One person can have an impact on another, on millions of people, on a country, on the world, on the universe. One person can make a difference. One insignificant measure of this, is that today, with all of the infinite number of huge and miniscule things happening on our planet, some huge portion of the [...]
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Making a Difference
Posted in Education, tagged technology on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Graduated – Part 2
Posted in Education on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post piggy-backs on yesterday’s post about what it means to have “graduated.” Last spring David Brooks wrote a different kind of article in the NYT about graduation and how we actively fail to adequately prepare college graduates for their post-college world. Pointing to the hackneyed themes of nearly every college commencement address given over [...]
Graduated
Posted in Education, Uncategorized, tagged music on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, as you approach a beginning, it’s appropriate to start at the end. The Class of 2011 “graduated” last June. We tend to think of a graduation as an abrupt and final step, distinct from what came before or what comes after. But is that right? The word “graduated” can mean – divided into intervals [...]
Pi vs e debate, 2011
Posted in Education, Math, Uncategorized on May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another end to a year in AP Calculus…another pi vs e debate! Which is the better transcendental number? This year’s debaters divided on gender lines, prompting Sammi to put out the call for more women to join the e team…check the photos to see Chris Richardson doing his best. AP Physics and others paid a [...]
Making Mistakes
Posted in Education, Literature on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Turns out that to err is human. In fact, it may just be a necessary and uniquely important part of our DNA – as well as a critical tool in our evolutionary and personal development. Tim Harford, aka The Undercover Economist, thinks that we can often succeed by failing productively. Take a look at his [...]
Reject The Tyranny of ‘Being Picked’
Posted in College Counseling, Culture, Education, tagged college, Education on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s college notification week. All across the country high school seniors are re-living their first grade experience of waiting to see who picks them for kickball. Except now the choice is being made by people who know so little about the kids that put so much faith in them. Why are we so willing to [...]
Watch Out Lenny Bernstein
Posted in Education, Performing Arts on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To help make your spring break even more sublime, watch Beethoven being conducted like he’s never been conducted before! Watch ’til the end so that you can see how the maestro incorporates the nose for the first time into the conducting repertoire… and you’ll love the finale. H/T – to my bro-in-law, Dana.
The Nature of High School Education
Posted in Education, tagged Education on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[If you're busy packing for spring break - scroll to the bottom to check out the must see video] Is learning a natural state of being for people young and old? Don’t people naturally crave new information? Do people, especially adolescents, like to gather and share information socially (Exhibit A: Facebook)? If so, then why [...]
U Crazy?
Posted in Education, tagged college on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The highly structured chaos that is the college application process is reaching its annual crescendo. Seniors at Burke and across the country (world) are days away from hearing word from colleges. Just in time for high school juniors to take their baton. Whether you’re a junior or a senior, a student or a parent, now’s [...]
Reggie Wills, our Director of Equity and Inclusion, Makes the News!
Posted in Activism, Community, Education, journalism on February 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Reggie was interviewed by Teaching Tolerance Magazine, and he discussed Burke’s role in celebrating International Abolition Day last year in conjunction with the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation. He is quoted throughout the article and the reporter included details about the efforts of our students to recognize the plight of victims of slave trafficking. This is [...]
Anyone Know A Good Agent…
Posted in Community, Education, tagged Education on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The US Department of Education recently released a promo film about a new program. The producers asked a number of local high school seniors to be/act in it… a few of which you might just recognize. Take a look and you can say that you knew them when….
Getting to Know You…
Posted in Community, Education on January 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For the last 2 days Burke has performed different real-world variations on the great Rogers & Hammerstein show tune. Act 1 was Friday night’s Parent Welcome Party for Andrew Slater, incoming new Head of School, where the parent community and Andrew started to get to know one another. Act 2 opened with Saturday’s Burke Open [...]
Our (Open) House
Posted in Education, Uncategorized, tagged Education on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
… With apologies to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – tomorrow’s (1/8) Open House promises to be a “very, very, very fine (Open) House.” Drop by if you’re looking for a middle and/or high school that: approaches students as individuals who can achieve great things when provided an education that is challenging, creative, caring and [...]
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