Jan 2023 Cover Art by Gloria Hoskins To download the pdf of this issue, click here: Gravitas Chronicles, Vol. 2. Rekindling a Flame By Ifra Ishaq High school is a crucial period in a student’s life, laying the foundation for their future academic and career aspirations. However, this period can also be incredibly stressful, with […]
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Gravitas is pleased to announce a partnership with Cornerstone College Cambridge, a Christian high school that has been providing Canadian and British coursework to high-aspiration students for over a decade. In partnership with Gravitas, CCC will now be able to offer a US diploma program and prepare their students for selective US university and college
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The Gravitas Character Formation Program consists of daily lessons, challenges, and reflections on the virtues. Here are some examples of lessons on justice. Purchase an annual subscription to the Character Formation Program for yourself or for a loved one. Lesson 2.01 – What is justice? What is justice? This is one of the oldest, most
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Gravitas students grow in character and leadership by doing real work – work that would not get done if they did not do it. They work on important projects with a diverse group of peers who are united in a common purpose and shared projects. While faculty mentors supervise their work, the projects are student
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This past year, Gravitas adopted a House system. Each student belongs to a house composed of students from all grade levels, and each house has faculty leaders, who also serve as the advisors from members of the house. The houses each have a mascot drawn from Christian art and symbolism and representing different geographic locations
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The Stony Brook School’s Gravitas program is excited to announce a new interactive, project-based, live online class for students in the US, Korea, and Australia in grades 1-6: Sustainable Social Entrepreneurship. In this class, which launched Friday, January 6th, 43 students are working with their peers from different countries to design solutions to the United
Over the past two weeks, teacher social media feeds, email inboxes, and lunchroom conversations have been dominated by discussion about the discovery of the grand scale Turing Test students have been subjecting teachers to without their knowledge using Open AI’s ChatGPT. The math teachers, who had the scales fall from their eyes a few years
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Gravitas is pleased to announce a new partnership with the National High School Ethics Bowl to help the NHSEB increase access to the Ethics Bowl by hosting an online regional bowl and provided resources and coaching to students who cannot participate due to geographic location or lack of school resources. The National High School Ethics
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In just a few weeks, millions of Ukrainian students will be returning to school, but many will not be returning to the schools they attended prior to the Russian invasion. In many cases, families and teachers have fled west to western Ukraine, to other European countries, or even to the US. Some of their schools
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