Susan Lewis Attends UC Berkeley's Summer Institute
Susan Lewis, Middle School science and homeroom teacher, attended the GGSC (Greater Good Science Center) Summer Institute for Educators at UC Berkeley as part of the Grubb mini-sabbatical.
Susan's work in this program focused on three key areas: social-emotional learning, character education, and mindfulness—critical foundations for student learning and success.
At our first employee meeting of the year, Susan shared some of her key takeaways from this learning opportunity and walked everyone through exercises to help us recognize the power of our emotions and how we communicate through non-verbal cues. She stressed that social-emotional learning is not simply something educators teach to students but rather something we model. When we practice mindfulness ourselves, we are better able to build a nurturing and compassionate community.
“I am so grateful to Nashoba Brooks for giving me the chance to attend the Summer Institute,” Susan says. “I have been a huge fan of the work that the Greater Good Science Center does to promote the science of well-being, and I came away both personally inspired and professionally better equipped to serve my students and the School.”
Grade 3 students participated in a favorite Nashoba Brooks tradition: a Sharing of Understanding. This event hosted family members to listen and learn about what their students have been working on at School, including a recorder recital and in-depth explanations of multiple indigenous peoples.
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.