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The Power of Choice

Happy New Year! We are all back, though you won’t have seen me in person this week. I’m quarantined with COVID (my first time having it!), but am very much working on school projects. The staff had a great In-Service day meeting on Monday, including a lively discussion about “choice” in the Montessori classroom. We...
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12
Jan

Story of American Resilience – Day 7

May 7 Clean up and goodbye to Q4 Speeches at Bryant Park Talk with Chelsea MacMillan Interfaith minister and climate activist Depart from Grand Central Station to New Haven on Metro North Today has not yet ended But the gift and privilege I have Been handed Has made my thoughts extended People’s faith in humanity...
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07
May

Story of American Resilience – Day 4

Thursday – May 4th Sugar Hill Creamery with Petruschka Bazin Larsen Lunch in Harlem Walk through Bryant Park New York Bar Association with Maria Cilente Dinner at Desi Galli with Zoe Timms and Pria Vanda Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ on Broadway, Music Box Theater At Sugar Hill Creamery, the work that was being done for the...
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05
May

Story of American Resilience – Day 3

Wednesday – May 3 Tenement Museum Walking tour of LES Drawing in Tompkins Square Park Nuyorican Poets Cafe and met and wrote with Claudia (CAP) Walk to Chinatown Dinner at Mott Street Eatery Staten Island Ferry ride – At the Tenement Museum, on our tour, there were so many unexplained things, Why were Dora the...
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04
May

Story of American Resilience Odyssey – Day 2

Tuesday, May 2nd: Meet with Mickey Melendez at People’s Church Walk w/ Mickey to Museum of the City of New York Lunch w/ Mickey at El Nuevo Caribeño Fire Lotus Temple with Sensei Hojin Kimmel Speeches in Prospect Park Dinner and dance party with Taj Campman at Friends and Lovers Why don’t people here smile...
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03
May

Story of American Resilience Odyssey – Day 1

Monday, May 1st Leave Hilltop Depart from New Haven on Metro North Check in – Q4 Hostel in Queens Meet with Linda Machuca at La Hueca Manabita Dinner at La Hueca Manabita Fun in Flushing Meadows Park – Speeches Retire to Q4 When I go to a city or a place with a lot of...
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02
May

The Story of American Resilience Odyssey

We are getting ready for our great journey. Stay tuned for daily updates on our adventures. Binding journals for our journey We prepare our materials Aiden presents on places we are going to visit Isabel presents on places we are going to visit Copy-of-Story-of-American-Resilience-Odyssey-Itinerary-student_parent-version-2023Download
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27
Apr

HMMS Society Project 2020

The Society Project in the Time of Climate Change Wendell Berry wrote: “If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.” A place is as much a community of shared values as it is a physical environment and the Middle School set out to discover how their community is responding to...
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27
Jan

Alabama Odyssey 2019: Day 7

Meet Sheryl Threadgill and other participants of the Voting Rights Movement in Wilcox County at the historic Antioch Baptist Church. Shoe Store Museum Miss Kitty’s Restaurant in Camden for lunch, Black Belt Treasures, Shoe Store Museum Conversation with the BAMA Kids Take the ferry from Camden to Gees Bend Evening of poetry, song with Ms...
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10
Apr
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