Intellectual Growth, Curiosity, and Character Development
As I reflect on my past three and a half years at George School, I recognize that its impact on my intellectual growth, curiosity, and character development has been indelible.
Lessons Learned in Arts at George School
My experience with art at George School is amazing. George School has so many options for me to try and explore what I like. If I am not into performing arts, I can find something I like in one of the visual arts.
Track and Field Provides Endless Possibilities to Succeed
The opportunities are endless in track. No matter what your skill level is, you will find the events that best suit your abilities.
Digital Notebooks Make Homework Interactive
I’ve found Digital Notebooks valuable because they make homework more interactive. I can embed a video in a slide, ask students to move items in a slide (drag and drop), fill in the blanks, audio exercises, writing, etc. The possibilities are endless with Google slides.
Launching the Psychology Club
I came to George School with a strong interest in psychology and with my friends, started the Psychology Club during my sophomore year.
Planning for College with a Friend
My college counselor helped me feel confident about my choices and preparation. I would describe the relationship with my college counselor as not only a partnership but also a friendship.
New Books for Spring Reading
Celebrate spring with these four highlighted books and eight more suggestions for a good read. “Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Redbone.” (Amazon) “In
Growing as a Writer at George School
George School provided many challenges and opportunities for creative expression, and I’ve grown tremendously as a writer during my time here. One of the ways I grow as a writer is through reading, and I’ve been exposed to a myriad of excellent literature in my time at George School.
Prefects Help Make George School Feel Like Home
Prefects are student mentors who live in each residence hall and set examples as strong leaders and role models. They help with check-in times and study hall, providing advice and wisdom. They also create and lead community-building activities.
A Tribute to Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg is a national treasure and he has tremendous energy and generosity of spirit. This is the third event that Dan has done with me at George School. As a teacher, I can’t imagine a better way for students to learn about these subjects.
Making Politics Personal
Politics is indeed personal, and it is my hope that our students’ learning isn’t just relegated to complex terms and theories, but the idea that politics requires their participation and their passion.
How Do We Know What We Know?
This year TOK tudents will exhibit their artifacts in an online virtual reality gallery, where exhibition patrons will be digitally immersed in a 3D art gallery and free to interact with all the artifacts in the collection, entirely from the comfort of their phones or computers
How to Find Your Next Digital Book
Search the online catalog of your local library and, much like you would do with a print book, you can checkout the digital book for a loan period that is set by the library. Within minutes, you can have your next book downloaded and ready to go.
Studying Sustainability in Costa Rica
In Costa Rica, I realized that what I had most enjoyed was getting to know members of the local community and seeing plants and wildlife I had never seen before. It hit me that travel isn’t just about relaxing and taking photos, it is about working to understand a world different than our own.
Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone
Providing our students with the confidence and skills to approach challenging work without an overwhelming fear of failure, and the mindset to see the failures they will have as opportunities to learn something is far more important and transferable than any set of facts we could teach them.
Visiting Golden Monkeys in Rwanda
Muraho (hello) from Rwanda! We are having a terrific experience. We’ve spent three days painting a children’s library and soon we will push off to Musanze. Our donations of books and laptops were well received. The children at the school are super energized with our presence and we play hard
Religion or Religions?
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked this famous rhetorical question, and schoolchildren for generations have used it as a foil for considering the power and meaning of words and names. It is a question that we in the Religions Department recently considered in a searching, deliberate process. You may have
New Great Reads for April
Ellen Labrecque shares new great reads available in the Mollie Dodd Anderson Library.
Diving and Learning in Bonaire
In Bonaire, it was really amazing to think about how everyone else is living their lives on land, while the fish and the corals are living separately in a different world underwater. The fish and other marine life that amaze us are just normal, daily life for everything that is living subaqueously.
Intellectual Growth, Curiosity, and Character Development
As I reflect on my past three and a half years at George School, I recognize that its impact on my intellectual growth, curiosity, and character development has been indelible.
Growing as a Musician
I have absolutely loved playing tenor saxophone in the Wind Ensemble and Orchestra at George School. I’ve taken the instrumental music course here all four years, and one of my favorites is that it’s treated like any other academic class, so rehearsals fit right into my schedule during the day.
Thinking Extremely Far Outside the Box
My Ceramics teacher taught me how to think extremely far out of the box and taught me to be nothing but myself, not just in Ceramics classes, but also in life. She always believed in me and my abilities and most importantly would take the time to teach me new techniques.
Developing Leadership Skills on the Fields and Courts
George School gives everyone the opportunity to experience and try anything they want, and to be a fully well-rounded student and an athlete. As a freshman, I discovered the balance between my leadership skills through my actions on the field or the court with lessons learned from watching the seniors and more experienced players on the team.
Exploring Global Politics with the Model United Nations Club
There are so many clubs to join at George School, and every club is happy to have new members stop by their meetings and learn what their unique group is all about. I was introduced to Model UN at the George School Club Fair in the fall of my freshman year and now I am glad to share everything I have learned with new members.
Learning Time Management is Key to Success
I came to George School from a much smaller school where students did not receive grades until 6th grade and we never had a lot of tests or homework. At George School, I was introduced to a much more rigorous academic environment. Grades weighed more heavily than in my past
Learning about Myself in Ceramics
Turns out, Ceramics was the Arts course for me. Amedeo not only teaches us about the wonders of clay, but he also builds connections with us and keeps our classroom time lively. I’ve also learned from the course itself is that art has zero limits.
Collection Builds Friendships
One of the really special aspects about George School that I love is the connections we students have with our advisors and collections. My advisor helps me with everything.
Transitioning to High School
Everyone told me high school would hit me like a truck and that nothing could prepare me for it. I was shocked when my transition to high school was seamless.
The Club Scene at George School
I’ve come to love the club scene at George School. There are so many different groups where my peers and faculty friends can come together and laugh, relax and learn together.