President Rick Commons and Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts told stories about the beginning of the school year and their hopes for the rest of the year to parents at the first Parents’ Association general...

Performing arts teacher Ted Walch spent a week in Paris during the summer researching French director Francois Truffaut’s "Les Quatre Cents Coups" at The Cinémathèque Française. He also walked the...

Tim Schmall, a lighting designer, loved his job, but wanted something more permanent and exciting. After stumbling upon Harvard-Westlake he instantly knew what he wanted to do. After lots of phone interviews...

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...

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...

A group of middle school faculty members will serve as Technology Integration Specialists and oversee the one-to-one initiative planned for the 2013-2014 school year, Director of Studies Liz Resnick announced...

After 23 years of the customary workbook exercises, mnemonic tricks and “cookie of the week” traditions that characterize the middle school Latin curriculum, Latin teacher Joyce Wagner plans “to...

Middle school art teacher Brenda Anderson is retiring this year, 20 years after she first began teaching as an art substitute in the spring of 1994. Anderson teaches seventh grade art classes, Mixed Media...

When some people retire, they play golf,  watch television and play with their grandkids. Chinese teacher Qinru Zhou, however, plans to fill his life after teaching with even more scholarly pursuit. "Leaving...

After her 24th year of teaching French at Harvard-Westlake, Marilyn Shield will retire to participate in her Unitarian Universalist Church choir and spend more time with her husband and their dog Sammi. "I...

Tom Vander Ark, the author of "Getting  Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World," was to visit campus and speak to faculty on Tuesday afternoon. After extensive research, Director of Studies...

The Faculty Academic Committee encouraged standard guidelines for the signing of the Honor Code affirmation in its meeting Tuesday, Feb. 5. The committee, comprised of department heads, meets monthly to...