“Some of my favorite moments are when I work one-on-one with a student and I can see that light bulb go off when they understand either the most efficient way to search in our databases or when I teach...
On the back wall of English teacher Dr. Adam Casdin’s classroom, 153T, hangs an art piece that “drives [his] students crazy” — a painting of an off-center black circle on a white background by...
Last week, a group of 11 teachers attended this year's annual National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) People of Color Conference (PoCC). The conference took place over the course of five days...
“It's nice to have a group of people who you can rely on, and even if you guys don't have the same interests or you don't come from the same places, you still have this one underlying thing in common,”...
For the majority of his time at the school, Robert Watson ‘71 was expected to wear a jacket and tie with neat, short hair. However, the counterculture of the late sixties began to challenge these formalities,...
When former World Language teacher Nathaniel Glidden taught seventh graders between 1963 and 1976, he invented his own vocabulary words and taught their definitions to students. Years later, Glidden's...
When history teacher Dr. Emily Straus ‘91 was a teenager, she would constantly read long biographies and books by famous historians, which, in addition to her “stellar” history education at the...
“While we feel that we are more accommodating parents, there is, unfortunately, a certain level of expectation that things need to get done,” Fernando Romero P ‘22 ‘25 said. Fernando and his wife...
Functions and syntax trees: Acharjee unites math and linguistics
Dylan Acharjee (12) conducted their first Independent Study Project (ISP) presentation this Thursday on the intersections between math...
“It’s hard to stop and make one specialty sandwich for one student when we’re concentrating on feeding 1,500 people, but we do it,” Head of FLIK Dining and Service Brenda Cohn said. “We do our...
“The HMPA always embraces people who want to roll up their sleeves and pitch in,” Executive Committee Chair of the “Friends of the Arts” Committee Sara Zion P‘22 ‘24 wrote. The Horace Mann...
Dan DeCecco is the school’s facilities supervisor and, as of last Sunday, champion of the BrickFair LEGO Fan Expo’s Bridge Build competition with a record-breaking bridge that held 188 pounds. At the...
