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Innovative Teacher Project Roundtable (5/19)

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Nueva Entrepreneurship Night (6/4)

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Design Thinking Institute, 6/18-21
Social-Emotional Learning, 8/13

Overview

Thumbnail imageThe Nueva School seeks motivated and passionate learners who will thrive in and contribute to our program. When considering students for our school, we look for evidence of intellectual curiosity, independent thought and depth of ideas, creativity in approach to problem solving, and divergent thinking. Our students bring a great deal of knowledge to the classroom and actively participate in the learning process. Our students are self-empowered to be teachers as well as learners.

Part of Nueva's mission is to reach out locally, nationally, and internationally to the broader community of gifted students, teachers, homeschoolers, administrators, and clinicians. Through publications, presentations at conferences, partnerships with institutions such as the Stanford d.school, and institutes on campus, Nueva is a leader in the world of gifted education. Nueva, as an institution and through its teachers, offers many opportunities for teachers, administrators, and parents to learn more about gifted education in classes, workshops, conferences, institutes, and publications, both print and online.

Nueva has remained true to its mission to cultivate and serve intellectually and creatively gifted children since 1967.

Here are some resources:

Innovative Learning Conference
SEL Institute
Common Ground Speaker Series

Innovation Spotlight

Thumbnail imageThe April evening featuring Eighth Grade Recital Projects was a night of intriguing, thoughtful, and creative presentations. Also stunning was the array of topics -- from designing a soccer cleat for injury prevention, to writing novels, to making a film using stop-motion technology, to designing and constructing a computer-aided quadcopter.

This year marks twenty-two years of Recital Projects at Nueva, a student rite of passage and an opportunity to investigate and learn about a passion of one’s choosing. Each pupil selects a topic to research extensively, writes a paper, and aims to somehow better the world through the project. Each student also has a mentor to help guide him/her through the long-term project. Some students pursue the interest areas in high school and beyond (see this story about Natalia Duong).

Recital projects culminate more than a year of work. Initially, seventh graders meet four times in the spring to begin scoping projects. In eighth grade, students attend weekly I-Lab classes to learn design-thinking tenets. They employ the practices to brainstorm and evaluate options during each project stage.

News

arianna-an-exemplary-menuhin-violin-scholar-for-eight-yearsWe periodically share a student’s accomplishments in the arts, music, or drama program, highlighting a unique performance or accomplishment.

This...
alumnus-uses-technology-to-do-global-goodAlumnus Zach Berke (class of ’94) -- an entrepreneur who has spent the last decade building and working with technology startups around the globe -- told...
third-graders-share-beliefs-through-podcastsAs part of third grade's examination of how beliefs are formed, each student relayed a specific belief that is important to him/her through essays they...