Preparing Soon-to-Be Graduates for Middle School and Beyond Terry answers a student’s question about his biography project. Every Meher School graduate has special memories of their days at our school. For some it’s a group of friends or a teacher or a class, or maybe just happy hours spent in aftercare. But one memory they all share is the fifth grade biography project. Spanning weeks of in-class and at-home work, it’s the most challenging project they’ll do while at the school.  Each...

Izzy introduced her students to ultraviolet light by stamping her hands and theirs with “invisible” ink (ink visible only under UV light) and shining the UV flashlight on them. “The children came up to me all day during breaks to see if the ink was still there,” she says. “Did you wash your hands?” is a question asked throughout the day in preschool, TK, and kindergarten, often followed by “Did you do a good job?” But how’s a kid to know if they really did a “good job”? TK teacher Izzy Prince...

Students, parents, and staff members last week contributed more than 300 construction-paper “Links of Love” in a project to honor immigrants’ contributions to our country and communities. On Thursday third graders taped and stapled the links into a single chain, which they displayed at lunchtime, then hung in the Hallway Gallery on Tier 1. Students in preschool through fifth grade participated, making links and responding to age-appropriate discussion prompts. Children from preschool through...