The Washington, DC campus of Whittle School & Studios is thrilled to announce that we are now officially an IB World School.
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Congratulations to Whittle students Ella Song ’22 and Calla O’Neil ’22 for being named “Students of the Year” by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Washington D.C. Chapter for their fundraising efforts!
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Introducing the Founding Families Benefit Program. Whittle School & Studios has always seen as central to its mission the importance of Fostering Generosity of Spirit. That phrase was the heading of an important chapter in our original “book,” written four years ago this month, that describes Whittle’s vision.
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Play On. Two words that can play a pivotal role at every stage of one’s life. Play on even when the going gets tough. Play on even when you feel like you have nothing left to give. Play on when you may not get the call you want. Play on even when it seems impossible. Play on equates to ‘keep going’. Each stage of life comes and goes. If we are so fortunate in the process we learn, we grow, and we move forward.
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A core part of the Whittle School & Studios mission is to build cultural competency and develop local and global perspectives. Our February “X-Days,” dedicated experiential learning days once per week, have been specially crafted by our educators to allow students to extend their classroom learning by engaging with moments of national and international significance.
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Congratulations to Calla O'Neil '22 for winning the Scholastic Art and Writing's Silver Key award for her critical essay entitled “An Open Letter to Schools in the United States.” Read the essay:
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Congratulations to Advanced Bio students Calla O' Neil '22, JiaJia Fu '22, and Simon Lee '23, and Ella Song '22! These Whittle DC students have been published by Genomics:Insight. All articles were reviewed by the National Human Genome Research Institute's Trainee Editorial Board and by the Editor-In-Chief at the journal.
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The Whittle community is grateful for many things this year: for members of the healthcare community, essential workers, advocates fighting racial inequality and promoting justice. And as the world says goodbye to a difficult year, we are taking the opportunity to reflect on the positives within our own community - the bright moments of 2020 that helped our Whittle world find light in the darkness, and the wins that kept us motivated to continue moving forward.
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A commonly held intuitive mantra in project-based learning is that learning best happens when we are teaching others. With that in mind, I try to create experiences for students that allow them to teach a wider audience about what they are learning in class.
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This trimester, I took Digital Photography for the first time. We spent the trimester learning about the technical and artistic mechanisms behind photography. We then put our newly-learned skills and mindsets to work throughout the weeks to go out during class to take photos, following a theme which we're interested in.
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We’d like to introduce auraimag.com, the online edition of our student-run Aurai Magazine. This is a long-worked collaboration between students of all grades in our DC and Shenzhen campuses.
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When Whittle School & Studios announced they would not open their doors in September, I was heartbroken. I had spent months dreaming of the first day of school and had blocked all the doubts of not going back out of my mind. However, I kept the same mentality I had for the past several months-it is what it is.
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We're proud to offer specialty courses for students that speak to the niche passions and interests of our faculty. Continue reading to learn more about this semester’s specialty course offerings.
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Whittle faculty member Dr. Bala Selvakumar and Assistant Head of School Dr. Ara Brown teamed up to write about our Upper School's unique project-based curriculum. Give the articles a read!
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Until I came to Whittle, I never realized how narrow-minded my lens of the world was. I had watched and read only American news sources, in school I studied American history, the majority of my classmates were American, and the way I looked at current events was centered around how world issues were affecting this country. One thing that made my Whittle experience so incredible…
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What drew me to Whittle were the endless possibilities. There was no wall stopping you from pursuing an idea. Students had the opportunity to pursue what they were passionate about, in collaboration with teachers and staff; and most amazingly, change the way “school” was designed.
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Hello, my name is Kalyn. I’m a new incoming junior. I’ve never experienced being the “new” kid, so the thought that it would be awkward and uncomfortable were my biggest worries. But as soon as I met the students here, I was immediately welcomed with open arms.
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One of my ancestral stories goes like this:
In 1891, my great-great grandfather Jordan Young (no relation to Younge) decided to move from his home in Columbia, South Carolina, where he had previously been enslaved, to Fowler, California. He and his three brothers received a letter from their sister, Julia Bell, who told them they should come. Jordan took the train out west, found the dusty land to his liking, and started a farm. A few years later, he sent for his wife, Louisa, and seven children. Eventually he would own a 160 acre ranch and several lots in the growing city.
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Earth Day 2020. Whittle School & Studios, a global school with campuses in Washington, DC and Shenzhen, China, engaged students, 1st-5th grades, in an art challenge focused on sustainability. Led by the Creative Art & Design faculty during the global Covid-19 pandemic, students were operating from their at-home learning environments and teachers were navigating on-line digital learning space for this place-based activity.
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Over the past six weeks, Upper School students in the Storytelling in the COVID-19 Era course have explored how COVID-19 has changed their lives. Facilitated by interactions with veteran ABC journalist, Ms. Gloria Riviera and Dr. Selvakumar, students have engaged in finding, developing and editing their stories through multiple iterations of print and audio recordings, including thinking about storytelling in terms of small or big moments, the role of sound and tone in narration, and the importance of interviews and reflection.
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