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 loves biology, so she often spends part of her day just hanging around the table,…
Read MoreThe 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 most important things at PSCS are not necessarily what goes on in the classes. It’s…
Read MoreMeet 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 her master’s degree program in pharmacology. Tanya picked up one specimen and read it: Digitalis…
Read MoreBonjour 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 idea of what the first family of PSCS is up to. One of the great…
Read MoreDoing the Work You Love
Beloved friend of PSCS, Lyn Lambert, sent a magazine article by Harvard lawyer Tama Kieves, who gave up her law practice to pursue a lifestyle that was more meaningful for her. Now Kieves is a life coach. Her message is summed up by the title of the article, Your Divine Assignment: Doing the Work You…
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