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University School of Nashville
2000 Edgehill Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee 37212
Phone: 615-321-8000
Email: info@usn.org
FAX: 615-321-0889
WWW: www.usn.org
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Admissions:
Email: admissions@usn.org
Phone: 615-327-3812
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Their Stories=Our Story
5/3/2012
by Vince Durnan
Back to campus (and in many cases, back to Nashville) they came last weekend. Alumni from years ending in “7” and "2” answered the call, making the journey from Anchorage and London, from West L.A. and East Nashville.
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In Praise of Experiential Learning
4/20/2012
by Vince Durnan
The normally high energy Middle School hallways, four grades strong and home to the constant adventure that is early adolescence, stand relatively idle this week, with the sixth graders holding the fort.
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Reminders of the Big Tent
4/5/2012
by Vince Durnan
Let me open with a reminder for you to look at the Summer Opportunity Grants announced in this newsletter issue— an amazing response to a brand new opportunity.
Now back to the topic of the week, our dear Zafar Ahmed.
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Conversation Starters
3/16/2012
by Vince Durnan
Spring break arrives this year like a lamb, and away many of us will go, by every mode of transport imaginable. With those moments in mind, it seems best to avoid an ambitious essay and go the sound bite route, hoping to prompt a conversation or plant a seed for action that may follow in a few weeks. So, did you know that:
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A Culture of Building
3/2/2012
by Vince Durnan
Our high school Habitat for Humanity club owns a build day—this Saturday, March 3. That’s the headline, but there are at least three back stories worth mention.
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Tools, Not Toys
1/26/2012
by Vince Durnan
Apple’s announcement last week, unveiling textbooks for iBooks, sparked conversations across the K-12 spectrum.
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So Long, 2011
12/16/2011
By Vince Durnan
A few of the hours may have tried our patience, but the months have clicked by, and soon we say adieu to 2011.
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Vince on Failure
12/1/2011
by Vince Durnan
We're sharing the end of a longer essay that Vince wrote for another audience. Here he discusses an article in the September 14 New York Times Magazine called “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?”, where he saw "some cause for post-modern optimism."
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Vince: Performers at Heart
11/28/2011
by Vince Durnan
School people talk a lot about the importance of performance opportunities to demonstrate and celebrate learning.
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Vince: Where This is All Headed
11/11/2011
by Vince Durnan
We regularly ask how best to measure the success of the educational experience at University School, combining student surveys, nationally normed test results, parent feedback, and trophies of all types—among many metrics available for review.
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Vince: USN as Magnet to Many
9/23/2011
by Vince Durnan
USN is a great draw. What we do brings talented students, faculty, Board members, and educational guests of all kinds to our fair campus on a delightfully recurrent basis. Let me offer a few cases in point:
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