Up to the Challenge: Sustaining Community in a Time of Isolation
"The crews we put together out of necessity for following COVID guidelines ended up being a really good thing, but at first they felt like a one-room schoolhouse and a little isolating for the students. We wondered we could make that experience one that is rich and fun. TLS...
A Gradual Graduation
Certain traditions aren’t easily replicated. The Southwest Trip is delayed. The eighth-grade Etiquette Dinner with pre-packaged place settings and virtual toasts was neat in its own way but still better when the glasses actually clink. The Bourbon County drive-in movie tribute was surreal as students watched their memories on...
Southwest Experience 2019
DAY EIGHT COMPLETE Pack and Play There are so many teaching moments on this trip, but one of our favorites is that everywhere you go you can pretty much find something beautiful and adventurous about that place. All it takes is a spirit of curiosity and vision. Today...
Building Better Biographies and A Bunch of Life Skills Too [Video & Photos]
Remember your first research paper? Hours and hours in the library, toiling over card catalogs and microfiche, scavenging the racks for sources to support your thesis, notecard after notecard written and categorized about topic on which you had little interest. Certainly, if you are a middle school student in...
Almost Time for Tim
Is it possible Tim Alford was bound for The Lexington School? It was just a matter of time? After all, he met Mary Bruce Gray ’99 at the University of the South when she was just a Freshman and he was just a Sophomore, and they’ve been together ever...
Building the Future One STEM at a Time
Building creativity, building curiosity, building confidence in STEM...this is not new to The Lexington School. Rather, STEM education has been here all along, and it happens in preschool through 8th grade every single day in classes and throughout the school in ways you might not expect. ...
Building Passions Out of OAK
What do we know about construction? There’s a lot of it going on at TLS right now, and it’s not just outside. In sixth grade, constructing projects based upon freeform research on topics of personal interest builds practical learning skills and provides evidence that finding a passion is a...
Students Show the Way on Prospective Family Day
Walk into the Fine Arts wing on November 3rd at 10:00 A.M., and you will see something you don’t see many places–It’s Prospective Family Day, and the kids are running the show. Sure, it’s typical for students to give tours around schools–colleges and high schools maybe. At TLS, the guides...
It’s the Element of Surprise: Outdoor Adventure Club [VIDEO]
What is an outdoor adventure to you? It could be running out of gas and walking a mile to the nearest station or digging a hole for a fence post and hitting a pipe that shouldn’t be hit. It might mean lying on wet grass in the backyard on...
Capstone Project: A Meaningful Collaboration [Video]
Merriam-Webster Definition of capstone. 1 : a coping stone : coping. 2 : the high point : crowning achievement. The capstone of her career. The Lexington School definition of Capstone. 1 : research project. 2 : performance 3 : meaningful and true collaboration. What does it mean to collaborate? And how do you teach...