Grit, Growth, and Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman’s passing this week really struck me. His performances in classic films like Bonnie and Clyde, The...
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CA to Launch New Website for 2025
This spring, Colorado Academy will launch a completely redesigned website for the CA community, prospective families, and the...
Voices of Change: Fifth Graders Reimagine Colorado Academy’s Lower School
When Colorado Academy Fifth Graders complete their Lower School journey this spring, they won’t just be leaving with...
‘TideFlux’ Concept by Upper School Future City Team is National Runner-Up
The ambition of Colorado Academy’s 2024-2025 Upper School Future City team is clear from the very first sentence...
Racing Toward Derby Day—The 2025 CA Auction!
Though the 2025 Colorado Academy Auction on Saturday, May 3, will, as always, raise critical funding to bolster...
Warming Up to the Sparkle of ‘Frozen Jr.’
Disney’s immensely popular 2013 sing-along animated film, Frozen, is, at its heart, a story about family, and this...
Why Kindness Matters Now More than Ever
One thing I love about Colorado Academy’s mission statement is that we aspire to be a kind community....
Science Symposium Takes Over Middle School
Colorado Academy’s Middle School science teachers organized a STEM takeover on January 31, 2025, for the second annual...
Buddies: Cultivating the Challenge of Caring
Speak to Colorado Academy Third, Fourth, and Fifth Graders, and you quickly come to understand that in the...
The Art of the Conference
For Upper School English instructor Katherine Snow, what is extraordinary about the more than 5,000 individual parent/guardian-teacher conferences...
Cultivating a Ripple Effect: Sustainability at CA
In the 2008 Pixar Animation Studios film WALL-E, a solitary trash-compacting robot toils to clean up an uninhabitable...
Cultivating Humility in a Time of Crisis: Scott Lea ’02
As Scott Lea ’02 reflects on concluding a year-long contract serving as Country Director for the International Rescue...
Looking Back at King’s “Mountaintop”
This week I gave a talk about the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and his important legacy. I shared...
The Quarter Century in Education
I gave a talk recently, and when I was being introduced, the speaker reminded the audience—and me—that I...
HOPE 2024 Reaches Hundreds
Around 700 visitors from across the Denver Metro Area came to Colorado Academy on December 14, 2024, to...
Making Meaning Matter at the 2024 Pre-K–Grade 8 Art Showcase
Titled “Common Threads,” the 2024 Pre-K–Grade 8 Art Showcase in Colorado Academy’s Ponzio Arts Center asks visitors to...
Tiny Earth: Huge Potential
The inspirational quotation at the top of Upper School science Preceptor Suzie Jekel’s syllabus for the two-trimester course...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts its Spell at CA
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, this year’s Upper School mainstage play—in the Leach Center for the Performing...
After Election, Our Strength Lies In Our Shared Values
In the wake of our recent election, I spoke to our Upper School students and offered some reflections...
Cryptography in History and Math
Politics and puzzles—it’s an irresistible pairing that takes center stage in the new Advanced Studies and Research (ASR)...
Athletics Banquet Celebrates Fall 2024 Teams
On November 17, 2024, Colorado Academy student-athletes, families, coaches, and fans packed the Athletic Center’s Field House for...