SEVEN HILLS
November 7, 2012
The Buzz
A Brief Word from Chris Garten
Congratulations, Seven Hills fall athletes!
You may have heard the recent piece on WVXU profiling the mock election held in our Upper School. As part of a nationwide coalition of leading exemplary high schools, students from Jen Faber’s contemporary history class designed an election and orchestrated a weeklong multimedia presentation to educate their fellow students about the principal issues of this election cycle.
Most Valuable Players in the fall sports season were (front) Angie Li, Claudia Fernandez, Anna Gagliardo, Laura Gonzalez, Lauren Driskell, Zoë Pochobradsky, Jessica Seibold; George Karamanoukian, Sydney Jones, Michael Bain, James Coyle, Chris Baggott, Henry Head, Pauley Gosiger, and Grace He.
In fact, in the course of this week, students in all four divisions ran simulated elections. This was not, of course, about influencing students’ political thinking. Instead, it was part of our overall effort to engage our students in the local, national, and global issues that affect their lives and futures. It is the same impulse that has led our social studies and history, science, and foreign language and literature teachers to frame extended explorations of significant contemporary issues. We want to produce young people who take seriously the responsibilities of citizenship. Chris Garten Head of School
Brief reports on the varsity season and all award winners are on pages 5-6.
David Walsh, Ph.D. kicks off Creating Conversations series The school and wider communities had the opportunity to hear one of the world’s leading authorities on children, teens, parenting, and the impact of technology on children’s health and development, when Seven Hills presented David Walsh, Ph.D. as the first speaker in the School’s new Creating Conversations Speaker Series.
Good Morning America, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, ABC’s 20/20 and NPR’s All Things Considered. Dr. Walsh shared his expertise with an audience of parents and members of the public at the presentation, “Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids,” on the evening of continued page 2
David Walsh is the national best-selling author of several parenting books, including Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids; Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen; and No: Why Kids—of All Ages—Need To Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It. He founded the National Institute on Media and the Family and started Mind Positive Parenting to help adults better understand how to help children thrive in the 21st century. Dr. Walsh is a frequent guest in the national media, including Today Show,
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