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Category Archives: Newsletter
Jan 14, 2011
What I Did On My Winter Vacation
I want to start off the new year by telling the story of what I did over my Winter Break. My wife and I spent a week in Phoenix visiting relatives, including my brother-in-law Jim and his wife, Anka. Jim … [more]
Categories: Community, Newsletter Tagged: Staff, Steve Miranda
Dec 12, 2010
Insanity Kontraption Video is Here!
For those who couldn’t be here for the live performance, here’s the result of Scobie’s Insanity Kontraption intensive. Original music was created by junior Maddie Stein.
Categories: Community, Newsletter, Video
Dec 1, 2010
PSCS Play: Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”
In 2009, PSCS teacher Nic Warmenhoven was right in the middle of rehearsals for the school play, “A Night and Her Stars,” when one of the actors had to leave the cast. With just four weeks remaining before the opening … [more]
Categories: Community, Events, Newsletter, School News Tagged: Nic Warmenhoven, play, shakespeare
Oct 12, 2010
PSCS is Bio-Curious
Tanya has set up a table at the front of the school that she calls “bio-curious.” It holds a wide range of things that are living or once were living, a couple microscopes, petri dishes, and an open textbook. She … [more]
Categories: Community, Newsletter, Video
Sep 12, 2010
The Most Important Things You Learn at PSCS…
By Steve Miranda When I first started at PSCS, I conducted a series of interviews with members of the school community so I could better understand how the educational philosophy gets put into practice. One alumnus said to me, “The … [more]
Categories: Newsletter, Video
Aug 12, 2010
Meet Tanya Lasswell, PSCS’ Newest Teacher
One of Tanya Lasswell’s earliest memories as a small child is poking through her mother’s herbarium, a mothball-filled box filled with preserved plant species. Her mother collected and pressed plants, then labeled them with their Latin name as part of … [more]
Categories: Community, Newsletter, School News Tagged: Newsletter, Staff, Tanya Lasswell
Jul 14, 2010
Bonjour from France!
PSCS founders Andy Smallman and Melinda Shaw are enjoying a year-long sabbatical in France with their two daughters, Chloe and Ella. Andy is posting tales of their adventures daily to a blog. Here’s a recent post, to give you an … [more]
Categories: Community, Newsletter Tagged: Andy Smallman, Staff