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This site will no longer be updated. We hope to see you at the new location for the Lumen blog. You’ll find us here: https://www.gilman.edu/community/lumen
This site will no longer be updated. We hope to see you at the new location for the Lumen blog. You’ll find us here: https://www.gilman.edu/community/lumen
By Lower School Spanish Teacher Cecilia Eppler: When our Lower School (LS) boys learned that the Monarch butterfly population has decreased almost 90% in the last two decades, our LS environmental club, the Greenhounds, decided to take action to help these amazing creatures. They decided to create a milkweed garden in which the monarchs could…
By Archivist Johanna Schein, Middle School Library Assistant Catherine Harris, and Jordan Bonardi ’20. One hundred years after the November 11, 1918 Armistice, we look back at Gilman’s contribution to the Great War. More than 100 Gilman alumni, faculty, and trustees served in World War I. Three Gilman alumni were killed in action overseas and…
Guest Post by College Guidance Counselor Anna Follensbee: Senior Encounter is the capstone of the Gilman experience. Senior Encounter is designed to expose the students to different jobs and careers, and to the working world. Once seniors finish classes and take exams in mid-May they spend two weeks at an Encounter worksite. Fields have included business, law, finance, engineering, the arts, medicine, public service,…
Guest post by third grade teachers Jennifer Reiter and Zaccai Williams: During Day of Discovery, boys experienced the Lewis and Clark Expedition and participated in some of the activities that the Corps of Discovery may have gone through as they traveled across the continent. The day started with Gilman School Head Henry Smyth channeling President Jefferson…
Guest post by Director of Lower School Admissions Mary Furrer: How will you keep your little ones busy and entertained over the holiday break? Fine motor skills are associated with the dexterity and coordination of the small muscles and movement of the hands and fingers. These skills are important for four and five year olds.…
Guest post by 3C teacher Zaccai Williams: Recently my third grade class paired up with Mrs. Lisa Whittaker at the Bolton School in Bolton, U.K. to do a lesson on community cartography. Every community is composed of social, environmental and spatial elements; however, we often stop paying attention to these features because they are so familiar.…
Guest post by Dr. Armistead Webster: Lower School boys learn about empathy and community every day. We encourage them to imagine being in someone else’s shoes and to remember they are members of various communities – their classroom, the Lower School, Gilman, Baltimore, and beyond.
Guest Post by Matt Herman and Justin Baker: The college search process is an exciting journey. College campuses are vibrant places where interesting scholars are busy doing important and fascinating work. To visit these places is to imagine oneself in the future, as “studying this” and “doing that” in a specific place and time. This act…
Guest post by Johanna Schein, Gilman Archivist: Over the course of the year, Ms. Reiter’s third grade class has been getting an insider’s look at Gilman School history. By analyzing photographs, objects, and documents in the Gilman Archives, students have learned about Gilman’s past as well as the value of a primary source in research. To culminate the year-long partnership between…
While most schools have dropped woodshop in recent decades, Gilman offers a comprehensive design and woodworking program that begins in Prep-One and continues into Upper School. Along the way students learn about materials, develop their math skills, and are introduced to engineering and design principles. All students take woodshop through 7th grade. Lower School boys learn…
Guest post by Tickner Writing Fellow Thea Brown: Maybe it’s fitting that National Poetry Month happens in April, full of rain and clinging winter, cut through by bright days of tulips and pink dogwoods. April often can’t decide what it is. Does this “cruelest month” signal transition? Is it a battle? Shifting prelude to May’s more…
Guest post by classics teacher Sarah Miller: This spring the Upper School Classics Club traveled to Easton, MD for the Maryland Junior Classical League State Convention. This was MDJCL’s final event of the year, where high school students from across Maryland came together to compete in academic competitions, socialize, and connect with other students who share an interest in Latin and…
Every April 15th we are reminded of the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Though the years, accounts of the disaster credit and source one of the primary pieces of non-fiction written on the subject, A Night To Remember, by Gilman’s own Walter Lord. […]
Guest post by Cameron Haire ‘18: With more than 70 clubs on campus, you might think that every possible interest is covered, but last year Meritt Wiggin, Matthew Mu and I came up with an idea for a new club to bring alternative horticulture to Gilman. We focused on hydroponics, a method of growing plants without…