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Stanford+Connects Seattle
I relived a little piece of the Stanford experience and met interesting people at the Stanford+Connects event this past Saturday at the Washington Convention Center. These alumni events travel the...
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The Role of Data in School Decision-Making
Analyzing student and faculty data has added a critical new dimension to discussions of specific dynamics in our school. Teacher observations, administrator experience, and student anecdotes are all...
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What About the Content? Revising Curricula for Cultural Competency
NAIS People of Color Conference 2014 Sarah Peterson and I will be presenting this session on Thursday, December 4 at 10:00am in Room 204. We look forward to seeing you there. What About the Content...
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What I Learned From My High School Transcript
Over the last 22 years, I have worked in six schools, consulted with over a dozen, and visited many more. Yet, I continue to think a lot about my own secondary school experiences. My old school serves...
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Academic Leaders Retreat
Curriculum is the main dish in a school, the substance of what students are attempting to learn. Why, then, do most professional development programs focus on pedagogy, assessment, and classroom...
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Redesign the Junior and Senior Years of High School
In many independent schools, most students are ready for college-level work by the time they reach junior year. Why, then, do we make them conform to the same time and curriculum structures as our...
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Do Students Find Their Cultures In the Curriculum?
In Brooklyn Dreams: My Life In Public Education, Sonia Nieto describes her experience at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, where she attended from 1958-1961. As in elementary and junior high...
View ArticleNew Courses Feature Next Generation Learning
University Prep has conducted a strategic planning process for the last year. One of our three focus areas, Next Generation Learning, concerns the design of learning opportunities to prepare students...
View ArticleNew Courses for 2017-2018
UPrep has a strong tradition of new course development. Each year, teachers consider what could enhance students’ experiences in the academic program. What needs exist, and what concepts and skills...
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Student Directed Learning
Credit: Max Pixel What is student-directed learning? Academic leaders use the term freely. Do we agree on its meaning? A group of us gathered at the Academic Leaders Retreat to discuss this question....
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Explore, Question, Develop: Next Generation Learning Initiatives
Originally published in UPrep Magazine “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” — proverb This ancient saying admonishes wanderers to settle down and establish themselves. But perhaps some wanderlust is good...
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Communicating Intensives
The communication plan for our rollout of Intensives has attempted to balance the internal work to develop the new term structure and courses as well as the need for students and families to stay...
View ArticleNew Courses and Intensives, Explained
These new videos help explain our new course offerings and intensives to UPrep families. In addition, you may visit pages for the Course of Study (MS, US), Intensives, and Senior LaunchPad. Enjoy!
View ArticleSeeking Engineering Intensive Teacher
The Engineering Intensive Teacher will join two UPrep teachers to deliver a three-week, full-time, hands-on, introductory engineering course to high school students who have signed up for this January...
View ArticleWorldStrides Summit on Global Awareness & Leadership
Last week, our global programs director Brian and I spent two days at a WorldStrides-sponsored event in Philadelphia, at which we studied questions about optimal program design and student experience....
View ArticleThree Kinds of Engagement
A wonderful, new synthesis of research identifies a main reason why students do not thrive in school and provides clear directions for improvement. The study, titled “Supporting Social, Emotional, and...
View ArticleAssessment for Next Generation Learning
A new article from EdSurge describes a MIT effort to design assessments for next generation learning. “Playful assessment” captures curiosity, creativity and critical thinking within the natural...
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Independent Study: Art in Spain, Peru and Mexico
Three students recently completed an impressive independent study in painting and Spanish language study. Pursuing independent study requires initiative, perseverance, collaboration, and...
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Our First Intensives are Complete!
We just finished our first intensives term, the result of two years of planning and collaboration inside our school and with school and organization partners. I have written a blog post for UPrep to...
View ArticleSpeaking About Intensives
In January, I shared stories and observations about UPrep’s first intensive term at our State of the School event. The following video is cued to jump to my portion of the presentation.
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