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The Dimmer Switch

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 18, 2022

The primary analogy we have been working with throughout the pandemic is the dimmer switch. From the earliest days of navigating the pandemic, we realized that approaching this community safety effort through the binary frame of absolute statements of ‘on’ or ‘off’ was not going to work. Be it in school or out. All programs […]

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John Williams and How Students Score From an Education in Music

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 11, 2022

“Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.” – John Williams If you don’t know who John Williams is, I am almost positive you know his music: the theme songs from Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, and, […]

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The Importance of Athletics, Inside and Outside the Lines

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 04, 2022

For nearly two decades, this has been the week when I became the most insufferable sports fan to those who don’t root for our local pro football team. Blame it on the success of the New England Patriots and their nine Super Bowl appearances over the past twenty years. As fortune would have it, these […]

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A Reflection On Service

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | January 28, 2022

It was difficult not to see the starkness of comparison last Friday. As I prepared to arrive at school on the morning we would celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a look at my weather app offered a bone-chilling 6-degree forecast. Alas, that required quick thinking by assembly coordinators Pati […]

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On My Return to the Classroom

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | January 21, 2022

Before January 5, 2022, the last time I was in a classroom teaching students was March 11, 2020. As it turned out, navigating the first full year of the pandemic was enough to fill my plate, and thus, my teaching took a back seat—and how I have missed the toil and the trouble of it. […]

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Finding the Next Generation of Teachers

By Heather Woodcock, Programmatic Advisor and Instructional Coach | January 13, 2022

Children, no matter who they are or where they go to school, need educators who seek to know, support and challenge them by making learning relevant, engaging, and relational. Helping create caring teachers who know how to connect with and inspire their students is central to Belmont Day’s Associate Teacher Program. Our associate teacher program […]

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By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

February 18, 2022

The primary analogy we have been working with throughout the pandemic is the dimmer switch. From the earliest days of navigating the pandemic, we realized that approaching this community safety effort through the binary frame of absolute statements of ‘on’…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

January 28, 2022

It was difficult not to see the starkness of comparison last Friday. As I prepared to arrive at school on the morning we would celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a look at my weather…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

January 21, 2022

Before January 5, 2022, the last time I was in a classroom teaching students was March 11, 2020. As it turned out, navigating the first full year of the pandemic was enough to fill my plate, and thus, my teaching…
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By Heather Woodcock, Director of the Associate Teacher Program |

January 13, 2022

Children, no matter who they are or where they go to school, need educators who seek to know, support and challenge them by making learning relevant, engaging, and relational. Helping create caring teachers who know how to connect with and…
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