PRIVATE SCHOOLS Education: Opening The Door To The Future
Special publication of the Issaquah Press Inc. Media Group. Published in The Issaquah Press & Sammamish Review | February 2016
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Parents love having their children participate at Washington Shotokan Association because we offer a safe, non-violent learning environment that emphasizes Respect, Excellence, Hard Work, and Character. While our classes are formal, controlled, and disciplined, we also make it fun for kids and adults alike. We also do not require long-term contracts; only month-to-month. As well, once you attend your first class, the uniform is yours to keep!
students the traditions of Shotokan Karate, while providing a safe and respectful environment for all of our members. 100 percent of our amazing instructors are volunteers who dedicate their time and energy because of their love of the art and desire to help others grow. Most importantly, all of our students are taught to live by the WSA principles: • Seek Perfection of Character • Be Faithful • Endeavor • Respect Others • Refrain from Violent Behavior
WSA is a non-profit organization that has served the eastside community for over 43 years. Unlike many Karate and Taekwondo schools that commonly come and go, WSA has a 43 year foundation of experience teaching thousands of
With these values, your child will have the opportunity to learn confidence, humility, respect, and how to live good and honorable lives from their training with WSA.
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D I S14962 C O -VMountainside E R T H ESchool J O Y O F L E A R N I N G At Mountainside School, our goal is to provide a
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We believe in providing the child an opportunity to develop independent learning, creativity and social skills. We introduce the child to a rich pre-academic program to help make the transition to the primary school grades as smooth as possible. We use the Star-fall reading program as well as Hand Writing Without Tears. Included in the day are Spanish, additional reading and phonics. Weekly we have a music and movement teacher and a gymnastics coach work with the children. These classes are all included in our tuition price. In addition we offer a ballet class and extended gymnastics for children 3 and older with a small cost to parents. Our King County Library2Go van visits monthly to stimulate the child’s love of books and teach them about authors and illustrators. We have a beautiful large infant room with loving staff, a nurse who visits monthly to see the children and brings new research and educational information for teachers as well as parents.
Full day and half day learning programs for children 6 wks - 6 years
Mountainside offers four other classrooms, toddler, early preschool, preschool and pre-k. The children enjoy a fun filled day and are taught academics in an engaging and loving way by dedicated, long term staff.
Includes specialty classes in Spanish, Reading, Music, and Gymnastics.
Our large playgrounds are in a beautiful wooded area with many opportunities to develop a child’s gross motor skills, and enjoy the beauty of nature and exploration on our nature trails.
www.mountainsideschool.com • 425-392-9366
Mountainside is a full year school program; the summer is filled with outdoor activities, crafts, water play and more. Our school has been in this location for 36 years and has many traditions that we enjoy sharing with new students and parents. We invite you to schedule a visit.
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Diving Deep Thinking Drives Content 15055 - Eastside Preparatory–School By Full Sam page Uzwack, Middle School Head
How do you know that you’ve learned something? You know, really learned it. I suppose it depends on the task. If you are learning to throw pottery, the results are tangible: I made a pot. Or, I made something that looks like a New England Patriots’ football. But what if you are learning the chemistry behind pottery? Or the history of pottery? Or the anthropological implications of the development of pottery? How do you know…that you know? Hold onto that thought. When I was in graduate school earning my Masters in Teaching, my most influential professor was Dr. Sam Wineburg. He challenged just about every assumption I held about learning, people, and life. (It was he who, after I spouted some frustrations with some of my quieter peers, put me in my place with a warm yet stern, “Sam, what you have to remember is that not everyone is Sam.”) One of our initial exercises was a quiz we took early in the course. I remember it so clearly. If you’d like a go at it, it’s below.
The Montillation of Traxoline Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristerlate large amounts of fervon and then bracter it to quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our most lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge. Checking for Understanding 1. What is traxoline? 2. Where is traxoline montilled? 3. How is traxoline quaseled? 4. Why is it important to know about traxoline? Attributed to Judy Lanier As our class took this quiz, initial confusion soon morphed into new understandings. First off, we all aced it, as our sixteen-plus years of education primed us to perform at the highest level. And none of us had a clue what we were talking about. For decades, learning has been measured by the accurate transmission of content. A teacher provides access to a discrete set of content – the pupil “masters” said content by repeating, either through oral or written form, back to teacher. It does not matter whether it is history (“The Civil War represented the ultimate referendum on American Federalism!”, or math (a2 + b2=c2), or science (and this is a personal favorite, a fact I acquired in seventh grade – “Osmosis is diffusion through a cell membrane”).
All three of those statements are variations on the traxoline theme. They can be stated, but are they truly understood? It is worth noting that some disciplines have less of an issue with the display of understanding. You know when a kid can play the trumpet…or not. You know when a lay-up is made...or not. It happens…you see it. Now we come to the central theme of this piece: the fundamental aim of our approach to teaching and learning at Eastside Prep is not just to ensure accuracy of knowledge, but genuine and applicable depth of understanding. We do not want to settle for what Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Howard Gardener dubbed the “correctanswer compromise.” He explains: Most schools have fallen into a pattern of giving kids exercises and drills that result in their getting answers on tests that look like understanding. It’s what I call the “correct answer compromise”: students read a text, they take a test, and everybody agrees that if they say a certain thing it’ll be counted as understanding. But the findings of cognitive research over the past twenty to thirty years are really quite compelling: students do not understand, in the most basic sense of that term. That is, they lack the capacity to take knowledge learned in one setting and apply it appropriately in a different setting. Study after study has found that, by and large, even the best students in the best schools can’t do that.1
The implication of this approach is to learn fewer things more deeply. We will not cover every single event in American history. But the topics we do cover will be done so in a more complex, rich, and detailed manner. Due to advances in technology, there is no longer a point to learning something at the surface level. After all, I can look up everything on the surface level in 2.3 seconds on my Surface. What I can’t do in 2.3 seconds is give a careful consideration of why Lincoln’s actions during the Civil War cemented the federal level of our government as supreme; I can’t prove to you why Pythagoras was right; I can’t explain what osmosis and diffusion are, how they work, why they are important, and the reason they are worth learning. Depth over breadth. You want breadth? Buy a smart phone. You want depth? Come to EPS. How do you know you’ve truly learned something? This is the question that will continue to drive our future work at EPS, and is what makes our work with students all the more fulfilling. 1 Educational Leadership “On Teaching for Understanding: A Conversation with Howard Gardner”
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Eastside Catholic School is an educational community of faith, guided by Catholic tradition and teachings, where students learn to integrate thinking and believing with action in ways that encourage intellectual excellence, nurture relationships and inspire a life of leadership and service to others. The rigorous college preparatory program at Eastside Catholic fosters intellectual curiosity, academic discipline and critical thinking in a supportive and caring environment for middle and high school students. Our state-of-the art campus is located on 50 acres in Sammamish, Washington, surrounded by forest and protected wetlands. The facilities were designed to create an ideal learning environment including sophisticated science labs, integrated
classroom technology and dedicated gathering areas for student collaboration. The campus is also home to the St. Francis of Assisi chapel, a 12,000-volume library, two gymnasiums, a lighted 2,000-seat stadium and a multi-purpose turf field. Eastside Catholic is also home to the Options Program, an inclusive special education program for high school students with mildto-moderate developmental disabilities. Although our admission deadline has passed for the 2016-17 school year, we work on a rolling admissions basis and we will continue to review and make a decision on all completed applications submitted. Apply today! 07.15060.PS.R
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Who we are
What we do
Founded in 1907, Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart provides a diverse and rigorous college preparatory environment that inspires young women to become confident, compassionate leaders. At Forest Ridge School, we are girl-centered. Forest Ridge graduates are admitted to the nation’s top colleges and universities. Our Catholic, college preparatory, STEAM-focused educational program offers amazing opportunities available for girls in grades 5 through 12: from Physics First in high school to Leadership Education beginning in middle school...to domestic and international Exchange in 80 countries within the International Network of Sacred Heart Schools…to experiential, hands-on academics…to the freedom of selecting from a variety of fun and exciting opportunities in the arts, drama, music and no-cut athletics. Forest Ridge also offers a boarding program and welcomes young women – whether from the Seattle area or from across the globe - to apply. Imagine living in a home with a view of snowcapped mountains, deep blue lakes, lush trees and shrubs with the skyline of the vibrant city of Seattle just beyond. Our staff provides a homelike atmosphere that includes chauffeuring students to activities and events around the community, as well as offering homework help and guidance in learning life skills.
Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart educates young women to think critically, embrace challenges, model resilience, confront injustice, seek equality and lead globally in the pioneering spirit of our foundress. Our graduates change the world. As a member of the International Schools of the Sacred Heart Network, Forest Ridge educates to the following Sacred Heart Goals: • A personal and active faith in God • A deep respect for intellectual values • A social awareness which impels to action • The building of community as a Christian value • Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.
Why Choose Us? Girls. In an all-girls setting, your daughter will discover the enormous potential and power that comes with being a girl. Goals. We measure ourselves by the Goals & Criteria: guiding principles that shape our faith, intellect, social responsibility, sense of community, and personal growth. Grace. We are a Catholic institution and we’re proud of that. At Forest Ridge, each child’s faith is respected... wherever she is on her faith journey. We believe that every person has something to contribute to the faith
life of the community and that each child has the capacity to commune with her God. Global. Forest Ridge graduates are confident young women who are responsible, creative and compassionate global citizens on a local, national and international level. Great Education. Find your passion. Be a leader. Learn to change the world. Our program, emphasizing academic rigor, personal development, global awareness, collaboration, ethical decision making, and social justice, makes a difference in how girls learn and live…and how they will contribute to their world today and tomorrow. So, whether studying hard and working cooperatively on our campus, out climbing mountains or kayaking the waters of the Puget Sound, competing in our gyms and on our fields, or on the cusp of discovery in our science labs and language and mathematics classrooms, your daughter will learn life-long lessons in daring to participate, lead, and explore. For more information, contact the Admission Office at 425-641-0700 or via email at admissions@ forestridge.org
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