Gordon School

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Gordon School
Location
East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Information
Head of School Ralph Wales
Type Independent, Coeducational
Campus Suburban
Mascot Gator
Color(s) Green and White
Established 1910
Homepage www.gordonschool.org

The Gordon School is a coeducational, independent school located in East Providence, Rhode Island. Students are educated from nursery through eighth grade. It is located on a twelve acre site.

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[edit] History

The Gordon School was founded by Dr. Helen West Cooke in 1910 in her home in Providence’s East Side. The school relocated to its current campus in 1963. It was the first coeducational independent school in Rhode Island. A regulation playing field was extensively renovated during the summer of 2006.

[edit] Notable achievements

Karan S. Takhar won the Rhode Island heat of both the 2003 and 2005 National Geographic bee and represented the state in the national finals.[1][2]

The Gordon School’s competitive robotics team won the Director's Award in the Rhode Island First Lego competition, as well as a Young Environmentalist Award from Save the Bay in early 2006. In the 2006 Lego League's World Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, against 80 teams from 15 countries, they finished second in the programming category.[3]

Students' work with the pond and stream on campus, as well as nearby Narragansett Bay, has earned the school regional attention from environmental education groups. Along with the 2006 Save the Bay award mentioned above, the school also earned the Environment Council of Rhode Island's Loraine Tisdale Environmental Education Award in 2007. Other environmental education efforts include a partnership with Farm Fresh Rhode Island and participation in International Coastal Cleanup Day and the Children's Garden Network.

Since the mid-1990s, Gordon has established itself as a leader among independent schools that are strengthening their racial diversity and multicultural classroom practice. Gordon administrators have consulted with dozens of schools, and have served as founding faculty for the Milton Cultural Diversity Institute (now known as the Independent School Diversity Seminar). Gordon faculty have also presented programs like the eighth grade "Civil Rights Trip" to Georgia and Alabama at the annual NAIS People of Color Conference[4], and earned the NAIS 2004 Leading Edge Program award for Equity and Justice.[5] Since 2007, Gordon has hosted a three-day national Middle School Institute for teachers interested in multicultural practice.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Homeschooler Wins National Geographic Bee", Fox News, May 21, 2003
  2. ^ "Eighth grader wins R.I. geography bee", The Providence Journal, April 3, 2005
  3. ^ "Gordon School tops 80 teams in robot face-off",The Providence Journal, June 2, 2006
  4. ^ Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: A Middle School Civil Rights Field Trip, National Association of Independent Schools
  5. ^ Leading Edge Program 2004 honorees, National Association of Independent Schools

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