Art in schools brings joy, fosters creativity and increases engagement.
A brand new comprehensive study of preschool finds significant drawbacks to pushing academics too early.
Scientific understanding of how the brain influences the body — and the body influences the brain — is shedding light on the role movement plays in learning and memory. 
New studies show that a teacher educating the same group of students in multiple subjects over multiple years (looping) has lasting benefits. 
Thanks to your purchases through the Cedarwood Bookshop, we’ve been able to add 24 new titles to our collection in the early childhood program, and over 60 books in our grades classes.
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New research shows that award winning scientists — and especially Nobel Prize winners — are far more likely to have artistic hobbies than the general public. Many of them, including Einstein, cite the role of the arts in their breakthroughs. 
New research highlights the fascinating things that happen with your brain when you work with your hands.
Cedarwood students don’t have to run away to join the circus — they just have to run to school!
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With increasingly rapid changes in technology and the nature of work, employers are interested not just in intelligence and social skills, but in an employee’s adaptability quotient–their ability to adapt to new challenges with flexibility, curiosity, problem-solving, courage, and resilience.
New research indicates that access to the outdoors during childhood is strongly associated with happiness, mental health, and wellbeing in adulthood. 
Our approach to media literacy gives Cedarwood graduates the tools and knowledge they need to be independent, creative, and ethical digital citizens. 
To solve the environmental crisis, or any of the other ecological, economic, social and political crises we face, we need to foster the power of imagination in education.
We find ourselves continually inspired and determined to build this program in a way that serves the students in our community with comprehensive, equitable support for the diversity of learners before us.
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While developing research papers on scientists who we think have helped change the world, the seventh grade has also been talking about how scientists (and all of us) need to be observant of the world around them in order to truly see, experience, define, and know what is there.
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It’s impossible for us to know everything, and things are always changing. But we can learn to be curious, and know how to ask the questions that lead us to consider new ideas.
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The beginning of the school year is always a time for remembering and rebuilding healthy school rhythms and routines.
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Writing helps students grapple with, understand, and remember complex concepts in a wide range of academic subjects.
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As artificial intelligence creates economic disruption, what skills will students need to be successful in the future?
Being able to see the big picture and do complex systems thinking. Emotional intelligence, including empathy and intuition. The ability to dream up creative new ideas. The ability to build, test, and refine your ideas. And most importantly, the ability to learn new things and adapt to new situations.
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With the unexpected changes and hardships we have faced this past year, some may wonder: how can we prevent our children from feeling the stress and anxiety that this past year has caused? As with our general approach to early childhood education, the answer is quite simple: rhythm, rest, protection & time.
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One of the best scientific predictors for how a child turns out, in terms of happiness, academic success, and meaningful relationships, is whether adults in their life consistently show up for them. Our teachers strive to see and recognize each of their students, greeting them each morning individually, and working with them over multiple years to build on their unique strengths and meet their individual challenges so that they can thrive.
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