The Thompson Gallery at CSW announces Talin Megherian—Kiss the Ground, the second exhibition in a five-part exhibition series that examines and celebrates contemporary Armenian art, organized to overlap the centennial memorialization of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
When Aundré Bumgardner ’12 arrived as a boarding student in ninth grade from Groton, CT, he couldn’t possibly predict that just seven years later he’d be elected as the State Representative representing the region that he came from.
The Girls' Varsity Basketball team faced off against Boston Trinity Academy in the Championship Match of the CHCH Charger Classic Tournament on Sat., Dec. 13.
When I was a teenager growing up in a working-class family in Britain, tea was actually a major meal--the afternoon meal for the family (although we rarely all sat down to eat at the same time).
Dr. Rick Sacra, a Massachusetts-based family physician who has worked on the frontlines of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, spoke at a school-wide assembly about his experiences as an Ebola survivor and on issues of global health, access to healthcare, and social justice.
A composition written 12 years ago by Music Department Chair Michael Weinstein, “Serenade for 12 Instruments,” has continued to be a popular piece performed by the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) during the holiday season.
Before Thanksgiving, the wonderful Ethan Cohen ’79 spent some time at his former high school, meeting with students and then giving a fabulous presentation to an eager audience of parents, parents of graduates, faculty, staff, and friends of the school.
CSW's Cross Country team celebrated their strong fall season and congratulated their senior star runner Zachary Joachim '15, who placed first in the Massachusetts Bay Independent League (MBIL).
Again, I take pride in sharing my perennial Thanksgiving diary entry. I like introducing you to my Dad—and of course, I wish you all a happy and restful holiday.
The second Walrus Series, a speaker series program at CSW, featured alumnus Ethan Cohen '79, art curator, dealer, appraiser and collector, known for being the first to curate Chinese Contemporary Art in the United States.
As I write this I am away from school, at one of my favorite conferences, the annual Headmistresses of the East conference in Princeton, New Jersey. Our theme is "building intentional communities."
If you have not visited the Thompson Gallery to view Gagik Aroutiunian—Kiss the Ground, there are only a few days left to see the exhibition! Students will present a special table reading on Saturday, November 15 at the gallery reception starting at 1:00 p.m.
This week signals the time for families to visit CSW, see classes in action and meet with teachers. It is always a lovely time; the leaves are beautiful and the warm feeling as we welcome families who can be here certainly makes any low temperatures rise.
Last week Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize: a 17-year-old from Pakistan who survived the shot of an assassin to campaign for the rights of young women in her country, and an Gandhian from India who has fought against child labor in his.
Close to 100 students and 30 adults live at CSW and make it their home; each day we all take at least one meal in the dining hall, and our campus residents enjoy three. The dining hall is a warm, welcoming place.
On this coming Sunday we will celebrate the life of an amazing woman: Day Bramhall McDowell who passed away this past summer. She embodied so much that is special about CSW and she never stopped trying to make us all better at what we do.
A continued focus for our trustees, faculty and staff this year is CSW’s Learning and Teaching Initiative. We consider deeply what makes our school strong and what will make it even stronger.
The Girls' Varsity Soccer team kicked off their competitive 2014 season with a home match against Bradford Christian Academy on Thursday, September 11.
In less than a week our students have jumped into their studies with both feet and our classrooms are abuzz with learning: questioning, wondering, constructing, analyzing and smiling.
Remember and celebrate the life and work of Day McDowell- beloved wife and mother, former chair of the Board of Trustees, and passionate supporter of independent school education.
On Saturday, June 28, 2014, a small group of CSW students, accompanied by iGEM advisor Howard Goldsweig andCSW science teacher Melodie Knowlton, travelled to MIT’s Stata Center in Cambridge, MA to participate in the 2014 iGEM High School Jamboree.
The Cambridge School of Weston community is mourning the loss of former Board of Trustees member and past parent Day McDowell, who died last Wednesday.
As CSW settles into summer mode, I want to reflect on our adult closing of the year, our Milestones and Farewells Luncheon that took place on Wednesday, June 11.
Officially it happens today (Thursday, 6/5). Students begin to gather on the beach area in front of The Garthwaite Center for Science and Art (this year beautifully adorned with #2014) and then a group of them climb on the rocks and start to look at their phones (not their watches!) until they can count down to dismissal for summer at 2:30 PM.
Seung Hyun Kim '14's independent research on new calculation methods for a free-boundary one phase Stefan problem, a type of partial differential equation, was published in the Journal of Applied Mathematics.
We welcomed educator and author Grant Wiggins for two days last week as part of our Learning and Teaching Initiative. As I drove him to the train station on Friday afternoon, I asked him for some preliminary thoughts about CSW, ahead of his written report.
It’s hard to believe that the middle of Mod 7 arrives at CSW this week. There’s definitely a flurry of pre-graduation activity within the senior class as they choose speakers and plan the program.
In a thrilling, yet heartbreaking defeat in Hyde Park on Monday, May 19, the valiant CSW Girls Tennis' squad came up just a couple games short, being defeated 2-3 by Boston Trinity Academy.
The Ultimate "A" team welcomed the team from Boston University Academy on Friday, May 16, looking to claim their first win of the season against the tough BUA squad.
What’s going on? Is it a concern that study of the humanities won’t lead to a job? The attraction of more interesting courses of study that appear to be contemporary, leading to entrepreneurship and innovation? A response to America’s obsession with the need to improve math and science scores? As usual perhaps only time will tell.
Several members of the CSW Ultimate Frisbee A-team (Uruk-Hai) traveled to Amherst, MA last weekend, where they participated in the 2014 Amherst Invitational Ultimate Tournament.
A cry we often hear at CSW is that social-political views that differ widely from our general espousal of that which is liberal cannot freely be voiced. And yet we are committed to being inclusive and we believe that through thoughtful, deep exchanges of ideas we will truly learn.
Several members of the CSW Ultimate Frisbee A-team met at the lower CSW fields at 7:45 am on Saturday, April 26, ready and eager to participate in the 2014 Andover Invitational Tournament, in Andover MA.
Out of all the dramatic, thrilling, and making hair white matches the CSW Girls' Tennis team has played this season, today's match against Landmark occupies a distinguished spot.
Garcia Marquez brought a kind of literature to us that broadened our geographical and sociological horizons. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. Garcia Marquez was 87 when he died, in his adopted home of Mexico City. Known as Gabo, he said: “I think my books have had political impact in Latin America because they helped create a Latin American identity; they help Latin Americans to become more aware of their culture.”
The CSW Boys' Tennis team won their second straight match on Friday, April 18th, defeating league opponent Boston University Academy on a cloudy afternoon.
Last week we kicked off CSW's annual spring election cycle with student candidates for our board of trustees. The season continues with elections for heads of boards, town meeting moderators and assembly coordinators, followed in the fall by other grade-specific offices and reps.
On yet another windswept early spring afternoon, the lively CSW Girls' Tennis squad faced another formidable tennis opponent in Boston Trinity Academy.
Helen Sun, a teacher from CSW’s sister school, the Yihai School in Beijing, visited campus this past week to learn more about CSW and to observe teaching and educational practices in the United States.
The Ultimate Frisbee "A" Team played its first game of the regular season on Friday, April 11th at home versus new opponent Covenant Christian Academy.
CSW alumna Amelia Meath's '06 latest music project, Sylvan Esso, has been doing quite well, recently touring Europe and and beginning a broad U.S. tour in the coming months.
CSW is thrilled to announce The Walrus Series at CSW, a speaker series program with prominent thought leaders, artists, and changemakers from the CSW community.
CSW is a striving place, always seeking to be better in some way, never resting on its laurels. Not smug. Sometimes fairly casual, always welcoming. What I mostly love about these revisit days is that everyone gets involved and everyone cares--we are very proud of what we do here and we welcome families who can ensure that our extraordinary mission thrives.
On my recent trip to New Mexico I enjoyed great tacos, fabulous chile - both green and red - beautiful vistas and bright blue skies. I also witnessed a kind of life that would be a bit foreign in most of the Massachusetts I know: a sort of simple human belief in the honors system.
The Garthwaite Center for Science and Art will be featured in the April issue of GreenSource magazine in a story about the energy performances of green buildings across the nation.
There are reasons why we Northern Hemisphere inhabitants look forward to spring: sunnier days, easy outdoor activity, the colors of flowers, green grass, more variety in our local vegetables.
At our recent Tuesday morning faculty/staff meeting we discussed the outstanding documentary “American Promise,” which chronicles the 12-year journey of two African-American families through the lens of two boys, Idris and Seun.
At the end of a recent celebration of African American History Month, math teacher Marvin Guttierrez stood up to thank the students who had organized and produced the program.
A couple of years ago I attended a Progressive Education Network conference in Chicago and there for the first time I heard Sam Chaltain, a national educator and an organizational change consultant, known for helping K-12 educators create more democratic learning communities.
Last week I joined alumni relations director, Lelia Elliston '80 and several other CSW graduates in the audience as UMass proudly marked the digitization of the papers of Horace Mann Bond, father of Jane Bond '55, James Bond '63 and Julian Bond, and the uncle of Max Bond '51.
Step into the Chemistry 2 classroom in the Garthwaite Center for Science and Art on a Tuesday afternoon at 2:45 p.m. and you are guaranteed to witness a very stimulating scene.
It’s close to 20 pages and in size 12 font when printed off the Internet, which I did. “A profile of Pope Francis,” by James Carroll. In the article we learn of the difference between radical and liberal, the meaning of “conclave” and of the kind of shoes that the Pope wears. Among other things.
CSW Alumnus Doug Stone '72 was recently featured in a Yale YouTube interview discussing the release of his new book titled, "Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian." Stone is a Physics professor at Yale University.
The Girls' Varsity Basketball team has had a tremendous 2013-2014 regular season. Now comes the playoffs! Yesterday, the Gryphons faced off against Landmark School for their quarterfinal game of the 2014 IGC Playoffs Tournament.
During this past Friday lunchtime, CSW had a great deal of fun watching the finals of our first annual dodgeball tournament, hosted by the peer mentors.
CSW alumni James George Bond ’63 and Jane Bond Moore ’55, their brother Julian Bond, children of African American scholar and civil rights advocate Horace Mann Bond, will be part of a special talk at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on February 12 to celebrate the digitization of their father's academic papers. The conversation titled, “Growing Up Bond,” will focus on the Bond family experience of coming of age in a community of black intellectuals and reflect on what it was like to be a child of Horace Mann Bond, a noted African American educator and scholar.
CSW is honored to be involved with Brandeis University for the second year as participants in their annual weeklong “festival of social justice,” called ‘DEIS Impact.'
As we zoom in and out of thoughts, ideas, projects, causes, there is a risk that we too quickly forget. That the speed with which we read, act, answer an email, Tweet or post on Facebook—even donate to a cause—creates such a cursory interaction with the issue at hand that we move on before there is any kind of resolution, or real learning.
The Girls' Varsity Basketball team put together a steady, impressive performance last night as they squared off against Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall at home
For the third time this week, the Boys' Varsity Basketball team was back in action facing another tough divisional opponent in Covenant Christian Academy.
The Girls' Varsity Basketball team faced off against a tough divisional opponent yesterday, as they welcomed Waring School to the CSW gym for a 5:00 PM game.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball team squared off against their toughest divisional opponent to date in Waring School yesterday, and for pure basketball fans this game did not disappoint.
Returning from a long winter layoff, the Boys' Varsity Basketball team were finally back in action on Friday, hosting the Comets from the Waldorf High School of Mass Bay.
The Cambridge School of Weston is a progressive high school for day and boarding students in grades 9–12 and PG. CSW's mission is to provide a progressive education that emphasizes deep learning, meaningful relationships, and a dynamic program that inspires students to discover who they are and what their contribution is to their school, their community and the world.