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New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Stewart

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Stewart

Dr. Sheehy and Dr. Stewart spent their first year at the school teaching through Zoom. Now, they reflect on the return to teaching in the classroom.
Fallon Dern
November 20, 2021

     Science teacher Dr. Chelsea Stewart said she felt she had a leg up over other new teachers when she joined the school for the 2020 school year because she had previously worked at the Upper School...

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

Dr. Sheehy and Dr. Stewart spent their first year at the school teaching through Zoom. Now, they reflect on the return to teaching in the classroom.
Fallon Dern
November 20, 2021

   Following a nine year break from teaching and a yearlong substitution teaching history at the Marlborough School, Dr. Peter Sheehy joined the History Department in 2020. Sheehy led his first Advanced...

Rekindling the Craft

Rekindling the Craft

Alec Rosenthal
May 28, 2021

After the first few weeks of COVID-19 lockdown, Lena Bagley '22 found herself renovating villages with extensive fortifications, fighting hostile mobs and cultivating farmland to plant carrots and potatoes;...

Olivia Rahhal '23 cuddles her pet sheepadoodle.

Secret Life of Pets (in Quarantine)

Natalie Cosgrove
March 27, 2021

When Olivia Rahhal ’23 returned to her house after leaving her sheepadoodle puppy home for the first time, she noticed her dog’s overly exaggerated behavior—specifically, her intense tail wagging...

Quaranteen Love

Quaranteen Love

Ethan Lachman
December 15, 2020

For Stone Kletecka ’21 and his girlfriend, their one-year anniversary came Oct. 26, but it barely resembled the celebration they envisioned at the start of their relationship. Accustomed to living within...

Summer quarantunes

Sydney Fener
August 27, 2020

Tongue Tied - Grouplove “I love ‘Tongue Tied.’ It banged when it first came out, has banged since and will bang forever.” — Kyle Reims ’21 Ribs - Lorde “‘Ribs’ is one of those...

Relating movies to life: enduring quarantine through film

Relating movies to life: enduring quarantine through film

Annie Beckman
June 3, 2020

Growing up, I was always a TV show kind of gal. My parents never encouraged me to watch movies as a young child. My first PG-13 movie was actually at age thirteen and it was “The Devil Wears Prada.” Although...

Jonah Dickson '20 serves the ball in a 15-3 win at home against Palos Verdes High School on Mar. 3. Credit: Jaidev Pant/Chronicle

Boys’ Tennis season cut short after undefeated start

Jaidev Pant
April 22, 2020

After starting the year undefeated heading into league play, the boys’ tennis team's season officially came to an end when Head of Athletics Terry Barnum announced the cancellation of the spring season...

A new, unpredictable normal

A new, unpredictable normal

Ethan Lachman
April 9, 2020

Once we come back to school, I imagine that we’ll all passionately embrace. As we grip each other tightly, our cheeks will be tomato-red not just because our computer cameras no longer hide our small...

/Siobhan Harms & Spencer Klink

Going Viral: How Coronavirus is affecting Harvard Westlake

Ruoshan Dong
March 5, 2020

To learn about the latest developments of the coronavirus and Harvard-Westlake's response, click here. Glancing outside her window at the nearly empty streets, Catherine Zhu, a student at Harvard-Westlake’s...

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