Mysa students went on a three-day trip to study the Chesapeake Bay at the Karen Noonan Center (KNC). The Chesapeake Bay Foundation ran classes and explorations that focused on conservation and the surrounding ecology. The KNC sits on a peninsula, or a "tide island" as...
I like Mysa for a lot of reasons but one of those reasons is getting to work at my own level. There’s no pressure about being at a certain level, because I can work at my own pace. That’s something I really enjoy about Mysa,...
Did you know that Mysa has a makerspace? Students use tools, code, learn robotics and more. Right now, the Mysa Minis (grades K-5) are exploring Scratch, a program created by the MIT Media Lab to teach kids the concepts of coding. We recently experimented with remixing...
Following a heavy science and math unit, our third Connect Unit was a study of Shakespearean ...
Last Friday, Mysa students caught the J2 bus from our Bethesda campus to the bus stop on East West Highway and Meadowbrook Lane. We crossed traffic and entered the a trail following Rock Creek past neighborhoods and a horse stable to a local park. The...
Learning outside of the classroom is powerful and lasting. When students can see real world examples of how things work and how what they are reading is relevant in the real world, the learning is deeper. Siri, our Head of School, makes a case for...
An important part of Mysa that differentiates it from other schools is independent learning. Mysa students are assigned a menu, or a list of work to complete for a certain week, on Monday morning. They have time to complete their menu assignments between classes, and...
There are a vast number of traditions in education that continue, not based on any hard evidence, but simply because we cannot imagine any other way. For instance, why do schools have summers off? It has to be based on some kind of research on...
In the real world, adults work with peers and colleagues across different age groups. Schools today continue to group children according to their age - based on the way schools we restructured during the industrial revolution (like factories). Today we know that each student learns...