No Bad Music
“Life is too short to settle for bad music.” That’s the simple raison d’être of Colorado Academy’s ambitious,...
Middle School
Eighth Grade Considers the 2024 Presidential Election
Teaching Middle School Civics during a presidential election year is no small challenge. Teaching it during this particular...
2024 Eighth Grade Continuation
Colorado Academy’s Eighth Grade Continuation always looks a little different from the Fifth Grade ceremony held earlier in...
Advice for Summer
May is a crazy month in the life of any school. At a dynamic institution like Colorado Academy,...
On the Hunt for “The Secret” of CA
In the “dark days” of late February and early March, between the long winter break and the spring...
Wednesday Addams and Co. Haunt Leach Center for the Performing Arts
Dance and theater instructor Melissa Zaremba’s Middle School students were ecstatic in November 2023 when she told them...
Middle School Short Story Studies Inspire Movie Poster Designs
How do you get Middle School students to spend two week’s worth of English class periods—in the heart...
2024 MS Interim Catalog
Interim at Colorado Academy provides opportunities to get out of the classroom to learn by doing, through exposure to new ideas,...
Removing the Filter
A few years ago, I was attending my daughter’s ballet recital, a bouquet under my seat; and like...
Seventh Grade Scientists Learn from Experts
Seventh Grade scientists at Colorado Academy spend the year studying biology and health, the cell, and biomedical engineering....
Middle Schoolers Choose Adventure
Friends Rahul Iyengar, an Eighth Grader, and MJ Seitz-Yañez and Nina Oren, both in Ninth Grade, met a...
A Core Conversation
For more than 25 years, Colorado Academy’s Sixth Grade Core program has helped students feel safe, seen, and...
Intentionally Building Community in Middle School
If you had a chance to attend one of our grade-level coffees this fall, you heard how complicated...
CA Middle School Global Travel Catalog – 2023-2024
OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM Join CA on trips to Quebec/Montreal, Costa Rica, and Belize. At Colorado Academy, we nurture dynamic...
Meet Middle School Principal Nick Malick
When he was in first or second grade, Nick Malick wanted to be the ice cream man; in...
The WTs are OOO
Self-described “school people” through and through, Elissa and Bill Wolf-Tinsman retire in June 2023 after dedicating a combined...
Thanks for ALL of It
It is hard to believe that another school year has run its course. Like every year before, and...
2023 Eighth Grade Continuation
Before the 2023 Eighth Grade Continuation Ceremony at Colorado Academy—and long after—there was picture-taking all around the Leach...
2023 Middle School Interim Highlights
Interim at Colorado Academy provides opportunities to get out of the classroom to learn by doing, through exposure...
Don’t Watch the Pot Too Closely
All right, let’s get it over with. Here are all the aphorisms that apply to this blog: “Patience...
Fad or Enduring Truth?
I’ve been doing this a while, so I have seen some things come and go over the last...