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DEAR SCDS FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, This issue of Kinetics coincides with Seattle Country Day School’s launch of our new website.

Kinetics, whose Greek etymology conveys an active learning community, is an apt name for our school magazine. And one succinct and memorable way we convey the learning culture here is: Ideas in Motion!

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EDITOR Joan Hudson DESIGN/PRODUCTION Christa Fleming Design ON THE COVER Student art by Nathan Cummings

KINETICS is produced by Seattle Country Day School for its current and former families and friends.

Inquiries may be sent to: joanhudson@seattlecountryday.org THE SCDS MISSION Inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.

NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT Seattle Country Day School strives to maintain a diverse school community. The school does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in administration of its educational policies, admission, financial aid, or any other schooladministered programs.

See our new website, coming this spring: seattlecountryday.org

I often share with prospective parents that SCDS is not a place where students are in their seat for long periods of time with the teacher in front of the room dispensing knowledge. Rather, SCDS is an active, student-centered school where the spirit of inquiry motivates students and allows for ample exploration, discovery, and creativity. Students share and collaborate as they examine ideas and concepts. Even outside the classroom, the excitement about learning prevails. Some snapshots: • Three middle school girls successfully complete their basketball game, partake in a sportsmanship cheer with their teammates, and scurry off to the middle school—in their uniforms—because “if we hurry, Mr. Murphy, we can catch the last 40 minutes of math club!”

• I greet a primary school student in carpool drop-off and say, “Good morning!” The child stops on the steps and replies with sincere enthusiasm, “I can’t wait to find out what the teachers are going to let us do today!”

• I’m cross-country skiing with some 4th and 5th graders as part of school’s Winterim program, and I overhear them planning and editorializing about an upcoming project while skiing.

• A teacher models creative writing by writing to the hallway printer, sharing his occasional angst, exasperation, and other feelings when “you don’t always work.” Several days later, the printer “writes back” a thoughtful response ghostwritten by a 3rd grade student.

Of course, sustaining our school environment takes time, talent, and resources. In this issue of Kinetics, we salute and thank the many donors whose steadfast confidence and support make SCDS possible.

Sincerely,

Michael G. Murphy, HEAD OF SCHOOL

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The focus on inquiry-based teaching at SCDS creates a dynamic and fluid learning environment. Since inquiry covers a wide range of educational methods, we asked a few of our teachers what it means at our school.

It’s about supplying the basic components of a lesson and then creating an environment where students can make connections for themselves. It’s not me being a fountain of knowledge, it’s them trying and testing until they arrive at the correct conclusion themselves—often in one of those “a-ha!” moments they’ll always remember.

Inquiry means asking the right questions rather than instantly supplying answers.

And those questions more often than not are, ‘Why?’, ‘Why not?’ and ‘What if?’

Inquiry encourages making mistakes and makes it safe to do so. It also encourages diversity of thought— multiple perspectives and collaborative thinking on any given problem.

Through inquiry, teachers steer the learning and set the objectives, but students blaze their own trails for getting there, individually and together. Learning is more often than not a kinetic experience in which lessons are learned as much with the body and spirit as with the mind. Students build, make, act, produce, and publish.

They explore, experiment, create, collaborate, guess, obsess, test, poke, prod, model, stretch—and, yes, fail.

The result? Excellent critical-thinking skills, deeper mastery of the subject matter, as well as an understanding of self and the surrounding world that leads to lifelong curiosity and confidence. Perhaps best of all, according to one of our teachers, “Inquiry makes for a really fun day.”

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Every student in Crystal Aspen’s 7th grade art class receives a sketchbook at the beginning of the year. Over the months, she kept noticing many sketchbooks’ recurring images and styles. It became evident to Crystal that kids were trying manga, the Japanese style of comic-book and graphic-novel art. She says, “There are whole colleges that specialize in manga, but I had no background with it at all!

However, I could see that my students were hungry to learn it.” She called the Seattle Public Library to reserve books on the subject.

The librarian told she might have a long wait.

“I don’t know if I should tell you this because it’s good and bad at the same time,” said the librarian, “but books on manga are our most stolen publications.”

“Today’s kids have grown up with Pokeman and other Japanese influences and they love the manga style, which is more ‘show than tell,’ says Crystal. She challenged her 7th graders to develop innovative and imaginative story panels depicting a visual sequence. They learned how to show characters’ anger, joy, sadness, disgust, or fear, with a minimum of words. Says Crystal, “Students at this stage of their artistic development are looking for avenues of self-expression that are important to them, as well as acquiring an appreciation of art and the skill-set that accompanies a particular style and method. Manga was perfect for this.”

Crystal took the risk to learn and teach something new because she saw the desire in her students. It modeled to them a willingness to broaden her horizons, and allowed them an important mode of self-expression.

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To me, my manga’s central theme is contrast. The gloomy, polluted city seen in the top panel is the polar opposite of the carefree, wild flying people at the bottom.

Where the city is smoky and gray, the world of the winged men is bright, clean, and clear. I really wanted to show two opposing sides of one world, and also a visible transition between the two.

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I had no idea what to do a one-page manga on. Beginnings of stories filled my head, but none of them seemed to make any sense, and I couldn’t picture them in manga-form in panels.

But a topic my mind was fixed on at the time was summer—sun, flowers, butterflies, and flip-flops. So off the top of my head I drew a girl, happy it was summer, chasing a butterfly. I was happy with the whimsicality that it portrayed in the end.

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Lorenzo Rossi

I don’t like art to be stressed.

I see a ton of art that’s got all sorts of crazy things going on and I say, whoa, I wouldn’t do that. I like to make art laid back, funny, and carefree. I mean, isn’t art supposed to be one of the few places remaining where we can escape to and be whatever we want?

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“My students were fired up to do lab work and the mystery inherent in both forensics and the subject of Sasquatch grabbed their attention.”

JAMES SPIES, 7-8 SCIENCE

SCDS faculty aren’t given boilerplate curricula to teach. That’s why it’s challenging to teach here, but for those with a passion, it’s also exhilarating. 7-8 Science teacher James Spies devised a project influenced by two very different things: his wife’s work as a fish geneticist at NOAA, and a lecture by a college instructor who studied Sasquatch clues. The result? Sasquatch CSI. “My students were fired up to do lab work and the mystery inherent in both forensics and the subject of Sasquatch grabbed their attention,” says James.

He distributed tissue and hair samples for his students to analyze.

Using sophisticated equipment, they extracted the DNA which was then amplified through PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)—a technique to quickly “clone” a particular piece of DNA in a test tube.

Last, students entered the results into a genetics database.

The lab work process was both complex and exciting. One student reported that his high-school age sister was “totally jealous of the project and wished she was doing something like it.”

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The results of the student’s work solved the mystery of their samples—but not entirely!

Some of the sample results came back as dog, bear, and cow. But others came back as 85% human. 85%? What about the other 15%?

James isn’t telling.

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What do athlete Oscar Pistorius, scientist Robert Full, and artist Chico Bicallo have in common? Each in his own way is concerned with motion. The threads of their stories were woven together in creating the theme for this year’s Engineering Event.

Oscar Pistorius is a double-amputee who runs on blade legs, and fast. So fast, that his times are Olympic-caliber. Robert Full is a professor of integrative biology, who, simply put, studies creatures like bugs and geckos to reveal longmysterious principles of motion. Designer Chico Bicallo creates intricate moving critters out of found objects.

Bionics and Prostheses, from Disability to Gold

Can You Lend Me a Hand? presents avenues of exploration involving motion. It brings together current events, such as the Olympics and Para-Olympics, as well as biology, anatomy, mechanics, physics and art. Students learn how bionics and protheses have advanced from the hook-hand and the peg-leg to artificial arms and blade legs. They design, build, and operate moving bugs, blade legs, and arm models.

The Engineering Event encompasses many ways to learn. Says Grade 4-5 Science Teacher Meredith Olson (Doc “O”), “Humans are tool-users and hands-on learning furthers understanding. But students are also learning creatively, employing the novel use of ‘found’ materials, as well as learning co-operatively as they act as local experts and witnesses for others in the class.”

Doc “O” references researcher and professor Marian Diamond, Ph.D, who says, “‘Watching’ brains don’t grow. No matter what form enrichment takes, it is the challenge to the nerve cells that is important. Data indicate that passive observation is not enough; one must interact with the environment.”

The capstone of the Engineering Event has students gathering in the gym with the devices they have researched, designed, and built: the visible culmination of what they’ve learned. Rather than a performance for an audience, it’s a fun— and a little chaotic—group celebration of an amazing process!

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newfaces PATSY CADWELL, ASSISTANT DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Patsy, a native Washingtonian (Maple Valley to be exact), earned her BA in Public Relations from Central Washington University, with double minors in Advertising and Business Administration. Patsy has spent her career working for non-profits, most recently The Museum of Flight, in development and grant writing. She recently spent 3 years in Madison, Wisconsin, while her husband Brian attended law school. Go Badgers! Growing up in the PNW has given Patsy a love of the outdoors. When not working she can be found playing soccer, backpacking, hiking and running with her pup, Maddie. She’s also an active volunteer with Girls on the Run, whose mission is to use the power of running to educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. When down time calls, Patsy’s attention turns to sewing, cooking or curling up with a great book. Surrounded by the best friends and family, she is excited about her SCDS adventure.

BRIAN CRAWFORD, GRADE 7-8 ENGLISH In teaching 7th and 8th grade English, Brian Crawford is combining three of his passions: working with middle schoolers, literature, and language. Brian has taught since 1999 at the university level, high school, and middle school, including five years Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma. He has also tutored adult students in ESL. Brian completed his B.A. at the University of Georgia, and then a dual M.A. at Indiana University. Of his teaching experiences, Brian has most enjoyed working with middle schoolers, whose energy, fresh perspective, and naturally inquisitive minds bring new insights to world classics.

In class, he enjoys the aha-moments: when students realize that they can understand more challenging texts on different levels, or when new vocabulary, grammar, or writing strategies combine to produce fluent expression. Beyond teaching, Brian enjoys literature, writing fiction and poetry, running, and spending time with his son Bastian. He is thrilled to be a part of SCDS.

EDDIE FEELEY, GRADE 7 MATH AND GRADE 6 P.E. Eddie Feeley, Middle School Math, is a native of Ft. Collins, CO. He earned his B.S. in Mathematics with a specialization in Applied Mathematics from Seattle University.

While attending SU, Eddie was head math and physics tutor for the University Learning Center. He recently completed his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington. Eddie also teaches 6th grade physical education. He coached the MS boys soccer team in the fall and will be coaching the ultimate team in the spring. He is an avid athlete and plays for Seattle Sockeye, the premier men’s ultimate frisbee team.

JANA ZAAGMAN, GRADE 6 AND 8 MATH Jana Zaagman is a native of the Pacific Northwest and has returned home after many years in Michigan. She earned her B.A. from Calvin College in Michigan and has nine years of middle school teaching experience in math and science in Grand Rapids, MI. Jana also has seven years’ experience as middle school athletic director. After growing up in the Bellevue area, she now calls Ballard home and loves exploring the area with her two daughters, Dakota, 4, and Sydney, 2-1/2. Jana’s an outdoor enthusiast and enjoys running, biking, boating, and hiking. And, she says, “I love to cook…when I have time!”

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SEATTLE ART MUSEUM TAPS WINNIE YOUNG

K-3 Art Teacher Winnie Young was recently invited to be part of the Seattle Art Museum Education Committee Kids + Family Subgroup which includes Seattle artists, art educators, and board members. “I will be talking about the importance of inquirybased art education and critical pedagogy” says Winnie, “and how they relate to arts curriculum.” SAM’s deputy director of education and public policy will be visiting SCDS with a team to see her inquiry-based art classes in action.

Winnie is thrilled to have also been invited by Derrick Cartwright, the new Executive Director of the Seattle Art Museum, to be a part of the SAM Board’s Strategic Planning Committee Focus Group. The group includes art professionals, art organizations, and Seattle-area university and college educators. Says Winnie, “I am honored to be a part of this discussion and policy-making group at SAM. As the sole K-12 art educator invited, I take the seriously and with joy, the responsibility of representing our community.”

LORD, COFELT, AND HESSLEIN ATTEND NAGC CONFERENCE This fall, School Counselor Amy Cofelt, Grade 3 Teacher Duffy Lord, and Grade 5 Humanities teacher Jane Hesslein attended the National Association for Gifted Children conference in St. Louis. Duffy says, “it was a great connection for me to meet an adult version of my students.” Adds Amy, “I also came away with a greater appreciation for Seattle Country Day, especially our faculty who understands this special population and provides a safe place to dive into their love of learning.”

BRENDA AJBOUR ATTENDS LEARNING & THE BRAIN CONFERENCE Brenda Ajbour attended the Learning & the Brain Conference, held in San Francisco last month. She says, “The latest research on the workings of the human brain has significant implications for the ways we teach and assess students and for the ways we structure our classrooms and schools, not to mention the implications for how we consider and assign homework and how all of these factors are affected by sleep and our social and familial dynamics. I am invigorated to rethink and revamp parts of my educational philosophy and pedagogy after having attended a gathering where I found that many of the latest findings have immediate and practical applications.”

JANE HESSLEIN ELECTED TO SENG BOARD Grade 5 Humanities teacher Jane Hesslein, was elected this fall to the National Board of SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted.) Jane has been involved with SENG since 1989 and is a trained facilitator. She says, “I’m excited and humbled to think of continuing SENG’s mission and vision. This organization has had a tremendous effect on me, my children, my students, and their parents. The skills that I learned as a SENG parent group facilitator are in use every day that I teach. Whether I’m working with students, parents, school administrators, or local resources, the background that my training provided has given me a foundation like no other.”

Jane Hesslein, back row, 3rd from left, with fellow board members.

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Donna Sakson, President Nancy Senseney, Vice President Frank Firmani, Secretary Stan McCammon, Treasurer Lisa Carroll Kenneth J. Diamond Joe Hunter Mitch Kent Gary Kohlwes, Trustee Emeritus Karim L. Lessard Sandy McCullough Joan Morse Mike Nesteroff Anne Schaefer Parent Council President

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Another recordbreaker!

341 guests raised over

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Thanks to our amazing Auction Chair, Pey-Lin Carroll And thanks to everyone who procured items, and raised their bid cards

Thank you for your generous support!

General Operating Revenue and Expense: 7/1/08 – 6/30/09

Revenue Tuition less financial aid Contributions Other

Three Cheers for Parent Council Volunteers!

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Instructional General & Admin Plant Operations Interest Capital Campaign

Pey-Lin Carroll, Chair Diane Anderson Lisa Carroll Margaret Certain Kirsten Conner Kristi Dwight Deb Fandel Kristine Forbes Susan Hood Beth Israel Bill Kuper Jonathan Mark Kristen Onsager Christine Saulnier Robin Scarlett Tsering Short Lisa Smith Natalie Stephens

Thank You Leaders!

Parent Council Reps Anne Schaefer, President Gabrielle Evans-Lombe, Vice-President Cheryl Sizov, Secretary Eben Frankenberg, Treasurer Linda Potter Mariana Alvarez-Tostado Helen Kim Kristen Onsager Rich Glew Melissa White Lisa Graham Alan Sebring David Seaver/ Jon Dwight Bruce Burger/ Guy Post Paul Mockett/ Deborah Gunn Robyn Grad Karen Kent

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Thank you for your generous support!

Annual fund

The Annual Fund is the cornerstone of giving at SCDS. It augments our yearly operating budget, making so many more things possible for our school community.

Thank you for supporting the people and programs that make SCDS so special.

$10,000+ * Mike and Rose Boyle PB, CP, AP John and Lisa Graham CP * Leslie Magid Higgins and Pete Higgins PB, AP * Edward and Joanna Jung CP, AP * Jack and Sandy McCullough SB, CP Tom and Beth Morgan CP Donna Sakson and Jonathan Mark SB, CP

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Matching Gift Companies Alaska Airlines Amgen Bank of America The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Boeing Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness Expedia Inc Hanna Andersson Microsoft Real Networks Foundation Safeco Insurance Foundation U.S. Bancorp

Designated Gifts Diversity Fund Kathy McCann Liane Yuh and Jack Coleman

Gifts in Honor Oren and Ruth Etzioni IN HONOR OF BARB CLAGETT Kelly and Katy White IN HONOR OF JEREMY HOUK Ken and Joan Hunt IN HONOR OF EMMY HUNT Joann Ng IN HONOR OF DUFFY LORD Harry Schneider and Gail Runnfeldt IN HONOR OF FRANCIS RUNNFELDT

Library Fund Paul and Paula Arnold Julie Barbo and Mark Maghie Doug and Ann Bostrom Susan Brown Min Cho and Young Doh Paul and Heidi Danilchik Jon and Kristi Dwight Rodney, Lillian, and Erica Eaton Amy and Eric Friedland Arnaud Gautier and Lisa Carroll

John and Megumi Haskin Tom Leonard and Susan Hood Darrell and Stephanie Lewis-Sandy Abel Li and Yvonne Yeung Lora and Parker Mason Sandy and Jack McCullough Sara Mockett Donna Sakson and Jonathan Mark Floyd and Tsering Short Landy and Katie Wang Colleen and Scott Zorn

Book Bug Fund Richard and Claire Morse

In-Kind Donations Blair Candy Company Brant and Pey-Lin Carroll Will and Jennifer King Daugherty Dominic and Kristen Dobson Ducky’s Office Furniture Espresso Elegance Mike and Deb Fandel Firmani Family Flashing Blinky Lights Douglas and Kristine Forbes Louise and Jonathan Franklin Philip and Robyn Grad Carl Kadie and Nanci Vaeth Lora and Parker Mason Donna Massoth and Leo Santiago Mark Masterson and Wanda Wong Peet’s Coffee & Tea Guy and Stacy Post Donna Sakson and Jonathan Mark Schulte Construction Brian and Bronwyn Scott Ben and Natalie Stephens Team Photogenic Frank Woodruff and Jan Agosti

Key to Codes AP

= Alumni Parent

AS

= Alumni Student

CP

= Current Parent

F

= Faculty/Staff

FT

= Former Trustee

GP

= Grandparent

T

= Trustee

*

= 5 or more years consecutive giving

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JENNIFER HARA ’85 attended Seattle Prep, Seattle University where she earned a BA in Spanish and International Politics, and George Washington University where she earned a MA in International Economics. She’s worked for nine years in Washington D.C. for Taylor-DeJongh, a leading international energy and infrastructure investment banking firm where she is Vice President, Marketing.

CHRISTINA STUDT ’90 earned a BS in Mathematics from Virginia Tech and served for two years a staff for Senator Boxer on environmental issues, in Washington, DC. After nearly 5 years as a paralegal in San Francisco, she returned to DC for law school at American University Washington College of Law. This summer, she worked as a legal intern for the White House Council on Environmental Quality where she was able to observe the first summer of the Obama administration from the inside. She writes, “Next semester I’m looking forward to taking a course about the US trade regime team taught by two practitioners who are supposed to be great. There are so many interesting courses that it’s hard to pare down my list to something manageable.

JAMES PHILLIPS ’94 attended University of Washington and Parsons (The New School) in New York City. He now works as a graphic designer at Columbia University.

SARAH GOLDBLATT ‘00 lives in Sherman Oaks CA and works for director Jesse Dylan at http://free-form.tv/ in Los Angeles. She earned a BA in Drama at the University of Washington in 2003 and an MFA in Theatre Arts at Cal State Long Beach in 2007.

EMILY HAMILTON ’00 writes, “After graduating with a degree in Psychology from Bard College in New York in 2008, I lived in

New York City for the last year. I worked for a psychotherapist in private practice, volunteered at a 24-hour suicide prevention hotline, and blew glass at Urbanglass in Brooklyn. I spent this summer at Pilchuck Glass School, then moved to California with my new puppy to attend UCLA Graduate School in Social Work.”

MIA KING ’01 was awarded one of the prestigious Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowships from the University of Pennsylvania, considered by some to be the national “Rhodes Scholarship” for teaching. She also received the Class of 2009 Association of Native Alumni Student Leader Award for her work in support of the Native American community.

Mia graduated Magna Cum Laude in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and will join the MEd program at the School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania in July, 2009.

SIMONE CHILDS-WALKER ’03 was named to the 2008 Cross Country All-Academic Team by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for her outstanding work on the cross-country course and in the classroom. Simone graduated from Lakeside and attends Carleton College.

CONOR MYHRVOLD ’03, a junior in the Wilson College of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, was mentioned in a Seattle Times article for his work through Intellectual Ventures on “a sort of air bag for the elderly… to cushion older people’s falls.” He is also Vice-President of the Princeton Chess Club.

KAVEH WADDELL ’05 was on campus last Spring as piano accompanist to the SCDS Focus Choir. Kaveh graduated from Lakeside and attends Middlebury College.

ALUMNI FEATURE AARON BODANSKY ’01 spent the

summer biking across Africa from Cape Town, South Africa to Nairobi, Kenya, to raise understanding for Africa through the organization he founded: Cycle for Understanding. Learn more about their goal to “combat Western prejudices and popular misconceptions regarding the African continent by demonstrating the goodwill and hospitality of the African people” at his website: www.cycleforunderstanding.org.

SCDS Class of 2009 is the largest graduating class since 1999. The 29 graduates are attending 10 different high schools.

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Kinesis comes from the Greek word for motion, and “kinetics” is used in the vernacular to describe mechanics associated with the forces that cause motions of bodies. At SCDS, we’re all about energy and active learning. Every day, SCDS teachers engage students’ minds and bodies through inquiry-based teaching.

Kinetics won a first-place award in the 2009 Print Rocks!

The Best Print in the West competition from the Pacific Printing & Imaging Association, a six-state professional organization. “We’re really pleased to win this award,” says Kinetics editor Joan Hudson, “and it’s wonderful working with design pro Christa Fleming at Christa Fleming Design and Steven Gray at Printex Press.”