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You Saw It Here First! “It’s A Madhouse!” Now Available for Stages Around the World

By Christopher Parson, theater arts teacher |

September 9, 2022

Last school year, the theater arts department commissioned author Todd Wallinger to write a play for the seventh and eighth grade production. After brainstorming ideas and themes with students, theater teachers Mr. Parsons and Ms. Dempsey worked with Mr. Wallinger…

Incoming Kindergarten Teacher Attends New Teachers of Color Conference

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August 26, 2022

Incoming interim kindergarten teacher Elizabeth Ho attended the New Teachers of Color in Independent Schools Conference at The Gordon School in Rhode Island earlier this month. Ho, an associate teacher at Belmont Day this past school year, joined 20 educators…

Teacher Uses Downtime To Go To Great Heights

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August 17, 2022

Students, it’s time for a bit of math! What’s 48 multiplied by 4,000? Feel free to grab a pencil … we’ll give you a minute to figure that out. Whatever that answer may be (and we suspect the number is…

Gray Joins NAIS Fellowship Program for Aspiring Heads of School

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August 2, 2022

This summer, Liz Gray, Belmont Day’s Middle School Head, started an intensive professional development program that will ready her for what may be the next challenge in her career as an educator and administrator. Gray joined more than 50 of…

2022-23 Leana Endowment Grant Recipients Announced

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July 29, 2022

The Lenesa Leana Endowment for Innovative and Collaborative Education was established to honor the innovative strategies and collaborations that former Head of School Lenesa Leana fostered during her tenure at Belmont Day. The endowment provides grants to teaching and non-teaching…

Pryor Starts Professional Development Program for New Divisional Leadership

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July 28, 2022

The timing couldn’t have been any better. Almost immediately after being named as Belmont Day’s interim lower school head, longtime kindergarten teacher Betty Chu Pryor found a professional development program tailor-made for administrators entering their first year at the helm…