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What do Niagara Falls, the Empire State Building, and The Willow School all have in common? They're all turning teal for Food Allergy Awareness Week! The Willow School, like a number of other significant institutions and landmarks, is shining a...
Virtues
Kindness Rocks at Willow!
Willow’s culture of kindness and mutual respect is something you immediately see and feel the moment you step on to campus. It’s evident in Morning Gathering, when we gather the entire school community and set a purpose to our day. It’s evident at our...
Fifth Grader Organizes Road Clean-Up
Willow fifth grader Juliana Holmes organized and led the first annual Black River Road Clean-Up as her Passion Hour Project, a dedicated time for Willow students to design and pursue their own projects, related to what they most care about. Read more on Juliana's...
Willow Joins Effort to “Tackle Hunger” This October
The Willow School is joining the national effort to Tackle Hunger in October! One in seven children in New Jersey live in a household struggling with food insecurity. At today’s Morning Gathering, students learned about food insecurity and ways that we can help as a...
Making Caring Common at The Willow School
We are excited to announce that Willow has joined Making Caring Common’s Caring Schools Network, a growing group of schools committed to ethical development. Making Caring Common is an initiative developed by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Harvard's team of...
How to Be Green for Halloween
The air is cold and crisp. Pumpkin spice everything abounds. For many of us, our favorite holiday is coming up: Halloween! On Halloween, we can pretend to be someone else for a day, throw all of our creative energies into elaborate costumes, trick-or-treat, or just...
Willow Teal Pumpkin Party Raises Almost $2000 for FARE
On October 28th, The Willow School hosted its second annual Teal Pumpkin Spooktacular! The party drew a crowd of about 200 people who enjoyed trick-or-treating for treasures, pumpkin painting, slime making, scarecrow decorating, potion making, spooky story time, and...
Supporting Native People On Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a beautiful holiday for many people. Coming together with family for a warm meal to give thanks for the year’s blessings is a wonderful and meaningful tradition for the majority of Americans. However, the “Thanksgiving story” is entirely false. The...
Support a Willow Alumna Volunteering in Tanzania
Over the last three months, Willow alumna Greta Schacht has been volunteering at a school for impoverished children in Tanzania. She has been deeply inspired by Juma Judson, the director of the school, who she calls "one of the most amazing individuals I've yet to...
Willow Alumna Raises $5,000 for Tanzanian Orphans
Thanks in part to your generous support, Willow alumna Greta Schacht raised over $5,000 in just 48 hours to support 15 orphans in Tanzania! "I am humbled, awestruck, and absolutely blown away by the outpouring of love and generosity from friends, family, and even...