A Nashoba Brooks humanities teacher reflects on the other side of the curriculum:

“Science didn't come naturally to me the way writing and speech did. Because my dad is a historian and linguist, and my mother is a musician and writer, when we talked at the dinner table it would be about a book or what was happening in the news, but not about scientific things. As for math, I always felt that was something I just wanted to get done so that I could get on to other things.

"But now I wonder — how would things have been different if I had gone to a school like Nashoba Brooks? When I look at what students are doing here, it's clear that this is real—just as when I talk about a book or in social studies I want students to know that it's real and connects to what's happening today. Our science and math teachers make sure that students leave Nashoba Brooks knowing that these subjects are fun, interesting, and relevant not only to them but to the making of a better world."