Care for Community
Strategies, samples, and ideas to sustain a sense of community among all independent school constituents—students, families, faculty and staff, and leaders—and to ensure their health and well-being.
Strategies, samples, and ideas to sustain a sense of community among all independent school constituents—students, families, faculty and staff, and leaders—and to ensure their health and well-being.
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PES 8th Graders Care for their Community during their Annual Mission Trip
PES 8th graders had their annual mission trip last month to Hilton Head Island, where they participated in a beach clean-up project, volunteered at a food pantry, spent time at a senior center, helped at the Boys & Girls Club, and participated in a car wash to raise money for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes through […]
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Middle Schoolers Serve as Coach Mentors to Junior Kindergarten Students
PES 7th and 8th graders are participating in a yearlong Living Lab project where students have created resumes, applied/interviewed for campus jobs, and are earning a faux salary where they then must budget rent and other fictional daily bills. For the past several months, two middle schoolers have sacrificed their recess time to help coach […]
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PES Middle School Service Campers Give Back to the Community in BIG Ways
PES offers a Middle School Service Camp every summer to rising 5th-9th graders that models our mission to challenge students’ minds, bodies and spirits while also inspiring them to be caring citizens and world changers. Our campers spent last week giving back to the community in BIG ways by making/delivering sandwiches for neighbors in need, […]
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PES 8th Graders Feed Families in Nicaragua and Charlotte area
PES 8th graders completed a service project with Servants with a Heart last week where they packed hundreds of bags of dehydrated stew (each bag=6 meals) to feed families in need in Nicaragua and the Charlotte area.
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Practicing Gratitude
At the International Academy of New York, we opened fully in person for all of our teachers and students, but to do so, we knew that emotional support had to be at the forefront of everything we did. Support for parents, support for teachers, support for our students. Part of our solution was to engage […]
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PTO Coffee: Mental Wellness at ODS
Oakhill recognized the need for a school-wide Wellness Counselor well before the emergence of COVID-19. However, the role has become essential to the well-being of students, staff, and school families as we navigate school life and grow accustomed to our new normal during a pandemic. Happy teachers make happy students, and happy students make happy […]
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PES Provides Community with Lunch & Learn on Immunity, Health & Wellness
Now more than ever, parents are looking for ways to help support their families’ immunity and well being. PES was thrilled to provide our community with this informative and timely presentation from guest speaker Ryha Pachin, MS, RDN, LDN, CLT, with Carolina Functional Nutrition, as she discusses key steps that families can take to live […]
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Re-Entry Plan
Re-Entry Plans as of July 15, 2020 for the upcoming school year.
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Buckley At Home: Summer Series
In order to keep the community engaged all summer long, we created a series of workshops once a week on Wednesdays through the end of summer. Each one is led by a different faculty member, alum, or current parent and highlights an aspect of our program or talent within the extended community. The workshops range […]
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Are We Going to Be Okay?
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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King School’s Approach to Remote Community in the Upper School
We have engaged our Upper School students in a number of ways to provide support while also creating opt-in opportunities for each individual. We hold a mandatory synchronous fifteen-minute advisory each weekday for advisors to check in with their students, give announcements, and participate in any bonding activities (online puzzles, recipe shares, etc.). We launched […]
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Maintaining Community & Wellbeing with Gratitude Science
The need to strengthen community, wellbeing, and social-emotional skills has never been greater. The pandemic has heightened isolation and stress for students, educators, and families. Leadership Public Schools based in Oakland, California built a program to address the challenge. GiveThx (a nonprofit program) is an easy way to build relationships and wellbeing using gratitude science. […]