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Bennett Day School is Now On YouTube

Social media lovers: Bennett Day School is now on YouTube! Follow us to be the first to see brand new video content from the BDS team and to learn more about the great opportunities your child will have as a part of our community. ​

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Bennett Day School Curriculum Design Approach

In building a program from the ground up, Bennett Day School has the extraordinary opportunity to develop our curriculum with intention and joy, unconstrained by “what we’ve always done.” In order to ensure our objectives, assessments, and assignments remain relevant, we adhere to a curriculum design framework called backward design. This framework allows us to focus…

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What We Learned at Namaste Charter School

In early May, the Bennett Day School founding team participated in Namaste Charter School’s Learning the Namaste Way: Educators Starting a New School workshop.  We learned about Namaste’s core values and how they infuse their classrooms, hallways, and school culture with these values and resultant goals. Shuchi and I attended a breakout session on parent involvement where we took…

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Inside the TinkerLab

In our last post, we told you a little about the philosophy behind the Bennett Day School TinkerLabs. This week, we’d like to give you a clearer picture of what these incredible learning spaces offer children and the role they play in the greater learning experience. Modeled after Malaguzzi’s aquarium, these spaces will be full…

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Space: The Final Frontier of Education

How Bennett Day School’s TinkerLabs are peeling back the walls of the traditional classroom   What does your child’s classroom do to improve the learning experience? What comes to mind when you picture a classroom? If you went to a traditional American school, you’re likely picturing a space that contains neat rows of desks, a…

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Friday: The Digital Atelier

On Friday, we got to get our figurative hands dirty in one of ten ateliers that were arranged for us.  I chose the Digital Atelier in large part because I am increasingly interested in the effective technology integration in the learning context. Seamless technology integration: that’s what I was hoping to explore. Well, I couldn’t…

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BDS Visits the Maramotti Infant-Toddler Center and Preschool

By Kate Cicchelli, Principal & Chief Academic Officer. I spent the afternoon at the Maramotti Infant-Toddler Center and Preschool, pictured below: The design for this beautiful space was created by Francesca Fava and Carlo Margini. The city of Reggio Emelia held a competition for local architects under the age of 35 and their design, “Children, spaces,…

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