Dear Academy Families, We are a busy bunch! The second semester is well launched with a lot of activities beyond our usual classroom energy. From sports games, to concerts, to Shakespeare, we seem to be a hive of activity. In our first ASM after winter break with all students in attendance, our chorus and chamber [...]
Category: Head of School Letters
The Spirit of Growth and Learning
January 18, 2013 at 4:32 pm
Dear Academy Families, One of my happier duties involves keeping in touch with peers at other independent schools, to share professional insights and to support each other’s work on all our students’ behalf. In the last 10 days, I have enjoyed catching up individually over coffee or a meal with the Heads of School from [...]
Happy New Year and Welcome Back!
January 11, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Dear Academy Families, Happy New Year! I hope you all had restful, fun holiday breaks…it certainly felt like a long one! Speaking of rest, in the latest issue of Independent School magazine (Winter 2013), published by the National Association of Independent School (NAIS), there is a telling piece by Peter Wells and Rosemary Baggish on [...]
A Journey of Experience
December 7, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Dear Academy Families, With exams beginning next week, and winter holidays starting the week thereafter, this is my last weekly letter of the fall semester. Where did time fly? Speaking of time, my 9th grade English class has been wrapping up The Odyssey just in time for the exam. One of the fascinating beauties of [...]
Academy Building Project Phase II
November 30, 2012 at 6:00 am
Dear Academy Families, I just returned to my office from an exciting meeting about three important building projects on the BU campus: the new law school five-story addition and renovation of the law tower; the relocation of BU’s undergraduate admission offices from Bay State Road to a completely renovated Hillel building attached to the BU [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 20, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Dear Academy Families, We have so much, all of us, to be grateful for at this season of thanksgiving — our wonderful students, our devoted faculty and staff, our supportive families. Just last Friday and Saturday at Lock-In we saw this combination in action, letting our kids have lots of safe fun in an overnight [...]
Three Vignettes Modeling the Value of a Liberal Arts Education
November 16, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Dear Academy Families, This week’s All School Meeting (ASM) was particularly noteworthy, both because of the range of reference by our speaker, and because he was my own freshman year astronomy professor at Harvard in college…! Professor Owen Gingerich is professor emeritus at Harvard in astronomy and the history of science, having chaired the latter [...]
A Week of Musical Events
November 9, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Dear Academy Families, This has been a week of musical events, showing the breadth and depth of our Academy community. On Monday evening, Dr. Brett Abigana, our choral and chamber ensemble teacher, gave a faculty lecture on German music under the Third Reich. He focused on two composers in particular. Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a [...]
The Academic Year, Officially in Motion
November 2, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Dear Academy Families, With first quarter grades and comments now in and reviewed – by students, parents, advisers, and full faculty discussions – the 2012-2013 academic year is officially in motion. Often this first quarter “reality check” confirms what everyone had already assumed, and a student continues with no marked concern. Sometimes, however, one or [...]
Greetings from Cloudy Seattle
October 26, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Dear Academy Families, Greetings from cloudy Seattle. I am attending the annual meeting of The National Consortium of Early College Entrance Programs, being hosted this year by the Robinson Center For Young Scholars at the University of Washington, one of the 10 founding members of the Consortium, along with our Academy. Among the current members, [...]
