Around this time last year, I began looking into the Environmental Justice Program at Laurel. It seemed too good to be true, a semester away…
A close friend recently confided in me that she experiences feelings of panic thinking about the day her daughter will become old enough to have…
For the first time in almost 30 years, we won’t have a first day of school photo to take for our family. Our son, born…
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…