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Students respond to today’s cats and dogs

We asked the students pictured to tell us about how today’s wild weather affected their morning.  Students reported increased traffic, slow drivers (40 mph on the freeway!), concern about hydroplaning and spinning out, and a desperate need for rain boots.  Some said they got very very wet due to lack of proper rain gear. One [...]

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Flashjam in the rain and sun

Out of the BART this morning in the pouring rain and I the first thing I see is the hillside in Lafayette, CA, en route to edsocialmedia boot camp. It was rain all morning and all night. Thunder at 5:30 a.m. Heavy winds and pouring rain. At noon, the sky opens up. Flashjam walks around, [...]

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FlashJam 2010: Video Interview

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In Step with the Prep Continued…

“We don’t get babied like the freshmen and don’t have it as hard as the seniors,” says sophomore Tom, a second-year student at St. John’s Prep who lives in Topsfield. In that, Tom tells the story of his life and that of his fellow sophomores at this Danvers prep school for young men: being in one’s second-year isn’t a [...]

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In Step With the Prep

Walk in Our Shoes Today we have a team of “researchers” on the ground on the campus of  St John’s Prep in Danvers, Mass. The fall on New England prep school campuses is a time of transitions.  As the leaves fall letting the hearty folk of New England know that soon they will be shoveling out from [...]

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Check out the admissions new footprints

The sounds of student chitter chatter may be gone for the summer but the stampede of summer work has arrived at the admissions   office. Flipflops may now be in vogue and have replaced the ties and high heels of winter but the pace of work is never ending. Monday 8:00 a.m. 300 e-mails after taking 3 days off [...]

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Time to clock out…

What is one of the nice features of an Ensworth summer? On-campus staff gets to enjoy shorter summer hours. They stop for a latte on the way in to work–no hurry, because they don’t have to be in the office until 8am. And now, as the clock strikes 3:00 pm,the exodus from campus begins, and everyone hurries [...]

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The Insider’s View

The term “Lazy Hazy Days of Summer” is virtually nonexistent at Ensworth High School. What I mean by that is that there is a LOT going on during the summer at Ensworth. Today there are camps – basketball, baseball, cheer to name a few, there are students enrolled in academic summer school courses – just [...]

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An Outsider’s View – Ensworth in the Summer

I spent the day at Ensworth prepared for a professional development experience in social media and technology applications, and was instead sent on an anthropological study of the Ensworth campus during the summer, with the directive of reporting back the findings. And what findings there were! Instead of the usual ghost town atmosphere that permeates [...]

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Learning to blog…

Summerat Ensworth is a  unique environment. Student campers abound with their basketballs in hand. Administrators walk leisurely  through campus corridors and the sound of cheerleading yells permeates the air. The  inviting atmosphere and open-door policy make the athletic weight room a gathering place for students, campers, and faculty alike. In addition to the academic and athletic pursuits of the campus [...]

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