Penguins=Math in Action One of our Primary (combined Kindergarten and Grade 1) classrooms recently started a new unit about penguins that lasts for several weeks. Taking a thematic approach to elementary learning is a vehicle for teaching all subject areas in a...
The Art of Compromise – Lessons from Sixth-Grade Social Studies by Lars Kuelling, Academic Dean “Talk, communicate, and compromise.” Everything that we need to know about effective teamwork rolled up into four words, and it was all being learned by sixth-grade...
In recognition of his career as a physician, researcher, and businessman, John Mills ’57 was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2015 for distinguished service to medicine in the field of infectious diseases, particularly HIV and AIDS, to medical...
After Harley, Ellen Frankenstein ’80 went on to receive her bachelor’s degree at Vassar, she then continued her education at the University of Southern California where she earned her master’s degree in visual anthropology. Ellen’s fieldwork...