February 2018

Dear Campus School Families,

We have entered a deeply reflective period at the Campus School. It began with the strategic planning process and has continued in the work we did to revise the school’s mission. We are now sending four of our teachers to visit other lab schools and report back on their findings. We are particularly interested in how these schools realize their… Read More

Dear Campus School Families,

Great teachers are always thinking about how to help their students grow and
develop. The fruits of this thinking often come in an "aha" moment, when a
teacher comes to a particular understanding of a student and has new insight
into how to encourage this student's growth.

I remember a teacher of mine who figured out how to break… Read More

Dear Campus School Families,

I was recently in one of our classrooms and saw students intently engaged in an
exercise of observation, description, and reporting. They were watching the
birth of a brook trout and quietly recording their observations. Each student
was focused - looking, thinking, and writing, which was followed by a period of
sharing with their… Read More