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DCD Featured in Independent School Magazine article

To flourish in the future, schools must be more than the sum of their parts. Co-authors Head of School Allison Webster and Director of Academic Technology Kate Reardon explain how to cultivate a mindset that sees connections among all the parts to build a better, more integrated, relevant school. Click on the following link to read the article featured in the spring 2019 issue of Independent School Magazine: Reimagining Schools: https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2019/seeing-school-as-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/

DCD Announces Winter Sports Awards

Dedham Country Day School recognized middle-school student-athletes for their performance during the winter season. Coaches presented awards for basketball, hockey, and squash at two all-school morning assemblies held on February 25 and March 5. Fourteen players in all were recognized.

Edie Carey Performs at Dedham Country Day!

Folk singer and songwriter Edie Carey ’88 returned to the DCD stage for a special concert on Monday, February 25^th. Since 1999, Edie has been touring and singing at festivals, colleges, and listening rooms across the U.S., Canada, and Europe often performing alongside such other well-known artists as Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, and Shawn Mullins.

Japanese student teachers visit DCD

A group of 10 student teachers visited DCD from the Early Childhood Education Program at Showa Boston, a satellite campus of the Showa Women's University in Tokyo.

DCD Middle School Student Evan Michaeli Takes a Stand Against Plastic Bags

DCD seventh grader Evan Michaeli is a testament to the impact that young people can have on the issues affecting our planet. Evan founded the school's student-run Green Club along with his brother Drew, a sixth grader, and eighth grader Matthew Volfson. An ardent environmentalist, Evan recently presented his views about the environmental risks of plastic bags to the Town of Dedham's Sustainability Committee.

On Managing Uncertainty and Loss

Reflections from reading Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan and Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

How do we develop the ability to manage the loss and uncertainty that is inevitably part of life? As both a parent and an educator, I’ve found it challenging at times to simultaneously help children acknowledge and accept loss and uncertainty while fostering the feelings of security and predictability I know children need. I’ve talked before about our VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous – and know that helping children gain comfort in VUCA times, rather than trying to rid life of its uncertainty, can prepare them to thrive in the full lives they will lead. Two of my favorite recent reads offered insights into how to navigate this terrain of acknowledging and tolerating life’s uncertainty.

DCD’s Cradles to Crayons Event Helps 955 Boston Area Kids!

Teaming up with Cradles to Crayons on Saturday morning February 2, DCD families came together to sort and organize all of the donations the school had received from the community for its month-long clothing and toy drive to benefit children in the Boston area. DCD has had a long-standing relationship with the Cradles to Crayons organization with our middle school students often spending their volunteer afternoons working at their facility in Brighton.

MASKS

We ask your children to build masks – to try them out, adjust the fit, the expression, and to examine exactly what they’re showing and to whom. In heroic tradition, masks are often a noble defense that guards the anonymity of chivalrous deeds or selfless, altruistic risks. But masks are not just barriers. More than shields parrying unwanted attention, they are also curatorial reckonings of value and need that render visible what we want known, as opposed to obscuring our secrets.

Stories of Service Shared in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

On Friday, January 17, the DCD community came together for its annual day of service in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. The day began with two presentations from adults who talked about their experiences and the need they felt to serve others.

Musical Musings

Whether in DCD’s Private Music Program or in the classroom, students from pre-k to grade 8 have been exercising their musical muscle. December often brings several opportunities for students to share their hard work with whole community.