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Happy Halloween! The girls are all wearing their costumes to school and the halls have been decorated for this fun day. Thank you to all who joined us last week at our Middle School and Upper School Preview Day and this past Sunday at our Lower School Parent Visit! Our faculty, administrators, students, and parents enjoyed sharing a glimpse of Hockaday with you. We continue to host Parent Visits, Campus Tours, and other special events such as our Financial Aid Information Night, Boarding Family Visits, and Diversity and Inclusion Panel and Reception, in the coming weeks and months. I hope you will feel welcome to join us.

Hockaday is extremely grateful not to have sustained any damage as a result of the recent storms, and we are hopeful that whether you were impacted directly or indirectly, that you and your family are receiving the support you need during this difficult time. Every effort has been made to ensure those in our community have their needs met, and the outpouring of support has been inspiring to watch. Throughout the week, faculty, staff, and students have volunteered their time and resources to support our Dallas County partners and schools which sustained extensive damage. Rebuilding and recovery efforts will take time, and Hockaday’s commitment will remain steady through volunteer programs, service drives, and on-site support. In fact, the majority of the books sold at our annual 4th grade book sale was then donated to schools whose libraries were lost and the 4th grade girls have elected to donate the proceeds of the sale to recovery efforts.

There were many bright spots in our school community last week. Our girls had fun watching the entire 8th grade class produce and perform in the 8th grade Musical, Mary Poppins, Jr., setting up and running the 4th grade book sale, and cheering on our fall sports teams as they wrap up their seasons. Our Upper School girls on the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) team put together a robot that competed at Brookhaven College and Middle School robotics teams are working steadily during their “build” season.

Student shadow visits have begun for our Middle and Upper School applicants who are interested in seeing a day in the life of a Hockaday girl, and I encourage you to schedule a visit for your daughter in the parent portal at your convenience.

For more school news and events, as well as admission information, please visit our website, www.hockaday.org.

All my best,
Maryanna Phipps
Director of Admission and Enrollment Management

Last week, the Upper School (US) girls in the Enriched Integrated Math III, a Social Impact (SI) course at Hockaday, created a virtual math scavenger hunt on the Lower School playground for our third graders. Using the app Goose Chase, the US students created missions for the third graders to complete by answering math-related questions. The goal of this project is to help students see math in the world around them. The SI class will design a similar scavenger hunt for the 8^th grade students at Marsh Preparatory Academy in the spring.

Shivani Devaiah Ganesh ’19 is the founder of two websites that focus on cybersecurity and online training. She conceptualized and created this online cybersecurity education service to help children her own age. As the CEO and founder of CyberSafeHorizon, Shivani has been able to meet a lot of amazing leaders and has been able to learn from them. She was invited to speak at the Cyber Future Foundation by Shawn Tuma, its General Counsel and Founding Trustee and World-renowned Cybersecurity Lawyer to speak about Online Safety for kids. Read more here.

Dr. Jean M. Twenge, a Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of six books and over 100 scientific publications. Her most recent book, iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood will be the focus of her talk at Hockaday. iGen focuses on children who are born after 1995 and on the impact of growing up in the “age of the smartphone.” Watch her TedX talk here.

Constant curiosity, unbridled enthusiasm, and endless energy envelop me each day in the Hockaday Middle School. Both faculty and administrators center our own energy and passion on helping each student develop five skills: finding joy in the learning process; viewing challenges as opportunities, understanding HOW she learns; understanding the connections between content she is taught and the implementation of those skills in her daily life; and moving forward in life with a sense of honor and respect. Our Middle School teachers excel in building a program that focuses on the relationships and exploration needed to reach those goals.

Lower School Parent Visits
November 13 or December 11, 8:30 – 10:00 am

Middle and Upper School Parent Visits
December 13 or January 24, 8:30 – 10:00 am

Financial Aid Information Night
December 9, 6:00 – 7:00 pm

Boarding Family Visits
December 12-13 or January 23-24

Diversity and Inclusion Panel and Reception
January 12, 2:00 – 3:30 pm

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