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Campus Master Plan

Click here to go to the Campus Master Plan webpage on the Touchstone Community School website, go directly to the questionnaire. If you would like to keep up to date on the happenings at Touchstone, please send your name and email address to web@touchstoneschool.com. Thank you.

Summer Program Director Needed

Touchstone Community School is seeking a Summer Program Director to plan and implement our summer program. The successful candidate will be ambitious, have an entrepreneurial spirit, be an excellent communicator with parents, children and staff, and have the creativity to develop exciting and thoughtful programs for children ages 4-14. Responsibilities include: planning programs that meet [...]

Jane Katch’s article, “Listening to Parents,” appears in Independent School Magazine

Jane Katch, teacher of 9, 10 and 11 year-olds at Touchstone Community School, was recently published in the Winter issue of Independent School Magazine. Jane’s article is entitled Listening to Parents: Finding the Deeper Connection for the Benefit of Children.  To read the full article, click here.

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 [...]

Five Touchstone Students Earn Girl Scout Silver Award—Highest Cadette Scouting Award

Congratulations to our OSP students, Kelly, Amanda, Lydia, Sarah, and Emma, all members of Girl Scout Troop 30398, who recently earned the Girl Scout Silver Award. The Sliver Award is the highest award in Cadette Girl Scouting. The girls, under the direction of troop leaders Sharon Borg and Lisa Walden, spearheaded a community service project [...]

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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