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Hanna Greenberg
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Founder and staff member Hanna Greenberg interviewed student Hannah Schwartz for this week's post.
Hannah Schwartz has attended SVS for three years. Last May, the SVS gallery exhibited a collection of her experiments with techniques that were new to… Read more ›
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This week's post was written by Hanna Greenberg.
Friday is my day off, but I had to see somebody at school, so I went there at about noon. I came upon a magnificent scene: two tables were set up for tie dying on a large patch of grass, and about a… Read more ›
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Downhill skiing and snowboarding is a favorite activity in which about a third of the school’s population participates. As a consequence, ice skating has to wait until March. I love skiing and am not fond of skating. I hate the cold that seeps into… Read more ›
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“When God began to create heaven and earth, the universe was chaos and disorder, and darkness enveloped the void.”
Genesis 1:1
One day not long ago I was driving along, listening to the radio. I don’t remember what the subject was but the word “… Read more ›
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Sometimes it is a wonder to me that I keep on working at the school. I am saying this not because I am bored with the sameness of the things that we encounter, or with the lack of new challenges that being in the same institution for over thirty… Read more ›
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This is a confession: It took me many many years to learn how not to pounce and use what are called "teaching moments" at home with my own children and here at school.
Like most people I like to tell stories, to talk about things that I know and… Read more ›
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A young girl of nine or ten asked me to teach her math. I gave her some problems which she enjoyed doing. Next day she came to me with many sheets of paper covered with similar problems which she made for herself and then solved. She is obviously… Read more ›
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Shortly after the oral thesis defenses were completed one of the students who participated in this new procedure suggested to me that I should sit together with all the students and talk about their experiences. They agreed to have the conversation… Read more ›