By Brendan Largay, Head of School | April 28, 2023
Years ago, before I arrived at Belmont Day, I was fortunate to attend a professional development conference in Hillsborough, CA, at the Nueva School. The conference featured the process of design thinking as a novel and alternate method of delivering content with a process derived by some of the leading designers in the world. For […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | April 14, 2023
During opening remarks for this year’s presentations, the culminating part of our eighth graders’ seminal Capstone experience, Jen Friborg, who coordinates the program like a symphony conductor, explained that Belmont Day might have the longest-running Capstone program in the country. It shows. The program grows, changes, and endures each year, and still, it showcases the […]
By Heather Woodcock, Programmatic Advisor and Instructional Coach | April 06, 2023
While on a recent walk in the woods, a friend told me that a tree planted in a small clearing of an old forest has a much better chance of growing successfully than a tree planted in an open field. I was skeptical at first since the tree in the field gets all the sun, […]
By Connie Yepez, Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging | March 31, 2023
I recently met with other school leaders when this question was posed, “How do we engage with our school values when we’re tired, overwhelmed, and generally not at our best?” I’ve been thinking about this question for several days now. I wonder, with all the things happening in the world that might make us feel […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 24, 2023
At this time of year, two questions inevitably spring into my world: What are you reading right now? Why Pre-K to Grade 8? The first is a question that comes often from within the BDS community of parents and faculty. Folks who, in all likelihood, are starting to cobble together their summer reading lists. The […]
By Heather Smith, Learning Specialist, Reading | March 17, 2023
Every day I am inspired by how classroom teachers demonstrate excellence by incorporating a structured literacy approach into a very rich, dynamic, meaning-based literacy program that fosters strategic, flexible, joyful readers. Let’s begin by taking a tour, and a stroll around the block of early elementary classrooms. The first stop is pre-kindergarten. On one side […]
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