After attending Burke’s recent graduation ceremony, I came across the commencement address that Jeff Bezos gave this Spring at Princeton. Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon. When he started work on Amazon, most people didn’t know what the Internet was. Even the people who were aware of the Internet thought that he was [...]
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Choices Choices
Posted in Community, Education on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Spotlight on Google – we use it every day…so why not learn more about it?
Posted in Education, Musings on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently on Reddit.com bloggers asked some google employees anonymously what it’s really like to work for them. It’s a pretty interesting interview – definitely worth a read. Check It Out Here Rumor has it that google is developing a site [...]
LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition
Posted in Art, Community, Education, History, Musings on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This summer the featured exhibition at the National Building Museum is, LEGOs!! [...]
Kick, Click, and SCORE!
Posted in Community, Community Service, Education, Uncategorized on June 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today, the executive director of DC SCORES is begining a fundraising campaign by juggling a soccer ball NON STOP from 7am-7pm until they reach their goal of 130,000. DC SCORES is an after school program for 700 students at 23 DC public and public charter elementary and middle schools. featuring teamwork, leadership, and commitment carried [...]
Abacus…mystery or mastery?
Posted in Education, Math, Uncategorized on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
AP Calculus students are finishing their year exploring cool topics in mathematics. They took a two day foray into a bit of number theory, looking at numeration and place value from various perspectives. First was a foray into other bases, including binary, hexadecimal, and base 8, admittedly just so that they could listen to Tom [...]
Dr. Geller, I Presume
Posted in Education, Math, Uncategorized on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday, May 14th, 25 students and faculty joined to hear an address by Nancy Geller, president-elect of the American Statistical Association, in the theatre. Dr. Geller is the Director of the National Heart,Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Office of Biostatistics Research. Of special interest to us at Burke is that she is the [...]
Elite
Posted in Education, tagged college, Education on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kids at Burke and all over the country have been hearing from colleges over the past week or so. Apparently the responses come in two flavors: “Congratulations, etc., etc.” or “We have reviewed your application, blah, blah, blah.” We kids and adults place way too much faith in the judgments of these not-so-delphic admissions oracles. [...]
One Day w/ PS22 & Matisyahu
Posted in Education, Performing Arts, tagged Education, music on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t already, check out the 5th grade Chorus from PS22 in Staten Island. Incredible. They are great singing on 100′s of songs in their auditorium, as well as singing with the likes of: Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, Crowded House and Common. In the video below they go hasidic reggae with Matishahu. They are [...]
Understanding Katrina and the Levees breaking
Posted in Activism, Community Service, Education, Environment on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m writing from the McKendrick-Breaux House, the B&B the 2010 NOLA trip is staying at in the beautiful Garden District. It’s been an amazing trip (i’ll be sure you all get to see some of the 100′s of photos we’ve taken along the way) but I wanted to highlight one event we had yesterday, that [...]
Nuestra Casa Es Su Casa II
Posted in Community, Education, Uncategorized, tagged Burke on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Burke held another Open House. And like an open house that you would have at your home for new neighbors, a large part of the Burke family — staff, students and parents — was there to welcome all the families exploring school for next year. It was bitterly cold outside yesterday. But inside, it [...]
Eighth Grade Writes Books and shares with Preschool
Posted in Community Service, Education, tagged Community Service, Education on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year we put together a new service learning opportunity for our 8th graders. We reached out to 3 different preschools – Phoebe Hearst, Broadcaster’s Child Development Center and UDC – and asked if our 8th grade students could present a science lesson, a history lesson and an English lesson to their preschool aged children. [...]
Maybe That Video Camera Isn’t Such a Good Gift Idea
Posted in Education, tagged Education on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This American Life from Chicago Public Radio and Showtime is consistently excellent and intriguing. The episode below recounts the true story of how the 5th and 6th grades at an elementary school were changed by the sudden infatuation with pretend video cameras that the kids made out of cardboard. The story is at once funny [...]
Burke Abolition Day in 3, 2, 1…
Posted in Community Service, Education, tagged Community Service on December 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Burke hit the mainstream media yesterday. Washington’s own WAMU did a cool radio story about the work the school did on Abolition Day. It’s a must listen – and a proud day. Check it out here. Be sure to listen to the story. Read more about Burke’s involvement in Abolition Day and stopping global human [...]
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