HudsonWay Immersion School Blog
October 1, 2021
In the first few weeks of school students took a deep dive into what it means to live the values of HudsonWay - Accountability, Respect, Communication, Teamwork, Innovation, Community Service, Transparency, Integrity, Excellence. Teacher Yonca Oktay led a rich discussion on each value, what it looks and sounds like, and created scenarios that demonstrated them. Teacher Shanshan Zhang created games to help her students internalize their meanings.
October 1, 2021
For the 4th year, HWIS-NY has partnered with Columbia University’s Teacher’s College to provide an environment for student teachers to get real life experience teaching in the classroom supported by a mentor teacher. In exchange, HWIS benefits from the ideas and additional support that these teachers provide.
August 11, 2021
Our Summer Camp 2021 at our NY campus has been nothing short of an educational, fun, immersive, and a joyous experience for campers of all ages and languages! Each 2-week session was theme-based and boy, did our staff outdo themselves with engaging the campers every session!
August 11, 2021
We are excited to welcome incoming Head of School, Nelyda Miguel to HWIS. Founder Sharon Huang sat down with Nely to discuss her thoughts on joining HWIS, her perspective on educational leadership and ways we can support the well-being of our students.Â
August 11, 2021
Earlier this summer we spoke with several HWIS alumni including one of HWIS’ first graduates, Matt Fallon, a recent graduate from The Pingry School and participant in the US. Olympics swimming trials. Listen to Matt’s story and that of other alumni....Â
June 23, 2021
Our science fairs are always done in both the target language (Mandarin or Spanish) and in English. This year we added some unique challenges such as our Solar Oven challenge in which students were divided into teams...
June 23, 2021
During this COVID year sculpture artist Walter Pineda completed a mural in the NY campus honoring the spirit of exploration around the world.  Based solely on images, he freehanded a 3D map of the world...
June 23, 2021
Having read the first of the Blood of Stars duology, Spin the Dawn, our 6th and 7th Graders in Ms. Poon’s English language arts class had the opportunity to ask questions of author Elizabeth Lim in a virtual session at HudsonWay Immersion School.