What‘s New at Touchstone

Touchstone Welcomes the AISNE Re-Accreditation Team, May 6-9, 2012

After two years of preparation by our faculty, administrators, board members, and parent volunteers, we are delighted to welcome a team of colleagues to our school who are the members of our re-accreditation team! Touchstone is proud to be an accredited member of the Association of Independent Schools of New England. Every 10 years, AISNE [...]

Touchstone Awarded “Green Difference Award” by Green Schools!

Touchstone is being recognized for our outstanding commitment to environmental education with a Green Difference Award. We are one of only 14 schools (including high schools and colleges) in Massachusetts to be honored, and the only independent school! Students, faculty and parents are invited to the State House in Boston on Friday, May 4th at [...]

Don’t Miss Out on the TCS Summer Program

Sign up today for Touchstone Community School’s summer program for children ages 4-16. The full day program will run from June 18 – July 13, and offers a perfect mixture of outdoor fun, nature, sports, art, and science. Sign up for one week or all four. Children ages 12-16 can register for the Counselor-in-Training program [...]

Faculty Opening: Middle School Math and Science Teacher

We are looking for a dynamic, skilled, creative middle school math/science teacher. Our science curriculum is hands-on, lab and inquiry based and the math program focuses on conceptual understanding, flexible thinking and proficiency. This is a team-teaching position and candidates should enjoy and have experience working in collaborative classrooms.  The successful candidate should have experience [...]

Jane’s Classroom: Tweets from the Class

Tweets from Jane’s Class Recently we had just finished a major writing project–final drafts of personal narratives–and needed a shorter project for writing workshop.  Since writing short, powerful pieces is as important a skill as writing longer pieces, we began to work on tweets.  How much can you say in 140 characters?  We read tweets [...]

A View from the Top: The OSP Fall Hiking Trip

When opportunity knocks on my door, I sometimes don’t know enough to answer. This time the chance I was waiting for was up for grabs — to go on an Older Student Program (OSP) 3-day backpacking trip in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, one of the most rugged landscapes in the nation. I was happy to [...]

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