Our Wildwood, Volume 51

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Delivering Joy through the Wildwood Post Office Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can keep these 2nd graders from their Wildwood Post Office duties! As part of a year-long focus on community, and what it means to be part of and contribute to one, Wildwood’s 2nd grade class revived a tradition of days past—the Wildwood Post Office. After visiting a local post office for inspiration, 2nd graders set out to create a postal system of their own. Each day, they make the rounds of Wildwood’s elementary campus, picking up letters from each classroom, sorting them by intended grade and destination, and then setting forth to deliver them to their recipients. As these young students familiarize themselves with their campus and classmates, they’re also reinforcing key skills from the classroom. Letter writing provides great language arts practice, while math skills are put to the test by tracking data, such as how many letters they’ve delivered each week, and which grades give or receive the most mail, in order to tweak their process for efficiency. It’s also a great lesson in responsibility, initiative, and effort. It takes everyone

Global Education Benchmark Conference

“” THROUGHOUT THE CONFERENCE, THE WILDWOOD TEAM EXCHANGED IDEAS WITH OTHER EDUCATORS, GOT INSPIRED BY ELIN KELSEY’S KEYNOTE, AND BRAINSTORMED IDEAS ABOUT WHAT’S NEXT FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP LEARNING AT OUR SCHOOL. —ALEX CUSSEN

From Southern California to the Great North! A cohort of Wildwood educators from all three divisions (elementary, middle, upper) recently attended the Global Educators Conference in Montreal, with fellow educators from across the globe. As part of the conference, Jaimi Boehm, associate head of school and director of middle school, and Alex Cussen, 8th grade Humanities teacher, presented on one of our signature middle school programs—Into the Wild. Through Into the Wild, students use a design thinking framework to create an invention or social action campaign to address specific United Nations Sustainable Development Goal(s).

working together for the postal system to function smoothly. “The students quickly learn that each role is crucial, from the letter collectors Katie Delly, 2nd grade teacher. “As the 2nd graders continue their rounds, they carry with them the knowledge that they are making a difference, one letter at a time.” to the sorters and deliverers,” says

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