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Buck Competes At Head of the Charles

If you were at last weekend’s Head of the Charles Regatta, you may have seen and heard our very own Nicole Buck, middle school Latin teacher, going by along the river. Nicole is a member of the Gentle Giant Rowing Club based in Somerville and competes as a coxswain for

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Welcoming New Associate Teachers

Join us in welcoming our 2023-2024 Associate Teacher Program (ATP) cohort! Our five new associates have been on campus since last week, participating in orientation, faculty meetings, and classroom set-up and planning with their mentor teachers. This fall, associates will be working and learning in our early childhood, elementary, and

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Seven Projects Receive Leana Endowment Grants for 2023-24

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 faculty to support the many ways our community explores and

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Summer Camp Launches Business & Marketing Internship

This summer, the Belmont Day Summer Camp administration team welcomed two college students to launch new roles as business and marketing interns. Katey Finnerty ‘17, a rising junior at Denison University, and Gaby Namouni, also a junior in the fall at Tufts University, are both veteran camp counselors and were

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Faculty Attend Nueva Design Thinking Institute

Six members of the Belmont Day faculty kicked off the summer with a trip to the Bay Area to challenge and expand their ways of thinking around teaching innovation, design, and engineering.  The team—Annie Fuerst, director of technology and innovation, Maggie Small, seventh grade science teacher, Vaniecia Skinner, fifth grade

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Blair Fross Named Faculty Representative to Board of Trustees

It is our pleasure to announce that Blair Fross will join the Belmont Day School Board of Trustees as a faculty representative for a two-year term. Fross, now in her twelfth year at BDS, is the director of school year auxiliary and specialty programs and will join kindergarten teacher Missy

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BDS Teacher Publishes Interview With Rhonda Magee

When Belmont Day physical education teacher and mindfulness director Alex Tzelnic was challenged by bridging mindfulness and social justice in his lessons for fourth graders, he contacted Rhonda Magee, author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice, for help. A frequent author himself, Alex shares that discussion in an article published

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Gray Joins NAIS Fellowship Program for Aspiring Heads of School

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 her peers from across the country in the National Association

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2022-23 Leana Endowment Grant Recipients Announced

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 faculty to support the many ways our community explores and

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BDS

October 27, 2023

If you were at last weekend’s Head of the Charles Regatta, you may have seen and heard our very own Nicole Buck, middle school Latin teacher, going by along the river. Nicole is a member of the Gentle Giant Rowing…

BDS

September 8, 2023

Join us in welcoming our 2023-2024 Associate Teacher Program (ATP) cohort! Our five new associates have been on campus since last week, participating in orientation, faculty meetings, and classroom set-up and planning with their mentor teachers. This fall, associates will…

BDS

August 25, 2023

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…

BDS

July 25, 2023

This summer, the Belmont Day Summer Camp administration team welcomed two college students to launch new roles as business and marketing interns. Katey Finnerty ‘17, a rising junior at Denison University, and Gaby Namouni, also a junior in the fall…

BDS

July 17, 2023

Six members of the Belmont Day faculty kicked off the summer with a trip to the Bay Area to challenge and expand their ways of thinking around teaching innovation, design, and engineering.  The team—Annie Fuerst, director of technology and innovation,…

BDS

March 24, 2023

When Belmont Day physical education teacher and mindfulness director Alex Tzelnic was challenged by bridging mindfulness and social justice in his lessons for fourth graders, he contacted Rhonda Magee, author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice, for help. A…

BDS

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…
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