Private School PLANNER A Guide To Helping You Choose The Right School For Your Family CRAIN CONTENT STUDIO Cleveland LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY BE CHALLENGED. BE KNOWN. BE A ROYAL. The West Side’s Premier K-12 College Preparatory School OPEN HOUSE Sunday, October 15 Presentation Starts at 1 pm RSVP 440-327-1175 ext. 9104 or at www.lakeridgeacademy.org • 8:1 student to teacher ratio • A globally focused college preparatory curriculum with over 30 AP and honors classes • Award-winning performing and fine arts programs • Significant financial aid and merit scholarships available • Transportation and after school programs available COMMUNITY EVENTS: FALL 2017 Nature Exploration Day October 21 • 10:00 am Current 2nd through 6th graders will explore nature through fun sessions in geocaching, nature photography and botany on our 93-acre campus. The Pathway to College: Will You Be Ready? 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Designed for parents of all school ages. 37501 Center Ridge Road • North Ridgeville, OH 44039 • 440.327.1175 • www.lakeridgeacademy.org contentsTable of 2 Lake Ridge Academy 4 Making Education an Experience 5 Institutions Focus on Teacher Recruitment 6-7 Beaumont School 8-9 Cleveland Central Catholic 10-11 Gilmour Academy 12-13 Hathaway Brown School 14-15 Hawken School 16-17 Hershey Montessori School 18-19 Incarnate Word Academy 20-21 Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School 22-23 Lake Catholic High School 24-25 Laurel School 26-27 Montessori High School at University Circle 28-29 St. Edward High School 30-31 University School 32-33 Western Reserve Academy 34 Early Outreach Influences Commitment 35 Lakewood Catholic Academy 36 Magnificat High School Advertising director: Nicole Mastrangelo, [email protected] Managing editor, custom and special projects: Amy Ann Stoessel, [email protected] Reporter: Kathy Ames Carr Graphic designer: Staci Buck For more information about custom publishing opportunities, please contact Nicole Mastrangelo. CRAIN CONTENT STUDIO | Private School Planner | 3 Making education an experience Schools embrace personalized learning outside the traditional classroom By KATHY AMES CARR he Institute for 21st Century Education at Hathaway Brown T School in Shaker Heights features 11 different cen- ters — ranging from global citizen- ship, business, multicultural affairs and writing to leadership and well- being, civic engagement and cre- ative arts. The centers are the ports of student-driven learning based on the girls’ own passions and curios- Hathaway Brown School’s Science ity. A high school science research Research and and engineering student may work Engineering Program alongside NASA scientists dur- will celebrate its 20th ing her freshman year to study the anniversary in 2018. spread of malaria in different coun- PHOTO PROVIDED tries. A student of the Center for Global Citizenship may travel to India, or any other continent (apart dream big, and anything they want weave in months of interdisciplinary guage advertisements in (Adobe) Pho- from Antarctica) to augment her to do is an option.” learning around that topic, such as toshop. Then at the end of the year, we school-based studies on business, Similarly, Lake Ridge Academy’s markets of the world. go to Cedar Point,” Favor said. economics and gender equality. centers for fine arts, scientific -ex “Our boys study whales for four Once students are in middle school, “Our high school motto is that we ploration and research, and global months, and then we go to Nantucket integrated project work becomes learn not for school but for life,” said citizenship empower students to in- for a whale watch,” he said. Projects more profound. Students devise their Joe Vogel, the institute’s director. dividualize their curriculums around are more involved as they get older. project-based learning experiences “We look at what it means to learn, what they want to explore, develop or A $250,000 K-8 STEAMworks around a real-world problem they not only for a grade or traditional solve, be it glycogen storage disease maker space is scheduled to open want to solve by working with classroom experience. We look at a Case Western Reserve Univer- in late fall. At the Upper School, community-based experts. at what it means to pursue your sity lab or wastewater treatment solu- a hardwood forest and lake serve “With every project-based passions and be a lifelong learner.” tions. In some cases, students inherit as a living lab. An astronomical learning unit, students have to give While traditional classroom in- the research of their predecessors. observatory, trout hatchery, apiary back to the community in some struction serves as the foundation of What began three years ago as one and maple sugar operation galvanize way,” Favor said. a student’s education, private schools student’s probe into links between al- a student’s scientific interests. Experiential learning also is one of throughout Northeast Ohio and be- gae blooms and phragmites evolved Interdisciplinary, project-based the pillars of the curriculum at Laurel yond are transforming their curricu- into a current pupil’s exploration into learning drives the education of School in Shaker Heights, said lums — and campuses — around the benefits of the tall reed. toddlers through eighth grade at Leslie Segal, middle school director. personalized experiential learning. “Students have to go in front of a Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Immersion weeks at the fifth-grade Sure, students learn by doing. But panel and present their findings as Day School in Beachwood, said level may include collaboration with experiential learning emboldens stu- if they were defending a master’s Kim Favor, middle school director. entrepreneurs or field trips to green dents to ask questions, make connec- thesis,” said Michael Shaulis, head of “In fourth grade, for example, we businesses. Sixth-grade girls spend tions, collaborate and problem solve, academics and director of the Upper study amusement parks,” she said. their immersion week tinkering in a all of which are skills students need to School. “They have to think on their “The unit begins with students experi- variety of ways, whether it’s working thrive in the 21st century. feet and think critically. Experiential encing a virtual ride on a roller coaster. with inventors on developing “Experiential learning allows learning helps them develop these Then we ask what we need to do to prosthetic limbs or testing a new students to engage in a meaning- abilities required for good leadership.” run a successful amusement park.” chocolate chip cookie recipe. ful way,” Vogel said. “They de- Experiential learning opportunities Students investigate through the “Just because the girls are in velop social skills, dive deeply into run the gamut throughout the lower, lens of all subject areas — language sixth grade doesn’t mean they need complex issues and develop their middle and upper levels at University arts, math, social studies, music, to be doing a junior-level variation critical-thinking skills. We’ve col- School, said Bill O’Neil, assistant physical education, art and Judaic of everything,” Segal said. “It’s lected data on our graduates, and headmaster and academic dean at studies — while constructing a not so much about the educators have found that experiential learn- University School, which has cam- simulated walk-through of their creating the experience for them. ing has a profound effect on their puses in Shaker Heights and Hunting own amusement park. We want to light the fire under girls education. The world is open to Valley. Lower school students tackle “We write, we measure, we create that inspires them to do more, go our students in a way that they can themes around broad concepts, and carnival jingles and design dual-lan- further and create something new.” 4 | Private School Planner | CRAIN CONTENT STUDIO By KATHY AMES CARR Expertise in demand Freshly minted college graduates aculty members are who have an education degree gateways to a student’s shouldn’t be discouraged from experience at a private applying for a faculty position at school. They are the F Hawken School, an independent nexus between vision and out- institution for preschool through come — conveying a school’s mis- 12th-grade students, with campuses sion while preparing students to in Lyndhurst and Gates Mills. engage with purpose throughout However, Hawken tends to hire their school years and beyond. But faculty members with at least five attracting qualified candidates in a to 10 years of career experience, competitive job market can be chal- said Kim Samson, assistant head of lenging — for any institution. school and director of Upper School. But prep and parochial schools “More often than not, our newest say judicious and intentional faculty members have master’s faculty recruitment strategies are degrees,” she said. “Hawken is the key to hiring educators who reflect a school’s values. looking for people who can think differently and want to immerse “One of our main recruitment PHOTO PROVIDED themselves in progressive ways of drivers is making sure that anyone Tessa Rivera and her second-grade class at Metro Catholic School, we hire is aligned with our mission, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. teaching.” which is a belief that education is a The interview process sheds holistic approach and not just about light on what inspires and excites academics,” said Marilyn Arundel, the candidate. “We want to know dean of faculty and academics at where they see their craft going Magnificat, a Rocky River-based all- Institutions over the next few years, and girls Catholic high school. Faculty whether their goals align with the members need to be confident in school,” Samson said.