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:

Authority in the Classroom

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even and a half years ago, I started my first day of teaching at Oak Grove School. I had spent the summer lesson planning, figuring out how to adjust from teaching 40 students a class to teaching 12 to 16. As 8:00am approached, I put on my game…
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Art as Self-understanding

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t is the end of the semester and a time when our students share what they have been working on in class. In core academic subjects, learning might be expressed through presentations, reports, fairs, project engagements, and tests. In the arts,…
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The Reflective Classroom

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he nature of the conversation was argumentative, but there was a sense of affection between us. The vibrant voice on the other end of the phone was persistently posing questions, “What is the self?” “How are the students going…
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