West Coast Boarding Schools Blog
Blame Canada
My school, Brentwood College School, is one of the largest boarding schools in Canada. 10% of our student population is from the United States of America.
Read MoreThe Contributions that Chinese Students Bring to Boarding Schools
Over the break offered some quiet time to catch-up on reading and a chance to work on posts that might require some digestion and rumination. This brings me to Idylwild Arts Academy president Brian D. Cohen’s response to two recent articles, “Chinese Students Lose as U.S. Schools Exploit Need” and “The China Conundrum,” each of [...]
Read MoreSo You Want to be an Olympian?
London 2012 is only a few months away. Astonishingly, Brentwood College School (a co-educational boarding school in in British Columbia, Canada) already has 4 athletes that have been selected to try out for the 2012 Canadian Olympic rowing team. Over the last 30 years, Brentwood has consistently developed national and internationally recognized athletes, many [...]
Read MoreSuggested New Year’s Resolutions for Prospective Families in 2012
Five promises you should make this year when looking at educational alternatives for your high school-aged child: I will make a habit out of checking in on Admissionsquest and other valuable sites for great insights into independent schools. I will consider a boarding school (you will be blown away by the value-added options they provide). [...]
Read MoreCate School Part Of Heart Health Study
You may know that we also cover items, topics, and happenings for the Western Boarding Schools Association’s blog. I call attention to a story on Cate School that I wrote this morning on the WBSA’s blog (Cate School To Study Adolescent and Young Adult Hearts). It’s just too interesting and important to miss. Briefly, Cate students [...]
Read MoreDecember at a Boarding School
Okay, September seems like 3 minutes ago, not 3 months. This being said, it is now hard to differentiate between the students that started in the fall and those that have been here for a year or longer. At our school (www.brentwood.bc.ca), it appears to be a seamless transition and it seems like all of [...]
Read MoreDon’t Become the Difficult Parent
The college placement office is one of the quiet, but most important support pieces of a boarding school education. Boarding school college placement offices, and the students they support, benefit from a bounty of resources and experiences. A boarding school college placement office works full-time; works with a very healthy (read low) officer to student [...]
Read MoreWhat Will You Do With Your Child’s Moment in Time?
I recently took at peak in the door of the Hall of Life in our (The Webb Schools’) Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. Its renovation is nearing its end but I just couldn’t resist a look. Without divulging the details of what will certainly be a glorious new exhibit hall, I will say that I [...]
Read MoreAfghan Scholars Initiative Brings Students to Boarding School
With Afghan Scholars Initiative‘s first two students having graduated from Gould Academy and now attending Smith and Williams colleges, the program currently has students attending the Woodstock School in India, Oregon Episcopal School, and the Hotchkiss School. ASI has two interesting concurrent stories- its founding and its students. ASI is a young organization with young [...]
Read MoreAn Assistant Head Ruminates on Educational Directions and Policy
Delphian School Assistant Headmaster Mark Siegel keeps an interesting blog (Thinking About Education) where he shares articles, comments, and musings on the changing state of education. It’s a light policy manifesto for eduction reform. Siegel finds interesting articles, and angles, covering any, and all, topics on education- from parental control, to testing, to student/childhood development, [...]
Read MoreA Two Time Winner of Best of State
Congratulations to Wasatch Academy for being a repeat winner of ‘Best of State’ in the category of Public/Private Schools K-12 by The Utah Best of State Organization. Wasatch was chosen from more than 800 public and private K-12 in Utah for the honor. Wasatch head, Joseph Loftin reflected on the honor: “It’s a wonderful honor [...]
Read MoreReflecting on His Boarding School Education
Watch the full episode. See more Morning Classical Music with Suzanne Nance. Maine Public Broadcasting’s Suzanne Nance visited with Liang Wang (Idyllwild Arts Academy ’99) at length in a 36 minute interview. Interspersed with performances, the ranging interview covers his work at Bowdoin International Music Festival, his coming to America, and his work. Wang came to America [...]
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Delphian School
Delphian School (Sheridan, OR) rising senior Alison ’12 shares the insights, and high notes, of her school experience. Throughout Delphian’s programs students are taught to practice independence and use good judgement. Delphian programs teach independence, and personal responsibility through self direction. Academics and college counseling feature studentdirected pursuits shaped and guided by adults. Students work [...]
Read MoreEngaging. Trying Something New. Doing Something at Which You’re Not Yet Skilled. That’s Boarding School.
Brentwood College School admission director Clayton Johnson has a post over on the Brentwood Admissions Blog that captures a great boarding school strength- personal risk and effort. Clayton muses about what he learned during his one year coaching Junior “B” Girls volleyball. By his reckoning this one season bears responsibility for his bald pate. “Why? [...]
Read MoreHear from a Delphian Grad: From Student to Video Producer
Delphian School alumna Courtney Perkins ’04 talks about her early professional life and the ways that she continues using the lessons of her Delphian education. She credits her time in Delphian’s photography and video labs along with Delphian college counselors as building blocks in her collegiate and professional work. Delphian’s rigorous course work, the school’s [...]
Read More