Teacher Feature: Meredith Thomas

Middle School Science Teacher and Service Learning Coordinator

In this brief but informative video, we learn more about our middle school’s unique science program from Meredith’s own perspective.

“This is exactly how I envisioned teaching going…being outside, in nature, but also having those classroom elements, it’s like the best of both worlds.” – Meredith Thomas

Recent Blog Posts:

Peace Day, Our Shared Garden of Responsibility

Peace Day 2023

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At Oak Grove, we acknowledged World Peace Day with a week-long exploration into the notion of peace. Throughout campus, we celebrated Peace Week within the classroom curriculum, through the construction of a collaborative art installation titled “Our Garden of Responsibility.”
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Community of Learners, Back to School Night

Community of Learning

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The Stanford psychologist, Carol Dweck said: “If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.” How can we extend this philosophy to our larger learning community of teachers, coaches, and staff members?
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Alumni Profile: Quinn Latimer ’96

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My time at Oak Grove was brief, just the last two years of high school, but I think its emphasis on living in coexistence with what we often call the natural world really impressed itself on me, as well as the school's sense, received from Krishnamurti, of a more international and philosophical sense of being in and with the world.
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