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Education Reimagined: A Conversation with Cate Han and Stacey Seltzer
“My hope is that parents can strip away the fear of not conforming and reframe their thinking from ‘I hope my child will not fail in life’ to ‘I hope my child will thrive in life.’”
What Will Gen Zers Do All Day?
The chasm between the worlds of school and work will always have elements of exploration and serendipity, but schools can ameliorate the transition for learners by interweaving student agency and real work experiences throughout.
May 19, 2022
CBS News Sunday Morning: Schools without walls: Lessons in outdoor education
In autumn 2020, Hudson Lab School opened outdoors in classroom tents. See our teacher Kennon and middle schoolers learning outdoors at time stamps 3:40 and 5:35.
March 14, 2021
Innovation Showcase with Jay Sugarman: Hudson Lab School
Find out why and how the Hudson Lab School came about, how it has grown and developed and come to better understand and appreciate some of the key features of this fascinating approach to education that engages students in project-based learning, real-world exploration, collaboration and self reflection.
August 31, 2020
The Hudson Independent: Hudson Lab School Offers Project-Based Learning in a Private School Setting
“Hudson Lab School is about the joy of learning. The academics are there, and the topics are there but the speed and the way they guide themselves to learn those things is amazing. Kids are curious, and whatever it is that interests them, they’re supported in going deeper. They’re driving the experience themselves.”
December 2019
River Journal: The School Survival Kit for Parents – The Confidence Code for Girls at School
High-achieving girls often hold themselves back professionally because of their perfectionism. Rather than foster perfectionism, schools reimagined can prepare top students for their future by setting up a structure of experimentation and encouraging students to develop calculated risk taking.
October 18, 2019
Intergenerational History Lessons
Our Intergenerational Program Coordinator Joanne Corrigan shares how students gain rich history lessons from the Grands in our intergenerational setting.
October 1, 2019
What is Innovation? Part III: An Innovation & Learning Framework
Revolution School, a fellow Innovative School Cooperative school based in Philadelphia, explores innovation and how learning happens through the Innovator’s Learning Framework.
August 11, 2019
Generations United: Inter-generational Cheerleaders
An intergenerational shared site is putting the pom poms from our conference in Portland to great use! The Hudson Lab School's children and their grandfriends at Andrus on Hudson use them to cheer each other on. And their Grand Parade has become a lot more lively! We thank our friend, Joanne Corrigan, intergenerational program coordinator at Andrus on Hudson, for the update!
Digital Promise: How to Create Powerful Intergenerational Learning Experiences
Our teacher Kim Mishkin discusses how she creates powerful learning experiences through intergenerational connections and project-based learning.
June 27, 2019
The Rivertowns Enterprise: Outdoors Indoors
Students at the Hudson Lab School, a project-based elementary school located at Andrus on Hudson, unveiled a new nature nook for the nursing home’s residents last Tuesday, June 11. For the project, the school raised $4,250 through the website GoFundMe.
June 21, 2019
My World 360: United Nations & Digital Promise select Hudson Lab School Film for 360º Story Lab Media Collection
Our teachers Kate Williamson and Nick Johnson lead kindergarteners and first graders in their first 360 film production. Their film "Bringing Nature to the Grands" is selected by the United Nations and Digital Promise to be featured in the 360º Story Lab’s media collection.
April 23, 2019
Innovative Schools Cooperative
Hudson Lab School is proud to be a founding member of Innovative Schools Cooperative (ISC), a new consortium of 10 like-minded innovative schools from around the country.
April 2, 2019
Kim Mishkin selected as HP Teaching Fellow
Our teacher Kim Mishkin was selected as an HP Teaching Fellow, part of HP’s and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom initiative.
March 8, 2019
LEARNING PODS
How to Maintain Peace in Your School Pod
Have big conversations at the beginning. Be proactive about problem-solving. Consider other perspectives.
September 26, 2020
Tech & Learning: How Learning Pods are a Growing Remote Learning Trend
“Learning pods provided me with an opportunity to teach in-person with limited exposure and a more consistent schedule than other schools are currently able to provide,” says Maren Genow, a former charter and public school teacher with New York-based Learning Pods. “In a pod, I am better able to connect with my students on a deeper level than when responsible for 20+ children. Being a huge supporter of project-based learning, the curriculum philosophy was also a big draw for me. As a mother myself, I have been given the gift of a flexible planning schedule, which means more time to support my own kids in their learning.”
September 18, 2020
CBS This Morning: Pandemic Pods
“We have no interest in taking funding away from [public] schools. We want to work with them, and in fact have reached out to a number of schools.”
September 12, 2020
News 12: Hastings-based school offers learning pods for parents worried about COVID-19
“Our mission is to help as many children as possible to have access to Learning Pods and we feel the best way to do that is by working directly with schools and helping schools to form their own learning pods.”
August 19, 2020
Institute for Family Studies: COVID is Fueling Education Innovation
'“Hudson [Lab School] is not only offering “pods directly to families” but also helping schools “launch their own learning pods” to “deliver a quality education to as many children as possible,” including disadvantaged students.”
August 13, 2020
The New York Times: Know Your Pandemic Schooling Options
“Learning Pods, one of a handful of new services that help form pods and pair them with trained instructors, has been working on collaborations with public and private schools.”
August 7, 2020
The Rivertowns Enterprise: Parents ponder pods as school year nears
Pods might be safer and, some might argue, a better educational choice than putting a child in front of computer all day. But are they an equitable choice when so few can afford them? Hudson Lab School is trying to soften that line. Han said that in addition to offering financial aid, “Part of each tuition goes to a scholarship fund to make learning pods available to all people.”
August 7, 2020
WNYC: Parents and Educators Fear Learning Pods Will Exacerbate Inequality
Openbox and Hudson Lab School are “working to explore ways pods can be based in public schools or community organizations.”
September 22, 2020
The New York Times: The Rise of Pod Students
“Why should a child suffer in isolation, struggling to learn how to read through a computer, when they could thrive with a small group of peers and a real teacher instead?”
July 30, 2020