In my last article for On CAmpus, I mentioned that adversity brings out some unexpected opportunities. I noted that even in the midst of COVID-19, a number of p...
Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year at Colorado Academy, one that will undoubtedly live on in our memories long after the dust has settled. So many adjectives ...
We all know how the rest of that saying goes, and I’m pleased to say it is proving true, now that we have shifted to remote learning in the Colorado Academy Upp...
The COVID-19 crisis has hit all of us at Colorado Academy hard in the past few weeks. Amidst so many new developments and adjustments, one big question has carr...
More than twenty years ago I transitioned from a history department chair position to a job in college counseling and entered into a new and challenging role. F...
An inch deep and a mile wide? Or a mile deep and an inch wide?
One of the ongoing debates in education revolves around the question of breadth versus depth. ...
You may have already heard about the Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC). With recent media coverage in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Boston Globe, Washing...
“Now class, this novel refers to a famous event in American history from the 1930s. Can you tell me what you remember from your U.S. history class about this er...
Volatility, Uncertainty. Complexity. Ambiguity. Collectively gathered into the acronym VUCA, these four words have come to define our age. Introduced in the 198...
Over the mid-summer weekend of August 9-11, 23 eager soon-to-be Colorado Academy Seniors went to the High Mountain Institute in Leadville to take part in a lead...
Student agency is an oft-used phrase in educational circles these days. More and more educational leaders are promoting the idea that students, especially in hi...
Most of us recall fondly our participation in high school extracurriculars. We may even think about our involvement in theater, or the school newspaper, or athl...
Now that the calendar has turned to 2019, I am happy to find myself deeply involved in the admission process for next year’s applicants to Colorado Academy's Up...
Every fall Parent Preview provides Colorado Academy with two wonderful opportunities to showcase our whole school to prospective parents. My favorite part of th...
The last few years have been particularly exciting for Colorado Academy’s ambitious Global Travel Program. Thanks in large part to the efforts of Daniel Lopez, ...
One aspect of this year’s class stood out to me as several of us were crafting the tributes that we read at Commencement. I noticed how often we were ...
At Colorado Academy, one of the “6 C’s” that provides focus for our Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 program is Collaboration. While we all have a good sense o...
Survey results famously show a greater number of people fear public speaking more than they fear death. Whether this research is apocryphal or not, there is no ...
First of all, research shows that giving reflection time is valuable to anyone as a means of creating greater self-awareness, appreciating process as well as pr...
