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Urban studies students experience Dallas in a whole new way
By Emily Wilson, Creative Services Manager Adventure was in the air on this particularly bright and clear September morning. I boarded the Greenhill bus bound for the DART station with the Upper School...
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Volunteering: Education for the Real World
By Sally Rosenberg, Director of Community Service & Service Learning On the bus ride back from delivering Meals on Wheels last week, the Kindergartners, and their confident eighth grade buddies,...
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Homework: A Mile in a Student’s Shoes
By Jason Yaffe, Director of Academics It all started when a Greenhill parent suggested that I should read Karl Greenfeld’s “My Daughter’s Homework is Killing Me” (Atlantic Monthly, October 2013). I was...
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Connecting Knowledge through Experiential Education at Greenhill: The History...
By Chris Bigenho, Director of Instructional Technology Take a stroll through any major university and you can find great halls and facilities dedicated to the teaching of specific disciplines. K-12...
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An Authentic Audience: Lit Genius and SoundCloud
By Joel Garza, Upper School English Teacher My class, for years, for better or worse, has been mine. I’m not sure how to think about this autonomy. On certain days, this autonomy can lead a teacher to...
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The World Is a Blank Canvas…Via the Eyes of a Seven Year Old
By Kim Barnes, Head of Early Childhood For three days now, the hill on the Lower School playground has been slick with mud. Each morning Tony has begun his drawing. Sliding first one foot and then the...
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Developing Cultural Competency by Addressing Micro-aggressions
By Laura Ross, Head of Upper School We spend a lot of time at Greenhill talking about what it means to develop cultural competency, both in our faculty and staff and in our students. One of my...
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Resilience: Also Known as Grit
By Susan Palmer, Head of Middle School “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce “Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success.” – Arianna Huffington These quotes and more...
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Lower School Leveled Library
By Michael Simpson, Head of Lower School You may have noticed, between the insect exo-skeletons in Mrs. Barnes’ window and the array of trophies in my window, a roomful of cluttered bookcases. This is...
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The Value of Service
Sally W. Rosenberg, Director of Service-Learning & Community Service There are no tests in the real world, no extra credit for being kind; there are no grades for community service! So why is...
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Compassion Means Seeking the Why
Greenhill School’s campus filled with energy to the point of “buzzing” this week as approximately 1290 students flooded campus for the 2015-2016 school year. Students and teachers, new and returning,...
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Intrinsic Motivation
On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, the entire Upper School gathered in the Phillips Gym to celebrate the academic accomplishments of the School’s top students. In her opening remarks, Head of Upper School...
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Greenhill Kids These Days
Every other week, Head of Lower School Michael Simpson sends a letter to parents. The letters cover topics ranging from parenting strategies to events and activities he’s witnessed at school. Read...
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Welcome Back!
Below is a letter sent home to Upper School families from, Head of Upper School Laura Ross. We had a wonderful first day back at Greenhill today. I enjoyed seeing all of your children’s happy faces –...
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A Window Into Social Emotional Learning on the Hill
Social Emotional Learning has become a big part of the day for Preschool and Lower School students. Jason Yaffe, Director of Academics, takes a look into the program in this week’s blog. Imagine a...
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Greenhill’s 66th Founder’s Day
On Friday, September 9th, all Greenhill students and faculty assembled in Phillips Gymnasium to celebrate Founders’ Day. Jason Yaffe, Director of Academics discusses the meaning behind Founders’ Day....
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A Community of Care
By Jason Yaffe, Director of Academics. I recently had an opportunity to host close to twenty beginning teachers from schools in our regional association, I.S.A.S. (Independent School Association of the...
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