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We encourage students to make their own conjectures, and then test them and revise them. We love when our students look past the formulas and algorithms to ask: “why does this work?”

A successful student masters something new and stretches her mind. A student might obtain content and learn some facts, rules, or structures—this is mastering something new. Stretching her mind means she must also gain an understanding of complexity."

We find success when we help students to realize the power of the word yet. 'I don’t understand this' becomes 'I don’t understand this yet.'

In the arts, vigor equals passion, both in teaching the traditional and contemporary approaches to art-making, and in the kind of self-expression, dedication to craft, and focus on creativity that we try to inspire in our students."

When my students recognize that their voices and opinions are important in determining how we shape the world around us and come up with multiple solutions to problems that seem impossible, they have succeeded in learning what it is to be a future engineer and leader."

Collaboration and cooperation are hallmarks of Dana Hall culture, both in the classroom and in our broader community life. It's within a context of shared discovery, of learning with and from one another, that individual student growth and leadership are nurtured."

When students surrender to the ambiguity of learning a language, they realize that making mistakes is a needed step towards fluency. This is when students begin using circumlocution to communicate and feel a sense of accomplishment, both key to success in the classroom."

When students dive into a Performing Arts activity, they open their souls to any combination of gifts that await—in connection, in experience, in achievement."