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Envisioning 2032: Intellectual Excellence at Graland
ALUM PROFILE: JACKSON BOCK ‘10
Greater Depth of Knowledge
By Ronni McCaffrey, Head of School
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RY LEARN In “Graland, Class of 2024” (Graland IN TU Choosing a secondary school is a N N T U R O YD C Today, November 2013), Ronni described D AY N big decision that Atakes into account Graland’s approach to remaining relevant many factors. For Jackson Bock ’10, as educators in the 21st century. Our East High School turned out to be CENTURY focus is on preparing students for an just the challenge CENTURY he wanted. To LEARNING increasingly diverse and complex future prepare himself forLEARNING the “real world” – as we adapt our program to deliver our college and beyond – Jackson is using mission. Continue reading for Ronni’s his high school years to explore a NTRY on the definition of “intellectual excellence,” a tenet of COU thoughts D AY D variety of social studies with a goal of AN Graland’s mission. applying this knowledge to a career in international political economics. 2014 is a milestone year for Graland. Ninety years ago, two Ronni McCaffrey, A senior this year, Jackson is now teachers, Grace Laird and Virginia Braswell, founded a primary Head of School CENTURY school for young children not too far from our current campus continued on page LEARNING 2 CENTURY in a storefront of the Green Lantern Apartments on East Colfax Avenue. Back in 1924, LEARNING A AT GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL N they might have been considered contrarians, in the best sense of the word; today, we Y D A C O U N T RY D would call them innovators. Grace and Virginia thought outside the box of traditional education. They found ways GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL to make learning an exciting, natural part of life. They piqued their students’ interests in the world. They motivated children to interact with each other and with the physical environment. These were revolutionary approaches during a time when learning was
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