Intensive Engagement

If you’ve had a chance to walk through Hawken's Upper School this month, you probably noticed that the traditional classroom has undergone a transformation.

In Kennedy Auditorium, students practiced stage combat under the tutelage of a Great Lakes theatre actor; in the gym, students presented workshops for Lower and Middle School students about cultural identifiers in their Leadership through Diversity intensive; in the physics lab, students presented to parent and friends their simple machine design experiments, which ranged from electric art work to a hydrostatic generator to a working model of a Dance Dance Revolution Video Pad; in the world language department, students conducted interviews entirely in Spanish with native speakers; and in the Humanities wing, students practiced their monologue projects, which were based on a partnership with Tri-C ESL immigrant students.
 
Intensive classes take place not only on Hawken’s main campus but at various locations throughout Cleveland and around the globe. This term, off-campus excursions include a 3-day trip to Nashville for “Music Playlist: The Americas;” volunteering at various service sites around Cleveland for “Homelessness;” a two-week excursion at the Island School at Cape Eleuthera Institute in the Bahamas; and a three-day Student Diversity Leadership Conference held in Tampa.
 
For more information about intensives, click here.
 
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    • Spanish students meet with Guatemalan American artist Héctor Castellanos

    • Shakespeare students stage scene from Henry V

    • Physics freshmen share machine projects

An independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school, toddler through grade 12

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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