A Peek in Every Classroom: Upper School Instructional Rounds
This week, upper school faculty began a series of instructional rounds, following a structured format to generate shared questions about teaching & learning, to observe …
Extraordinary Educational Experience
Shapes, Symmetry, and Smiles: Kindergarteners Explore the World’s First Pattern Alphabet
“I see a swoosh! Look!” Kindergarten scientists this week, and last, have been exploring the world’s first Spatial Alphabet, developed by Na2ure.org. This week, students …
GPT and Me: Studying AI in 9th Grade Immersives
“Tech is only useful if it serves the needs of many, and helps us solve problems that would be difficult or impossible to solve without …
Counting Ten to Fun: 1st Grade Mathematicians Build Their Number and Pattern Fluency
“I disagree. I counted by tens then by ones and got 48.” “I disagree because I counted by tens and saw it wasn’t 50. So …
CREATED IN COMMUNITY: BUILDING HILLBROOK’S NEXT VISION PLAN
Improving a school is a goal that technically never arrives – we rise to meet a continuously evolving moment, anchored and guided by our mission …
From Flow to “Oh!”
Classroom Adventures with Hillbrook Literacy Support Specialist and Challenge Coach Kelly Scholten At 9:30 am on a Thursday morning, Hillbrook School Challenge Coach Kelly Scholten …
Justice and Hope in Action: Meet Mike Peller, Hillbrook’s Founding Head of Upper School
This year, Hillbrook is proud to welcome Mike Peller to our staff as our Founding Head of Upper School – from the very beginning, it …
An Office in the Great Unknown
Hillbrook Alumni and Jobs of the Future In 1965, Gordon Moore – the future cofounder of Intel – observed that computer chip transistors doubled about …
Spaces: A Journey of Togetherness
After two years without music, Hillbrook’s concert makes a dramatic return The fall and winter of the 2021 – 22 school year found the Hillbrook …
Catching Up With Lucas Kernan (Class of ‘13): On Glassblowing and Creativity As Survival
_________ “Art is a strange business because we distill emotions into a form.” -Harvey Littleton- At Hillbrook, young Lucas Kernan (Class of ’13) was already …