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School Stories: The Mount Vernon School’s Innovation Diploma

By Brad Droke, The Mount Vernon School In the spring of 2014, Mount Vernon Ventures at The Mount Vernon School hosted an event called the Council on Innovation, where several groups of students were assembled to engage in a design […]

Mental Health of Student-Athletes

By Danielle Vallas and Gabriella Pelosi, D&G Wellness Consulting Katie Meyer, a senior studying international relations at Stanford University, was a dynamic student-athlete serving as goalkeeper and captain for the women’s soccer team. Katie died by suicide on March 1, […]

FastStats: Impact of the Pandemic on Important School Indicators (Revisited)

By Jeff Mitchell, Currey Ingram Academy In May of 2021, I wrote a FastStats highlighting the Impact of the Pandemic on Important School Indicators. With the world moving so fast, including for our schools, it is not too soon for […]

Work and Wellness at Ravenscroft

By Kendra Varnell and Justin Brandon, Ravenscroft School Given the unprecedented circumstances of the last two years, there is hardly disagreement that the unique consideration of teachers’ needs and well-being is not just important but required. The challenges facing all […]

News – From SAIS President Debra Wilson – April 2022

Hello Friends! Many lunch hours find me walking the dogs across the shared green space in the middle of our neighborhood. It’s one of those enclaves that you don’t know exists if you do not live here, but it spans […]

Powering On

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School Could Be Real Life

By Kelley Waldron, Head of School, St. Andrew’s School, Savannah, GA In Josh Clark’s article in the January edition of HeadLines, “School Is Not Reality,” he drives home salient illustrations of the structure and patterns of “how schools work.” He […]

Helping Students—and Schools—Cope With Tragic Death

Robert Evans, Ed.D. | www.robevans.org When a school suffers a suicide or a sudden tragic death, whether of a student, a faculty or staff member, or a parent, people feel shock, disbelief, and immediate concern for students. They want to […]

STEM Mentoring Award for Bernadin – Clay test page

SAIS member school The Ron Clark Academy (RCA) in Atlanta is internationally known for its innovative approach, academic excellence, and the leadership opportunities offered to its 4th – 8th grade students. It now has another point of pride in Junior […]

STEM Mentoring Award for Bernadin

SAIS member school The Ron Clark Academy (RCA) in Atlanta is internationally known for its innovative approach, academic excellence, and the leadership opportunities offered to its 4th – 8th grade students. It now has another point of pride in Junior […]