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By Colleen Finnerty, History and Social Sciences Faculty Member, Class of 2011 Flourishing with Standards-Based Grading Faculty-Submitted Note: This paper was written for the Master of Applied Po...

https://smleo.com/2023/11/03/flourishing-with-standards-based-grading/

By Suha Choi, V Form Rationalization and Belief Systems “Post-truth,” defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opini...

https://smleo.com/2021/03/05/rationalization-and-belief-systems/

By William Osborne and Julian Yang, VI Form The Effect of Visual Support on Learning: A Psychology Case Study Abstract Memorization plays a major role in education, especially throughout grade sc...

https://smleo.com/2020/02/05/the-effect-of-visual-support-on-learning-a-psychology-case-study/

By Grace Gibbons and Alie Hyland, VI Form The Impact of Music on Completing Tasks: A Psychology Case Study As high school students, we spend a lot of time completing homework assignments and stud...

https://smleo.com/2019/11/19/the-impact-of-music-on-completing-tasks-a-psychology-case-study/

By Jake Oblak, IV Form The Absurd Act of Looking for Meaning in Camus’ The Stranger What is the meaning of absurdism? How are absurdist people perceived by others? How can someone be impacted b...

https://smleo.com/2019/05/14/the-absurd-act-of-looking-for-meaning-in-camus-the-stranger/

By Lindsay Davis, IV Form Survival With God: On Piers Paul Read’s Alive Alive by Piers Paul Read, a survival story of a plane crash in the Andes Mountains, recounts how the survivors’ trust ...

https://smleo.com/2019/04/30/survival-with-god-on-piers-paul-reads-alive/

By Anu Akibu, V Form Sexism in the Workplace Through a Critical Social Justice Lens Writer’s Note: This was an essay I wrote for the class Social Justice. We were tasked to “write an analytic...

https://smleo.com/2019/04/30/sexism-in-the-workplace-through-a-critical-social-justice-lens/

By Dr. Colleen Worrell, Director of The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning Deep Work in Practice at St. Mark’s (Part 3) Deep Work is a skill that the Center is hoping to build into ...

https://smleo.com/2018/05/08/deep-work-in-practice-at-st-marks-part-3/

By Lucy Martinson, V Form   Taboo or Taking a Stand? Why Sexual Assault Needs More Attention Editors’ Note: In Dr. Worrell’s Social Justice course, students identified an issue that they wa...

https://smleo.com/2018/04/24/taboo-or-taking-a-stand-why-sexual-assault-needs-more-attention/

By Nick Hallal, Niki Klodowska, Alex Jeong, VI Form  The Psychology of Lowering the Drinking Age While researching the effects of alcohol on the brain, our group plans to concentrate on the effe...

https://smleo.com/2018/03/06/the-psychology-of-lowering-the-drinking-age/