Mindfulness + Music

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Mindfulness + Music

Beginning with the chime of the singing bowl, calm instruction guides students to “...find your mindful bodies, with long spines, sitting like royalty with your crowns on your heads, notice your breath… ” Focus is brought to where students are in the present moment, and how mindful attention boosts each child’s sense of agency and well being. Working in partnership with colleagues Danielle Gorman is bringing mindfulness practice and music to Breakwater’s toddler through grade four students. Read more... 

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The Breakwater Way: Student Showcase

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The Breakwater Way: Student Showcase

See the Breakwater Way at work! December 14-16 of Showcase Week students, families and extended community travel between classrooms for a glimpse of the magic behind the doors. Students at all grade levels, toddler through 8, share with the community both the process and product of their learning in interactive, curated “Showcases”. Why do we make learning visible in this way? Read more...

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#1: The Breakwater Annual Fund

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#1: The Breakwater Annual Fund

Giving Tuesday is November 29. Our annual fund is the number one most immediately beneficial contribution you can make to our school in that it supports every facet of our operation, including educational programming, faculty compensation, professional development, and financial aid. The generosity of our community allows us to continue to provide the extraordinary level of experience we give to our students everyday. To learn how you can make an impact, read on…

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Learning Through Meaningful Experience

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Learning Through Meaningful Experience

Experiential learning integrates the classroom and the real world. Our programs optimize student engagment through immersion, helping children feel the learning experience is truly theirs to own. Breakwater’s overnight field trips, a yearly opportunity provided to students in grades 3-8, provide children with deep, meaningful experiences with the outside world and their peers, as well a invaluable information about themselves. Watch the grade 3/4 video of their recent overnight adventure and read more.....

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Join Us: A Special Benefit Screening

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Join Us: A Special Benefit Screening

Breakwater and Waynflete are proud to partner for a special benefit screening and Portland premier of the award winning documentary "The Guys Next Door.” Friday, November 18. Limited seating! Told with candor and humor, "The Guys Next Door" is a celebration of family. Filmed in part at Breakwater! Click through to buy tickets, watch the trailer and learn more about film….

 

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Breakwater + Community Programs

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Breakwater + Community Programs

The goal of our Community Programs initiative is to allow a wider audience to experience "The Breakwater Way.” We are exploding our doors and bringing the principles of the Breakwater learning model to programs that invite diversified participation, expand our reach, and, importantly, contribute to the broader community commons. Courtney Cronin is Breakwater’s new Community Programs Specialist. Read more about Courtney, community programming, and how Breakwater is growing....

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Open House and Harvest Festival!

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Open House and Harvest Festival!

Join us for our Open House Saturday, November 5 from 10am - noon, immediately followed by our annual Harvest Festival from noon - 2pm. Breakwater is a very special community made up of educators, families and friends who together engage students to thrive academically, contribute to society, and lead wholehearted lives. It does, in fact, take a village. Come together and celebrate ours! It’s really quite amazing. Read more....

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Earth Week: No Child Left Inside

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Earth Week: No Child Left Inside

At Breakwater, we go outside. A lot. We understand that children need access to nature the same way they need good nutrition and adequate sleep. During Earth Week we bring children in purposeful and playful contact with the natural world, inspiring them to listen, look, question, feel, guess, discuss, and love the things they find all around them. Lots of photographs of the week's adventures...

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Faculty Professional Development: Growing our Math Minds

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Faculty Professional Development: Growing our Math Minds

What happens when math and a growth mindset meet? Magic! (and, apparently, some fun alliteration.) This year Breakwater teachers, from toddler through 8th grade, are taking a deep look at mathematics. How does math literacy develop? What practices best support this development? Can we inspire all kids to embrace mistakes, celebrate challenges, and self identify as mind-expanding mathematicians? Read more....

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