Making Meaning Matter at the 2024 Pre-K–Grade 8 Art Showcase Bill Fisher·December 19, 2024Titled “Common Threads,” the 2024 Pre-K–Grade 8 Art Showcase in Colorado Academy’s Ponzio Arts Center asks visitors to...ArtsFeaturedLower SchoolMiddle School
No Bad Music Bill Fisher·November 18, 2024“Life is too short to settle for bad music.” That’s the simple raison d’être of Colorado Academy’s ambitious,...ArtsFeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus NewsletterUpper School
Eighth Grade Considers the 2024 Presidential Election Bill Fisher·November 3, 2024Teaching Middle School Civics during a presidential election year is no small challenge. Teaching it during this particular...AcademicsFeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
2024 Eighth Grade Continuation Bill Fisher·May 29, 2024Colorado Academy’s Eighth Grade Continuation always looks a little different from the Fifth Grade ceremony held earlier in...FeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
Advice for Summer Dr. Mike Davis·May 2, 2024May is a crazy month in the life of any school. At a dynamic institution like Colorado Academy,...Editor's PicksFeaturedHead of SchoolMiddle School
On the Hunt for “The Secret” of CA Bill Fisher·March 15, 2024In the “dark days” of late February and early March, between the long winter break and the spring...AlumniFeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
Wednesday Addams and Co. Haunt Leach Center for the Performing Arts Bill Fisher·March 4, 2024Dance and theater instructor Melissa Zaremba’s Middle School students were ecstatic in November 2023 when she told them...ArtsFeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
Middle School Short Story Studies Inspire Movie Poster Designs Bill Fisher·February 21, 2024How do you get Middle School students to spend two week’s worth of English class periods—in the heart...AcademicsFeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
2024 MS Interim Catalog Abby Page·February 9, 2024Interim at Colorado Academy provides opportunities to get out of the classroom to learn by doing, through exposure to new ideas,...All-School NewsExperiential EducationMiddle School
Removing the Filter Nick Malick·February 5, 2024A few years ago, I was attending my daughter’s ballet recital, a bouquet under my seat; and like...Middle SchoolMiddle School PrincipalOn CAmpus Newsletter
Seventh Grade Scientists Learn from Experts Bill Fisher·February 2, 2024Seventh Grade scientists at Colorado Academy spend the year studying biology and health, the cell, and biomedical engineering....AcademicsFeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
Middle Schoolers Choose Adventure Bill Fisher·December 28, 2023Friends Rahul Iyengar, an Eighth Grader, and MJ Seitz-Yañez and Nina Oren, both in Ninth Grade, met a...AcademicsMiddle School
A Core Conversation Bill Fisher·November 17, 2023For more than 25 years, Colorado Academy’s Sixth Grade Core program has helped students feel safe, seen, and...AcademicsFeaturedMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
Intentionally Building Community in Middle School Nick Malick·November 1, 2023If you had a chance to attend one of our grade-level coffees this fall, you heard how complicated...Middle SchoolMiddle School PrincipalOn CAmpus Newsletter
CA Middle School Global Travel Catalog – 2023-2024 Communications·October 2, 2023OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM Join CA on trips to Quebec/Montreal, Costa Rica, and Belize. At Colorado Academy, we nurture dynamic...All-School NewsEditor's PicksExperiential EducationFeaturedMiddle School
Meet Middle School Principal Nick Malick Bill Fisher·August 22, 2023When he was in first or second grade, Nick Malick wanted to be the ice cream man; in...Faculty/StaffFeaturedMiddle SchoolMiddle School PrincipalOn CAmpus Newsletter
The WTs are OOO Bill Fisher·June 29, 2023Self-described “school people” through and through, Elissa and Bill Wolf-Tinsman retire in June 2023 after dedicating a combined...Faculty/StaffMiddle SchoolMiddle School PrincipalUpper School
Thanks for ALL of It Bill Wolf-Tinsman·June 2, 2023It is hard to believe that another school year has run its course. Like every year before, and...Middle SchoolMiddle School PrincipalOn CAmpus Newsletter
2023 Eighth Grade Continuation Bill Fisher·May 31, 2023Before the 2023 Eighth Grade Continuation Ceremony at Colorado Academy—and long after—there was picture-taking all around the Leach...FeaturedMiddle School
2023 Middle School Interim Highlights Communications·May 25, 2023Interim at Colorado Academy provides opportunities to get out of the classroom to learn by doing, through exposure...Experiential EducationMiddle SchoolOn CAmpus Newsletter
Don’t Watch the Pot Too Closely Bill Wolf-Tinsman·April 30, 2023All right, let’s get it over with. Here are all the aphorisms that apply to this blog: “Patience...Middle SchoolMiddle School PrincipalOn CAmpus Newsletter