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Life Lessons Within Lower School Insights
Read More“This is impossible!”My kindergartener just finished a rotation in the Lower School Insights course Brain Bogglers. It is designed to enhance agile and analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and stamina while students work through various ways to tackle complex problems. After the final class, the teachers sent a packet of brain teasers home for students to work on for fun. Yet it was super challenging. It forced him to push himself not only to think deeper but to think differently.
2024
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Life Lessons Within Lower School Insights
Read More“This is impossible!”My kindergartener just finished a rotation in the Lower School Insights course Brain Bogglers. It is designed to enhance agile and analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and stamina while students work through various ways to tackle complex problems. After the final class, the teachers sent a packet of brain teasers home for students to work on for fun. Yet it was super challenging. It forced him to push himself not only to think deeper but to think differently. -
Six Ways to Empower Multilingual Learners in the Classroom
Read MoreLanguage is an integral part of our daily lives and identity, and it is more important than ever that educators recognize, celebrate, and support multilingual learners in Early Childhood. As someone who was born and raised in the Phillippines, with English as my second language, I deeply understand wanting to be fluent in English while celebrating – not losing – my home language. Growing up, I realized that learning English was essential for connecting with groups, forming friendships, and engaging in conversations that were necessary to attain my goals and interests. As a teacher, empowering my students to embrace their multilingualism helps unlock their potential. -
Modern Learning at Dawson: An Opportunity for Differentiation
When I entered the field of education almost 20 years ago, I could never have predicted what awaited me in 2024. Certainly, longstanding joys such as watching new readers crack the phonics code, students mixing paint using a color wheel to make the perfect purple, or Lower School friends passing along a classic joke (“Why couldn’t the skeleton go to the ball?”) are ever present at Dawson. On the other hand, education in 2024 often feels like some kind of voyage into space – leaving the old precepts of teaching and learning to explore the unknown reaches of what students will need to know when they enter the workforce in 10 years, 20 years, and beyond.Read More
The Alexander Dawson School
The Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain, an independent school located on 33-acres in the community of Summerlin, is Nevada’s first Stanford University Challenge Success partner school for students in early childhood through grade eight. Utilizing the unique Challenge Success framework, Dawson uses research-based strategies and programs that emphasize student academics, wellbeing, and a healthy school-life balance to create more engaged, motivated, and resilient learners and leaders. At Dawson, students achieve their individual potential while savoring life and meeting the challenges of the world.