MLWGS welcomed three great new music teachers in the 2018-19 school year. One of those teachers is Michelle Graham, who is teaching chorus. Michelle requested a Foundation grant to cover the cost of a subscription to SightReadingFactory.com in order to enhance her instruction. “I can generate sight reading exercises at SightReadingFactory.com that are aligned with […]
One of the things that makes MLWGS a unique place to learn is the foreign language class offerings. As technology changes, language instruction changes as well. In 2016-17, the Foundation purchased 32 webcams to facilitate online exchange programs that pair native speakers of various languages with MWLGS students to cultivate conversational skills. This year, Chinese teacher Sharon […]
MLWGS welcomed three great new music teachers in the 2018-19 school year. Nicholas Merillat is teaching Jazz Band, while Michelle Graham takes on Chorus, and Christina Sienkiewicz, Orchestra. The Foundation purchased software requested for shared use to aid in their instruction. PhotoScore & NotateMe covert music handwritten on a surface or laptop into digital scores. It can also read, transpose, and extract parts […]
Diverse and unique course offerings are part of what make MLWGS such an exceptional place to learn. One great example of this is the photojournalism senior seminar offered by Georgianne Stinnett. Ms. Stinnett developed this course to instruct students in the technical aspects of capturing photojournalistic images, the history and ethics of the field, and to allow […]
MLWGS librarian Wendy DeGroat is working this summer to refresh the school’s library space. She is working based on data collected from student focus groups that included students who utilize the library frequently, sometimes, and not at all. She will be creating a new student seating area with poufs, floor pillows, accent rugs, and more. […]
This year, the MLWGS faculty has applied for nearly $25,000 worth of Foundation support in the category of classroom instructional activities. Funding in this category is available for supplemental activities or materials that teachers would like to use to enrich their instruction. In March, World Religions teacher Kinsey Hall accessed some of that funding to […]
Every spring for the last few years, Paige Hawkins has arranged for Becky Eschenroeder to teach yoga to MLWGS sophomores during PE for the month of April. Becky is one of the most beloved instructors in the Richmond area, and spent four years as a certified YoKid Facilitator Trainer responsible for training adults in ways […]
Every spring, orchestra and band teacher Karl von Klein organizes a trip open to any student taking a class within the music department. This year, he is chaperoning students on a trip to New Orleans for the first weekend of this year’s Jazz and Heritage Festival (aka Jazz Fest). The Foundation provided a grant to […]
In February, math professor and mathematical artist Chris Hanusa visited MLWGS, where he worked with students in the Math & Art Seminar, Discrete Math classes, and the Multivariable Calculus class, where he held a Mathematica & 3D Printing workshop. He also gave a presentation entitled “Using Random Numbers to Create Art” to more than 30 […]
The Foundation recently purchased an AxiDraw pen plotter for use in Ryan Webb’s “Explorations in Mathematical Art” seminar. The AxiDraw can work with computer code to make digital art come to life as “hand-drawn” ink on paper. Ryan has a long-held interest in the intersection of math and art, as his creative work with 3-D […]
Some of the enhancement grants we give out are for little things that add something extra to a project, lesson, or classroom. For example, art department chair Jeff Hall applied for $225 worth of funding to print invitations and provide vinyl lettering for the solo art shows his Art 5 students put on throughout the […]
In addition our commitment to offset the cost of the We the People team’s trip to nationals by $20,000, the Foundation is supporting those students in other ways. We set aside $22,000 this fiscal year to support enhancements that enrich classroom instruction across all departments. Sam Ulmschneider (’02) received funding through this category to purchase […]
Every year, art teachers Jeff Hall and Kori Mosley take art students to Washington, DC for a day of guided visits to museums around the city. Last week, the group visited the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. The Foundation was able to offset the cost of this […]
On November 13, 2017, social studies teacher Hana Voight took a group of her AP Human Geography students to the Frontier Culture Museum located in Staunton, VA. The museum tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America, and of the life they created here for themselves and their descendants. The […]
In October of 2017, the Foundation purchased physics modeling equipment for use in classroom instruction. The equipment allowed honors physics students to model various scenarios involving force, mass, and acceleration. In one set of experiments, small groups constructed scenarios dealing with different constants and variables. For example, one group kept the force constant while increasing […]
