Middle School students and faculty all participated in a design thinking project related to Counting By 7s, their summer reading book written by Holly Sloan. Their goal was to have students reflect of who they are and what matters most to them and to share that with a cohort of their peers across grade levels. Head Advisers, Dion Lehman, Kate Cassidy, and Bayard Templeton, developed the program to be a great community building exercise. "The entire school was involved in the same activity, and a major part of that activity was to get to know someone in a new and deeper way. The activity required students to model many parts of our mission statement, from being confident in expression to being collaborative in action," reports Lehman, "Our hope is that as students and teachers get more comfortable with the defined Design Thinking process and the terminology, it will continue to be a tool our middle school teachers encourage students to use to approach solutions to questions and problems."
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