Many projects at Nueva cross the boundaries of grade and subject. Here we showcase a few of the highlight that reach across the school to create new and often unique ways of diving deeply into learning.
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Written by Julie Abraham
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 Rainforest Activist and Orangutan Pioneer
Nueva was honored to welcome Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas to a special all-school assembly on April 27. Dr. Galdikas is internationally renowned for her life-long dedication to the study and preservation of orangutans over the last four decades. She, with Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, is one of a unique scientific sisterhood begun at the encouragement of Kenyan anthropologist Louis Leakey.
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The other day I was standing in the hallway with a group of parents, waiting for 4th Grade Intensives to begin, and they started asking me about Intensives and Academies -- what was the purpose, the rationale, behind them? Were they just to blow off time on Friday afternoons and those odd weeks between Thanksgiving and Winter breaks? Was there something more to them?
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Academies were begun at the instigation of Executive Director Diane Rosenberg and a group of teachers who returned inspired from a summer conference on gifted education held by one of the foremost experts on gifted education, Dr. Joseph Renzulli, at the University of Connecticut. They had heard Dr. Renzulli speak about Academies and the power of the program for all learners.
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Here is the original list of Academy ideas that the students generated the first year.
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You may have already seen previous articles on Political Jeopardy and the Speakers Symposium. Now that the election is over, you might be interested to know some of the other election-related activities that have gone on around the school during this exciting year.
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