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Teachers Attend Responsive Classroom Elementary Core Course

First grade teacher Geoffrey Fox, second grade teacher Katie O’Brien, and fourth grade teacher Emily Crawford attended the Responsive Classroom Elementary Core Course at Burlington High School. This national program trains teachers on strategies for creating a positive community, ensuring engaging academics, effectively managing their class, and responding to their

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Faculty Attend Student Leadership Workshop

In late June music teacher Kassie Bettinelli and Latin teacher Nicole Buck traveled to Colorado Springs to attend The Gardner Carney Leadership Institute at the Fountain Valley School. The six-day intensive workshop helps K-12 teachers and administrators learn how to develop the leadership competencies of their students. Ms. Bettinelli, Ms.

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Team Attends AISNE Health and Wellness Conference

On Thursday, May 2, Belmont Day was represented at the AISNE Health and Wellness Conference in Norwood by food program director Tara Lightbody, second grade teacher Nancy Fell, physical education teacher and mindfulness director Alex Tzelnic, school psychologist Arlene Silva, school counselor Josh Sussman, and third grade teacher Leigh Twarog.

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Faculty Members Participate In Local, National Professional Development

Teachers Participate In Workshop at The Advent School Seven Belmont Day faculty–Betty Chu Pryor, Emily Crawford, Josh Sussman, Kim Edwards, Leigh Twarog, Mike Marroquin-Castillo, and Ana Maria Restrepo–attended last week’s workshop organized and hosted by The Advent Collaborative at The Advent School in Boston entitled “Courageous Conversations: Why Talking with

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Associate Teachers Start 2024 in New Placements

The 2023-24 associate teacher cohort has excelled during the first classroom placements of the school year. Each associate has now moved to a second placement for the winter and spring. Associates will stay in these placements with new mentor teachers through the end of the school year (from left to

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Inspire Grant Program Helps Grow New Curriculum

This past summer, the classroom teachers in pre-kindergarten to grade 2 selected books for summer reading related to food and used that theme to start the year in their classrooms. Teachers then worked together across grades to connect this topic to their classrooms as part of the Inspire grant program,

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Seven Projects Receive Leana Endowment Grants for 2023-24

The Lenesa Leana Endowment for Innovative and Collaborative Education was established to honor the innovative strategies and collaborations that former Head of School Lenesa Leana fostered during her tenure at Belmont Day. The endowment provides grants to teaching and non-teaching faculty to support the many ways our community explores and

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Summer Camp Launches Business & Marketing Internship

This summer, the Belmont Day Summer Camp administration team welcomed two college students to launch new roles as business and marketing interns. Katey Finnerty ‘17, a rising junior at Denison University, and Gaby Namouni, also a junior in the fall at Tufts University, are both veteran camp counselors and were

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Faculty Attend Nueva Design Thinking Institute

Six members of the Belmont Day faculty kicked off the summer with a trip to the Bay Area to challenge and expand their ways of thinking around teaching innovation, design, and engineering.  The team—Annie Fuerst, director of technology and innovation, Maggie Small, seventh grade science teacher, Vaniecia Skinner, fifth grade

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Blair Fross Named Faculty Representative to Board of Trustees

It is our pleasure to announce that Blair Fross will join the Belmont Day School Board of Trustees as a faculty representative for a two-year term. Fross, now in her twelfth year at BDS, is the director of school year auxiliary and specialty programs and will join kindergarten teacher Missy

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Three teachers stand with a sign that says "Welcome! Responsive Classroom"

BDS

August 9, 2024

First grade teacher Geoffrey Fox, second grade teacher Katie O’Brien, and fourth grade teacher Emily Crawford attended the Responsive Classroom Elementary Core Course at Burlington High School. This national program trains teachers on strategies for creating a positive community, ensuring…

BDS

July 11, 2024

In late June music teacher Kassie Bettinelli and Latin teacher Nicole Buck traveled to Colorado Springs to attend The Gardner Carney Leadership Institute at the Fountain Valley School. The six-day intensive workshop helps K-12 teachers and administrators learn how to…

By Josh Sussman, school counselor |

May 14, 2024

On Thursday, May 2, Belmont Day was represented at the AISNE Health and Wellness Conference in Norwood by food program director Tara Lightbody, second grade teacher Nancy Fell, physical education teacher and mindfulness director Alex Tzelnic, school psychologist Arlene Silva,…

BDS

January 12, 2024

The 2023-24 associate teacher cohort has excelled during the first classroom placements of the school year. Each associate has now moved to a second placement for the winter and spring. Associates will stay in these placements with new mentor teachers…

BDS

December 1, 2023

This past summer, the classroom teachers in pre-kindergarten to grade 2 selected books for summer reading related to food and used that theme to start the year in their classrooms. Teachers then worked together across grades to connect this topic…

BDS

August 25, 2023

The Lenesa Leana Endowment for Innovative and Collaborative Education was established to honor the innovative strategies and collaborations that former Head of School Lenesa Leana fostered during her tenure at Belmont Day. The endowment provides grants to teaching and non-teaching…

BDS

July 25, 2023

This summer, the Belmont Day Summer Camp administration team welcomed two college students to launch new roles as business and marketing interns. Katey Finnerty ‘17, a rising junior at Denison University, and Gaby Namouni, also a junior in the fall…

BDS

July 17, 2023

Six members of the Belmont Day faculty kicked off the summer with a trip to the Bay Area to challenge and expand their ways of thinking around teaching innovation, design, and engineering.  The team—Annie Fuerst, director of technology and innovation,…
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