When people ask me what it’s like to be a high school principal, they usually have visions of students waiting outside my office because...
What do you get when you bring two dozen smart, eager math and science teachers together with some good food on a couple of Wednesdays in August...
EDITOR’S NOTE: At a ceremony this spring, the Greenhills Renewable Energy Dashboard was formally renamed the Gleason Renewable Energy Dashboard, in...
Mr. Pelofsky introduced students to the 2014-2015 school year with a clip from the movie Apollo 13, adding that a Greenhills education would teach them...
Attached to the Advanced Biology classroom is a greenhouse. The biology classes that meet use the greenhouse for class activities and...
I have always been interested in how students learn and how to teach more effectively to help students be engaged in and learn science. For the past five...
In my Chinese 8 curriculum, there is a year-long pen pal program where my students have the opportunity to...
Like most teachers, my summer plans are a mix of professional workshops, family vacations, and visits from folks who believe that Pinckney is “up...
Much of the work we do as teachers is done in isolation. Teaching is a thinking profession, and most teachers, myself included, require some “alone...
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages is very pleased to present awards to those Middle School and Upper School students who have competed in...
Students in Spanish 8 (middle school) and Spanish II and III (upper school) had the opportunity to visit with Spanish-speaking and other ELL students in...
April is National Poetry Month, which means it’s time once again for the Greenhills community to celebrate a love of...
Across the United States, the number of middle and high school computer science courses has declined 17% since 2005. And in 2011, only 5% of American high...
At around nine o’clock of a winter evening, Greenhills senior Zoe Chrissos sent me an email, asking for suggestions about a supplemental college...
According to Hamlet the “play’s the thing.” He couldn’t be more firm in his conviction that the actual performance of a text has the power to...
Greenhills anatomy and physiology students had the exciting opportunity last week to view fertilization first hand using gametes harvested from live sea...
The recent Association of Independent Michigan Schools conference at Detroit Country Day School was an opportunity for Greenhills teachers to learn from...
There's no tension between student and teacher in Julie Smith's advanced cell and molecular biology class. Or if there is, let's just say it's...
The start of a new school year! I love it! I love the excitement, the nervousness, the feeling of “newness” as teachers and students enter the building...
Over the summer Upper School faculty and students have been reading Kevin Boyle’s book Arc of Justice (2004), the harrowing tale of the trial of Dr....
Leadership is not easy to define yet we often talk about it when we work with students—we ask them to be leaders, to set an example for their peers, to be...
