After reading these dispatches from Middle School, you might just adore our teachers and students even more.
These skills, as we have defined them, will foster in our students both the will and capacity to change the world in ways that each generation is called to do.
Build Networks
Innovate & Create
Take Risks
Self-Advocate
Think Critically
Communicate
Tackle Problems
Learn Actively
Engage Ethically
Lead
Meet GDS’s Environmental Task Force
Each year in 11th grade English, GDS students study Aristotelian Appeals. Last week, they witnessed a living example of the Aristotelian Triad unfold on Capitol Hill from Congressman Jamie Raskin ‘79.
When I first hit ‘send’ on an email last May to recruit students to volunteer for the newly-launched Voter Mobilization Initiative, the promise of a constructive channel to address voting inequality began to nullify my grave concerns about rampant voter suppression.