"Faculty"
Must See Boarding School TV: Student Led Campus Tour of Tilton School
Tilton School (Tilton, NH) rising senior Carey paints a picture of school life. While taking viewers on a tour of Tilton facilities- regular ‘must sees’- dining hall, quad, theater, chapel and athletic facilities, Carey talks about how active student life is. He remarks on how teachers push and stretch Tilton students and highlights two interesting [...]
Read MoreNew Hampton School Offers Day Student Merit Scholarship
With the school’s offering of the International Baccalaureate (IB), New Hampton will award four $5,000 merit scholarships to local day students whose prospects and achievements qualify them as “candidates to take IB classes or enroll in the school’s two-year, IB Diploma Program in their junior and senior years.” (New Hampton School Announces Ninth Grade Day [...]
Read MoreCommencement Ceremonies Drawing Near
This is the time of year where campuses around the county will conclude the school year with one final ceremony: Commencement. Commencement is the culmination of all the hard work and dedication put in to celebrate your time spent at school. It is also an emotional time for both parents and students. For parents, it’s [...]
Read MoreAn Omission: When Saying “Thank You,” Don’t Forget the Kitchen
I forgot the kitchen. When I finished a piece on the end of the year transitions earlier today, I forgot to mention the kitchen. Luckily, the folks at Midland School jogged my memory with a warm appreciation of the school’s cook, Gloria Murillo. Never underestimate the importance of good food in a boarding school. Good [...]
Read MoreSome Thoughts as the School Year Closes: For Graduating Seniors and Underclassmen
The school year closes quickly and with it come rushes of nostalgia, sadness, apprehension, and excitement about change. Underclassmen begin stepping-up and shouldering more responsibility and leadership. Seniors begin looking at the futures in a different setting. Oh, yes, exams and final projects are in the mix too. With graduation and awards providing the conclusion [...]
Read MoreWhat you do when you’re there matters more than where you go
I’m responding to a recent Forbes article “America’s Best Prep Schools” (Raquel Laneri). The advice in an accompanying piece “What Parents Need To Know About Boarding Schools” (Tim Hillman), although brief, is good. But, Laneri’s perspective seems myopic and makes me wonder about her personal and professional exposure to a larger world. As my native [...]
Read MoreGoing to Stevenson School: Student Perspectives
During our video chat, Stevenson School seniors, Ben & Kameryn, share their experiences and reflect on the special opportunities at Stevenson. Stevenson’s small size and community drew both to Stevenson from their previous schools. The personal attention and connection to faculty at Steveson have cultivated a a passion and desire to do well in each [...]
Read MoreCanada’s St. Michaels University School Alumnus Funds Financial Aid
An example for all alumni, St. Michaels University School (Victoria BC, Canada) Alumnus Hugh McGillivray has thus far donated $1.4-million and: “hopes to fund as many as 100 scholarships within 10 years. He’s also trying to raise money to build a $50-million endowment at the school.” (Boarding School Grad Gives Back to His Alma Mater, [...]
Read MoreThe Webb School Turns 140!
A quick post to congratulate The Webb School (Bell Buckle, TN) for turning 140. Last week The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro, TN) noted the celebration year. The interesting factoid of the article, Webb: “…is the oldest continuously operating school of its kind (coed, boarding) in the South.” (DNJ) Webb features several traditions that remain constant [...]
Read MoreTABS Collects Boarding School Earth Day Stories
Boarding schools have long kept environmental practices at the fore of student and faculty minds. The sound practices and philosophies of a respectful environmental outlook make for good teaching, conservative consumption, and, in the case of many boarding schools, ways to connect and understand rural school settings. Bluntly, for large residential operations, conservation keeps the [...]
Read MoreProctor Academy: Spring Family Weekend 2010
Proctor has done a nice job capturing the rhythms and feel of their spring 2010 Family Weekend. Proctor Academy is built on relationships of all types- not just student and faculty- valuing and embracing its entire extended family- moms, dads, faculty, students, staff, grandparents, faculty kids. Each member of the Proctor family supports every other [...]
Read MoreGood Eats at Northfield Mount Hermon!
Never underestimate the importance and power of food in a boarding school. Good food and plenty of it, instantly puts faculty and students at ease and affirms important commitments. Some boarding school kitchens have been practicing international culinary arts for years- keeping Asian and South American comfort foods available for students. Now, as American palates [...]
Read MoreGuided Tour of Northfield Mount Hermon
Northfield Mount Hermon admission officer Jesse Bardo takes viewer on a tour of the NMH campus. This out of session tour (students departed for break the day we recorded the video), proves interesting and insightful. NMH’s thinking and planning behind their campus reveals how the school builds its policies (and its physical plant) from the [...]
Read MoreBuxton Students Learn & Share from their 2010 All School Trip to Nicaragua
Fulfilling one the tenets of progressive education, Buxton School students and faculty travel to a locale each March for a period of immersion and perspective broadening. The school travelled Nicaragua for ten days this past March. Students are still working on their documentary video of the trip- editing a reported 55 hours of footage. The [...]
Read MoreLoomis Chaffee Moves $3.3 million Closer to Fulfillment of $10 million Financial Aid Initiative
Yesterday Loomis Chaffee School announced a $3.3 million anonymous financial aid gift. The gift completes one-third of a $10 million push to increase financial aid and ensure that “a Loomis Chaffee education remains accessible to academically talented students from around the world, regardless of their family’s ability to pay tuition. ” ($3.3 Million Financial Aid [...]
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