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Reading J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye in high school.
Two-hour English final exams.
Class discussions.
Studying plant life in biology class.
Lower School math, Middle School math, Upper School math.
Teaching students Spanish language and culture.
Writing about the connections between The Catcher in the Rye, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
Assessing the year’s learning through final writing portfolios that reflect the process of draft and revision necessary for quality.
Class discussions that continue online to teach students to think independently, to teach them how to push and extend what another student has already said and to allow students who are not outspoken in a traditional classroom to have a different medium through which to carry the conversation.
Contributing to biology research on growing edible plants in space at a University of Pennsylvania lab and presenting the work at a national conference of scientists.
Teachers in all divisions collaborating on a pre-K through grade 12 math curriculum.
Teaching Spanish language and culture, beginning in kindergarten.
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