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Making Our Actions & Interactions at BDS Count: The Goal Is Zero

By Carlos Hoyt, PhD LICSW, Director of Equity and Inclusion | March 19, 2021

Every day at BDS there are too many acts of kindness, caring, respect, friendship, and love to count. The uncountable amount of good that happens here equals the joy that makes us the community we want to be–a community in which everyone, from the youngest Pre-K scholar to the eldest faculty member, and including every […]

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One Year

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 13, 2021

On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, a group of Belmont Day school leaders met in my office for several hours to decide whether to make the call to close school due to the burgeoning pandemic. Ultimately, of course, we decided to. The plan, at the time, was to close campus for two weeks. We would have […]

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Reaching Beyond Ourselves to Help

By Carlos Hoyt, PhD LICSW, Director of Equity and Inclusion | March 05, 2021

“As of January 2019, Massachusetts had an estimated 18,471 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that total, 3,766 were family households, 917 were veterans, 480 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 2,370 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. […]

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Touchdown for Perseverance

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 26, 2021

As February quietly comes to a close and March begins—like a lion, as they say—it is exciting to consider longer days, warmer temperatures, more time outdoors, and a long-awaited vaccine. Beyond that, I am also excited, or perhaps, more precisely, moved by something far, far away: NASA’s successful landing of the Perseverance Rover on Mars […]

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The Exhausting Effort of Trying to Bend the Future to Our Will

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 12, 2021

Maybe it’s the time of year. Mid-February often feels this way in schools. Perhaps it’s the relentlessness of this virus and the frustration that—for all of the medical advances we hear about each day—our lived experience hasn’t changed in the ways we have hoped for. Maybe it’s cabin fever, the piles of snow amplifying that […]

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Discerning Loyalty

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 04, 2021

Talk to any local sports fan, and they will quickly tell you that there is no middle ground on how one might view the departure of a beloved superstar athlete to another franchise. For those who remember the 2004 Red Sox, you are likely to remember the speedy and much-beloved center fielder for that team, […]

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2019 bds faculty carlos hoyt

By Carlos Hoyt, Director of Equity and Inclusion, on behalf of the Belmont Day leadership team |

March 19, 2021

Every day at BDS there are too many acts of kindness, caring, respect, friendship, and love to count. The uncountable amount of good that happens here equals the joy that makes us the community we want to be–a community in…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

March 13, 2021

On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, a group of Belmont Day school leaders met in my office for several hours to decide whether to make the call to close school due to the burgeoning pandemic. Ultimately, of course, we decided to.…
2019 bds faculty carlos hoyt

By Dr. Carlos Hoyt, Director of Equity and Inclusion |

March 5, 2021

“As of January 2019, Massachusetts had an estimated 18,471 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that total, 3,766 were family households, 917 were…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

February 26, 2021

As February quietly comes to a close and March begins—like a lion, as they say—it is exciting to consider longer days, warmer temperatures, more time outdoors, and a long-awaited vaccine. Beyond that, I am also excited, or perhaps, more precisely,…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

February 12, 2021

Maybe it’s the time of year. Mid-February often feels this way in schools. Perhaps it’s the relentlessness of this virus and the frustration that—for all of the medical advances we hear about each day—our lived experience hasn’t changed in the…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

February 4, 2021

Talk to any local sports fan, and they will quickly tell you that there is no middle ground on how one might view the departure of a beloved superstar athlete to another franchise. For those who remember the 2004 Red…
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