by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director, Nursery-Grade 8 Imagine your child learning a coding language that could be read, used and accurately executed hundreds of years into the future. That is knitting. Hundreds of years before computer coding, fiber artists had...
by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director Nursery School -Grade 8 What are the children doing when they bake bread in Early Childhood? They are: developing fine motor strength and control: kneading the dough and shaping the loaves strengthens the hand muscles and...
by Marina Budrys | High School Humanities Faculty Member Rudolf Steiner believed that it is really important to understand how things work in the world in some basic way. This doesn’t mean, for example, that we all need to know how to build an Audi TT engine, but some...
by Dr. Lisa Babinet | Middle and High School Math Faculty Being able to capture phenomena in the world with numerical data is a powerful skill. Traditionally, sixth graders undertake just that by embarking on a statistics research project with a topic of their...
by Saul Nishan | WSP Class of 2023 The daughter of parents who fled the South and Jim Crow, Isabel Wilkerson sought real stories from real people. She was the first black woman to be a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the first African American to win for individual...
by Sohei Wu | WSP Class of 2023 I recently got a job working at a restaurant and after a couple of weeks the abstract concept of food waste became concrete in my mind. It was no longer just the idea of food being lost, I was starting to see real food wasted. And much...
by Dylan Lee | WSP Class of 2023 Experiential Interdisciplinary Week (better known as EI Week) is a week-long engaged learning process in which high school students at WSP “learn by doing”. The planning of EI Week starts in winter when high school faculty and students...
by Rich Armstrong | WSP Music Teacher and HS Dance DJ The High School Courtyard was magically transformed into a red-carpeted, paparazzi-infused tunnel that opened into an art gallery and dance hall. Much effort was made to give the students an amazing experience,...
8th Grade Students share recollections of their end-of-year class trip.