As educators and community members here at Sage, one of our primary goals is to best prepare our students for the world outside our doors. In the words of our mission, we want our students to go forth confidently, applying their gifts, creativity, and curiosity to the world beyond Sage. Being a faculty member in […]
Last year the theme for our faculty meetings at the beginning of the year was “creativity.” The year before we focused on “grit.” This year I searched for something more overarching and inclusive of all that we do here at Sage. Something that would help sum up clearly and concisely what our work is all […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR SAGE TECH IN THE 2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR Google Apps for Middle School & Juniors: Shortly after last year’s spring break, Sage gave its sixth, seventh and eighth graders access to the same suite of Google tools that the faculty and staff had already been using. This trial of Google Apps for Education has proven to […]
On Saturday, May 21 nearly 200 people gathered at The Sage School to celebrate the school’s 20th Anniversary. The event drew a variety of community members including parents, alumni, trustees, faculty, and state representatives. The evening consisted of remarks from Head of School Timothy S. Monroe, Board Chair Solomon Menashi, and Middle School Division Leader […]
My wife and I both work in education. She is an English Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in English at a large University. I am Head of a small K-8 independent elementary school. The following are two stories to illustrate the trends we see in modern parenting. See if you can guess which […]
The Sage campus has been busy with Summer Sage students learning about cultures, our planet, and now the fine art of acting! Week 4 will bring many budding architects, engineers, and artists to campus for our Building and Creating week. Summer Sage is a fun and relaxed learning environment, with plenty of time to play […]
I recently attended the National Small Schools Conference in Falmouth, MA, a gathering of leaders from small independent schools. One of the keynote speakers was Janet Rapelye, the Director of Admission at Princeton University. Ms. Rapelye showed us lots of demographic information relative to high school aged students in various regions of the country. No […]
So I had the opportunity to purchase a ChromeBook ahead of time. No, I’m not in the cool kids’ club. I just happened to be one of the Google App Admins who added my name to the Chrome Team’s mailing list. But let’s talk about the machine… I got the Samsung Series 5. In a […]
One month after the 1885 publication of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Concord Public Library, home of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts, voted to remove Twain’s book from the library for fear that Huck, “rough, coarse, and inelegant,” would be an immoral influence on young readers. Louisa May Alcott, sharp in her criticism, […]
