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A Lesson in Good Taste

Being proactive tastes a lot like chocolate ice cream! At least it did for Lower School students on October 15, when Acting Principal Jane Harrison surprised each class with the sweet treat. Donning an apron and pushing a red and white checkered cart, Harrison entered each classroom to the familiar ...

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Senior Retreat Unifies Class of '21

For some, the idea of a retreat brings to mind peace, rest, serenity, and comfort. But for the Class of 2021, Senior Retreat—at Leelanau Outdoor Center on the shores of Lake Michigan—involved physical and mental challenges. Whether they were tasked with pulling a school bus (yes, an actual bus), climbing ...

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Meet the College’s New Full-Time Faculty Members

Five professors, spanning the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts, joined the College faculty this fall. Three are new to Principia; two moved from visiting positions to full-time faculty status. In addition, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Marshall Brooks Library each welcomed a new faculty member. Below ...

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Reaping Rewards of Students’ Research for More Than a Decade

From 2000 through 2007, while teaching in the Physics Department at Principia College, Dr. Benjamin Brown (C’71) worked with physics majors to develop a positron beam and trap. (Positrons are antimatter electrons.) Support for the $200,000 project came from the Principia Fund for Excellence and the Peninsula Foundation, funded by ...

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Professional Development Focuses on Relevance and Unconscious Bias

In recent years, Principia School teachers have had two weeks of professional development before the start of school, but this year they had four—the entire month of August! Extending summer break for students gave administrators more time to meet state and county requirements for in-person instruction. And it gave faculty ...

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Four New Families Share Their Stories

This year, Principia welcomed 55 new families to the School. They hail from 18 states and four countries. For many of them, the world’s shift last spring to remote learning redefined and clarified their educational desires for their children. The current climate of instruction in most schools felt inadequate. They ...

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A Successful Start to Fall Term

With almost a month of classes under their belts, students and faculty at the School and College have settled into the new routines in place for in-person instruction—sanitizing hands, wearing masks, maintaining social distance, and so on. While these protocols alter the learning experience, they do not define it. Students ...

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Summer Research during Unusual Times

Despite pandemic-related restrictions limiting those allowed on campus this summer, progress continued on land research projects that have been underway for several years.

Dr. Andrew Martin, an archaeologist and associate professor in the Art and Art History Department, has worked with a team of students since 2017 to excavate ...

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Meet the School’s New Full-Time Faculty and Staff Members

Principia School welcomed 13 new full-time faculty and staff members to the campus this year. With over 100 years of combined academic and professional experience, they bring immense value to the School. For some, a relocation was necessary—from Arizona, South Carolina, and Minnesota, for example. Many brought family with them, ...

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New IDEA Labs—the Region's First

Robotics, software engineering, mechanics, circuitry, digital media arts. This reads like a college course catalog, but peer over the large monitor in one of the two new School IDEA Labs and you’ll find a fourth grader heavily focused on animating her digitally drawn car. Across the lab, her classmate is ...

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