What Makes a Student Stand Out Among His or Her Peers?
On the surface, our task as an Enrollment Team at Gap Year seems simple enough: recruit students. During the first years of Impact 360, we realized very quickly that we had quite a challenge on our hands. With only 40 spots available, how do we make the difficult decision of selecting one student with a…
Stories from September 11th
I remember exactly where I was on September 11, 2001. I was at school. That morning we had a special breakfast for parents and teachers. I remember sitting at the table with my dad. A friend of his walked up to him and said, “They just flew a plane into the World Trade Center”. That…
Beehives and Honey | Porto Alegre
To mark the last blog for the POA team, I thought I’d look back on one of the very first experiences the team had here at PV Sul—we stuck our fingers into beehives. Granted, they were stingless bees, but the feeling, both physical and psychological, of sticking my bare finger into the honeypot of a…
