Category Archives: Outside GHS

InLab Visits Emulate Bio in Boston

Posted on November 28, 2017 by courtneyhawes

When you’re a student, the rare day off during the week is glorious and second to only a surprise snow day. The day before feels like a Friday; you get to sleep in and usually you spend most of the … Continue reading →

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Making at Deeper Learning 2016

Posted on March 25, 2016 by courtneyhawes

This morning, Courtney swapped her usual dry-erase marker for a butane torch. About half-an-hour earlier, we had a choice to go to sessions and discuss topics generated by attendees. Or to make stuff. Courtney, a Humanities teacher, spent Wednesday at workshops about brain training … Continue reading →

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Weekly Wrap-up: Present and Future Innovators at the Riverside STEM Fair

Posted on May 15, 2015 by drsarahgoldin

Turns out the STEM team was being a bit elementary in our explorations last month. That, or the students at Greenwich’s Riverside Elementary School are upping their game. The truth is almost certainly the latter, as evidenced by a visit … Continue reading →

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Unique, Ongoing Projects Sustain Newton North’s Greengineering Program

Posted on April 14, 2015 by courtneyhawes

When you enter “Newton’s Lab,” the eponymous workspace for NNHS’ Greengineering program, your eyes wander around the room as you try and take in everything that contibutes to the organized chaos that is somehow curiously calm. Students stand around workstations with … Continue reading →

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Deeper Learning 2015 – Day 2

Posted on April 2, 2015 by drsarahgoldin

Deeper Learning 2015 just gets better and better! For Day 2 of the conference, I participated in the Deep Dive hosted by Mark Hines of Mid Pacific Exploratory on Pedaling Towards Sustainability.  I and the other members of my team, Andrew … Continue reading →

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Deeper Learning 2015 – Day 1

Posted on April 2, 2015 by drsarahgoldin

Well High Tech High knows how to throw a conference, that’s for sure. Deeper Learning 2015 got off to a roaring start yesterday with a keynote address by Christopher Emdin, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Columbia … Continue reading →

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Engineering Elevated in MPX STEM

Posted on February 11, 2015 by courtneyhawes

It’s February break in Connecticut and a friend’s wedding in LA, a very hospitable Mid-Pacific Institute, a cheap flight, and my own curiosity brings me to Hawaii. While this trip is self-funded, there’s lots to be learned that can benefit … Continue reading →

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STEM and Humanities Combine at Mid-Pacific eXploratory

Posted on February 10, 2015 by courtneyhawes

It’s February break in Connecticut and a friend’s wedding in LA, a very hospitable Mid-Pacific Institute, a cheap flight, and my own curiosity brings me to Hawaii. While this trip is self-funded, there’s lots to be learned that can benefit … Continue reading →

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Middle School SEEQS Sustainable Project-based Learning

Posted on February 9, 2015 by courtneyhawes

It’s February break in Connecticut and a friend’s wedding in LA, a very hospitable Mid-Pacific Institute, a cheap flight, and my own curiosity brings me to Hawaii. While this trip is self-funded, there’s lots to be learned that can benefit … Continue reading →

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Weekly Wrap-up: Takeaways from High Tech High

Posted on January 23, 2015 by mikebelanger514

It’s taken a snowstorm, a changed flight and the honor of writing a weekly wrap-up to get me to write a post under five-hundred words. So I promise I’ll be brief. On the last day of the conference, Rob Riordan, … Continue reading →

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