Ekgmowechashala is not a household word. Paleontologists usually just call this critter “Eggymo.” Many years ago, a nice two-centimeter long fragment of a lower jaw, showing four teeth, including three molars, was found in South Dakota, and was named Ekgmowechashala—invented from local Native American words. What made this discovery special, was that the molars, if they looked like anything, looked like primate molars. No other bones were found, but also exciting was the date: the Oligocene-Miocene border, or about 25 million years ago.
Blog: Faculty
May 2, 2012
April 30, 2012
This year 20 NWS students spent two weeks in Cambodia with Rod Kov, Cecilia Tung and Scott Davis. The group visited Phnom Penh, Battambang and Siem Reap, traveling between the cities in a bright pink tour bus. This was the second school trip to the country, the first having been in 2010.
April 12, 2012
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.
April 1, 2012
The NWS Spain Trip, led by Lisa Blodgett, Daniel Sparler, and Suzanne Bottelli, headed out last Saturday, and the students are settling into life in Seville. They're living with their host families, attending intensive Spanish classes, and just visited the Alcázar—the royal palace in Seville.
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 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
September 19, 2011
During Faculty Orientation two weeks ago, I shared with our new teachers a wonderful source of inspiration to which I find myself returning year after year. I confess to being a fairly jaded consumer of education “literature” and conference presentations, impatient with much of the jargon and trendiness which pervade them, so when I encounter a jewel like Sir Kenneth Robinson’s TED talk, “Schools Kill Creativity,” my immediate impulse is to spread the word.
