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What We're Listening to While Remote Learning

Last week we asked everyone to send us the songs you’re putting on repeat during remote learning, the songs that keep you going while you study or remind you to look forward to the day when we’ll be together again, IRL, on campus. We got nominations for an eclectic mix of songs, everything from hip hop to country to old school R&B. We hope you tune in and enjoy our Woodward Remote Learning Spotify playlist!

Cultivating Resilience and Compassion in an At-Home Schooling Environment

Yesterday, Jennifer Knox, Woodward's Director of Character Education and the
Ron M. Brill Chair of Ethical Leadership, helped lead a webinar about cultivating resilience and compassion in an at-home schooling environment, highly relevant to the situation we now find ourselves in, with so many of our children (and us) having to work from home. This situation has presented numerous challenges, so we highly recommend viewing this webinar for information about how to approach this unprecedented moment...

How Our Middle Schoolers Are Adjusting to Remote Learning

Working from home has been an adjustment for so many people throughout the world, whether they're lawyers, marketing professionals, or teachers. The same has been true for students, but we've been so very impressed with how adaptable ours have been throughout this process. Today, we'll check in with Middle School students about how they're adjusting...

How the Middle and Upper Schools are Approaching Remote Learning

Our world has changed drastically in the last week, but the learning goes on at Woodward. Over the coming weeks, we'll touch base with each of our schools to discuss how they are approaching remote learning. Today, we'll talk with Middle School innovation and technology specialist Bob Petitto and Upper School teaching and learning specialist Alex Bragg...

Woodward Celebrates Black History Month

Woodward celebrated Black History Month in February with a variety of projects, special guest speakers, and more. Look back on some of the highlights from the month here...

Mayor Bottoms Addresses (Model) U.N.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke to Woodward's Model United Nations group, charging students with making their voices heard..

Woodward Counselors Working Toward Improving Student Resilience

Jennifer Knox, an Upper School Faculty member and Woodward's Director of Character Education and Ron M. Brill Chair of Ethical Leadership, worked with Emory's SEE Learning Team to bring the executive director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute to Woodward to provide training to Woodward's counselors and some administrators in strategies for equipping students with the tools they need to improve their resilience in the face of challenges...

Girl Scouts Empower Zambian Students

Woodward's Upper School Girl Scout Troop 10715 worked on a wonderful recent service project to help girls across the globe in Africa...

Students Who Visited Australia Watch Wildfires from Afar

In September 2017, a group of Woodward students traveled to Australia as part of the Academy’s Global Connections program, which allows students to journey around the globe. Now, those same students are left to watch from Atlanta—some 10,000 miles away—as wildfires ravage Australia...

Alum Sathvik Namburar Pens Ode to Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek

Last year, Sathvik Namburar ‘14 was selected to appear on Jeopardy, the iconic game show hosted for the past 38 years by Alex Trebek. Namburar would end up winning more than $50,000 over two appearances. This week, in an essay written for the Valley News, Namburar explains what the experience meant to him, and why he came away with far more than just the cash prize...

Magazine Preview: Learning about the Woodward ISR Program

Upper School science teacher Kevin Hurysz

The theme of the Woodward winter magazine is 2020: The Future in Focus. One area in which we are helping to shape 2020 and the future beyond is with our Independent Scientific Research program in the Upper School. To learn more about the program, we talked with Upper School Science Teacher Kevin Hurysz...

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