Visiting Morning with the Board of Visitors and Board of Trustees
This year’s Annual Meeting of the Nashoba Brooks School Board of Visitors and Board of Trustees Visiting Day took place on Thursday, April 4, 2019.
The Nashoba Brooks School community enjoyed reconnecting with this extraordinary group of friends, visionaries, and stewards of the School. Board of Visitors Chair John McClellan opened the meeting by acknowledging the common thread that united everyone in the room. “This remarkable School has done something transformative for someone in our lives,” John stated. He went on to reflect on the impact the School has had on his daughters, accomplished alumnae of Nashoba Brooks, and on the leadership and vision of Head of School Danielle Heard.
Danielle updated the members on the state of the School, providing profiles of the student body, teaching employees, Grade 8 next school placement, and School finances—including the ten-year growth in the endowment by +147 percent.
Following the presentations, members of the Board of Visitors and trustees had an opportunity to spend time with some of our students. Music teachers Paul Benzaquin and Christel Michaud led students in choral and advanced ensemble performances. Visitors also enjoyed interacting with third, fourth, and eighth grade students one-on-one as they explained various projects they had recently completed.
The morning concluded with a “disruption” exercise led by Board of Trustees President Jason Robart who invited attendees to think about how to best prepare for a future that is vastly unknown. He referenced brands such as AirBNB, Lyft, and Uber that disrupted industries using existing capacity in the market. “We need to be open for change, be prepared for it...to build skills now for what is different in the future.” Many ideas emerged from the exercise including ways to think beyond the walls of our campus to offer more transformational opportunities to more students and approaches to better prepare students to lead in the 21st century.
It was a morning of inspiration and we look forward to welcoming our Board of Visitors members back to campus soon.
It was a packed weekend on the Nashoba Brooks campus for Fall Weekend!
Thank you to all the parent volunteers, student ambassadors, faculty members, and all other roles who contributed to making this weekend so memorable for our School.
After weeks of hard work, Grade 3 students had the opportunity to present their Community Hero projects to their families and their interview subjects!
The Nashoba Brooks School campus was bursting with excitement Friday, November 4, through Sunday, November 6, as we celebrated our annual Fall Weekend.
After almost a year of research, school visits, interviews, self-reflection, and essay writing, the Grade 8 class is enjoying a variety of excellent high schools to choose from.
Alongside the book fair and poetry month, April has been a wonderful time for literature at Nashoba Brooks School. Sharon Draper and Jen Campbell, two celebrated authors, left their mark on the community over the past few weeks.
More than 75 parents responded to this year’s annual School survey and numbers were well balanced across all grade levels. The results of the survey are impressive and the feedback the parents offer to the School is glowing.
As Black History Month comes to a close, students and faculty alike celebrate diversity, acknowledging that a school is not only classrooms, gymnasiums, and fields, but also the people within these walls. Each year and at every grade level our students contemplate the presence and importance of different backgrounds, experiences and beliefs. And this month provides community members with an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be Black in America.
Rachel Adams graduated from Nashoba Brooks School in 2001. She went on to study at Lawrence Academy followed by Maine College of Art and Design. Now living in Portland as a successful artist, textile designer, entrepreneur, wife and mother of two, Rachel shares her journey from student to full time artist.
Guida Mattison, Nashoba Brooks School's director of secondary school placement, wants to remove as much stress as possible from the high school application process that Grade 8 students go through each year.
Situated on a beautiful 30-acre campus in historic Concord, Massachusetts, Nashoba Brooks School enrolls all genders in Preschool through Grade 3, and students identifying as girls in Grades 4 through 8. Nashoba Brooks is an independent school designed to build community, character, and confidence in its students.