SWS students have been exploring the huge sunflowers in the SWS garden ... exploring them full size outside and up close in the art studio. Students created multimedia explorations of color and line, and even a collaborative [...]
The SWS LSAT & Advisory Team met on October 5th for a productive meeting. Highlights of that meeting follow: Principal Burst is working on SWS’s achievement goals for this academic year. He will present them [...]
Math at SWS: Investigating, Making Connections, and Relating to Real World Situations SWS uses a math curriculum called "Investigations," in which students: explore problems in depth find more than one way to solve many of the problems [...]
Meet Madame Greif, the new SWS World Languages Teacher. Madame Greif comes to SWS as a neighbor, as a parent, and now as a teacher. She has experience teaching French as well as English as [...]
Mr. Palm is SWS’s new science teacher. He brings to SWS a background in the District of Columbia and abroad. He attended DCPS schools K through 12th grade! He studied anthropology in college (University of [...]
About half of our families came back to school on Sept. 16 to meet the staff, parent leaders, and their child(ren)'s teacher. We met many of the more than 40-person staff -- and Principal Burst [...]
With the $10,000 we were able to invest this summer on teacher development -- thanks to your generous support of Friends of SWS -- teachers have been coming into the building over the past three [...]
Each year, each DCPS school sets five goals for the chancellor based on its start of the year assessments. SWS met four of our five Chancellor goals for last school year. We smashed our Text Reading [...]
As part of our participation in Harvard's Project Zero Children Are Citizens, students at SWS have been exploring the city. Here's a take from two kindergarteners on that exploration:
Children Are Citizens Anyone who was at the National Gallery of Art in March and saw animated first graders performing plays in front of paintings may have thought: What? Are they allowed to do that [...]