The Middle School Brain

Middle School Assembly Hall - 4300 N. Charles Street
Sarah is a senior administrator at Calvert School who oversees the school’s K-8 academic programming. She works alongside the administration and teachers to implement age-appropriate pedagogy across the curriculum, and inspire best practices within our classrooms. She is a trained learning specialist with over two decades of experience in independent schools in New York City and Baltimore. 

Sarah’s February 2019 talk focused on The Middle School Brain. This presentation was a companion to her January 2019 (Cool) Progeny article Understanding the Middle School Brain:

“It is not uncommon to view adolescence — particularly the middle school years — as a dark and stormy time that parents, teachers, and even adolescents themselves must simply endure. Even within the world of education, those who teach lower and high school students often express bewilderment at their middle school colleagues. As someone who has worked with middle school students for over twenty years, I think it is important to provide a narrative about adolescence that offers an equally valid, but definitively more optimistic view of the majestic and incredible design of what I will refer to as the middle school brain. Moreover, it is important that we understand how the structure of a well-designed middle school program supports and nurtures its students, and their families, through these dynamic years of development.”
 
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Calvert School is a coed independent lower and middle school.

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