Student Voice
In place of our usual all-school meeting this week, leaders from our Student Council organized community-wide town hall meetings. StuCo representatives led sessions of about 25 students each to hear about their experiences and solicit ideas for how we can further strengthen the BUA community; we’ll review those ideas together later this winter and report back at a school meeting. Another round of town halls is in the works for the spring, and I hope this becomes a new school tradition.
This year, we are also running several small ad hoc working groups, where teachers, staff, and students collaborate on important school policy questions – one focused on our daily schedule and another on our learning-management system. Those groups make recommendations to the full faculty and staff and have a real impact on the life of the school.
Schools are better when students – the experts in what the school experience is really like – have channels to speak up and feel empowered to play a role in shaping the community. That’s particularly true here, where we have an exceptionally thoughtful, dedicated, creative, and talented cadre of young people. I’m proud to work with them side by side.