Student Voice

The winners of this year’s WMTM Essay Contest!This spring, students in grades 5-7 participated in the Scott Center What Matters to Me Essay Contest during Reach Beyond Block. In responding to the prompt “What matters to me is…”, these…

Climate action is one of the topics that we hear about most consistently from our students when we ask what matters to them. They have an incredible understanding of how many issues are connected to the problem termed as “climate…

Seventh graders Tess, Brody, and Finn ’22 tell us all about their project in Ms. Ngo’s From Idea to Implementation elective.Can you describe your project? What was the problem and who was the customer?Our problem was that the…

The celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January serves as a thoughtful punctuation of our year-long dedication to teach children (and ourselves!) about changemakers from around the world that are working in their own unique ways to…

We get to see Hillbrook students using their social entrepreneurial skillset every day. In classrooms all over campus, they exercise and strengthen their communication skills by articulating what matters to them and what they’re doing about it. In Scott Center…

We at the Scott Center are lucky enough to hear what matters to Hillbrook students on a regular basis. Their passions range far and wide, and sometimes even include certain companies, products, manufacturing styles, or mission statements. So as the…

Hillbrook Alum Angie Zoric ’20 writes the latest installment in our Student Voice series, looking back at the ways she figured out what mattered to her during her time as a middle schooler.When I joined the Hillbrook community in…