VHP Student Spotlight: Michaela Coplen

Posted on by pasinha

The following is an interview conducted with Michaela Coplen, a fellow VHP’er! She shares how her prior experiences led her to the Vassar Haiti Project, along with a poem that she wrote in honor of her trip to Gerin, Haiti.
 
Jenga, by lantern light
for the people of Gerin, Haiti
Nearby mamá learns a tree timber to bend around her body
and girls fill the spaces between their teeth with coconut and smiles

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Just because you’ve done it, doesn’t mean you’re good at it

Posted on by Kathleen Susman

The “been there, done that” mentality is very limiting. And it’s all too common. Our students say that when they might have done a single lab in high school biology

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Picturing Democracy: Portraits in the 19th Century

Posted on by beorlinsky

Today’s post comes from Olivia Zisman, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
On Friday, April 10th, the Art Center’s current exhibition, Through the Looking Glass: Daguerreotype Masterworks from the Dawn of Photography, opened with a lecture by John Wood, one of the premier historians of early photography, and author of several books on daguerreotypes that are widely recognized as landmark publications

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Running Out of Time

Posted on by Kathleen Susman

Think about how you learn something well. It takes time, right? Time spent reading; time spent thinking about what you read; time spent re-reading; time spent practicing. Practicing a way of thinking

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Running Out of Time

Posted on by Kathleen Susman

Think about how you learn something well. It takes time, right? Time spent reading; time spent thinking about what you read; time spent re-reading; time spent practicing. Practicing a way of thinking

Link to original post in Teaching Tales

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