The history of a place, a house, a home stays within the walls and the grounds long after the previous residents leave. Just ask anyone. Notice what it is like when you move into a new home. One can feel the past. Red Gables Campus of Ensworth School was once a home–the home of the Norman family before it became a school.
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Recognizing the need to equip students with essential technical, hands-on skills and the many benefits to learning styles, Ensworth has taken significant steps to integrate and align technology education across its K–12 curriculum.
Let’s start at the very beginning; it’s a very good place to start. When you read, you begin with ABC. When you… Oh, wait, we are talking about World Languages, so we can stop right there.
Just two years after graduating from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering with a BS in Business and Technology Management, Evan Moskal ’12 became a co-founder of Courant, makers of design-driven wireless chargers.
Lauren Cummings Johnson, Class of 2011, is an influencer in every sense of the word, inspiring the postpartum world with support for families from Registered Nurses (RN).
Ensworth’s Capstone Program gives students the opportunity to engage in an extensive exploration of a passion or interest that is above and beyond academic courses and extracurricular involvements—though it is often the product of weaving multiple inspirations into one.
Students are matched with their college counselor at the beginning of freshman year and stay with the same counselor throughout their high school career. Six students from the Class of 2023 share about their college counseling experience at Ensworth.
Former High School Arts teacher Audry Deal-McEver was Ensworth’s Endowed Visiting Artist in Ceramics in collaboration with Cati Blitz, High School Director of Ceramics and Studio Art. Audry is no stranger to Ensworth, having worked as the Ceramics and Photography teacher from 2012 to 2017. Audry is now a full-time ceramic artist with a very successful career.
This April, Ensworth welcomed visiting artist Rachel Briggs to work with the Grade 5 students prior to and during their annual trip to Land Between the Lakes. This project, an exploration that culminated in bird studies made on wood panels, took students on a journey through observational drawing.
Shawn Knight, Director of Ensworth's spring musical and instructor at Belmont University, shares his thoughts on this spring's production of Shrek the Musical.
JC Johnson’s Photo 4 students created a short film under the mentorship of Gabe McCauley of lilDRAGON Entertainment, a Nashville video production company. As a team, students worked in areas of the film depending on their interests and skills, such as script writing, acting, producing, directing, editing, set design, special effects, and filming.
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