Et Tu, Latin
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | March 26, 2021
For the past three years, while the school celebrated the Barn’s opening and navigated the pandemic’s disruption, there has been another slightly quieter type of building happening on our campus. Like the Barn itself, its construction process has been one with data-backed decision-making, dogged determination, and masterful design from experts in the field. Belmont Day’s […]
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Making Our Actions & Interactions at BDS Count: The Goal Is Zero
By Carlos Hoyt, PhD LICSW,
Director of Equity and Inclusion | March 19, 2021
Every day at BDS there are too many acts of kindness, caring, respect, friendship, and love to count. The uncountable amount of good that happens here equals the joy that makes us the community we want to bea community in which everyone, from the youngest Pre-K scholar to the eldest faculty member, and including every […]
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One Year
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | March 13, 2021
On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, a group of Belmont Day school leaders met in my office for several hours to decide whether to make the call to close school due to the burgeoning pandemic. Ultimately, of course, we decided to. The plan, at the time, was to close campus for two weeks. We would have […]
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Reaching Beyond Ourselves to Help
By Carlos Hoyt, PhD LICSW,
Director of Equity and Inclusion | March 05, 2021
“As of January 2019, Massachusetts had an estimated 18,471 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that total, 3,766 were family households, 917 were veterans, 480 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 2,370 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. […]
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Touchdown for Perseverance
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | February 26, 2021
As February quietly comes to a close and March beginslike a lion, as they sayit is exciting to consider longer days, warmer temperatures, more time outdoors, and a long-awaited vaccine. Beyond that, I am also excited, or perhaps, more precisely, moved by something far, far away: NASA’s successful landing of the Perseverance Rover on Mars […]
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The Exhausting Effort of Trying to Bend the Future to Our Will
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | February 12, 2021
Maybe it’s the time of year. Mid-February often feels this way in schools. Perhaps it’s the relentlessness of this virus and the frustration thatfor all of the medical advances we hear about each dayour lived experience hasn’t changed in the ways we have hoped for. Maybe it’s cabin fever, the piles of snow amplifying that […]
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