From the Office of the Academic Deans:
We concluded, in our constant quest to strengthen our academic program, that our 8th grade students would benefit from beginning Latin in the second half of the year and they would benefit from a year-long civics course. We also decided to go back to an earlier Academy model where each upper school grade in the Humanities would be taught by one teacher as an integrated Humanities course meeting six periods per week. This would allow the teacher to teach depth over breadth and pause to better address writing, research, and study skills as they relate to the humanities. A list of who is teaching what appears below.
Will Miller – Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Geometry
John Schatz – Prealgebra, Calculus I, Health
Sarah Goudreault – Algebra I, Algebra II, Calculus II
Marco Almeida – Physics, Physics II, 8th Grade Introduction to Physical Science, Precalculus
Doug Forbes – Climate Connections, Environmental Science
Neale Gay – 8th Grade Civics, 9th Grade Humanities
Brian Bloomfield – 12th Grade Humanities
Elizabeth Falco – Geography, 8th Grade English, 11th Grade Humanities
Kara Fagan – 7th Grade English, 10th Grade Humanities
Sabine Mauri – Introduction to Languages, French I, French II, French III
Elizabeth Rodriguez Salas – Introduction to Languages, Spanish I, Spanish II, Spanish III
Donald Young – 8th Grade Latin, Latin I, Latin II, Latin III, Latin IV
Cathy Valdez - French IV, French V, Spanish IV, Spanish V
Andrae Green – 7th Grade Art, 8th Grade Art, The Practice of Painting (upper school art elective)
Nora Bates-Zale – 9th Grade Art, Photo I, Photo II, Photo III
Scott Hoffman – Sound Recording Technology (upper school elective)
More information will be forthcoming about next year’s Foundations in Music course.
