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Our Schools
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.
Our Stories
![Group photo of students in matching shirts]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1575580975/gdsorg/musvcldzagxuav8gp0ym/20191205_Consent_Summit_2019_1.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1575580975/gdsorg/musvcldzagxuav8gp0ym/20191205_Consent_Summit_2019_1.jpg","width":500}])
GDS leads the way for critical culture change around sexual assault and consent.
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The story of the Middle School Musical and why we loved it a “bushel and a peck.”
![Ungoogling the Classroom]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1574451345/gdsorg/js61zqrfom7aojr8aydu/20191122_Ungoogling_the_Classroom_1_500x375.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1574451345/gdsorg/js61zqrfom7aojr8aydu/20191122_Ungoogling_the_Classroom_1_500x375.jpg","width":500}])
- Hopper Effect Blog
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 in an office on Capitol Hill]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1574427980/gdsorg/jhp13ptskze0azf9g4xp/20191122_Taking_Action.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1574427980/gdsorg/jhp13ptskze0azf9g4xp/20191122_Taking_Action.jpg","width":500}])
Anoushka Chander ’21 and the GDS Student Action Committee move our country forward.
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Twelfth Night delivers bawdy humor, jazz-funk, and much needed empathy.
![Want to Be an Active and Informed Citizen?: Learn Math this Way]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1574436003/gdsorg/bpqlpbfndw7sz7lybfmy/1Studentscollaboratetoidentifypatterns.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1574436003/gdsorg/bpqlpbfndw7sz7lybfmy/1Studentscollaboratetoidentifypatterns.jpg","width":500}])
- Hopper Effect Blog
Students often think their peers are “smart” at math if they get the right answer quickly...
Meet the Team
Vinita Ahuja
Director of Auxiliary and Extended Learning Programs and Strategic Projects
School:
202-274-1683