By Brendan Largay, Head of School | November 20, 2020
A year ago, in this space, I wrote about the tips I had learned from Priya Parker in her book, The Art of Gathering, as we looked ahead to gathering with family and friends to celebrate all that we are thankful for. Since then, this invisible virus has tainted the idea of gathering itself, requiring […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | November 06, 2020
I’m a big Morgan Freeman fan. The Shawshank Redemption is among my all-time favorite movies, period, and it is my all-time favorite ‘movie-for-which-I-would-stop-flipping- channels-to-watch’ movie. Something about the timbre of his voice, its resonance perhaps, feels comfortable, compassionate, and understanding. That may be why the creators of Evan Almighty decided to cast him as God. […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | October 30, 2020
Along with the many benefits of the addition of the Barn to our campus, one unintended yet meaningful shift has occurred for our community as well. Before the Barn, Big Blue was tucked neatly behind the Schoolhouse. Now, from a bird’s eye view of BDS, the locus of attention is drawn to the playground surrounded […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | October 23, 2020
For the sports fans out there, the sub-narrative of the first months of the pandemic was the absence of the games we love. If you don’t know this about me yet, I am a rather rabid fan of sports. It was only during the pandemicon nights when I couldn’t sleep that I found myself watching […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | October 16, 2020
As a young and aspiring school leader, I was very fortunate to have a great mentor. He was the head of my previous school for 31 yearsa remarkable tenure by any measure. Through that time, he always preserved the key ingredients in pre-k to grade eight leadership: the energy of a child and the ability […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | October 09, 2020
Throughout the summer, while we planned for the safe return of our students and faculty to campus, one refrain governed many of our conversations and decision-making processes: “The likelihood of a positive case in our community is more a question of when, not if.” So, we have planned and continue to plan for that “when.” […]
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