St. Paul's School Concord NH

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<p>From the SPS website:</p>

<p>5/17/2010</p>

<p>St. Paul’s doesn’t question the value of the arts in education, which is why the School and its students and faculty created the ideal setting for researcher Dr. Jessica Hoffman Davis to gather data for her upcoming book project.</p>

<p>Dr. Hoffman Davis, a former Harvard professor who was the founding director of the University’s Arts in Education Program and the first appointee to the Bauman and Bryant Chair in the Arts in Education, is the author of Why Our Schools Need the Arts (Teachers College Press, 2008), which proposes a new and unapologetic approach to advocacy for the arts in education. Her next project will narrow its focus to high schools and why the arts are crucial for teenage students.</p>

<p>“St. Paul’s School is in so many ways the ideal we strive for,” she wrote in her project proposal, “and I know the lessons to be learned there can greatly benefit the mainstream.”</p>

<p>During a visit to the School in early April as part of the Arts Division Review Committee, Dr. Hoffman Davis was so impressed by the arts program at St. Paul’s that she asked to return to interview students and faculty in fine arts, theater, dance, and music as part of the research for her next book.</p>

<p>“There aren’t many places where the dream comes true, where the arts are considered an academic subject and are taught seriously,” said Dr. Hoffman Davis during an April 28 visit to Concord. “It would change American education if every public school required arts as St. Paul’s does.”</p>

<p>Dr. Hoffman Davis explained that her hope was to learn from St. Paul’s students why arts are so compelling during their adolescent years. In the proposal for her project, she asserts, “Nowhere is the need for the arts greater than in the rescue and reorganization of the American high school.”</p>

<p>She cites an October 2009 report from the Center for Arts Education about staying in school, which found that students who dropped out complained that their courses lacked interest and relevance. The report outlines particulars for increasing students’ access to arts instruction as a “successful strategy for lifting graduation rates and turning around struggling schools.”</p>

<p>“It is my hope that what we uncover about arts learning at the secondary school level may help educational reformers in their rescue of the American high school,” Dr. Davis wrote. “Its relevance to students who have otherwise become disenfranchised from school should not only argue for the inclusion of arts education at this level, but also suggest ways in which non-arts courses might become more compelling. The two voices that are too frequently omitted from the great stage of educational reform are the students and teachers who are the leading characters in the drama. That is where this work will begin.”</p>

2202

<p>I read on the website that a third former won the public speaking award at SPS! You would think a sixth former would win it. That guy must have guts. John Kerry won that award back when he was at St. Paul’s.</p>

2203

<p>[YouTube</a> - SPS Tonight Trailer 2010](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvnjK4FMWQ]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvnjK4FMWQ)</p>

2204

<p>from the same stellar director/producer of the above video, here’s one on Fiske Cup - a long standing tradition at SPS during winter term, where houses compete by creating & performing in short plays. A must see if, ala Monty Python, you find guys in dresses humorous. :)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le9m7HzUcbs[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le9m7HzUcbs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Looks like fun. Can’t wait to take part in the festivities!</p>

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<p>[YouTube</a> - Millville State of Mind](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEPYTTgf9Kk]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEPYTTgf9Kk)</p>

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<p>Cool video. Is that the renowned Will of Grab and Go video Fame? The producer should apply for the Form of '71 Visionary Award and produce something longer and more lasting.</p>

2208

<p>Does anyone knoew what type of information is on the parents page. My parents got a letter saying that they would recieve their password in mid June. It appears the Form of 2010 is off, and good luck to them!</p>

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<p>that vid= o…m…g -.-" [no words]</p>

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<p>Hilarious video. Makes me all the more excited for next year.</p>

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<p>KCcansps15 I see your question was not answered. The parent’s page allows you to see a variety of additional information not publically available. There is an online Facebook of all the students, class schedules, online billing, housing, “inside grades”, teacher comments, term grades, and probably a few other items I have forgotten. They also have access to documents and permission forms that they need to fill out (swimming, weekend permissions and rock climbing). A lot of this will not be available until the start of school or (like grades) or later. Some of it gives inadvertent information for the truly adept. As an example, in the past people have figured out which room they are in based on their phone number (which it fixed) and may even determine their roommate(s) they same way before it is announced. </p>

<p>Parents can also design their sign on page based on their interests (have the calendar show lacrosse or whatever). There are different accesses for parents, alums, Form Agents and Trustees</p>

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<p>I love when schools or other sites do that! For Exeter I was able to figure out the number of people who are attending for the Class of 2014 using the course registration in Junior Studies.</p>

<p>Does Exeter have a Parent Page?</p>

2213

<p>With some trepidation I post the following. But my efforts to be balanced and complete tell me I should. It is public and I do not want to ever be accused of only posting the best of SPS. The school acted immediately, but not without concern. These things do happen and they happen at all schools (most far worse than this). It is sad but it is life. It is not new news, it happened a year ago, but only now have the facts become public. Read it and decide for yourself. Did SPS do the right thing or not? I believe they did.

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<p>Wow. Crazy to think that someone who has been teaching for 46 years could do something like that. </p>

<p>But I do think that the girl overreacted a bit. His actions certainly were offensive, and she had every right to pursue him in court, but it seems like a bit much to be extensively troubled by it over a year later. I don’t know what’s going through her mind, of course, but to me it seems like some offensive comments and inappropriate touching do not warrant prolonged night terrors.</p>

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<p>That’s really creepy. It seems that most school’s have things like that happening a lot lately. Wonder why?</p>

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<p>Thanks for sharing.
I really don’t think she overreacted. Imagine a 70-year-old math teacher touching your chest area/shoulder…I know I’m conservative but this is just disgusting!</p>

<p>Why would a teacher of 46 years do something like that?
Rad, I’m curious, too.</p>

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<p>“Why would a teacher of 46 years do something like that?”</p>

<p>Maybe a misfired spark of an ancient long forgotten,long suppressed unidentified hormone?</p>

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<p>Well then I’m a conservative Chinese teenage girl. Have no idea how that feels. </p>

<p>It did make me feel a bit uncomfortable. I do admit that this happens everywhere(far worse in other schools maybe), but a school like SPS, a 70-year-old math teacher—doesn’t make sense.</p>

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<p>Thanks Winterset! Do they have photos of new students or do they come out later?</p>

<p>SPS did the right thing and fired him right away but what can you do to prevent stuff like this? To be honest IMO nothing really. What can you do?</p>

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<p>The Facebook usually comes out late in the summer (as I recall).</p>