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LaputkaDirector of Technology Over spring break, sixteen MMI students, four parents and three sense members traveled to the British Isles for an incredible educational tour. Coordinated by Education First Tours, the trip took them through Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Edinburgh, London, and many other locales. For most of the students this had been the first time they had traveled to Europe. T.R. Laputka, MMI technology director; Michael Mele, Science Department Chair and Science instructor; Christina Spencer, Chinese Language teacher; and Jaime of Education First Tours led the private group. Read increasingly ... PA School for Global Entrepreneurship, a Student Perspective. By Sydney KarpowichMMI Senior The Pennsylvania School of Global Entrepreneurship (PSGE) has ignited my entrepreneurial spirit and helped me expand on merchantry ventures I am involved in, as well as sparked creativity to develop other merchantry ideas.  I have been working on an idea to develop a self-ruling women’s self-defense organization to gainsay rising vituperate rates versus local women.  Additionally, I am currently working with a team of four girls on an iDeX pitch, featuring an app that allows users to increasingly powerfully medically diagnose themselves at home.  For my visitor project at PSGE, I was on a team with six other students to work for Soltech Solutions. The visitor produces grow lights that not only indulge plants to flourish indoors, but moreover increases the environment of one's space. Our job was to create a new marketing wayfarers for the visitor and increase sales to other businesses. Read increasingly ... MMI students tour Italy 2017 By T.R. LaputkaDirector of Technology Eleven MMI students, three parents and two sense members traveled to Italy during spring unravel 2017 for an educational tour. Arranged by EF Education Tours, the tour took them through Milan, Venice, Florence, Cinque Terre, and many other towns. For most of the students this had been the first time they had traveled to Europe. T.R. Laputka, MMI technology director, and Michael Mele, Science Department Chair and Science instructor, led the private group. Read increasingly ... Not Just Another Club By Allison McGeehan MMI Senior When I first joined FBLA three years ago, I had no idea how much of an impact it would have on my life. Just inward my freshman year of upper school, I really didn’t know much well-nigh FBLA, other than the fact it was a club to add to my résumé, and it focused on business, a topic that I was whence to think well-nigh pursuing in the future. Flash-forward to sophomore year when I participated in the competitive event ofMerchantryCommunications and was fortunate unbearable to qualify to compete at both the State LeadershipPrimingin Hershey and the National LeadershipPrimingin Chicago. At this point, I was well enlightened of the benefits and opportunities stuff a member of FBLA provided me, not just in terms of merchantry education, but in developing leadership qualities and having the opportunity to network with motivated students and professionals from virtually the country. Read increasingly ... An UnforgettableWitsBy Garrett Kost MMI Junior At MMI, we pride ourselves with practical and useful knowledge through using both in the classroom and in real life. But little do we unquestionably get to test the latter. For me, a student of the German language and culture for three years, the worthiness to try out my skills is limited to my matriculation or those rare occasions where one can speak in German a little or barely at all. In my opinion, one can study a language for many years, but until you use it in conversation with a native speaker, you could never plane think of rhadamanthine fluent. Finally, my endangerment came with this trip. While there, I could practice my skills and see how well I do. Read increasingly ...Increasinglythan Just a School By Taylor Peluso 2016MatriculationPresident When I started at MMI in the 7th grade, graduation seemed like a far off milestone. Today, it’s just 6 short months away!Nonflexibleto believe that the higher using process is well-constructed and next year at this time, I’ll be wrapping up my first semester in college. Read increasingly ... The Connected Classroom By Justin VincentComputer Science Instructor Technology has drastically reverted our society in the last 20 years. The ease with which we can now wangle and distribute information is unprecedented and it has fundamentally impacted the way we live our lives and, increasingly specifically, educate our children. The online resources misogynist for students and teachers are phenomenal and the speed with which we can communicate is amazing. From learning management systems, to video tutorials and lessons, to online assessments, to virtual field trips, technology has given us the worthiness to engage students in new and heady ways every day. Read increasingly ... Study Habits By Madison Below School Counselor Learning good study habits in middle school assists students well into their upper school years and beyond. By understanding how to manage time, information, and materials, students proceeds the skills they need to be organized, efficient learners who have a toolkit of strategies for completing their homework on a nightly basis. This leads to them stuff largest equipped to tackle assessments in the classroom and can reduce test uneasiness while increasing conviction and competence. Read increasingly ... Summer + Art = FUN By Lisa FerryArt Instructor Ah, it's finally summer. Time to kick when and enjoy the nice weather, finally. What largest way to do that than to grab your tunes, a beverage, and for me, my sketchbook, paints, and canvas. With no pressure from classes, grades, or getting up early (yes, us teachers finger the same as you students), I can experiment with techniques with no time constraints. Read increasingly ... School is out for summer, but staying zippy is in! By Jason TribbetAthletic Director If you listen closely, kids everywhere are cheering as summer vacation is underway.Withouta long school year, it’s finally time to sleep in, lie on the couch, play video games, and watch television… right? While everyone needs to relax a little and reservation their vapor from all the nonflexible work the school year brings, staying zippy and exercising should be part of everyone’s daily routine throughout the summer. It is recommended that kids get 60 minutes of physical worriedness every day. Studies have shown that physical worriedness improves smart-ass function and can help students modernize academically. So now that school is out and we no longer have physical education classes to help us stay active, how can we prevent kids from rhadamanthine sedentary? Read increasingly ... It's summertime By Tim GarveyScience Instructor One of my favorite songs growing up when I was a kid was tabbed Summertime. It’s summertime…summertime…sum…sum…summertime! For me the key word stuff “time.” As a student and teacher of Physics, we talk a lot well-nigh what time is and how it is measured. We have created many variegated types of clocks to measure it. We have moreover learned from Einstein, that time can be experienced in a relative way. One of the neat things well-nigh the world we live in is that nature allows us to measure time in many variegated ways in a daily manner and seasonal manner. Read increasingly ... Taking Time to See the Road Ahead By Michael MeleMMI Science InstructorMatriculationbegins at 5:45 A.M., so don’t be late! I show up for matriculation long surpassing my students do. Not literally, of course, but my mind is once running in teacher mode from minute one. The first thing I do is trammels my phone for email messages. You know, every now and then, something strikes a student as urgent at 2:15 A.M. I need to be overly vigilant! Then I go to the news and my mind is once meshing the events of the morning with my biology, anatomy, and marine science classes. Viruses are, of course, a hot topic and I think of how the morning’s news can be integrated into the classroom. What are students’ concerns? How can I make the world virtually them make sense to them in relation to what we are doing? In marine biology, it’s “why a horseshoe crab’s thoroughbred could save your life” and in torso it’s “guzzling milk might uplift your risk of breaking bones.” There’s unchangingly something to requite significance to what we do in class; you’ve just got to have your vision open. Read increasingly ... Why I'm happy I was the "new student" By Lauren Toscano11th Grade Student I have never been a new student. I went to the same school from kindergarten to eighth grade, and then I started at a upper school in ninth grade, just like everyone else. I had new teachers and things like that, but all the other people in my grade did, too, so it wasn't really that scary. I started MMI in eleventh grade, and I guess I was nervous well-nigh the transpiration — I figured it would be a harder school where everyone knew each other, and I would never be worldly-wise to reservation up. However, I was profoundly surprised. Read increasingly ... How to Have a Meaningful Parent-TeacherPrimingBy Grete DeAngeloMMI Social Science Instructor As a teacher and parent, I've been on both sides of the sedentary for conferences. Some have been increasingly successful than others, and I've come to the conclusion that it's the preparation earlier that makes the difference. I'd like to offer a few tips on how you, as a parent, can get the most helpful information from your child's teachers on parent-teacher priming day. Read increasingly ... Winning At All Cost By Jason TribbetMMI Athletic Director It was a nice summer evening and I was in line to get an ice surf at a local shop. A family was in front of me with two young boys dressed in their baseball uniforms. They must have been well-nigh 8 years old. When they got to the front of the line, the woman taking orders greeted them and then asked them a question. It was not, “What would you like?” or “How are you today?” The first thing she asked them was, “Did you win your game?” Read increasingly ... Prioritizing the Planner By Madison BelowMMI Mid School Counselor My mom jokes that I’ve been using a planner since kindergarten. And quite honestly, if the option existed (and if I unquestionably got homework when I was five years old), I probably would have. I suppose it’s fitting that I stress the importance of using a planner in my Mid School Group Counseling classes on a daily basis. While I know the strategy of recording assignments, goals, and important events may not be practical for everyone, I finger it is a hair-trigger skill for pre-teens to learn and implement. Read increasingly ... This Is Why I Teach By Grete DeAngeloMMI Social Science Instructor I don't do it for the money. So many students tell me, "I don't know what I want to do, but I want to make a lot of money." Well, the money won't midpoint much if there's no meaning in what you do. I don't do it for the recognition. A lot of days, I only get recognized for stuff a taskmaster. My students have straight-out asked me, "If you have a master's stratum from a unconfined school, what are you doing teaching?" Read increasingly ... Surviving AP: Parent Edition By Katherine ZuccoMMI Social Sciences Instructor All parents want their children to succeed at MMI, but some may not be sure how to help when their children enroll in the AP program. For this blog, teachers at MMI brainstormed together and created this quick guide to “Surviving AP” for parents. Perhaps the weightier starting point is sharing a culture of optimism well-nigh school. This can be difficult to do if we hold on to our own negative experiences from our past, so it is important to stay positive as your children encounter new challenges or perceived setbacks in the AP curriculum. A child can hands obsess over a mistake, but when you help your children focus on the rewards of effort and progress, they will learn how to alimony mistakes and uncertainty in perspective. Read increasingly ... All In This Together By Emily SeratchClass President,Matriculationof 2015 I can't believe it’s my senior year already. Some people have been waiting for this time to come for years, but I've been trying to slow it down. It's crazy to think this is my last year walking the halls of MMI. I can remember walking through the glass doors for the first time six years ago. It was a new wits that, thankfully, I didn't have to go through alone. Read increasingly ... Success On and Off the Field By Jason TribbetMMI Athletic Director If you enjoy playing sports as much as I do, then I don’t need to tell you why playing sports will goody you not only now but the rest of your life. I have sports to thank for some of the weightier memories I have growing up. Playing reservation with my dad in the backyard, playing football on a tomfool fall day with my friends, or just transmissible up with friends who I met while playing higher baseball … those are just a few of the fond memories that I have considering I played sports growing up. Read increasingly ... MMI: Where Everybody Knows Your Name By Grete DeAngeloMMI Social Studies Instructor I live in a small town and I love it. So many students tell me they can’t wait to get out of this area, but I was one of those who never wanted to leave. In the summers, I walk early in the morning and I pass the same people on their own walking routes every day. It is unusual for me to momentum or walk lanugo Main Street and see anyone who doesn’t at least squint familiar. Going to MMI is like walking in a small town. There are 250 students and I know scrutinizingly every one of them by name. The ones whose names I don’t know or I haven’t yet taught are kids whose faces are familiar, so much so that whenever we have a shadow student visiting, I notice right yonder that there’s someone new in the halls. Read increasingly ... Advancing MMI with Your Help By Kim McNultyMMI Director ofUrgingWhen I joined the MMI family as the Director of Admissions and Financial Aid in 2007, I was thrilled to be joining a team that stood for educational excellence. Despite not stuff from this area, I quickly learned the integral role that MMI had played in the lives of so many people. Those people were now bringing their children to MMI. My role was well specified and my job was clear-cut: recruit students to MMI and walk families through the admissions and financial aid processes. In 2011, I moved into a newly worked position at MMI as the Director of Advancement. When I heard well-nigh the job opening, my first thought was “What the heck is advancement?” To this day, that’s still the first question anyone asks me when I mention what I do for a living. Read increasingly ...HigherVisitation Advice from MMI Preparatory School By Stephanie Shandra MMIHigherAdmissions Counselor As the school year winds down, many MMI students and families whence or in the throes of the higher planning process, start to plan out higher visits. In fact, one of the most important parts of your higher research is the campus visit, and it is highly salubrious to uncork the visit process the summer without sophomore year. Visiting colleges on your list will requite you a firsthand impression of the students, faculty, staff, facilities, and programs. On a visit you can learn what the ticket office is looking for in its applicants, proceeds a feeling for the wonk and social atmosphere, see the study/living/ recreation facilities, talk with students, and get a sense of the surrounding community. Read increasingly ... Shared Summer Reading By Nancy LotzEnglish Instructor I spent this school year teaching Introduction to Literary Analysis to MMI eighth-graders.Withoutcareful reading, we talked and wrote well-nigh novels, a play, short stories, and poetry. I was astonished by the unrestrictedness and depth of our discussions. Completely unprepared for the idea that I would be learning from them, I happily found myself telling my students, then and again, “I’ve never thought of it that way!” Now that the school year is over, I hope that you will squint upon your child’s summer reading (both required and for pleasure) not as a chore, but as an opportunity to learn with and from your child. Read increasingly ... Counselor's Corner   Considering MMI? 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