While writing has been the focus of teacher professional development and classroom implementation these past 2 school years, math will be moving into the front seat for 2013-14.  Training with Harvard math consultant, Mahesh Sharma has begun and 8 teachers will attend a week-long summer training with Mahesh.  One focus of this work is what [...]

Dear Parents and Guardians of Cabot Students, As part of our effort to be an organization that is always learning and improving, we will be conducting a survey called the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory (CSCI). Different versions of the survey will be given to parents, students and school personnel, which will allow us to hear [...]

Congratulations to Cabot School eighth grader Henry Burke, who performed a heartfelt, a capella rendition of "God Bless America" at Fenway Park on Sunday afternoon, April 21.  Read full story to access the link to the WCAX video of Henry's superb performance. Thanks to Erik Mueller-Harder's friend Mark Kaminsky for the stunning photograph and permission to [...]

The Cabot School Newsletter, the new and improved weekly bulletin, is now available online. It is also sent weekly to your inbox if you subscribe to Cabot's Front Porch Forum. Click here to access this week's edition, complete with lunch menus, the principal's update, and more. (Read full story to access the links.)

As I write today’s update, I am attending the New England League of Innovative Schools spring conference. There are 450 people here, the vast majority from schools much larger than ours. In yesterday’s opening session, I was called on to describe a specific example of civic engagement among Cabot students. Later in the session, the [...]

On March 22nd, Cabot School Board student representatives Hugh Burke,  Heidi Cookson, and Kassandra Morse, accompanied by Superintendent Nancy Thomas, traveled to Montpelier to attend a meeting hosted by the Vermont School Boards’ Association and the Vermont Superintendents’ Association.  There they discussed and promoted the participation of students on school boards across Vermont. Hugh Burke, [...]

On Saturday morning, March 23, Ruth Kaldor will be offering a class in Pysanka Ukrainian egg decorating, using the traditional wax resist technique with beeswax.  Come join us! Read full story to access the link to the poster with all the details.

I’ve just returned from the Middle School Exhibition “Seedfolks,” an integrated study of the story by the same name, the science of soil and seed germination and how seeds and Seedfolk come together to create sustainable communities. An exhibition of this caliber takes weeks of research and revision. Students use their own “expert” research to [...]