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Small School, Big World – One Mission
Family Weekend this year was inspiring in many ways. Developing student voice is a fundamentally important aspect of the core mission of our school, and there was evidence of that everywhere you looked. My Humanities 7 students took turns standing … Continue reading
Hungering for a Better World
For those unfamiliar with it, The Hunger Games is a book by Suzanne Collins that describes a dystopian future wherein children representing their geographical district, known as Tributes, fight to the death for the (sarcasm on) entertainment (sarcasm off) value. … Continue reading
Change Is Inevitable; Shaping It Is Optional.
We need to stop telling young people what they shouldn’t say or do and start teaching them — and ourselves — the social and emotional literacies they need to challenge the way they see themselves and each other. (…) Only … Continue reading
99% Perspiration
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison [wikiquote.org] I should probably be writing comments… but my coffee is brewing, my toast is toasting, and my eggs are… wait, I’ll be right back! (…) The point is, … Continue reading
Living in Their World
Every so often, we middle school teachers will note something happening around us and quietly comment to each other how it’s crazy and sad that more people don’t get how wonderful this age group is. Today was the kind of … Continue reading
No Duh
Striding along, swinging my arms and holding up my head, exuding an air of confidence in where I was going, my nine-year-old self was suddenly projected back to reality as I realized I had unknowingly left my family way behind … Continue reading
Horses we Love
The following was originally published in the Spring 2007 Bulletin. At the time, Samantha Pleasant ’02 was Associate Director of Admissions and a riding instructor here at SBS. Her words still reflect the feelings of so many students and alumnae … Continue reading
Empowering Domesticity
During the week before break, as the Humanities 7 class and I were reading and discussing Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons, they asked if they could use their hand looms and work on their last “Art and … Continue reading
I used to think… and now I think…
Nancy Flanagan is one of the most thoughtful and respected edubloggers out there. Now a consultant, she spent 30 years in the classroom as a middle school music teacher. In an October entry for her blog “Teacher in a Strange … Continue reading
On and on…
With the 8th grade theater production going up tonight, they needed a solid chunk of two hours this morning to run the play in costume start to finish, debrief with their theater teachers, and go back over any scenes that … Continue reading
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Bill Ivey, Stoneleigh-Burnham Middle School Dean
Laura Lavallee, Assoc. Dir. of Admissions
Liz Feeley, Associate Director of Development and Alumnae Relations
Sally Mixsell, Head of School
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