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Entries from April 2006

A Wilderness Experience Course

April 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I am very motivated to get the word out about a new developing part of our school curriculum at SJS – expeditionary education. If you have heard about Outward Bound or other kinds of education outside the classroom you might want to read and consider the following description from one of our faculty about a [...]

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Feedback from Faculty who Attended EARCOS in Manila

April 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

When I wrote my weekly letter to parents last Friday, I commented that the EARCOS conference was “without a doubt the best educational conference I have ever attended.” Usually conferences are dedicated to one subject; i.e. Math Solutions, International Reading Association., AIMS Science, etc, but at EARCOS we were able to choose sessiosns in many [...]

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College acceptances so far…

April 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment

…here are the universities who have already accepted St. John’s students this year:
1. American U.
2. Amherst College
3. Antioch U.
4. Art Institute of San Francisco
5. Boston [...]

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