It seems like everywhere you look, people are talking about emerging applications of artificial intelligence (AI). When the New York Times posts an interactive piece…
Laurel School’s new Environmental Justice (EJ) semester, launching in Fall 2023, is open to girls in Grades 10 and 11 from schools all over Northeastern…
Often in education it is assumed that students arrive at school as little learning machines – ready to take in vast amounts of information and…
After two years of feeling constrained by the necessary health and safety restrictions that COVID imposed, no wonder a prevalent annual school theme across the…
One of the biggest myths I face, as a teacher of children learning to read, is that learning to read is a natural process. It’s…
In my twelfth year at Laurel School, I remain regularly awed by the learning that occurs within these walls. Complex math problems written out in…
Students gleefully saunter past my office windows. When one of them notices I am there, they stop to show me their treasure with great excitement—a…
Experiential learning is a key element to breaking through surface learning toward deep, transformational, personal learning. Teachers who are good storytellers and/or good at providing…
Openings—the word got my brain going as we prepared for our all-faculty and staff opening meetings for this, our 126th school year at Laurel. Over…