BAKER DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL BLOG
How to Have an Amazing Year
As we begin our 102nd year of school at Baker, we are embarking on one of the least predictable years of school that we’ve had in the last century. We acknowledge the strain of the pandemic and the racial reckonings of this summer, as well as the deep promise of the...
Fifth Grader Launches Creations by H, Focused on Sewing Masks
Finding a way to sell her products took Harper's love for sewing and the current need for masks and helped her launch Creations by H. “So, I knew I was always going to make masks for my family but then I was looking online at the stores and I was looking at prices and...
Egg-citing Baker Tradition Goes Virtual
This is no ordinary Zoom meeting. Chick-hatching time has arrived in Baker Kindergarten. The usual Morning Meeting seems more like a chicken maternity ward than a class participating in E-learning. Kindergarteners are ready. They've kept track of the number of days...
Congratulations Baker Class of 2016, ETHS Graduates 2020
We are so proud of Baker 2016 Graduates who have graduated from Evanston Township High School with distinction and commendations in the Class of 2020. Graduated with Distinction Gavin Bruggeman Andrew Cless Graduated with High Distinction Benjamin Bruns Graduated with...
Baker Makes Masks for Local Community in Midst of Pandemic
Baker teachers Becky Crawford and Sarah Sklare, three Baker seventh graders (and their parents) and Baker alum, Michael LeMasters (‘18) and his dad have all been working hard to make masks to support the local community. Like any good design-thinking challenge, each...
Baker Middle School Arts
While it is a sensitive period in terms of the brain’s development, middle school is a time in the life of children where the opportunity for connection and creativity is infinite. Baker middle school teachers deeply love the age - its attending worries, moments of...
Stand-up Comedian Turned Teacher: Alex Haines
Even though Baker is locally situated on Chicago's North Shore, its history and teaching practices have a national reputation. Many teachers come to Baker early in their career and are deeply influenced by the experience of teaching in such a unique progressive...
Dynamic Learning: First Graders Making Connections
"… They started dreaming of all the Invisible Strings they have, and all the strings their friends have,and their friends have, and their friends have,until everyone in the world was connected by Invisible Strings." (The Invisible String by Patrice Karst) First...
Black Lives Matter at Baker Demonstration School
It is important to know that learning about diversity, equity and inclusion is not something that happens at specific times of the year - it happens all year! Though we are taking special time to emphasize Black Lives Matter Week in Schools and Black History Month,...
Three Ways that Independent Schools Contribute to the Common Good
“Schools with the most freedom to act and the greatest power to affect change must not be fortresses and silos. They must be laboratories and lighthouses. And all of us, wherever we send our children, must begin to see ourselves as caretakers of all that the light can...
