reflections

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 [...]

9th grade students in Rebecca Roberts’ Principles of Art class each have their own art blog to record their thoughts about their activities in the class. Ms. Roberts posts entries to her own blog which provide instruction and examples for what students are to write on their blogs. All student blogs are linked to from [...]

With Beaver moving to a 1:1 laptop environment, would we need all of the desktop computers we had on campus? And if not, what would become of them? 8th grader Gabe Snyder was asking these same questions…and he had an idea.
I have been volunteering at the Kenny School in Dorchester. I would help kids with homework, [...]

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 [...]

Matt Robbins ‘10 reflects on his independent study.
My independent study began as an opportunity to learn about the history of Israel, Boston-based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Haifa, Israel-based NGOs. I originally expected to attend one or two LeadHaifa/Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) events and that was it. However, thanks to the LeadHaifa program, the Boston [...]