question of the segment is what grade levels from what grade to what grade is the school it's from seventh to twelfth grade and is it all girls all boys or suppose it's but all boys isn't this sort of a boarding school yeah they have boarding and they also have a student there so it's both chilling knife because a lot of the kids your main goal just like a regular school and i would like the lunchroom only go so all the senora because yeah we went off in our little fantasies so your a day student right so why don't you tell us a little more about the cafeteria where if you guys like to call it big dessert for us and she really and i think there's a lot of like for like fruit there's many they always make sure to have food there and lemonade so you always have them so about how big of a school is it like how many students or how many staff members do you think like i was going to ask you if you like personally know that the chefs and the bakers there because you guys were pretty close knit family i don't personally know them but i've talked to them a lot and they're really nice  you know the teachers and like the administrators at your school well actually going back to the question about the lunch or what as i said like this is like a home with all the boarders and they always mean all together so the teachers and i'm going to call from my teachers because they get to call them by the full name the first name it's really nice to have that ability to just be really close with like teachers and act like they're like parents to you so talk to you a little bit more about the borders i only got bored but can you tell us a little bit about the boarding process like how many days per week to the border steady do they go home on the weekends or they can go home on the weekends if they want usually they try to make you stay at school for just a long period of time just to get to know the school and you don't a lot of the boarders there they don't like to go home that much it's literally like home because they do like go through and they have their own groceries they just go to the chinese people so they also go to like chinese stores and china shops and clothing stores and they do all these things on the weekends for the boarders don't really go home that much but when they do they're able to on spring and go to anywhere they want and it's come back into really nice to have that ability but yeah so when you say that they go like on grocery runs someone drives them there or i mean if you're in high school you can most have course our a college prep school but we define our mission much broader than that we are really thinking about how to help students become productive active in gage happy adults for the rest of their life so what is your background and why do you want to become the school so my background i was in graduate school that machine state university working on a ph d in modern british history and needed to leave that because i needed a full time job because i had three young children started working in admissions became much more interested in working in admissions and providing access to college then i did teaching history so i stayed in missions for a number of years at michigan state and then can't state in ohio back at michigan state and i literally fell into a job at an independent girls school in shaker heights ohio law school i was there for about fifteen years doing admissions and then becoming assistant head i was assistant head for three years and had reached a point where i thought it would be interesting to we are a college prep school i think we do a very good job in preparing young and women for college but i really think the strength of summer school and what makes us distinctive is the environment we've created and we have created a place where young men and women can be who they are they can be their authentic selves they can be accepted for who they are and that's a pretty magical environment to come of age and reach adulthood being someplace where you don't have to put on a mask whe been a great place to work and grow and it's been a great life i love it hundred thirty students in the school there's a small middle school of seventy eighth graders those are all day students and one through twelfth grade has about two hundred fifteen kids in it and those are both day and boarding kids from the local area as well as from a variety of states in the u s and from a variety of countries so how she so we're really looking for students who are would be interesting to think of myself first and foremost as a teacher so i want to do and i would love to work with in the classroom who are engaged and insightful and curious that's really fun for me so we certainly look for that we were writing students here and we have students who take three four a p classes each semester and we also have kids who might need a little support in terms of language based learning differences or they just need some help with executive functioning organizational structures and so we have support programs in place to help those there's tons of support available for all students no matter what kind of classes they're taking or what their abilities part of the principal of the school is that the teachers and students should be engaging a lot in and out of class that we should be available to them and ready to provide help for them with whatever they need then we also look for kids who are going to contribute in some way around campus you know you're a wonderful actress so that was something that was attractive about you coming to so very you are when you can contribute for an athletic field or in the corps or in the band or something like that and then above all else in some ways we want people we have a certain values system here and a certain way we like to treat people who engage each other and we want people who are going to perpetuate that so what led me to become they asked that was not something i saw myself doing and i think one of the things that makes the school kind of unique is that it does for both young people and adults that it is senses when there's talent or maybe an ability to do something and encourages you know does you and gives you the opening to sort of explore those kind of interests and maybe find something in yourself that you didn't know was there and so that's what happened to me i was not looking to be and the missions they sort of encourage me to get a shot  what i don't know that i would say that it's the right school for me and i think it's the right school for a lot of kids and so for me as the director of admissions in some ways it's all about finding the right fit so there are certainly things i love about it's all very school i've been here a long time i plan on being here for a long time going forward so if you're a student who likes to ask questions and enjoys that and who wants to be part of a community where you can be appreciated and where your thoughts and opinions matter where you can have a voice in class and we can have the opportunities to engage in a variety of activities then this could be a great place for you there's a bigger better for everybody not necessarily but does it make it absolutely the right place for some ve made me think about the world and my values and my morals marry me differently i learned about many different people's values and the way they think and i like and like that i was able to learn about different people's ways the way they think and the teacher has really made me comfortable so the campus college feeling what do you like best about i like that we're able to walk around outside especially in the spring when it's hot i like walking outside and in the winter it's cold but i especially like it in the spring in the fall when it's warm outside and were able to walk around from class to class from building to building so do you think that i'm still the pair of you for your ne college the teachers have an ingrained in my brain the different things that they've taught me and i remember i remember the things that they've taught me since this till this year which i've been here for three years so i remember things from freshman year so that's what i like ok what about you know i feel that definitely prepares me for college and speaking as a senior i feel like i've definitely learned all i need to know about preparing for my next steps and the classes are definitely very engaging and inspirational for future careers  i felt that my teachers are always there to help are always there to provide moral support as well as academic support and speaking always get in choir i always did sketches for camp and was a big giant ham as you can imagine but i was in my choir director asked me to audition for fiddler on the roof when i was in tenth grade and i got the then i was just talked t second i stepped on that stage that was it for me in an instant i'd pay played a million different sports and i was into all different things and then that was where the trajectory took off oh why don't we teach here i was teaching at a big public school locally close by and i love that job it was great but they don't have there was nowhere near the support for the arts so they have here which is understandable there are a lot of big budget issues but when i came here and it was expressed to me how they were going to handle the arson why would i be allowed to teach and the different programs we had here i fell in love instantly and couldn't wait to work here so that's why i came here so how do you think it's keeping teaching that hope came here i think well you can speak to this year because you've taken my classes that i think i like to make sure my my biggest priority is you can really learn anything unless you are comfortable and you're having a good time and you feel that you're never made to feel foolish or not good enough i think it's really important that you feel like you are there are for the big picture and for yourself so it doesn't turn into all this pressure on yourself so i think my particular method of trying to approach it with a no matter what your talents are because that's very subjective you should be able to learn and have fun with in this environment is i really think theater benefits everybody twenty from that school that are pursued professionally and even the worst smaller school here in my five years here probably eight to ten kids are pursuing it professionally making a living so that's really funny yeah that's really cool  is been a recent kind of explosion in interest in applying the stuff we learned in the classroom to all of technology and products that are out there in the real world so they've realized that it's not just your math class and just your science class but really trying to put it all together so science technology engineering and math all those letters put together makes that acronym which is called stem and a lot of people are still trying to learn how to best introduce that in the school but we know that there's all these new toys there's robotics there's computer programs that are a lot easier to use than they ever have been before and there are concepts that you can have students from middle school through high school already exploring even before you start to apply the math equations to them that allow you to build and make really neat things and that i think has been the power of it so the fact that we have computers in every classroom and here it's all very we can wheel in a whole classrooms where the computers we have access to all our fancy science lab equipment now we can actually do math modeling so we can actually do a chemical reaction and th uses some of the old periodic table chemistry fundamentals and we can start talking about how you make something like plastic and how you put it together to make an object and then you can combine that with your physics principles and of course we do physics ninth grade here it's all very so that we can take the concepts of force and how things can withstand force and not fall apart and then we can apply that to our chemistry class or fozzy class in our later classes and you can use that the think about things that you've already done in your school like physics and forces and how they apply with materials that come from chemicals and chemistry to make bridges and structures and three d printing and how you can make little objects just by putting the right material in the right shape so the resources that are available to school students today and the capability to combine it with the science book knowledge that we already kind of are good at  thinking about and teaching and doing homework problems how you put that all together is how you kind of can grow people that not just can do equations and solve problems but can actually apply concepts to making the stuff that the world doesn't happen yet so the next i pad will be made by someone who really understood how you can use the basic technology and apply it to solve a problem that is still out there in the world that didn't exist like how can we read emails from our telephones twenty years ago that wasn't a question people had and people with real strong understanding of science and math and technology were able to say hey we can actually do that now and then apply that so that's the power of stan the concept and two that's actually the cool thing about how high schools and middle schools all over the place are really trying to take hold and figure out the best way to bring it all together so that hopefully you as a student lingers i think spanish and it's over there is three languages offered here there's spanish french and mandarin and i chose spanish because i encounter a lot of people in my life that speak there's a lot of different reasons i want to i wanted to attend so very school but when i first came to celebrate a tour i just like fell in love with the school i mean how could i not but i just saw how welcoming this community  was and how strong it was and how diverse this student body was and that really stood out to me i also really enjoyed the student and teacher relationship and how  amazing and unique that is i loved a lot of different things but i think the most important what is was when i came home after that day i was smiling like i have never done before about school and i think that's really important because if you're not like loving a school then i don't i just think that you really need to love school and when i really helps each individual student become who they are and it really creates a lot of critical thinking and it's really helped me become really independent and with the freedom they give you you really take those are freed that that freedom and really use it in ways that you're not able to do another school thank you then and will be them hi look back again the student and my sister was so helpful she just didn't hesitate and like saying ok i'll deal with you so we said like per year together and we were throwing around ideas because really what happened is us like how can we make it unique so we decided to split it up and into three sections when i first started actually having to find the people for the magazine and figuring out how to make the layout it got pretty difficult because first of all if you contact who do you want in this magazine that's like the biggest part and actually having the back of doris things happen people email you back and some people just like you i'd love to you and you send a follow up and they're like no response so that's one of the hardest part and then the second hardest part was doing the layout because like most this is my sister and i and like we have a graphic designer so my sister was like doing the graphics i was trying to take up all these interviews it was kind of  the getting started was definitely rough but we learned from makers like the first issue we were up to like when the morning like fixing things for you put it out and then really looking for the second one we have it so much more organized so definitely difficult but like worth it in the end without him i was really