It is Commencement Day, and the weather has cleared. I’m up early to rehearse my graduation address. As I walk to my office just after sunrise, I am once again ...
“Dr. D., is this the favorite part of your job?”
A student asked me this after we were heading downstream in McCloyd Canyon, a remote area on Cedar Mesa, Uta...
I’m a sucker for historical fiction. While, as a historian, there are not many real accounts of war that I haven’t picked up, there are some stories that, set a...
Numbers tell the story best when it comes to the 2019 Colorado Academy Girls Lacrosse Championship-winning game:
By the Numbers
It was a 9-5 score, beat...
Gratitude. I can’t think of another word that encompasses my thoughts about this past weekend’s events that brought together our community, our mission, our vol...
From Superman to Aquaman, Wonder Woman to RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsberg), more than 450 guests in costumes and capes embraced the theme of this year’s “Superhero Soi...
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 ...
We’re wrapping up the month of April, and I did not want to miss the opportunity to acknowledge this as National Volunteer Month. April is dedicated to honoring...
Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019.This week, the world watched as the Cathedral of No...
What’s an educator doing in a corporate classroom? Well, it turns out, plenty.
Dr. Mike Davis at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
I spen...
I am excited to share with you my eleventh “State of the School” report and offer a “dashboard” of facts about Colorado Academy that are indicative of the stron...
Well, folks, it’s really nice to be back in school. Our Spring Break was needed, but with the extra three days we had to take off because of a power outage, I...
The other day I was rehabbing my knee and my physical therapist said, “Look out! Your phone is about to fall out of your pocket.” I replied, “Good. I hope it br...
This week, we were able to share news of a very generous lead gift for a new Center for the Performing Arts at CA, the school’s fourth and final capital project...
Colorado Academy announced today it has received a $3 million gift from Bryan Leach and Jennifer Gaudiani to launch the school’s major fundraising effort for a ...
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...
So, I am finding rich irony that nearly every school in Denver canceled school on a pristine, blue-sky, sunny day. While we adhered to our safety protocol of fo...
Over the past few years, I have been really interested in understanding just how technology will disrupt education. I entered the profession in the early 1990s....
The founding of our republic was based on the principle that we are all created equal. We could go through the list of Americans who have changed the course of ...
While the new year already feels months old, I didn’t want to miss the chance from an educational standpoint to add some thoughts to the collective 2019 manifes...
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...
