As student inboxes flood with messages from teachers and administrators, course forecasting weighs heavy on the docket. Students must make difficult choices; whether to take a language or a history course, to enroll in five, six, or even seven classes, they must contend with fulfilling graduation requirements and facing pressures to challenge themselves.
Read MoreEach morning, I pull into the faculty lot around 7:30a.m., sometimes before the sun has risen. My mom, Upper School (US) French teacher Wendy Wilkinson, and I walk to the math building together, then part ways.
Read MoreI have found myself having many conversations,with people both within and beyond the Catlin Gabel School (CGS) community, about fears surrounding climate change. They are concerned about the state of our planet, and eager to ease their anxieties by discussing solutions. I embrace these conversations, if not for the selfish desire of easing my own existential angst, but since taking the Climate Change Palma Seminar, which began with a crash course in climate science, I have come to realize that the cold hard facts of climate change are not always clearly grasped.
Read More“Aaaaahhhhhh!” shrieks Catlin Gabel School (CGS) ninth grader Dylan Beckett, who plays Pugsley Addams, strapped to a torture device.
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