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…
Pivoting. Adapting. New normal. These are phrases we’ve all heard ad nauseum over the past year. But music class without singing? Without contact? While staying…
“We our voices raise,” the school sings all together in the gym, girls ranging from the age of five to eighteen, animating the Alma Mater.…
The core mission of Laurel’s History Department is to teach students to think historically across the curriculum. This means developing in our students a discrete…