The Miracle of a New School Year

9/4/2015

“Every school year is its own miracle,” Headmaster Andrew Chase ’73 told the faculty and staff at the opening meetings for the 2015-2016 school year. “We pull together amazing faculty and staff, students, and their parents into one community. We do this so that the students can be set up for the life ahead of them. What we do each year at Eaglebrook School is powerful,” he finished. Opening faculty meetings at Eaglebrook took place September 2, 3, and 4. The meetings prepare every adult on campus for the coming school year; they focus on academics, student life, and athletics.

Before the full faculty meetings this week, the new faculty members met. This group began their meetings the week before when they were given a crash course in all things Eaglebrook. The group also attended a Residential Life conference at Hillside School with Rich Fox, Eaglebrook’s Director of Residential Life and other new faculty members from Junior Boarding schools. The culmination of the new faculty meetings is their hike to the Rock to get a sense of the geography of the valley they now call home.

During the larger opening faculty meetings, everyone on campus was given an update on the progress of the construction of the second phase of the Edward P. Evans Academic Center, which is currently on schedule and exciting to watch. Over the course of this week, departments met, classrooms were set up, the locker room was opened up, dorm rooms were assigned, and buildings were given a special last round of cleaning in anticipation of the special guests, our students, who begin to arrive on Tuesday, September 8. We are all looking forward to the 2015-2016 school year. We are sure it will be another miracle.

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