By Leandra Merea Strope, Music Specialist
(I’m new here.) Again and again, it happens — a student comes to me with a question, and then as I’m standing there trying to give her an answer, she turns and dreamily walks away, usually to the water fountain, completely oblivious to my attempt to address her concern.
By Camille Perkins, Toddler Teacher
I love group time in our toddler environment. It can help ground the children at the beginning of the day, become a learning platform for a new concept, and it can bring us together as a cohesive community. It doesn’t take long for children to come when we ring the bell and begin singing the “Work away” song.
By Derek Starkenburg, Adolescent Math/Science Guide
One of the most important affective components of learning is seeing a subject made accessible and invigorating. If students can be introduced to a discipline in a manner that is engaging and developmentally appropriate for their plane of development, they can establish a keen interest in a topic and a heartening sense of delight regarding that subject, rather than a fear or disdain for it
By Al Daniel
Sneha Amaresh ’13 might hesitate to dance in front of acquaintances. With that said, when you want to coax her, it helps to let her know when a meaningful stake is in it for others.
By Holly Dykes, Art Specialist Teacher
While in grad school, I worked in a library. It had recently been built and decorated in, what I thought, a pretty wild fashion—fuchsia and orange, hot pink and neon green, stripes, and checks.
By Tim Daniel, Head of School
(With apologies to the great Laura Numeroff)
If you give a toddler a ball,
he’ll probably just throw it over the fence
expecting you to pick it up
and give it back to him.
By Kalpu Shah, Upper Elementary Program Director and Teacher
Grace and courtesy in the elementary years. How does the refinement of grace and courtesy survive into “the age of rudeness,” you might wonder?
By Al Daniel
The 1930s have proved a prosperous decade for Ben Richardson-Piche ’14, even though he was barely alive in the 20th century.
By Catherine Swanson, Lower Elementary Teacher
A student in my lower elementary class came up on the playground one day to ask, “Can you give me some advice on what I should say to my friend?”
By Al Daniel
“Bravery and freedom” defined a revolutionary year in Greta Abbey’s lifelong dream of a career in ballet. The two wholesome values are also her words for how one of her Lower Elementary teachers at the Montessori Community School influenced her approach to creativity a decade prior.
