When Ninth Grader Dori Beck enrolled in Performance Innovations, led by Colorado Academy teachers Sean Gallop and Steve Scherer, she expected to be able to expr...
We don’t often have the opportunity to get two opening days of a school year, but today, our first day of virtual learning, felt like "deja vu all over again.”
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Should citizens be entitled to a tuition-free college education? This hot-button topic, straight from the presidential campaign trail, was the question posed to...
Enigma—the infamous electro-mechanical encryption and decryption machine that Nazi Germany used during World War II—might seem an artifact relegated to history ...
by Dr. Jon Vogels and Tom Thorpe
For the eighth consecutive year, Colorado Academy Upper School faculty and students participated in an exciting literary cel...
Dear CA Students,
Ready or not, we are starting school next week! I thought I would write this week’s blog to the Colorado Academy student body, and I hope y...
When Andrew Esposito began working on a personal narrative in Jessica Ohly’s Fifth Grade Writer’s Workshop at Colorado Academy, his first effort was titled “My ...
In response to my query to the Colorado Academy community for feedback about a rewrite of our school’s Mission Statement, I’ve received numerous responses with ...
The term “fake news” has entered the vernacular in recent years, but there is nothing phony about the study done by distinguished researchers at Stanford and Ne...
When four Colorado Academy Juniors decided to tackle the National Ethics Bowl competition, their efforts seemed like a longshot—even to them. After all, Colorad...
Ever since her Freshman year at Colorado Academy, Senior Lena Schneck has wanted to become a physician. Her parents and her extended family are doctors—and she ...
Two of Colorado Academy’s three Mock Trial teams are moving on to the State competition on March 7 and 8, 2019, to be held in Golden, Colo. All three teams deli...
Who was most likely to survive when the Titanic crashed into that iceberg on its ill-fated maiden voyage? And who was least likely to survive?
Colorado Acade...
You could travel the globe without ever leaving Colorado Academy’s Middle School if you were lucky enough to attend the 14th Annual Sixth Grade Global Water Ch...
In December, Colorado Academy's Raether Library was transformed into a buzzing extravaganza of robots, drones, and virtual reality at the school's Computer Scie...
I am a big fan of organizational psychologist Adam Grant and his recent New York Times op-ed piece titled What Straight A Students Get Wrong. His thesis is that...
“OK, everyone, “ I said to my class on the second to the last day of the term. “We are going to have a 'pop' final exam.” Gasps abounded from my students. “Well...
On the Friday before Thanksgiving break, Middle School students visited a “Museum of Mexico” without ever leaving the Colorado Academy campus. The mus...
While traveling earlier this week, I dug into the news and found a great article that has a lot of relevance for the experience of young people trying to prove ...
Some students traveled to El Paso, Texas to study the complexities of the border between the U.S. and Mexico and the many ways El Paso citizens adapt to the ebb...
