Category Archives: Features

Feature stories from our staff, including profiles of people and places of interest to our community.

Snapshot: Kim Ball, Upper School Associate Director of Student Life

By Aanika Sethi and Mary Mason Ingold  Kim Ball, the Upper School Associate Director of Student Life, had an unlikely path to…

Teaching 4th Grade With Heather Garnett

By Mary Mason Ingold Collegiate 4th Grade teacher Heather Garnett distinctly remembers that, even in her adolescence, “I always knew I would…

Claire Lareau ('25) paints. Photo credit: Elizabeth Seward.

Snapshot: Expressing Emotions on Canvas

By Elizabeth Seward Take a glimpse into Upper School art teacher Pam Sutherland’s D period Painting I class, where the students are…

Snapshot: Elizabeth Kerr and The Saunders Family Library

By Macy Boyer If you have ever spent time in the expansive Academic Commons or Saunders Family Library, there is a high…

Building Leaders and Fostering Independence in Mrs. Chambers Fourth Grade Class

By Michael Chambers My recent visit to Jamie Chambers’ 4th Grade classroom in the Lower School was an inspiring experience. As both…

Seven Years Later: A Trip Back in Time to Emma Harrison’s Classroom

By Macy Boyer As I meandered my way through the perimeter of the classroom, a single photo in a small frame under…

Dr. Antenette Stokes, Collegiate’s New Director of Inclusion and Belonging

By Mary Mason Ingold This past summer, former Upper School counselor Dr. Antenette Stokes became Collegiate’s new Director of Inclusion and Belonging….

Chile: The Trip of a Lifetime

By Jack Neese Almost 25 years ago, on December 25, 1999, my parents Michael and Kristen Neese, along with their two best…

An Ode to Cross Country

By Macy Boyer  I awoke to the painstakingly obnoxious sound of my phone alarm. Confused and disoriented, I reached for my phone…

Trader Joe’s Fall Specials

By Clare Aman Just as the humidity subsides and the first brisk gust of wind passes through our windows, pumpkin spice lattes,…