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2008 Best Practices Forum: Going Green and Online Social Networking

The Potomac School 1301 Potomac School Road, McLean, VA, United States

Program Summary Going Green   Online Social Networking PCW hosted a best practices program at The Potomac School featuring two topics: Going Green and Online Social Networking. Going Green included two presentations: one about sustainability practices in place at Madeira School and a second presentation from Sidwell Friends School about their new middle school building. […]

2008 Fall Representative Roundtable

The Bullis School , United States

Program Summary Online Social Networking Fred Haller from Georgetown Visitation gave a very entertaining but sobering talk about online social networks. He noted that most people don’t realize that when a person accepts Facebook’s terms and conditions, they give Facebook ownership of everything they post – every word, picture or idea.He gave the group some […]

2009 Upper School Student Leader Breakfast

Georgetown Preparatory School 10900 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD, United States

Program Summary Fifty-three juniors and seniors representing 26 independent schools from the Washington metropolitan area met at the PCW’s annual Student Leadership Breakfast to discuss issues affecting today’s high school students. To encourage candor and respect privacy, very few adults were present and students were assured anonymity. The students participated in both large and small […]

2009 Best Practices Forum: Students and Stress: Causes and Solutions

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart 9101 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, United States

Program Summary "Students and Stress: Causes and Solutions" Over forty Representatives from 23 member schools attended the PCW’s annual Best Practices program last month. The topic was “Students and Stress.” Three school counselors representing lower, middle and upper school gave presentations on identifying and alleviating stress at the various grade levels. Mary Power, the lower […]

2009 Deans’ Luncheon

The Holton-Arms School , United States

Program Summary Seventeen high school Deans of Students from PCW member schools in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. gathered for our second annual Deans Lunch to discuss the concerns raised by the students at our Student Leader Breakfast. The issues associated with new technology generated much discussion. The deans had a lively exchange of ideas […]