“Today Is Just That Kind of Day”
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | May 19, 2023
After a wonderfully full week that has emphasized community, connections, and celebrations at every turn, I’m taking a brief break today from offering my own words, to instead offer in this space, the beautifully constructed words of someone else–the poem, Today, by Billy Collins. For me, this poem perfectly captures the spirit of Belmont Day […]
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Welcome to Belmont Day School! A Wonderful Admissions Season Concludes
By Liz Parfit,
Director of Admissions and Institutional Advancement | May 12, 2023
After three complete admissions cycles, our team was able to run an entirely in-person season, and what a success it was! While we still maintained many of the positive practices we adopted during the pandemic (virtual parent/guardian interviews are easier and more accessible for many families than in-person ones), we were able to joyfully return […]
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Beyond the Limits of Our Imagination: Some Things We Learned in the Southwest
By Liz Gray,
Middle School Head; Grade 7 Social Studies Teacher | May 05, 2023
Hailing from Missouri, I am no stranger to the wide sweep of sky that greets travelers from Boston as they exit an airplane and look out across the Midwestern plains. Having just returned with our eighth graders and faculty chaperones from our Southwest trip to Zion, Bryce, and Grand Canyon National Parks, I’ve been reflecting […]
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Empathy as the Starting Point for STEAM Education and Innovation
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 […]
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Capstone 2023: Celebrating 20 Years
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 […]
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Growing Together: How Mentorship Matters
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, […]
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