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By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 25, 2022

How’s this for a sign of the times? A faculty member approached me last week with a thoughtful request. “Can we start wearing name tags again as a faculty?” she asked. “Now that we can see one another’s faces, I don’t recognize a lot of people.” What a world. As we have comfortably transitioned to […]

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It?s A Madhouse ? And I?d Have It No Other Way!

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 18, 2022

Spoiler Alert … There will be no spoilers in this column about the incredible performance of “It’s a Madhouse!”. You’re going to have to see it for yourself! A screening of a video of the play will be held in the Barn, tonight, Friday, March 18 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The video will also […]

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Making Use of These Past Two Years

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 11, 2022

On the second anniversary of closing school due to the news that the novel coronavirus had made its way to the Boston area. Two years ago, today, we closed school. We thought we would be doing so for two short weeks, that we would ride out the storm and be back in no time. Two […]

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A Glimpse Into the Future

March 03, 2022

As the new year enters its third month, independent schools start building their future. This is the height of the admissions season. Each school has a slightly different admissions process, and I have the privilege of working at a school that values the thoughts and insights of its community members when it comes to welcoming […]

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The Dimmer Switch

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 18, 2022

The primary analogy we have been working with throughout the pandemic is the dimmer switch. From the earliest days of navigating the pandemic, we realized that approaching this community safety effort through the binary frame of absolute statements of ‘on’ or ‘off’ was not going to work. Be it in school or out. All programs […]

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John Williams and How Students Score From an Education in Music

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 11, 2022

“Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.” – John Williams If you don’t know who John Williams is, I am almost positive you know his music: the theme songs from Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, and, […]

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By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

March 25, 2022

How’s this for a sign of the times? A faculty member approached me last week with a thoughtful request. “Can we start wearing name tags again as a faculty?” she asked. “Now that we can see one another’s faces, I…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

March 18, 2022

Spoiler Alert … There will be no spoilers in this column about the incredible performance of “It’s a Madhouse!”. You’re going to have to see it for yourself! A screening of a video of the play will be held in the…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

March 11, 2022

On the second anniversary of closing school due to the news that the novel coronavirus had made its way to the Boston area. Two years ago, today, we closed school. We thought we would be doing so for two short…
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By Minna Ham, Lower School Head |

March 3, 2022

As the new year enters its third month, independent schools start building their future. This is the height of the admissions season. Each school has a slightly different admissions process, and I have the privilege of working at a school…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

February 18, 2022

The primary analogy we have been working with throughout the pandemic is the dimmer switch. From the earliest days of navigating the pandemic, we realized that approaching this community safety effort through the binary frame of absolute statements of ‘on’…
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