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Happiness expert to advise joint faculty

Noa Yadidi February 12, 2014

An expert on happiness will speak at a joint faculty meeting Feb. 18. Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at University of California, Riverside, will be the second speaker to address both the...

Prefect Council offers free milk, cookies before finals week

Noa Yadidi January 16, 2014

Prefect Council provided complimentary Diddy Riese cookies and milk to students starting during third period today, the day before midterm exams begin. "We wanted to give students a treat that would hopefully...

2014-2015 convocation to follow Labor Day

Noa Yadidi December 18, 2013

School will begin next fall with the second all-school opening convocation Sept. 2, the day after Labor Day. After the first-ever all-school opening convocation this year, the administration decided to...

Huybrechts to launch global education site

Noa Yadidi December 18, 2013

Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts plans to launch a global education website in the next six weeks to promote and encourage global connections for students and teachers. The website will be linked to the...

Workload committee begins data analysis

Noa Yadidi December 18, 2013

The workload study committee convened for its first meeting Dec. 12 at the Middle School, where committee members met each other for the first time and went through the surveys and data collected from...

It’s time for us to celebrate together

Noa Yadidi December 18, 2013

At a school that has a reputation for priding itself on college acceptances, why do we not have pride in each other’s college acceptances? I remember a day last May. My older brother, who attended Sierra...

Teachers to receive new growth handbook

Noa Yadidi December 18, 2013

Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts will release a new professional growth handbook to all teachers in January. Teachers frequently attend workshops and seminar to improve their skills, Huybrechts said, and...

Appreciate the opportunities

Noa Yadidi December 18, 2013

Dear Editors, I think your Oct. 15 Opinion piece "Choosing between my education and my education" (written by Julia Aizuss ’14) misses a few important points regarding the college process and in-class...

Huybrechts attends seminar for women empowerment, equal gender opportunities

Noa Yadidi November 13, 2013

Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts attended the first-ever Women Aspire, Respond, Engage Summit Nov. 7, where she heard professional women in a variety of fields tell stories of their success. Roughly 300...

How do you say hello?

Noa Yadidi October 15, 2013

When Eugenie Lund-Simon ’14 asks friends to “pardon my French,” she’s not apologizing for her profanity. A native French speaker, Lund-Simon frequently finds herself unconsciously slipping into...

Students with ‘growth mindsets’ make better grades, study shows

Noa Yadidi October 15, 2013

Students with a "growth mindset," who are more concerned with learning than with getting good grades and appearing "smart," wind up actually doing better in school and learning more, a Stanford psychology...

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