Starting at the moment you reach the upper school, it hits you. Each year that sensation multiplies until it slowly dictates your life. We all deal with stress in different ways. Some choose to wallow...

It has been our practice for the past several years to introduce a character education theme or motto at the beginning of each school year.  The mottos are intended to be aspirational, to give all of...

Like years of AP Physics C classes before them, when this year’s crop of Phys C students stepped into their first class today, they were greeted by physics teacher John Feulner in his “I <3 Physics”...

Small groups of students and faculty will gather to discuss community issues and events seven times this year as part of the new Civitalks program. Each section of 18 students will "come together and discuss...

Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck will speak on mindset’s impact on achievement at the Middle School Oct. 8. Dweck wrote the book "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success." Dweck will speak to...

Native French speaker Jerome Hermeline will teach French III, French III Honors and French IV at the Upper School this year. Hermeline was born in northern France, and he spent seven years in Paris studying...

Alex Weber was named head of the lacrosse program after serving as interim head coach last year. Weber led the team to a 15-4 record and reached the CIF Championship game last season. “My heart’s...

A workload survey will be administered in November to monitor and understand student stress  related levels and to  track stress issues between generations of students.  This assessment will be the...

Jennifer Lechevallier ’98 will return to the middle school campus to teach French 1A, 1B and 1 New classes. After graduating from Bard College in New York with a B.A. in French Studies and a semester...

Yi Jiang will teach multiple levels of Chinese from Chinese II to the AP courses at the Upper School. Jiang taught in China, Singapore and Norway before moving to Los Angeles in 2009 to teach at a parent’s...

Joe Busch will teach AP Statistics, Advanced Honors Seminar in Math and Algebra 2 with Analysis this year. Born in New Jersey and raised in Connecticut, Busch went to college in Boston and got a master’s...