By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach Educators are always welcome to visit and learn from us at Wildwood School. And folks take me up on that every week. Already in 2018, among our guests, I’ve had the opportunity to host: A team of charter school leaders from the Accelerated Schools in South L.A. looking to […]
By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach When students move from elementary to middle school, they go from being the oldest, and most respected kids on campus to the youngest, and often smallest, residents on a campus that not only looks but also feels unfamiliar. Their academic and social lives can change considerably between 5th […]
By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach Parents of Wildwood students have thoughtfully chosen our approach for their children. They know the Wildwood way intentionally matches academic rigor with attention to students’ full social-emotional development. That approach is integral to our progressive philosophy—getting kids to college and helping them thrive there, and in their lives beyond. […]
By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach Wildwood School directly serves about 750 students each year. However, Wildwood’s influence extends far beyond our walls through the Wildwood Outreach Center—shaping teaching, learning, and school reform here in California, across the United States, and around the world. Wildwood’s reputation as an institution at the leading edge […]
By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach This week four veteran Wildwood teachers embarked on an important adventure as the inaugural mentors to four graduate teaching candidates from the USC Rossier School of Education. A year of conversations about this exceptional collaboration led to this initiative that brings together carefully selected teachers-in-training with classroom […]
By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach Every student in Wildwood’s middle school begins each day with advisory. Advisory is a time and place intentionally positioned to provide a bridge between the school day and students’ lives outside of school. That sounds simple, even obvious, and Wildwood’s middle and upper schools were founded with […]
By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach Wildwood Division One math teacher, Drew Brody, is helping 6th graders change their minds—literally—about their mathematical abilities. Strong or weak, confident or reluctant—students have various descriptions of themselves as math learners. Mr. B., as he’s known to students, understands how those self-perceptions work on many levels, […]
“Good schooling is built on the oldest idea around: you learn by the company you keep.” ~ Deborah Meier, Founder Central Park East School & Professor, NYU Steinhardt School of Education When students and teachers keep good company together the benefits are clear for all—higher academic achievement for kids and higher job satisfaction for adults. It’s […]
By Steve Barrett, Director of Outreach There’s a Wildwood tradition that’s a familiar rite of passage on our elementary campus, and fairly unique almost everywhere else. Every Friday, it looks something like this: An 11 year-old stands on a lighted stage, the sole focus of a crowd of over 400 people. She’s there […]
“Good schooling is built on the oldest idea around: you learn by the company you keep.” ~ Deborah Meier, NYU Professor of Education & Small Schools Reform Advocate One mantra in my work as Wildwood’s Outreach Director is “Advisory is Essential.” Those words emphasize that caring, positive relationships among students and with the caring […]
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