The coming days will be exciting ones for the whole school and include chances to celebrate the Class of 2026: Senior Thesis Symposium, Senior Art Show, Senior Dinner, Field Day, Senior Week events, Prom, and Commencement a week from Monday. While these goodbyes are bittersweet, we are looking forward to being together. Over the weekend, […]
I’m just back from a few days in San Francisco visiting BUA alums. The visit bolstered an impression I’ve been forming over the years: entrepreneurs and innovators are overrepresented in our alumni community. At first, this felt surprising, particularly for an East Coast school without a business focus and whose curriculum is proudly and intentionally […]
One of my deepest hopes and commitments is to make sure this school is accessible to exceptionally kind and curious students around the Boston area regardless of their family’s financial situation. I am proud that over the last six admissions cycles, including this one, BUA has been in a position not to have a financial […]
For all in the BUA community who marked the end of Ramadan last week, we hope that you enjoyed a blessed and happy time with your families. Eid Mubarak. Thank you to the members of our Middle Eastern and North African Student Association (MENASA) for organizing a community potluck celebration this evening. I’m just back […]
We are just hours away from spring break! I wish our faculty, staff, students, and families some well deserved rest, fun, and connection. 28 of our students will spend a portion of their breaks traveling with their teachers and classmates. One group is headed for a cultural and historical exploration of southern Spain, with a […]
To all of our families celebrating the Lunar New Year, we wish you health and happiness. It was lovely to celebrate with so many of you on Thursday at the event organized by the students in the East Asian Student Association (EASA) and their families. I extend warm wishes to our Muslim families who mark […]
We had an exciting afternoon yesterday. The boys and girls basketball teams both won their championship games, which we hosted in our gym. They were tight games against great opponents. The kids on the court battled hard, and both BUA teams came back from deficits to win. The sidelines were packed with students, faculty staff, […]
I’m writing from a conference of heads of school from leading independent schools around the country. Among the roughly 100 attendees are a half-dozen heads – some active, some retired – whom I am lucky to call mentors. Two are former supervisors, and the rest are people I’ve met along the way. They all, at […]
I visited several classes this week. Even on these cold, gray January days in the aftermath of a snowstorm, the energy and engagement were high. One special moment stood out. A geometry teacher asked a group of his students who happened to be taking ancient Greek to work through and present on Euclid’s proof of […]
In the depth of winter, we are experiencing a blossoming of the arts. The hallway walls are a riot of color – filled with student drawings, paintings, photographs, and digital graphic design work from the first semester. The technical excellence of the pieces is as impressive as the broad range of styles and perspectives, and […]