The Academy mourns the passing of Dr. Robert H. Jaros, P88, 90, 04, longtime trustee and board chair, and dedicated friend of the school.  Bob’s extraordinary service and commitment to The Academy have left a legacy felt by all those who are fortunate …

Jeannie Bartlett ’10 Skyped in this week to be our featured alumna in our Lunch with an Alum program.  After graduating Jeannie deferred her acceptance at Middlebury and took the year off to backpack in Patagonia with a National Outdoors Leaderships Sc …

Thanks to the efforts of our Social Justice Council with support from additional faculty members as well as Academy trustees, we will be hosting a conference encouraging awareness and action on the topic of racial justice. The conference, entitled “Wal …

Students in Mr. Miller’s Geometry class studied engineering geometry and used their findings to construct craft-stick bridges in small groups. They tested the bridges for strength, and wrote up reports of their findings. Maximum loads ranged from 18 to …

Liberation Library is a Chicago-based organization that distributes books to incarcerated youth. Through reading and relationships, the organization aims to “empower young people to change the criminal justice system.” Click here for their story. Incar …

The Greenfield Recorder published its annual “Celebrating our Youth” supplement on March 2, with a cover feature on community service at The Academy. For those who didn’t see the paper, click here to read the article.

Students in Ms. Falco’s 7th grade Geography class studied four of the religions that originated in India – Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism – and created visual representations of a chosen aspect of a religion. Ruby C. finished off the presenta …

Intro to French students have been exploring French Impressionism. In an interdisciplinary effort, each researched a French Impressionist artist of their choice and presented their findings to fellow students in French class. In art class, they chose o …

In the wake of the tornado that ravaged the Pumpkin Hollow section of Conway last Saturday evening, the Class of 2020 joined in the Franklin Land Trust’s clean-up effort in that area on Wednesday afternoon. The meadow, field and stream where we worked …

2/27. Reading about the Tuskegee Airmen. Click for full text. 2/28: Alice Walker’s “Flowers.” 3/1: Claudia Rankine’s “Some years there exists a wanting to escape…” from Citizen. See poem here. 3/3: bell hooks’s Feminism is for Everybody. Click for fu …