Voices and viewpoints from educators across Dana Hall School's campus.
Right next to Dana’s Riding Center resides a big white box that often goes unnoticed. For years now, Dana Hall has partnered with Bay State Textiles to collect outgrown clothes and shoes to go onto bigger and better places. However, there are three things many people (including me when I Continue reading Giving Textiles a Second Life
I sit in the back of Waldo Auditorium because I’m eager to watch, but I don’t want to add to the bubbling anxiety of the 10 candidates sitting in the front row, as they nervously fiddle with their speeches. It’s mid-April and it’s election season at Dana Hall, and the Continue reading Election Season
On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for marching for civil rights without a permit; he remained in jail for 11 days, during which he wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” That is, 56 years ago this very week, King was in jail Continue reading Building an Internal Library
Amazing! Enlightening! Energizing! Life Changing! These are just a few ways in which I describe my experience in Cedar Rapids, Iowa during Dana Hall’s Spring Break. I am so fortunate to have had the opportunity and yes, privilege to attend this year’s 20th White Privilege Conference. Prior to the conference Continue reading The Privilege of Learning
We’ve been planning our trip to Hawaii: discussing what essentials to bring, how to find accommodations, what tourist attractions we must see. Then, while en route to our epic imaginary vacation, our plane crash-lands in the ocean. My class of 14 fifth grade girls is now washed up on a Continue reading Welcome to the Island
I’ve had the good fortune to coach at Dana Hall for the past 14 years, serving as the head coach for both Varsity Softball and JV Basketball. In that time, our teams have won league championships and tournaments, produced MVPs and Scholastic All-Stars, and enjoyed thrilling come-from-behind victories. Former Dana Continue reading Building a Program One Player at a Time
It’s September 2018. I’ve met all my new ninth-grade students, I’ve touched base with them about their summer reading, and we’ve celebrated the start of a new year on Boston Harbor that first Friday back. I associate this time of year with questions whether it’s about the course, about the Continue reading Social Justice Through Art
Right outside my office, a flurry of activity takes place three times a day. The commotion is from our student tour guides arriving in the Admission Office to lead tours to prospective families. With more than 100 members (nearly a third of the Upper School), Blue Key, our tour guide Continue reading A Lasting First Impression
I just spent my Spring Break coercing my friends, neighbors, parents and colleagues to help me rip up books. Yes, I am the Upper School Librarian at Dana Hall School. You did read that right: I spent my vacation destroying books. I exaggerate. I completely decimated one copy of the 2016 Continue reading Destroying to Make New or How I Spent My Spring Break
When I arrived at Dana Hall almost 13 years ago, I was fresh off a professional performance career. I’d been teaching dance steadily for about six years, but only in studio settings and never full time. I’d had no previous experience teaching in academic institutions, and I was completely unfamiliar with Continue reading Defining Home through Dance
