At SGS young women stand up, stand out and stand together – every day and in every way! They Stand Up. Our students take action. They stand up for themselves, for their beliefs and convictions, and for others. They take on leadership and when they hit stumbling blocks and make mistakes, they learn to stand [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 4:08 pm 0 CommentsSGS Releases Update on STEAM (Science Technology Engineering ARTS Mathematics) Initiative. Thank you to all funders of this venture including Women’s Funding Alliance (WFA). Update – SGS STEAM Inititaive
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 12:07 pm 0 CommentsFor the majority of my formative years, my father, who will celebrate his 90th birthday in August, was a military physician – a colonel as well as an obstetrician- gynecologist in the United States Air Force, and this fact set our family on many a life-changing adventure as we moved around the country and the [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 9:48 pm 0 CommentsHow did you celebrate? What did you learn? Did you happen to run across the name, Grace Hopper? She is the namesake for our achievement and leadership awards at our annual luncheon. Did you know she was an accomplished mathematician at Vassar who resigned her post to join the Navy WAVES in WWII? Did you [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 1:36 pm 0 CommentsIf you haven’t done so already, it’s time for you to access your student’s first term narrative! Quite a while ago now, the SGS faculty deliberated about the best way to communicate pertinent information about our students’ academic, social and emotional growth. Way back when they weren’t as ubiquitous, we chose narratives over letter or [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 1:20 pm 0 CommentsA true story from SGS Board member, Maryann Nelson. A million years ago when I was a senior in high school, a girlfriend and I made a deal with one another: she would give volleyball a try and I would give basketball a try. Anyone with a bit more wisdom than the two of us [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 3:44 pm 0 CommentsOne of my guilty reading pleasures probably won’t surprise you: I love to peruse books on psychology, especially tomes with a proactive, positive spin…versus those dark, dour drones that tend to pathologize human nature, particularly as it presents itself in ‘teens and ‘tweens. Thus, I gravitate toward the musings of folks like Martin Seligman (considered [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 6:55 pm 2 CommentsSTEAM session Dec 5 Thanks to a generous donation from the Women’s Funding Alliance (WFA), SGS is well on its way to unveiling on on-going engineering program for girls. Attached is a detailed overview of the faculty work being done this year for a summer program launch and an exciting addition to the SGS [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 11:31 am 0 CommentsWe look forward to welcoming all our prospective families to visit the school and engage in a conversation that will help us align our approach to teaching and learning with what you, as a family, value in education. We see ourselves as stewards of this experience with you and will do all we can to [...]
Posted by Rafael del Castillo at 5:21 pm 0 CommentsTwo summers ago, at a symposium sponsored by the National Coalition of Girls Schools, I had the privilege to engage with keynote speaker, Ioannis Miaoulis, President and Director of the Boston Museum of Science and creator of the National Center for Technological Literacy. His presentation was both humorous and provocative, entitled – ”Science in the [...]
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