The Strengths of a PK-12 Environment
Walking across campus on any given day, I can encounter students of all ages. Occasionally, this means being...
Upper School
CA Student Athletes Return to the Ice
Later this year, Colorado Academy students will do something they haven’t done in more than a decade: take...
Authenticity in the College Application Essay
The college application essay. Perhaps no single component of a student’s college application receives more scrutiny, second-guessing, and...
From CA to Shanghai and Back Again: Lessons from Teaching in China
Last spring I called an old classmate, Andrew Rejan, for some advice. I was in the first stages...
REDI Lab Celebrates Innovative, Self-Directed Learning
During spring of 2017, CA student William McCormick set out to design a more efficient airplane, then transitioned...
Sports on the Rocks
When Alena Holbert looks at a rock face, it’s likely she sees something very different than most. Besides...
Senior-Kindergarten Buddies Form Lasting Relationship
With two younger brothers, Colorado Academy alumna Anna Schwartz always lamented not having a younger sister. That was...
Can a Good Cup of Joe Reshape Learning
Creighton Williams Abrams was a U.S. Army General who served in Vietnam, Korea and World War II. Hailed...
No Trial Run: CA Team Earns Berth to National Tournament
For the first time in the school’s history, Colorado Academy’s Mock Trial Team not only won a state...
For True Understanding, Slow Down
Remarks at Commencement 2017 When you type the words “fast paced world” into Google, you will get 59...
Four CA Students Honored for Achievements in Computer Science
Several Colorado Academy Upper School girls received awards for their achievements in Computer Science from the National Center...
Computer Science Students Place High in National Competition
Senior Ethan Jaszewski, and juniors Eric Bear and Greg Cain recently travelled to Newbury Park, CA to compete...
Describing the Class of 2017
I want to share some thoughts about CA’s Class of 2017, a diverse collection of young women and...
Class of 2017 Students Honored with Awards & Scholarships
Congratulations to the following Colorado Academy graduating seniors who will be attending college on merit scholarships. To date,...
REDI Lab 2016: Final Projects
I am not sure why they say that cats have nine lives (neither does Google by the way),...
The Proverbial Cliff by Greg Cain
This trimester, I have learned to reorient my expectations and standards for myself. In the past I have...
Students Honored at US Awards Ceremony
Congratulations to the following seniors who received the following awards during today’s Upper School Awards Assembly: Karl Neserke,...
Pitch Lab!
According to a recent openIDEO challenge: “This year, U.S. public high schools recorded a graduation rate of 83.2...
Networking as a Learning Tool by Sebastian Skipwith
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Bryan Leach, CEO of the consumer technology company Ibotta...
Taking Stock After Five Years in Haiti Partnership
Since Colorado Academy began its partnership with a small school in a rural village of Haiti in 2011,...
The Ball is in the Students’ Court: CA Seniors Finalize Their College Decisions
By Sara Purviance Associate Director of College Counseling In the age of increasingly selective college admission to...