticleHow to Achieve Charter School Success
This editorial was originally published in The Lens on February 13, 2013. Teachers are unapologetic thieves. And, that’s a good thing. It wasn’t always that way though. Back in the Chalk Age, sometime...
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Tech Corner: What is this “Cloud” I Keep Hearing About?
“Cloud services” or “Cloud storage” refers to off-site storage of applications and/or data. So, instead of you installing an application or program on your laptop or touchscreen tablet, cloud services...
View ArticleTED Talk: The Key to Success
What is the best predictor of student achievement? In this TED talk, Angela Lee Duckworth argues that it’s not IQ–it’s grit. If you liked Jim Eagen’s piece Raising Resilient Learners that we published...
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School of the Week: Adelson Educational Campus
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Adelson Educational Campus/640 students/Grades 18 months – 12th Grade/1980. Who is your school’s best-loved/legendary teacher? We...
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“Do I Even WANT to Lead?” Answer these 4 Questions
If you’re looking to pursue a career in independent school leadership, we have resources to help set you on that path. We’ve discussed what you can do to position yourself for leadership opportunities...
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School of the Week: Academy of the Pacific Rim
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School/Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts/522 students total; 304 in grades 5 through 8;...
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Tech Corner: Software Highlight-Team Viewer
What’s so great about TeamViewer? I’ve used several types of remote desktop software over the years—Citrix, RDP, VNC—and the easiest by far has been TeamViewer, mainly because it works across multiple...
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School of the Week: Augusta Preparatory Day School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Augusta Preparatory Day School/ Martinez, GA/ Approximately 560/ Preschool through Grade 12/ 1960. Who is your school’s...
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Questions for Schools re: Diversity
For nearly two weeks, EdWeek blogger (and current Beaver Country Day School director of special programs) Peter Gow has embarked upon an ambitious and fascinating online journey chronicling the history...
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School of the Week: Foxcroft School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Founded in 1914, Foxcroft School is a boarding and day school for girls, grades 9-12, located in Middleburg, VA, just 50 miles...
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