Dear Middle School Parents,
It was great to have a full week of school this week! On Monday, we will be off in observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When we return on Tuesday, Middle School students and teachers will attend a special performance by Emmy award-winning actor Ron Jones, who will play multiple characters as he takes the audience through a visual chronicle highlighting many of the political, social, and cultural markers of the roughly 50 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The faculty and I are delighted to bring this Dialogues on Diversity production to our students.
In this week’s Middle School Newsletter, you will find a Student Voice column by eighth-grade student Daniel Siegel about his experiences volunteering in Guatemala, as well as information about a new technology being introduced to our Grade 7 students, details about the week ahead, and a complete list of the dates of our departmental coffees. I am particularly excited to showcase our faculty discussing curriculum as I think this is the heart of what we do. The faculty look forward to having the opportunity to address you about the best practices and thinking about their fields.
We are looking for an alternative date to hold our snowed-out conferences from last week. I will reach out as soon as we make progress in this realm.
Have a good weekend and best of luck to our robotics team on their weekend tournament,
Will