Upper School Other Courses

  • Student Athletic Training Aides

    The Student Athletic Training Aide (SATA) will give students an opportunity to work with the sports medicine personal to gain invaluable experience working on the sidelines of sporting events and practices.  They will assist the athletic trainer with daily activities of running a successful Athletic Training room and program. SATAs will be able to work with team physicians when they are at school seeing different athletes.  SATAs that complete the outlined responsibilities are eligible for a 1/4 official P/F credit (per rotation) designation on their transcript.

    Responsibilities of a Student Athletic Training Aide:
    • Athletic Training Facility maintenance (clean surfaces and equipment)
    • Inventory control (stocking of supplies, kits, equipment sign out, helping with inventory and ordering)
    • Record keeping (daily treatment logs)
    • Promoting the athletic training profession (bulletin boards and athletic trainer’s month)
    • Basic First and CPR (required certification up-to date)
    • Attend practices and games as discussed with the Athletic Trainer

  • Peer Leaders

    The Peer Leaders are a group of Hawken seniors who exemplify the highest levels of integrity, leadership and dedication. The purpose of the Peer Leadership program is to ease the transition of incoming 9th graders and to make them feel welcome in the comm

  • Senior Thesis

    This is a seminar course where a small group of students meet with the writing center director to develop extended writing projects. Students from all disciplines are welcome, and projects that cross disciplines are encouraged. Theses will meet the following requirements: 1) weekly progress meetings with a group of thesis students; 2)weekly individual meetings with the writing center director; 3) frequent workshops of material in progress; 4) completion of a writing project totaling at least 30 pages; 5) defense of the project to a panel of one outside and one in-house reader other than the writing center director; 6) public presentation to the school.

    Examples of senior theses that would satisfy these requirements include:
    • Extended research papers in science, history, mathematics, literary criticism, biography, art or any other discipline
    • A collection of short creative works (stories, poems, essays)
    • A novella
    • A full-length play or screenplay
    • Journalistic explorations of local, national or global issues, places or people
    • Creative Non-Fiction in extended form or a collection of shorter pieces
    This is not a “portfolio” course where students collect and refine a set of writings from their classes; all writing for the course must be original composition and serve a unified purpose. Students who fulfill the course will earn one semester’s elective credit over the course of the year.

  • Writing Center Interns

    This program is for 11th and 12th grade students who are proficient in writing, and enjoy it, and who also enjoy working with younger and less experienced writers on projects assigned from a variety of disciplines. Interns are an integral part of the Writing Center staff and are assigned to the center just as they would attend any other course. Interns are graded on a P/F basis and credit is earned; an internship is also considered part of a student’s minimum course load during one or both Rotations. Students interested in the program should contact the Writing Center director to apply.
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Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135 
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
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