Powhatan Pulse Podcast

We caught up with Mrs. Jaffe, a sixth grade English teacher, to talk about the importance and benefits of reading. She recently came across two articles that resonated with her because they discussed the importance of instilling empathy through literature. She discusses how reading develops and fosters critical thinking skills, focus and empathy. Reading literature every day helps our students better understand themselves and the characters they read about. This leads to developing empathy for people in their lives and for others across the globe.

In this podcast, we sit down with Mrs. Robb to discuss Grit and Growth Mindset, topics she presented to the faculty on professional day this year. She gives further examples of how she deploys these strategies in her classroom...

Collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity are all skills which are enhanced through play. At Powhatan, time to play and build these skills starts in the youngest grades, laying the foundation for a balanced, healthy life in the middle school and beyond.

Powhatan’s community was honored to have Dr. Dorothy Sluss, Professor Emerita from James Madison University, speak about her lifetime passion of studying children’s play on our campus two weeks ago. Enjoy a bonus conversation with Dr. Sluss and Mrs. Scarborough in this podcast about the benefits of play.