Experiences: Time for Laughter

Following a recent Morning Meeting presentation from Yale’s improvisation group, the laughter continued with Thursday’s Morning Meeting. Associate Head of School Dennis Hartzell only hinted at the hilarity when he told the community of students, parents, guardians, teachers and staff that student Julia would “lead us in an unusual meditation.” Julia declared, “I would like …

Experiences: Writing Workshop Visits The Walt Disney Family Museum

Humanities instructor Ellen Greenblatt discusses her class' recent visit to the Presidio's own Walt Disney Family Museum (WDFM). Before going to the WDFM, students in the Writing Workshop class were working on honing their interpretive and analytical skills, using "The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak as a model text. Students focused on plot, character, setting …

Experiences: Glue + Pasta + The Right Design

Mix some hot glue, uncooked spaghetti and a unit on truss bridges in Engineering Design 1 and what do you get? Unimposing little pasta bridges, which, despite their unlikely composition, prove deceptively strong. In fact, the structure that sophomore Jared, junior Ben and senior Alec produced stood tall under 11,488 grams -- that's 46 times …