Reading Time: 2 minutes Hello from Mrs. Elsbrock’s Social Justice class! In class, students have spent the quarter studying the Seven Themes of Catholic Social teaching and then applying them to contemporary justice issues. Service Learning gives students the opportunity to learn about justice issues in the Cincinnati area. First quarter this year, the students focused on food insecurity […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute This summer, Mr. Hittle's Honors Literary Genres classes read Gin Phillips's The Well and the Mine, a 2007 novel that follows a hard-working family navigating the complex problems of living through the Great Depression in a southern coal-mining town. In the second week of the school year, the two sections were able to interview Ms. Phillips via […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Emotional Literacy of the Human Story In the theater this quarter, Scene Study class has immersed itself in diverse stories of contemporary theatre. Storytelling onstage grants students an opportunity to get to know a new character, time period, or worldly event while simultaneously allowing them to get to know themselves a little better. With […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Understanding Target Audiences to Design with Empathy In the Design classroom, things are full steam ahead getting students in Design 4 ready for college applications and portfolios. In the midst of this, students are applying the design thinking process to create "personas" (tools used to assist us to know who we are designing for) and then […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Experimental Design Experimental design is an important concept covered within the first few weeks of science class. Students are given the opportunity to hone in on their previous knowledge, as well as build upon laboratory skills that will continue to be used throughout their current and future science classes. The freshmen have jumped right into […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Fingerprints of GodStudents in Old and New Testaments class begin class with a meditation using the song, “The Fingerprints of God” by Steven Chapman. As part of the meditation students are invited to think about themselves and others as God’s fingerprints and begin to look at what that means in our world today in […]