by Heidi Koelz | May 19, 2022 | Academic, CA Magazine, Campus Stories, Faculty Profiles, Featured News, School
“I think the thing I love most about CA is that people here are more comfortable loving things in public than in any other school community I have been part of,” said English teacher Nick Hiebert on May 5, as he discussed how he had benefited from holding the...
by Heidi Koelz | Feb 3, 2022 | Academic, Arts, Faculty Profiles, Featured News
Theater Teacher Megan Schy Gleeson is a champion for new works and new voices in theater. “New work is empowering and important to have in the world,” Schy Gleeson says. “We need to hear people’s stories, and people need to feel empowered enough to tell them.” Her...
by Heidi Koelz | Jan 9, 2022 | Academic, Admissions 2022, CA Magazine, Faculty Profiles, Featured News, Online Feature, Students
On the evening of December 2, students in Kim Frederick’s American Utopias history course transformed the SHAC atrium into an expo for 19th-century utopian communities. As members of the CA community meandered through the various booths, they received food and gifts—...
by Heidi Koelz | Jan 7, 2022 | Academic, Admissions 2022, Arts, CA Magazine, Campus Stories, Faculty Profiles
A new musical instrument design class is offered at CA Science Teacher Max Hall works with students building their own instruments. “Have you thought about using these for tuning?” music teacher Nate Tucker asks as he plucks the spokes of a bicycle wheel. Violet...
by Heidi Koelz | Dec 22, 2021 | Academic, Admissions 2022, Faculty Profiles, Featured News
When designing the new course Discrete Mathematics, George Larivee wanted to cover topics outside the scope of the existing math curriculum at CA. He asked himself what both he and students would be interested in, and electronics quickly came to mind. He decided that...
by Heidi Koelz | Dec 9, 2021 | Academic, Admissions 2022, CA Magazine, Faculty Profiles, Featured News, Online Feature, Sustainability
Gretchen Roorbach, CA science teacher and organizer of the Environmental Symposium, introduced the third and final speaker in the lecture series as one of her environmental role models. Her colleague Ben Stumpf ’88 has been teaching computer science, film, and graphic...
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