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The Connection Between Boarding School and Head
In Kents Hill School, Jeremy LaCasse & his family found a boarding school that fits with his thinking as an educator and an environment that offers students profound and powerful lessons.
Read MoreA Boarding School Learning Skills Program Celebrates a New Home
Kents Hill School has been on the fore of learning differences programs having had a program for 32 years. The Akin Learning Center represents the latest step in the center’s journey from living room, to library, to dedicated, purpose built facility.
Read MoreL.L. Bean and Boarding School
A little trivia as boarding school and preppy icon L.L. Bean celebrates its centennial. Name the two boarding schools that Leon Leonwood Bean attended?
Read MoreHow to Tie a Bow Tie: A prep school tradition
That object of affection, and some joking, the bow tie sporting faculty member (I can say that because I’ve been a bow tie wearing, boarding school faculty member whose headmaster sported bow ties when I was in school), Kent Hill School‘s Jeremy LaCasse offers up this quick instructional video for his fans. Tying a bow [...]
Read MoreA New Head Brings a Great Combination of Boarding School and Maine Roots
New Kents Hill School head Jeremy LaCasse spoke with Kennebec Journal writer Susan McMillan for an interview published in this past Monday’s paper. Reading “Son of Augusta comes back to lead Kents Hill School,” it’s clear LaCasse brings a great combination of boarding school and Maine roots to his new post. The interview covers expected [...]
Read More$2.3 Million Donation Supports Kents Hill School Learning Center
Exciting new from our friends at Kents Hill (Kents Hill, ME). The school will use a $2.3 million donation from the Harold Alfond Foundation to build a new learning center. The Akin Learning Center will support the 40-50 KHS students who receive instruction as part of the school’s learning differences program. The center takes its name from [...]
Read MoreThe Global Family of a Boarding School: Knowing Everyone is Safe
I was so glad and thankful to see them. One by one, our students from Japan returned from March Break this week. When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11th, Kents Hill School was on March vacation, and many of our Japanese students had returned home. Others were with host families, and we [...]
Read MoreTop 5 Boarding School Videos
We gather and produce video year-round as part of our efforts to educate families about boarding school and to help boarding schools tell their stories. We feature them on our site and via our YouTube Boarding Schools Channel and many of our videos are linked to our AdmissionsQuestPro member school profiles and school websites. As [...]
Read MoreKents Hill School Names Jeremy LaCasse 18th Head of School
This marks the second head of school appointment this month that we’ve had the privilege to share. Kents Hill School trustees announced the appointment of Jeremy LaCasse to succeed retiring head Rist Bonnefond this coming June. LaCasse brings a career and experiences steeped in boarding schools to Kents Hill. A Berkshire School alumnus, he returned [...]
Read MoreComing Together, Understanding, and Looking Outward
We live in a bubble. Here, up on a beautiful hill in Maine, we at Kents Hill School live in a warm, open community that welcomes students and faculty from all over the world. In classes, on the fields and in the residence halls, we teach our students to embrace differences, to appreciate diversity and [...]
Read MoreKents Hill School: To China and Back
I was lucky enough to go to China this summer, a country I have long wanted to visit. As the Director of the International Program and Chair of the ESL Department at Kents Hill School, I was excited to travel to one of the countries that I had heard so much about from my students. [...]
Read MoreThe Top Ten List of What I Learned as a Parent About Searching for the Right College
So it’s finally over. The decisions are in, the choice is made, and the bumper sticker is on the car – and what a ride it has been! Fourteen months ago, I bought a GPS (whom we named Rhonda – “Help me, Rhonda!”), got in the car and set off for a tour of Maryland, [...]
Read MoreA Circle of (College Financial Aid) Hell?
Round about the end of January, I went around muttering about the tenth circle of hell, the one that Dante left out of his Inferno, the one reserved for those parents and students who need to fill out college financial aid forms. “I’m in financial aid hell,” I wailed in a desperate email to a [...]
Read MoreA Laugh Out Loud Olympic Parody
Don’t miss the two part parody “Ribbon: The Thin Red Line Pts 1 & 2″ done by Pete Hodgin, Kents Hill School history teacher. These videos are Saturday Night Live worthy. Hodgin hits all the right notes and skewers the seriousness with which some of the more odd sports are presented and brings laughable absurdity [...]
Read MoreVisiting Our Sister School: Kents Hill travels to England
At Kents Hill School (Maine) we have a longstanding sister school relationship with Kent College Pembury in Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, England. KCP is an all-girls, boarding and day school, elementary through seniors. Each year, KCP sends 2-3 girls to Kents Hill in the winter trimester, and we send 2-3 girls over to [...]
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