A Place to Belong is brought to you by Shady Hill’s Communications and Advancement Offices in collaboration with the Alumni Board. Now, more than ever, we are committed to sharing news that reminds us all how vibrant and innovative Shady Hill continues to be, while forever embracing the mission and values you hold so dear.
The Communications and Advancement Offices and the Alumni Board
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Campus Opening Day
Opening day at Shady Hill was a huge success! There were lots of smiles (covered in masks of course). Here are a few of the many appreciative messages we received from parents after the first week back:
"I was overwhelmed with love and gratitude for Shady Hill today. I was so emotional driving into school and feeling the positivity and love radiating from every single person."
"You have been heroic and exceeded our expectations during this terrible, unpredictable time."
"We want to thank you, the faculty, staff, and administration who worked so hard to open school this year. Our children were giddy with excitement to go to school today and Shady Hill did not disappoint. Afterwards they said: ‘It felt so good to be back at Shady Hill! We wanted to stay all day and night!"
Ahead of our opening we sent home a video to prepare students for socially distant protocols on campus.
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For COVID-19 safety, Shady Hill has divided our student body into small sections, each led by a single Gradehead with help from either a TTC Apprentice or a Classroom Assistant.
"Classroom Assistant" is a newly designed one-year position, particularly well suited to young people looking to explore a career in education. In fact, three of these new hires are our very own young graduates who each decided to take this year off from college: Daniel Feinstein '15 (delaying his NYU sophomore year), Reza Eshghi '16 (taking a gap year before starting Haverford), and Claudia Dyer '16 (pausing before starting Brown).
We're further excited that the creation of so many new Gradehead sections meant we could hire four of last year's TTC Apprentices as Gradeheads. Welcome back, Niko Brattke TTC '20, Kate Radlauer TTC '20, Emily Crawford TTC '20, and Sarah King TTC '20.
In addition, we've hired three TTC grads from earlier cohorts as Gradeheads: David Powers TTC '14, Anna Allen TTC '18, Anne Moncreiff de Arrarte '71, TTC '15.
It's wonderful to have so many alumni joining our employee ranks this year, as we reconfigure for COVID safety.
There are still a few vacancies for Classroom Assistants. Click here to learn more, and please feel free to forward this to qualified applicants.
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We know that our best substitutes come from Shady Hill networks. We are currently taking applications for substitute teaching positions in our Lower and Middle School for this school year. Please help us spread the word.
Applicants can click here to find more information on the qualifications and how to apply
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Alumni from across the country and around the globe dialed in for a virtual Shady Hill "assembly" on the last Friday of May -- which would normally have been the start of Reunion Weekend, but for the pandemic. The lively program was a big hit — and thus a new tradition begins! Expect another All-Alumni Assembly on June 4, 2021.
Watch the Assembly video here
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We are always proud of the amazing work of the Shady Hill alumni community. This spring we launched a spotlight series on social media that highlights the work of alumni who are contributing their expertise to pressing issues. #changemakers
We invite nominations of graduates involved in the pandemic response or the fight for social justice.
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Zakia Jarret '95 is a sixth grade English teacher in the Milton Public Schools district who has garnered headlines in Boston and beyond as she is calling for schools to implement an anti-racist curriculum. Zakia’s school district placed her on leave after a comment she made during a class discussion about police brutality and racism. During her lesson on June 4, Ms. Jarrett explained that the Nikki Giovanni poem “Allowables,” which on its surface is about killing spiders, is an extended metaphor. Sharing her interpretation of the poem, Ms. Jarrett said, “in addition to the men who killed Arbery being racist, there are many police officers who are racist as well. And using that as an excuse for killing someone is not a good enough excuse.” Ms. Jarrett was suspended, then quickly reinstated when the school district was taken to task by overwhelming numbers of supportive colleagues and parents. We are tremendously proud of Zakia for her skillful teaching, for the bravery she displayed when wrongly accused of misconduct, and for her organizing and activism to advocate for change.
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Camilla Krauss '06 is an attorney working for Legal Aid Chicago’s Housing Practice Group. Legal Aid Chicago is the largest provider of free legal services in the midwest and the only one that specializes in subsidized housing. Camilla has long believed in housing as a human right, and her drive to address that has only increased in the current economic and social climate. Earning her B.A. in History and Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, and then her J.D. at Washington University Law School, Camilla knew she wanted to work with people who experience barriers to justice. Camilla’s clients are among society's most vulnerable: low-income families with single mothers, those living with HIV, seniors, and survivors of domestic violence. We are proud of our Shady Hill graduate and her important work.
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Steve Grossman '60 is CEO of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a Boston-based nonprofit that builds and sustains small business ecosystems in cities across the US by connecting inner-city business owners with the tools needed for success: capacity-building education, coaching and access to capital. Steve cares deeply about racial justice; narrowing the racial wealth gap is at the heart of his work. Steve points out that economic disparities have intensified during the pandemic: from February to April this year 41% percent of Black-owned businesses closed compared to 17% of white-owned businesses. For Steve, the most rewarding aspect of ICIC is the personal relationships he develops coaching ICIC cohorts. Steve points to Shady Hill as his most formative educational experience. To Steve, "The most important aspect of my Shady Hill education was the School's ability to carefully and thoughtfully weave together moral leadership and creative, critical thinking." We are proud of our Shady Hill change maker.
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These are just three of the many alumni #changemakers profiled this spring. Follow us on social media to read them all.
And don't forget: we welcome #changemaker nominations. Click here for the form to alert us to graduates responding to the pandemic and/or combatting social injustice, whom we should spotlight.
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