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MATTERS the American Community School at Beirut Newsletter | Summer 2012 MATTERS The American Community School at Beirut Newsletter | Summer 2012 Spring Sports News and ACS Athletic Awards 2012 4-5 ISAC the Future 6 NHS - Induction Ceremony 16 IB ART SHOW 2012: A Win-Win Affair 24-25 Adopt an Orphan 40 Summer 2012 | Page 3 opening up the space between the notes and stepping The school believes that student learning requires the active Finding the Quiet; inside – finding the quiet there. Our cognitive brain works at engagement of our emotional being as much as it does high speed, allowing us to accomplish many important tasks cognitive activity. The cognitive brain has to be engaged, – recalling people’s names, telephone numbers, facts, what but so does the emotional brain – the fast brain and the the Creative we just read, driving a car, processing inputs, and all the slow brain. Can we as a community of learners – parents, other practical things we need to think about to get through students, educators – gift ourselves an understanding the day competently. that meaning, the deep meaning that all students need Exploration of to survive, to turn themselves into loving, ethical beings, But this active part of our brain does not necessarily lies not in the push of time? It lies in the quiet we bring to attribute meaning to these tasks. For meaning to occur, each experience as that experience opens us up to new Understanding emotional linkages are needed. Our emotional brain possibilities for meaning, for creation and for a life that functions much more slowly and there is no evidence that involves more than mere survival? speeding it up makes it work any better. In fact, character and Relationships traits such as empathy, creative solutions to questions, quality relationships based on love, all have their own clock Dr. George H. Damon, Headmaster that seeks out quiet spaces amid what we sometimes feel to Dr. George H. Damon be the embarrassment of silence. A family comes into my office to discuss their son’s results on his admission exam. They are from Syria and report that Sure. But it’s not enough. Competence and practicality, while Thank you Brick by Brick he could not find the inner quiet necessary for him to focus essential to survival, do not give our lives meaning. Meaning on the exam. comes with another gift, the gift of time and space. Meaning comes from the relationships we have to what we are doing Sponsors & Donors Here at ACS we do our best to provide students with the and the relationships we have with each other. opportunity to find that quiet space that resonates with meaning. This may come to a 4th grade student reading his Ralph Waldo Emerson got it right: “Sincere and happy YOUR GIFT MADE A DIFFERENCE poetry, the Early Years student captivated by the discovery of conversation doubles our power. In the effort to unfold light patterns, the middle school student forgetting everything our thought to a friend we make it clearer to ourselves.” In else while doing community service in Sri Lanka, or the high education this process is seen when the students converse Our Outdoor Ed and Nature Center in Deir el Qamar is looking more and more beautiful and that’s because of school student’s myriad of opportunities for self expression, about their learning and create personal meaning beyond your generous support for the Brick by Brick fundraising project last year. whether through drama classes or the school newspaper. the details of the specific content. Experiences that minimize the adult insistence on getting things done, and getting them Each tree we plant, every grass hopper and spider we come across, every shooting star we see, every camp These two kinds of time, constricted time – allowing no done within a specific time frame allow for the curiosity, fire we sit around, every long hike we do are some of things that we all experience in nature and that becomes latitude, no silence, no space to access one’s own thinking impulsivity, and quiet of just being can develop stronger and a part of the picture that will remain engraved in the minds of our students. - and extended time – quiet observation, focused searching, deeper understandings, and a greater resonance with the clear and valued inputs – are both essential for growth, material being learned. Outdoor Ed is not only being in nature, learning and creating new understandings. During a normal Outdoor Ed is an open air classroom, it is about day we emphasize the constricted time as we move students The school schedule, with its specific definition of the value understanding nature and being ourselves in around the school, keeping them engaged in learning of time, must be challenged by periodic stopping – week nature: simple, generous, respectful and with a experiences, keeping them active and busy. Even during the without walls, music in the classroom, an open time to sense of humor. breaks between middle and high school classes, we watch observe, process writing, and all the things that involve students take their phones from their pockets and purses, slowing down so that understanding speeds up. Likewise, This is a life-long experience and we are proud checking for messages, texting their friends. They, too, parent-child relationships have to have what we might call to be the only school in Lebanon to have had constrict their time. fascination time when both come together to listen and the privilege to create this Outdoor Ed site. explore, following an agenda set by the child. The Outdoor Ed Team is passionate, motivated But real growth comes only when we move into the special and happy to share with you the space in Deir experiences where inputs stop and the quiet arrives, the Children observe adults and will become just like them – el Qamar that You helped to create in order quiet of understanding, the quiet that allows for reflection. hurried, stressed, time-fixated – unless the adults choose to make the life of your kids, our students, Why is quiet important when all around us experience is specific times to just be quiet, to listen, make no judgments, exceptional. full of sound inputs, time-constrained tasks, and all the no editorials, as they simply observe the world around them other constant reminders that we need to be up to date with their children. Early childhood teachers are trained This is what makes ACS unique and different. about everything, immediately informed about everything? in this approach, which is why when you go into those Shouldn’t we, you may ask, be focusing on coping and classrooms you see independent learners not receiving Thank you all for your generous support and aspiration for a better, greener and different tomorrow. sorting skills, shouldn’t we be just focusing on practical skills answers, but investigating questions. These young people and creating basic competences? are learning to do what jazz musician Miles Davis called Andre Bechara, Outdoor and Nature Education Coordinator Summer 2012 | Page 5 Spring Sports News and ACS Athletic Awards 2012 and determined to win. After several dual local meets earlier in the season, ACS and its supportive family Timothy Doran, Director of Athletics and Activities community hosted 20 visitors for the METS International Track & Field Championship from May 3-6. Every individual The I.C. Alton Reynolds JV and Varsity Basketball took on the challenge of defending their home track as tournament was the culminating tournament for our they went toe-to-toe with other competitors from within teams this year. Our teams had each been through at the METS conference. Oftentimes, these competitors least 2 other tournament experiences and were primed to were older and had more experienced, but this mattered demonstrate the team work and skill at the season closing little to the size of our athletes’ hearts. Our young and event. passionate team persevered as they entered multiple events and fought for every point over the three days in our Each of our teams suffered difficult losses in the semi-final international competition. All of the athletes knew that they games in this tournament sending all four of them to the had worked hard through long, cold and wet practices consolation round for third place. Our Varsity boys and to prepare themselves to do their best. We could not be girls both played very well against the eventual champions. more pleased with the dedication, teamwork and character For the girls it was College Protestant and for the boys it that these athletes demonstrated this season. was very powerful I.C. Our JV boys played perhaps their best game of the entire season in a heated battle against On May 29th the ACS community gathered for our I.C. also the eventual champion. annual Athletic Awards. We organized a garden party with fruit sorbet, pound cake, seasonal fruit, soft drinks Final results for ACS: Varsity boys 4th, Varsity girls 3rd, JV and lovely floral decorations. Our traditional slide show boys 3rd, JV girls 4th entertained the crowd prior to Dr. Damon opening the evening. This year over 100 middle school students and ACS sponsored the 2012 METS Badminton 150+ high school students participated in 22 different championships with ABS, Amman and IC participating. sport teams at ACS. We won an unprecedented 9 first We were very disappointed that two other schools from place championship trophies this year including: Varsity Amman withdrew from the event making the scale and the boy volleyball in METS and Alton Reynolds, JV girls and level of excitement much smaller than we had planned or boys soccer champions in METS Amman, Varsity girls and hoped.
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