Each year, roughly 20% of the Upper School—in three or four groups of about 20 students and several faculty members—departs Northwest for two to three weeks of intense experiences overseas. These trips offer opportunities to experience other cultures, to be immersed in other languages, to exit familiar comfort zones, to embrace a new and challenging status as “outsiders.” They form a key part of our work to nurture global perspective.
Blog: Community
April 12, 2012
On Tuesday, March 13, four NWS seniors returned to their elementary school, 
March 3, 2012
From February 6th to 17th, Northwest School hosted a group of 19 French students and two teachers from our partner school in Angers, France, the Lycée Emmanuel Mounier.
February 10, 2012
On February 18, I will travel to Singapore as part of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching program. I will return to Seattle mid-August. Each year, the Fulbright DAT program sends 18 teachers abroad to research, teach, and observe classrooms in countries throughout the world. More information about the DAT program can be found on the Fulbright website.
February 5, 2012
January 29, 2012
This past Sunday the Northwest dorm students and the wider NWS Community celebrated the Lunar New Year/Spring Festival. With the help of NWS Chef Renee O’ Harran, NWS parent Julie Little and food services member Rung Muanggan, the residential life faculty and students made dumplings, Shu Mai, and Hum Bao.
January 16, 2012
"Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from his 1964 Nobel Prize acceptance speech
December 15, 2011
December 9, 2011
Winterfest began in December 1981, so it’s easy to calculate which Winterfest this is: #31. The founding faculty of Northwest was so excited to complete the first two quints—in history!—in December 1980 that we didn’t have time to think of what to do to celebrate. The first ArtsFest happened in the spring of our first year, but the first Winterfest had to wait until the second year of the school.