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 ...
Thanks to all the parents who took time to attend the 2,997 individual parent/teacher conferences this week at Colorado Academy. It was a former Governor of my...
Elon Musk has had a hard week. He has to pay a $20 million fine to the SEC and step down as chairman of his company. That can happen when you are public figure ...
Like so many members of our school community, I have always found the mission of Colorado Academy profoundly compelling. As an educator, I value the i...
This was a great week at Colorado Academy. We had two incredible community-building events that were inspirational—each in their own way.
One was Erik Weihen...
At Colorado Academy, we are intentional about the kind of student culture we want to create. Over the past several years, we have introduced mindfulness trainin...
Beginning with 9/11 earlier this week and the impending arrival of Hurricane Florence on the East Coast, I am reminded of how our reality can change quickly. So...
What I love most about teaching is the opportunity to ignite intellectual curiosity in young people. Some days, this can be easy. The subject matter can be so c...
When my twin girls were born in the year 2000, the prospect of their leaving home for college in the year 2018 seemed so far away. There were times, when my wif...
As we kick off the school year, I want to pause and take a moment to honor the legacy of United States Senator John McCain. I grew up in Arizona, and from my ch...
We are excited to welcome our students back to the Colorado Academy campus next week! We hope to see parents, students, and faculty at our annual All-School Pic...
As I begin my eleventh year as head of Colorado Academy, I am reminded of how much I value the cyclical life of schools. Students begin a new year with the pote...
This has been a busy season of culminating ceremonies at Colorado Academy. As my twins just graduated from CA and are about to head to college, I find myself th...
Nine Colorado Academy students and I are heading back from Interim where we’ve spent a week in the wilderness of southeastern Utah. We have hiked and climbed, s...
I spoke to a fellow head of school from the East Coast who was bemoaning the coming of May. “When May hits, that means my students go crazy,” he observed. May i...
I am dumbfounded by the inability of humans to remember and to learn from history. Although my historical understanding of the world is rooted in my studies for...
Working with high school students for more than two decades, I have a lot of insight into the college admissions process. Over the years, I’ve worked with stude...
Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. MLK’s life was one dedicated to the quest for justice and ...
Our annual check of Colorado’s Academy’s indicators of school health progress shows a forward-thinking and innovative school with high parent satisfaction, stro...
I know we are all excited about Spring Break. Although I know we all want to clear our heads, we also know that most children (and adults) actually have a hard ...
