Hawken Middle School: Lincoln Hall
Lincoln Hall on Hawken’s Lyndhurst campus houses our Middle School students, grades six through eight. The main entrance of the Middle School opens to Lincoln Lobby, a vast common space that serves a multitude of purposes, from class projects to student presentations and displays to community gatherings.
As you move beyond Lincoln Lobby and walk through Hawken’s Middle School, you may notice that there are few hallways. Instead, the building is structured around identical clusters of classrooms called “pods,” one for each grade level. These pods were intentionally designed to provide opportunities for your child to connect and converse within his or her grade-level community.
While there are times when it is advantageous and appropriate to gather as an entire Middle School community, the pods provides students in each grade their own space. And because the entire grade can be seated in the pod common areas students can gather to address logistics or to discuss a particular issue at hand. In this environment, your child and with his or her classmates will be called upon to become problem solvers and to take ownership in defining the culture and character of their community.
As one teacher put it, “Pods promote the idea in each grade level of having a space that’s just yours. Our sixth graders have a space where they can just be sixth graders and our eighth graders have a space where they can just be eighth graders. It gives them a nice freedom to just wear the skin that they’re wearing. And sixth graders and eighth graders are really different people.”
Faculty Profile: Jim Scully, Humanities Teacher
"The individual grade-level pods in the Middle School are at the heart of our daily interaction with students. They are the hub in which kids attend their core classes, yet more than this, they are the places where we get to know students as individuals outside the academic arena. Pod meetings with every member of the class present offer information, updates, and chances to celebrate and laugh on a daily basis.
I think one of my favorite parts of the day has become the early morning. I've taken to seating myself at a table near the middle of our seventh grade pod and I can greet every student as they start their school day with inquiries about everything under the sun: from how their sports team did the day before, to how much snow might be coming our way, to how the Cavs played last night.
We are lucky to have physical space that supports and builds our relationships with kids. The strength of these relationships has a tremendously positive correlation to our work with students within the classroom."
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Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
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