Fall 2017 has arrived and we are off to a wonderful start!
After an enthusiastic move-in and an opening meeting welcome from SEGL board Vice Chair Paige Cottingham-Streater, our students met their first leadership challenge of the semester: to decide as a group between three separate DC expeditions without any guidance from our faculty.
This past week the Congressional showdown over health care grabbed headlines across the country. Across the street from the showdown, our students were paying attention, and the results created memorable learning–and photo–opportunities.
The 2004 PBS Frontline documentary <em>Ghosts of Rwanda</em> is an SEGL rite-of-passage. Since our first term, the powerful film has captivated, alarmed, and inspired our students.
In these times, information and choices come at us like water from a fire hose: fast and hard. If we wait to set our ethical compasses until the hose points our way it will be too late.
Is there a challenge more intractable than the Israeli-Palestinian dispute? The conflict is so filled with fierce misunderstanding that every word, every historical event, every intention can cause conflagration.
The “Master Class” is a signature SEGL experience: several times a term, students present and defend a “deliverable” in front of a distinguished guest expert.
They are here and they are terrific! Our Summer 2017 students began their five-week tenure in DC with icebreaking laughter, intense discussions, and an SEGL tradition called “The Infamous Skittles Scenario.
This past week, as our students juggled Social Venture Project presentations, policy document defenses, and English Credo preparations, they also made sure there was plenty of time for fellowship and laughter.
SEGL’s founding team wrote diversity into our mission statement. As powerful as diversity is here (for example, we have a need-blind admissions policy and 50% of our 2016-17 students are of color), we know that numbers alone are not enough.
What can a first or second-grader teach a high school junior? A lot, it turns out. And each Wednesday afternoon in the third floor gym at Thomson Public Elementary School, we learn more.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict may be the most notorious dispute in modern history. Not only is it apparently intractable; it also influences countless related contemporary problems.
The “Master Class” is a signature SEGL experience: several times a semester, our students present and defend a “deliverable” in front of distinguished guest experts.
Each SEGL student completes three capstone projects: the ethical Credo, the collaborative policy document, and the social venture project. Each is essential to the SEGL experience, and each tests our students’ mettle.
