By Sammy Roth Brenda Anderson will replace Andrew LauGel as head of the middle school Visual Arts Department next year, and Chronicle Adviser Kathleen Neumeyer will lead the new upper school Communications...

The senior class will head to Big Bear in June for a year-end retreat, Head of Upper School Harry Salamandra said. Salamandra met with Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts and retreat point person...

by Lucy Jackson Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts said in an interview in September that she anticipated some "real changes in the school," but, with spring break approaching and fourth quarter already...

A sophomore boy served an in-house suspension early last month after he posted instruction on how to crack the school’s server onto what the school called a "hacking website" over the summer, he...

By Jordan Freisleben Ethicist Michael Josephson will discuss character and the specific challenges and pressures teenagers face at an assembly on Oct. 21 as well as a parent meeting later that night,...

By Cathi Choi Chemistry teacher Stephen Marsden retired from his teaching post, Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts wrote in an email to faculty in early June. Marsden told his colleagues that he planned...

By Dana Glaser In the 35 minutes or so of Q&A with the candidates for Senior Head Prefect at class assembly this Monday, I heard a lot of solid speeches. Or, more to the point, I heard a few solid...

By Michael Kaplan Two weeks after six students were expelled for cheating, student leaders searched for ways to stem academic dishonesty in the community at a hastily summoned Leadership Summit...

By Gabby Ahlzadeh Visual Arts Department Chair Arthur Tobias will be stepping down at the end of this year after 17 years of heading the department. Cheri Gaulke will be assuming the position...

By Michael Kaplan Eric Schrode, who during 14 years teaching English and history at the Upper School instituted both the One-Acts Festival and a program that over several summers took hundreds of Harvard-Westlake...

By Araine Lange The ample whining which met the “cancellation” of Champions Day when in fact no day had ever been promised was clearly not well thought out. Suddenly, the same students who...

By Esther Zuckerman The Faculty Academic Committee has begun to look into the possible addition of International Baccalaureate courses to the upper school curriculum over the next few years,...