Site menu:

Links:

Site search

confidence growth community parents change society excellence college prep middle school grandparents vision future achievement media safety success music portfolios expectations sputnik news fiduciary head of school homework camp volunteers violence journey transition measurement learning emotional IQ high school performing arts athletics giving philanthropy academics tuition

Categories

RSS NY Times Education Stories

RSS LA Times Education Stories

Archive for 'Academic Programs'

Adventures in Middle School

by Colin Martin
Head of Middle School
Chatsworth Hills Academy
Chatsworth, California
Originally Published in News from the Top of the Hill, February 2008
I walked into Mr. Miller’s class the other day to see students in various and colorful costumes and with multiple and impressive props performing plays they had created. I couldn’t get in the door of Mrs. […]

New Athletic Center Greets CHA Students

by Graham Brown
Head of School
Chatsworth Hills Academy
Chatsworth, California
Originally Published in News from the Top of the Hill, December 2007
As our school family enjoys a wonderful Holiday Season, the campus is filled with construction vehicles and new athletic equipment. Last spring a small group of CHA parents expressed a true interest in providing the restricted contributions […]

Student Portfolios

by Christina Simonds
Head of Lower School
Chatsworth Hills Academy
Chatsworth, California
Originally Published in News from the Top of the Hill, October 2007
Whether you walk up the hill to visit our classrooms (grades 1, 2, 3, 4), or head even further up the hill to our kindergarten classrooms, the same sight will greet you, namely, students fully engaged […]

Finding our Way: Lessons from Hansel and Gretel

By James A. McDaniel
Headmaster
Linden Hill School
Northfield, Massachussets
Published in SouthEast Education Network Magazine, Fall 2007
We have moved into the third millennium. We have developed highly effective technologies in the free market areas driven by our economic thirsts for pleasure, travel, and desire for omnipresent sources of ‘real time’ information (Albeit the definition of what information is […]

Camp Highland Adventures

by Pam Green
Teacher
Chatsworth Hills Academy
Chatsworth, California
Originally Published in News from the Top of the Hill, April 2006
The wailing, kicking, and screaming was almost unbearable, but finally the parents quieted down so that the third grade students and their teachers could begin their journey! A big trip for such a young group of children – 3 […]