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School Spotlight: St. Stephens Episcopal Day School

By Kelsea Watson posted 11-01-2022 06:08 PM

  

School Spotlight: St. Stephens Episcopal Day School

St. Stephen’s in Miami, Florida seeks to ignite learning, spark creativity, explore passion, and empower leaders by allowing students to investigate the world with an open mindset.


Learning at St. Stephen’s embeds empathy, problem-solving, collaboration, learning from experts and others, creativity, presentations, and reflection. St. Stephen’s designs optimum learning environments with room for risk-taking while actively practicing good citizenship. None of this would be possible without technology.

Student engagement, voice and choice, cross-curricular units, and differentiation are part of a more personalized learning experience. Equipped with an LMS, Apple devices, and Apple pencils, students can find solutions that otherwise would not be possible. Their digital toolkit is extensive to meet the needs of all, and it became essential during the pandemic. Remote learning, even though challenging at times, became a seamless process.

Students in all grades incorporate digital productions. Among others, students use moviemaking, computational thinking, green screen productions, stopmotion animation, and presentations to show their learning. They reflect on their learning in Seesaw, our digital portfolio platform. The design of all learning spaces at St. Stephen’s reflects an innovative approach to pedagogy and methodology. The most recent addition is their new Arts and Innovation Center, a proud unifying edifice to facilitate our STEAM program.

The academic leadership team continuously analyzes data to drive instruction toward the school's vision, keeping students at the center. Since the onset of our one-to-one iPad program in 2011, the school hired outside consultants and faculty members became Apple Teachers and attended many PD opportunities. In addition, faculty choose small-group PLCs annually to ensure that they hit the moving target of best practices.


About St. Stephens

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School (St. Stephen’s), is a Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5 elementary school in Miami that has proudly educated leaders of tomorrow since 1958. St. Stephen’s seeks to ignite learning, spark creativity, explore passion, and empower leaders by allowing students to investigate the world with an open mindset. Teachers facilitate student-centered learning opportunities to develop problem-solving skills, independently and collaboratively. Students have ample opportunities to use their creative thinking skills and share what they learn with authentic audiences. They become leaders by example and innovators by design.

Technology is essential to their mission of educating and inspiring children to lead by example and become forces for good in the world. The Head of School, Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, and families, collaborate to dream big. The school's 1:1 program and robust technology environment aid in delivering rich learning experiences in meaningful, purposeful, and playful ways.


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