Student Work

Seventeen Beaver students and three faculty chaperones recently returned from a French immersion and service trip to Senegal.
Students lived with local families in the city of St. Louis. Every morning they worked in kindergarten classes and a talibes (street children) program tutoring up to 40 children in math and French. In addition, they helped with [...]

The group of students and three teachers who have spent the last ten days on an organic farm in Costa Rica are heading home. Here is the final update from the group:
We left the farm this morning and are staying at a hotel not far from the airport. We spent the weekend checking out a [...]

Over 20 Beaver students are spending their first weeks of summer vacation in Costa Rica living and working on an organic farm. In addition to working, students use this experience as an opportunity to immerse themselves in the Spanish language. Teachers Tiffany Marsh, John Schatz, and Elisha Cho are accompanying the group on this annual [...]

Ninth grade students in Robin Neal’s English class used video as a way to learn and teach others about grammar.
Working in groups, students were assigned a grammar topic such as mastering the colon, comma rules, and avoiding fragment and run-on sentences. Students worked to become experts on their topics and produce short videos explaining their [...]

Boston’s North End is known for its food — specifically its Italian food. But, as Beaver’s sixth grade class discovered,  the community is much more than that.
Recently the class visited the North End as part of its study of immigration, assimilation, and immersion in American culture. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the North End [...]