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Athletes of the Week (Winter Update)

Six athletes earned Athlete of the Week honors in the week before Winter Break and in the two weeks since.
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Civic Engagement and Service Learning

On Friday, 1/17, students in the Civic Engagement for Advanced Spanish Speakers course spent time with the Hispanic community at Neighbors Link, a resource center that aids the local community in Northern Westchester County.
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Sharing Skills with Younger Students

During December, Hackley 8th graders learned block printing techniques in their regular art classes and created many prints of their own. They then designed a workshop to share their newfound knowledge with Hackley kindergarten students.
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Hackley’s Partnership with Regeneron

Hackley Review Winter 2019-20

Two Hackley teachers, Melissa Boviero and Dan Lipin, have completed the Regeneron STEM Teaching Fellowship.
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Hiding the Vegetables: Roleplaying, Games, and Simulations

Hackley Review Winter 2019-20 By Michael Canterino '03, Upper School English Teacher

While this academic school year offers Hackley’s first course explicitly designed around roleplay gaming as the central mechanism for understanding, analyzing, and creating content, games and simulations have been a tradition in Hackley classrooms for years.
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Making it Real: Bringing Learning to Life in the Middle School

Hackley Review Winter 2019-20 By Cyndy Jean, Director of the Middle School

When I first accepted my new role as the Director of the Middle School, many colleagues and mentors offered me great insight and advice into the new career path I had chosen. Although I felt a tug at my heart knowing I was preparing to step out of the classroom and away from consistent, direct interaction with students, I was heartened by the first early interactions I had with the middle school faculty.
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Wonder: The Hub of Interdisciplinary Learning in the Lower School

Hackley Review Winter 2019-20 By Lisa Oberstein, Director of the Lower School

With less than half a year’s tenure on the Hilltop and in my role as Hackley’s new Director of Lower School, I get to experience so many “firsts,” and so many discoveries, that I feel a special kinship with the Class of 2032, our kindergarteners who began their own Hackley journey in September. Meeting so many wonderful people and experiencing the invitation to “Enter here to be and find a friend” myself, I am reminded every day that the root of “wonderful” is “wonder.”
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The Year of the Rat

Hackley Middle and Lower School students celebrated the Lunar New Year this week as they enjoyed performances of music, dance, and face-changing given by three Chinese artists on January 14th (in the Lower School) and 15th (in the Middle School).
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Wendt Visiting Scholar Pavel Litvinov

On January 9, Hackley hosted Pavel Litvinov, this year’s Henry Wendt Visiting Scholar, who addressed Upper School students in the morning, visited classes, and then continued conversation with students over lunch.
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Building Habitats in Hackley's Forest

The Advanced Forest Ecology Students are continuing the annual tradition of using recycled Christmas tree to build habitat for birds.
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Jasmine Bayrooti ’18 visits Hackley’s IRP

Jasmine Bayrooti '18 returned to the Hilltop to talk with Hackley’s Independent Research program students about her research projects, both as a Hackley student and more recently at Stanford.
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Pass the Gavel

On Thursday, January 2nd, Hackley US students Zach Yusaf, Zara Yusaf, Michael Lee, and Ella Rodriguez ran two separate two-hour presentations on debate at P.S. 105 in the Bronx.
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Uncomfortable Learning

Hackley senior Becky Steinberg '20's recent Chapel Talk to fellow students underscores the value of struggle, shared here on Hackley Perspectives.
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Understanding Athletic Recruiting

On Sunday, January 26, at 1:00 p.m., in Allen Hall, Hackley's College Counseling Office and Athletics Department will offer a program on college athletic recruitment. This meeting is open to all, but since it focuses on the college athletic recruitment process, it necessarily targets very strong athletes.
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Celebrating Together

The 4th annual Hudson Scholars Holiday Party on 12/15 brought together about 150 people--the Scholars and their families, over 20 Upper School mentors (and some of their families too), numerous Hackley teachers--and a great deal of Holiday cheer and joy!
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Deeper Context for Understanding Warfare

Upper School students in the "Topics in the History of Warfare" class went to the Jacob Burns Film Center this week for a screening of "1917" with the goal of gaining better understanding of why WWI played out the way it did.
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US Debate Update

At a tournament in Minnesota, Hackley's work on the Venezuela resolution got off to an incredible start.
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Public Forum Debate Update

Fourteen students attended the Ridge Debates in Basking Ridge, NJ, last weekend, Dec. 13-14, gaining another five rounds of national circuit tournament experience.
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In Appreciation for Marlene Bellamy

The next time you walk down the hallway outside the Head of School's office, be sure to check out the newest addition to the photo gallery honoring Hackley's long-serving employees: Marlene Bellamy.
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Hackley’s Annual Toy Drive

It was another successful year of giving! All three divisions together donated hundreds of toys to the Open Door Foundation, who will be gifting children these presents at a variety of holiday events in Westchester during this season.
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Visions of Sugar Plums?

Hackley Middle School ASK students helped usher in the winter holidays by building and decorating gingerbread houses -- they look good enough to eat!
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Computer Science Education Week on the Hilltop

The Hackley Computer Science Department once again celebrated Computer Science Education week on the Hilltop. Annually scheduled during the first week of December, CS Ed Week is a program dedicated to inspiring K-12 students to become involved in the study of computer science.
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Partnering with Neighbors

On Monday, December 9th, Hackley’s AP Chinese class met with Tarrytown’s EF School students.
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Strong Showing for MS Debaters

In their second tournament of the season, more than 30 MS student competed at the West End Secondary School in Manhattan on Saturday, December 7th.
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