Faculty Work

Inspired by the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Beaver’s chamber music director Joanna Goldstein devised a novel way to challenge her upper school student-musicians to “reach for the gold.” Ms. Goldstein turned the group’s annual House Concert into the “Chamber Olympics,” complete with professional judges and gold, silver and bronze medals for the participants at [...]

Guest post by Upper School science teacher Jennifer DesRochers
Dissections are something that make most people go “Yuck!”. When I was in high school, our biology teacher had us dissect a worm and a frog. I was fine with the worm, having gone fishing many times, but I could not bring myself to cut into an [...]

The sixth edition of the sixth grade Biggest Dig project is underway. This is the signature event of the sixth grade year at Beaver (and, oh yeah, it takes six weeks to complete).
Students have been assigned a year from as far back as 17,000 years ago up to 2009. Each year comes with a major [...]

On November 18, several members of the Beaver faculty attended the AISNE Diversity Conference in Natick, MA. The Hiatt Center’s Director of Educational Leadership Robert Principe and modern language department chair Gabriela Morillo also presented on Beaver’s Spanish for Native Speakers Class.
Several faculty members share their thoughts on the conference below.
Robert Principe
Preparing and presenting on [...]

College Counselor and English teacher Debi Ellman reflects on the highlight of her summer: taking a poetry workshop taught by fellow BCDS teacher Matthew Lippman. One of her poems is published at the end of her reflection.

At the opening faculty meeting each year, we circle around the room introducing ourselves, mentioning our number of years [...]