Academics at Chatham Hall

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STEEL MAGNOLIAS: FEMALE SOUTHERN AUTHORS PUT A LITTLE “HITCH” IN YOUR GIDDY-UP: THE FILMS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK THE BLACK SWAN EXPERIENCE: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE WHO DUNNIT? THE MURDER MYSTERY IN LITERATURE, FILM, AND POPULAR CULTURE PROTESTING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: AMERICAN AUTHORS STRIKE BACK! THE FOODIES: MODERN GASTRONOMY, ART, CULTURE & LITERATURE ACTING TECHNIQUES CERAMICS DRAWING & PRINTMAKING FIBER QUILT: ART & CRAFT OF THE QUILT SHAKE CODING SPEARE FOR THE STAGE ENVIRONMENTAL ART PHOTOGRAPHY CIRCLE OF STONES: A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP #QUEENS SCHOOL OF ROCK HISTORICAL TRUTH

ACADEMICS AT CHATHAM HALL

& MASS CULTURE ASTRONOMY NEUROBIOLOGY SUSTAINABILITY FRENCH SPANISH MANDARIN LATIN >>> NEUROBIOLOGY STRIKES A NERVE

& OVER 21 ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES

ACADEMICS

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: A SAMPLING OF COURSES...

<<< SELF-DISCOVERY THROUGH VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Chatham Hall is committed to cultivating curiosity, excellence, and innovative thinking in girls. Our student centered approach is driven by highly qualified faculty who provide personal attention.

Dynamic project based learning is at the center of our educational experience. A supportive community of fellow students rounds out the inclusive environment. All of this comes together in an educational opportunity you won’t find anywhere else.

“MY TEACHERS CHALLENGE ME TO DIG DEEP IN EACH CLASS. I KNOW THAT MY MASTERY OF WHAT I LEARN WILL SERVE ME WELL INTO THE FUTURE.”

DYNAMIC ADVANTAGES

LEARNING TOGETHER

A life-inspiring education is the sum of powerful parts. At Chatham Hall, strengths include our profound commitment to critical skills such as public speaking and exceptional writing.

Our faculty members are passionately dedicated to creative methods of teaching. Walk in on a French lesson and find girls sampling a French delicacy in the classroom kitchen. We also focus on making the most of technology. For instance, all math teachers use Smart Boards and our science labs boast state-of-the-art equipment. All of our students use iPads for studies, and our teachers are experts in harnessing these tools to strengthen and enhance the classroom experience.

One of the ways in which girls learn best is through collaboration. At Chatham Hall, girls collaborate...a lot.

Teachers and students design projects that enable close work with classmates as you make and edit films, design a KeyNote to introduce Roman numerals, use up-to-the-minute technology in the Lee Library to produce realistic interviews of historical figures, or plan a Chatham Hall community garden and renovate the school greenhouse.

Students who share a similar passion might design an iQuest together.

Performances come to the stage thanks to students’ creative forces; Iris, Chatham Hall’s literary magazine, and the Columns, our newspaper, come to fruition because students work closely, share ideas, edit, revise, and partner to achieve a goal. Why is collaboration so important? When you collaborate, you learn about the decision-making process and how to choose the best idea of all those generated. You discuss approaches, negotiate, and develop skills that will lead you to creating a top-quality product.

TECHNOLOGY FOR INNOVATION Our goal as a school is to prepare our students to be responsible citizens of the digital age. As technology changes in the outside world, so too will our usage, our expectations, and our creativity. While we embrace technology being used to modify the way students and teachers interact and learn, we do not believe that technology should be used as a substitute for existing methodology— rather it should be used to allow a level of exploration that beforehand may have been unattainable.

>>> SUSTAINABILITY AS COURSEWORK AND AS LIFESTYLE

THINK. QUESTION. IMAGINE. WONDER. The broad and deep curriculum one finds at Chatham Hall asks students to think, question, imagine, wonder. In order to satisfy student curiosity, iQuest and Discovery Challenge programs allow students to design projects that will have them finding answers to their own essential questions—in some cases, receiving significant funding to pursue a well-developed question. Internal motivation and creativity bring about the best type of learning—Chatham Hall supports this most dynamic exploration.