The month of May reminds me that summer is right around the corner. With warmer, longer days come the chance to be outside more. Whether you like to walk, rid...
You cannot work at a school without thinking about the succession of beginnings and endings—commencements to be sure, but culminations nonetheless. Not to sound...
On May 19, 2017, Giant Relay Day, Colorado Academy will dedicate the newly renovated Welborn House. The dedication is set for 1:00 p.m. at the conclusion of th...
A parent recently asked me, “How do I set high standards for my child without creating a family environment that produces too much stress and anxiety?” It is an...
Students in Colorado Academy’s sophomore American Literature class recently debated language and censorship after reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a ...
A few years ago, we realized that we could better serve our Lower School students by augmenting classroom teaching with early intervention when we rec...
This time of year is one of my favorites. I get to see our seniors eagerly anticipate graduation and learn about their pending college plans, I am able to get ...
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy unabashedly campaigned for public support of the arts. He alluded to two earlier presidential requests of the same nature: on...
Colorado Academy recently welcomed David Hayes to campus, son of the late artist by the same name whose large “elephant” sculpture graces the exterior of the ne...
Colorado Academy is launching a 30-day blitz in an effort to bolster its current capital campaign and complete the fundraising for the two remaining projects th...
On April 1, the members of Colorado Academy’s Mock Trial Team that won the State Championship will get the first look at their next court case, and they will ha...
We concluded our week in the REDI Lab working with local improv dynamo Jessica Austgen who wreaks improvisation havoc as president of the Denver Improv Festival...
REDI Lab students from Colorado Academy had the opportunity to gain empathy and a deeper understanding of the planning that goes into creating a unique and memo...
It seems appropriate that we post the first entry of the REDI Lab blog on a day when co-director Tom Thorpe and I had the opportunity to see Sir Ken Robinson sp...
Congratulations to all three of Colorado Academy’s Mock Trial teams on their securing the three of the four top spots in the regional Mock Trial competition ove...
Colorado Academy alumna and well-known muralist Lauren Youngsmith has returned to Colorado Academy to create a mural in the Upper School, and to work with stude...
The name Nguyen (pronounced “wen”) is very common in Vietnamese culture. In fact, it’s so prevalent that, according to the country’s Tuổi Trẻ newspaper, an esti...
Education is operating in a unique space today, somewhere on the frontier between the human capacity to know and the human capacity to create technology that kn...
Middle School English Teacher Dani Goldstein/Trevor Brown Photography
When I tell people that I am an English teacher, they immediately suppose I enjoy bust...
The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufmann and members of the Tectonic Theater Company, relates the incident of a young gay college student, Mathew Shepard, who wa...
During the summer of 2016, seventh grader Brody Taylor received a letter. He says the signature was a little sloppy, “understandably,” but the contents moved Br...
