OUR PLACE AT STEP

The first ever S.T.E.P. Parent Conference – Its On! Its this coming Saturday, November 22, 2008. I’m not expecting a sell-out crowd, and that’s a shame! The aim of the conference is to orient parents of students who are dreaming big, to the realities of engaging in a “World Class Education”- the new education policy [...]

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Dear STEP Parents,
The STEP Mission Statement indicates that we, the parents of STEP students, should “develop our fullest potential as parents, as we explore ways of becoming self-aware beings in our diverse community.” The Mission Statement goes on to say that it is our responsibility to “lead by example to equip our children to [...]

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A NEW YEAR POST FROM KEN SCHWARZ
Dear STEP Parents,
As the year 2007 approaches its end, it is important for all of us think back over the events of the year in an attempt to decide which of them influenced us the most. Was it the belated, but effective, focus on climate change? Was [...]

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Dear Parents and Students,
In this holiday season we are all so very busy. Holiday shopping, holiday meals, writing and mailing greeting cards, all of those things sometimes make us forget about the really important things. As STEP parents we have been busy selling cheesecakes, Avon products and preparing for the Cultural Day. [...]

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In advance of the reorganization of the blog, I thought it might be helpful to provide an example of the sort of thing I believe we should be discussing.
Recently, a group of students at M.I.T created an organization, the purpose of which is to create a car that will get 200 miles per gallon. [...]

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Video Games and Your Child’s Brain
Even though I asked parents to monitor the use of video game gadgets in STEP, I have come to the conclusion that this is virtually impossible. So I asked some of our students this past Saturday while we were at the Dolan center waiting to begin the DNA lab, how [...]

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