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Project-Based Learning at GHS Innovation Lab Culminates in Bruce Museum Exhibition

Greenwich High School’s Innovation Lab students were on the spot Tuesday night at Bruce Museum, where they explained their Humanities and STEM self-portrait projects face-to-face with the public. The exhibit followed Monday night’s screening of Most Likely to Succeed, a documentary film that opens with a look back at the origins of public school in the US, and presents a grim outlook for the jobs market, in which blue collar jobs are automated and people, along with both the current K-12 education model are obsolete. The majority of the film focuses on High Tech High, a charter school that, like Innovation Lab at GHS, embraces project based learning and increased collaboration with the community at large. Continue Reading →

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Riverside School 3rd Grade Teacher’s “The Sweet Spot” and Sequel Picked up by Spellbound River Press

The inspiration for The Sweet Spot came from a conversation Mozer had with the director of a baseball sleep away camp. When asked whether a thirteen-year-old girl could attend the camp, the director said, “I mean I can’t say she can’t come. But, you know it is a sleep away camp, that she would have to sleep here.”

After doing additional research and talking to girls who had experienced being the only girl on a boy’s team, the plot of The Sweet Spot was born. Continue Reading →

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Greenwich Cub Scouts Fashion Fast Cars for the Pinewood Derby

It’s that time of year again. Cub Scouts and their parents are busy making their Pinewood Derby cars. This week at a series of workshops at Camp Seton, the boys and their parents selected a template and got busy cutting and sanding their cars. The boys then take the cars home to assemble and paint. The Pinewood Derby is set for March 13! See you there! Continue Reading →

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Jazz it Up Wednesday Night at Greenwich High School SummerFare

SummerFare at Greenwich High School is an annual event for exhibitors to present materials and talk with public and private elementary, middle and high school students and their parents about summer programs, internships, and camp opportunities. The event is Jan 27, 2016 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. (snow date Jan. 28). The event is free and open to the public. This year there will be a nice twist to the event. The PTA had a great idea. They are organizing live music and bands to get everyone into the summer and holiday mood. Continue Reading →

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