At the GDS Lower School, we have been excited to adopt a new math program called enVision® for the 2019-20 school year.

In continuing my stroll down GDS’s memory lane in preparation for our 75th Anniversary, I have been soliciting essays from alumni, hoping to capture their memories of GDS. 

Everywhere they turn, our kids are hearing about impeachment. On social media, in newspapers, and in conversations the topic is ubiquitous...

Our Communities and Change 9th grade History course is anchored on several essential questions designed to delve deeply into meanings and implications of historical events...

Students often think their peers are “smart” at math if they get the right answer quickly...

All day long, my cell phone thrums with the texts of nine juniors and seniors. Questions, quips, emojis, links, the messages keep coming and chirp late into the night...

On Saturday, October 27, two buses full of tired and exhilarated GDS High School students arrived back on campus at 5:15 p.m...

In the process of selling the value proposition of independent schools, a question I face—and fret about—quite often is, “How much does your school cost?”

Last week, Lower School principal Kimberly Beck and I met with two 5th grade students...

“This is too hard.” “I don’t get it.” “I will never know how to do this.” Having been a teacher for 18 years, these are not unfamiliar phrases to me...

In his novel Requiem for a Nun, Faulkner wrote that “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” While that seems an apt explanation for the seemingly intractable cultural and political fault lines that have emerged so clearly these past few years, it’s equally true for GDS.

Head of School Russell Shaw reminds us of the unintended consequences that can follow from trying to solve our children’s problems for them.

Finding the right school for their children is one of the most critical decisions a parent will make...