Fountain with statute of dragon holding umbrella and reading to child

Hybrid Learning

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
— Winston Churchill

As introduced to our community by our wonderful new Head of School Kim Wargo, the mantra for this year, an old English word, may well be “Coddiwomple” — meaning to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination.

With our creative, innovative, and highly specialized faculty and staff outdoing themselves daily, we are working diligently to take these unprecedented times — with all the changing circumstances, shifting variables, and uncontrollable forces that comes with them — and ensure that we provide the best education The Lab School can, has, and will always offer. 

The Latest from Lab

Reinstating Gym

#BeforeandAfter

Date

Summary

It seems like a minute, it seems like years!

Elem_Gods and Goddesses

Bang and Pop!

Date

Summary

Elementary's Gods and Goddesses Academic Club wrapped up its year with a BANG and a POP!

Elem G&G Club_Earth's Layers

Thar She Blows

Date

Summary

Who knew that Mount Vesuvius was far more than just a beautiful mountain ...

changemakers

Honoring Those Whom Many Forgot

Date

Summary

Students in Intermediate's Changemakers Academic Club honor victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.

JH Science_laws of motion

The Laws of Motion

Date

Summary

Newton's Second Law: force is equal to mass times acceleration.

Int Industrialists Club_Bridges

Building Bridges

Date

Summary

Members of Intermediate's Industrialists Club are learning the aesthetics, math, and engineering of bridge building.

HS Physics Egg Drop

Omelettes, Anyone?

Date

Summary

The 20th Annual LSW Egg Drop Competition - Pandemic Edition CRUSHED it!

HS Hybrid_March 2021

All Things High School

Date

Summary

It might feel like the winter doldrums are at their peak, but in the High School there is a lot of learning and light.

Wolk_Monster

“They Take Away Your Shoelaces …”

Date

Summary

“Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.” So says Steve, the protagonist in the young adult novel, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers.

HS_National Service Day Challenge

All Hands on Deck

Date

Summary

Picking up trash, making cards for shut-ins, cooking soup for a shelter, transcribing documents for the National Archives ...

 

HS Music_Rozsics

Music to Our Ears

Date

Summary

Where did the idea for a vocal mash-up of the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" using heavy metal/grunge vocalists come from?

JH English_Palmer

Bringing Books to Life

Date

Summary

From Harry Potter to Dragonwatch, what do we see in our mind's eye when we read?

Lip Synching

Creative, Toe-Tapping Fun

Date

Summary

It's hard not to sing along with these joyful music videos created by High School Theater students ...

Gods and Goddesses_Pyramids

Mummies, Sarcophagi, Hieroglyphics … Oh, My!

Date

Summary

Elementary Academic Club members in Gods and Goddesses Club were very busy during their last days of hybrid learning on campus making pyramids and learning about Egyptian burial rites.

Industrial Club_Brick Making

Industrial Club Makes Handmade Bricks

Date

Summary

Intermediate's Industrial Academic Club used the recent hybrid-on-campus days to create handmade bricks from the soil of The Lab School campus.

Animal Farm

Animal Farm Pundits

Date

Summary

Students in Tim Wetsell’s High School English class have taken discussions around George Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel Animal Farm to a new level.

HS VP DC_Oct 2020

Learning in DC

Date

Summary

High School students tour DC, safely and enthusiastically.

Int Science, Scientific Method

Exploring the Big Whys

Date

Summary

In Intermediate Science classes, students focus on scientific inquiry.

Virtual Plus, Silk Road

Journeying on the Silk Road

Date

Summary

Academic Clubbers in Elementary's Silk Road Club enthusiastically arrived on campus to start digging into the Middle Ages.

Evan Gropper_Elem Math_Base 10

Creativity in Math

Date

Summary

Math students in Elementary Homeroom Teacher Evan Gropper's class have been busy with several projects using manipulatives

Hawkins Int_Museum Club and Art

The Creating Never Stops!

Date

Summary

Students in Ms. Sara Hawkins’ Intermediate Art class and Museum Club have been upping the ante in the creativity department!

Cunningham class grad

Celebrating Milestones

Date

Summary

Acknowledging achievements and marking milestones is always meaningful.

Video Gallery

Mystery Central

Ready for another good who-dunnit?

Students in Teaching Artist Sally Kiernan's Junior High Performing Arts not only produced wonderful performances for this Mystery Movie project, but they also conceived of and created the characters and story as well.

Murder on the Train

Ready for a good who-dunnit?

Students in Teaching Artist Sally Kiernan's Junior High Performing Arts not only produced wonderful performances for this Mystery Movie project, but they also conceived of and created the characters and story as well.
 

 

Joe Scorah Podcast

Students in Mr. Toal’s Junior High Videography class interviewed Assistant Physical Education Teacher Joe Scorah to discuss the beauty of coaching, his Lab experience as a student and teacher, his ADHD and how it helps him and doesn't hurt him, and the importance of student relationships and coach and student relationships.

Serious thinking around Arthur Miller’s The Crucible …

Miller’s 1953 play is heady stuff! A dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93, the play is an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.

Students in High School English Teacher Tim Wetsell’s class are looking at the play’s issues from all directions. At the end of their reading of The Crucible, students had a menu of project options and creation methods ranging from traditional essays and podcasts comparing and contrasting the film and play version of the text, or comparing and contrasting McCarthyism and the Red Scare to the Salem witch trials as depicted in the play, to creating a character’s diary or the closing argument in their defense or prosecution, to the option you see here, re-writing or adding a “deleted scene” to be performed in a movie or audio-only format.

Don’t miss this video, created by Junior Merritt Forman ’22, who re-wrote a scene from The Crucible and performed it. Amazing!

 

Finding Her Inner Scientist

One Intermediate student catches on to the love of learning while doing a science project.

Covid Comics
Chip Irvine

Chip Irvine

High School Teaching Visual Artist

Faculty

The covid-19 quarantine has expanded students' creativity to new dimensions.

Full Story