Special Topic Update from Head of School Chris Ongaro
Whether speaking with parents or professionals, it is often safe to say that we value intelligence and success. At home this summer, I'd encourage specific consideration of Gardner's multiple intelligences and Sternberg's successful intelligence. This week, we'll start with Gardner.
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July 2021, Vol. V
Enjoy a Look-Back at this past year’s noteworthy visitors and special events. August’s Look-Forward will showcase exciting additions in 2021-22!
Read MoreOur July term is off to a great start! Students and teachers are happy to be back in the building learning again.
Read MoreThe Class of 2021 graduated on June 16, 2021, in front of an audience of both in-person and virtual attendees. We are so proud of each and every one of our graduates. Take a look Inside a Stevenson Graduation to read some of the speeches, and visit our College Counseling page to see a list of college acceptances!
Read MoreThank you to everyone who supported Stevenson at our first-ever Virtual Gala on May 20th. The event was a great success, highlighting our strong community and helping to raise much-needed funds to support our program.
Read MoreMay 20th is Mental Health Action Day: https://www.mentalhealthactionday.org. It is fitting that Mental Health Action Day falls on the same day as our Virtual Benefit, At Home Together, which features presentations from people who see mental health as health and have chosen to share their time and resources to speak on this important topic. For more information or to attend the Virtual Benefit on Mental Health Action Day, please visit https://www.stevenson-school.org/benefit.
Read MoreStevenson is excited to extend its Spring Speaker Series. To do so, we are partnering with Churchill School & Center, Gillen Brewer School, LearningSpring School, Mary McDowell Friends School, Winston Preparatory School, The Quad Preparatory School, The Parkside School, and The IDEAL School.
Read MoreOn May 26th the Stevenson Spring Lecture Series offered A Parent’s Guide to School Avoidance: How to help your child become more engaged with school by Melissa Jeffay and Dr. Kim Nguyen. They covered common issues students experience related to the pandemic, a behavioral conceptualization of why school avoidance makes sense, the impacts school avoidance has on parents, interventions that are within parent control, and when to seek help from school staff and outside treatment providers.
Read MoreRSVP today for Stevenson's Spring Lecture Series! This Lecture Series is open to those beyond our immediate community, so please share this event with friends, family, and neighbors who may be interested.
Read MoreOne day in early March, Stevenson Performing Arts teacher Jaclyn Silvestri logged in to her fifth period Improv class. As Silvestri waited for class to begin, her students, one by one, arrived virtually to the call and asked Silvestri if she rode a motorcycle.
Read MoreAt Stevenson, our focus goes well beyond textbooks, and in times like this we continue to hold safety and wellness as chief priorities. Amid the COVID-19 scenario, we are leaning heavily on the medical professionals in our community (key links below).
Read MoreIt is with a heavy heart that I inform everyone of the passing of Lucille Rhodes, a key figure in The Robert Louis Stevenson School's history. Lucille passed away peacefully at her home on Riverside Drive on Thursday, March 18 at the age of 99.
Read MoreI ask that we stand together for our students and in support of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The recent brutal attacks and murders in and around Atlanta draw our attention again to the rise in anti-Asian attacks within our nation.
Read MoreThis year, Stevenson launched a partnership with Columbia University to support high school students in pre-college courses. Among other things, the partnership links our schools to help Stevenson students participate in the Columbia University Academic Immersion Program.
Read MoreStevenson's position as a thought leader in the field of mental health and expertise in providing integrated therapeutic support has extended its reach in the New York City area and beyond. In partnership with Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants, LLP (CBC) and its Co-Founder and Clinical Director, Dr. Alec L. Miller, Stevenson organized and led a 50-person master class for NYC Family and Civil Court judges.
Read MoreDuring Economics & Investing class, Stevenson students participated in a tutorial with a special visitor, Dr. Robert Z. Lawrence. He is the Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Read MoreDuring the 2019-2020 school year, Stevenson's Apprenticeship Program helped then-senior Alex take an experience watching a documentary with his father and transform it into a film project of his own: a ten-minute movie, Cultivate, which was accepted into multiple film festivals, including The Big Apple Film Festival, The Lift Off Film Festival, and the All American High School Film Festival.
Read MoreThis week started with historic snow for NYC, and, thanks to our partnership with Dr. Alec Miller's team and the ongoing guidance from our own clinicians, the snowstorm became a DBT lesson for me.
Read MoreHead of School Chris Ongaro co-signed a letter with other New York Heads of Schools ahead of the November 2020 election. It was written to students and shared some core beliefs about schools. The letter is accessible here and may support discussions at home.
Read MoreYou know her. Ruby was the brave six-year-old who climbed the steps of the William Frantz Elementary School in November 1960 and broke the southern school segregation barrier by becoming the first African American to attend the all-white school.
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