Student Leaders Encourage Digital Wellness at D-E
Digital Wellness has been top of mind at D-E, just as it has on a broader scale in recent years with the release of data highlighting the harm that social media and excessive screen time can have on kids. To this end, the D-E Parent Ed. Committee hosted a Digital...
Highlights from MS/US Orchestra and Choral & Handbell Concerts
BRAVO to our Middle/Upper School Orchestra and Choral & Handbell ensembles for a wonderful set of live concerts! Last week audiences were treated to fantastic performances showcasing the hard work of these ensembles. For the first concert, our orchestral students...
6th Grade EnTREPreneurs Rock TREP$ Marketplace 2024
We’re in business! On Thursday, Dec. 12, D-E’s 6th-grade enTREPreneurs successfully acted the part of small business owners at the TREP$ Marketplace in Wharton Lessin Dining Hall, as they set up and promoted wares that they spent the last two months planning and...
Club Être Lunch & Learn with Yansi Fugel of Tux Couture
D-E’s Club Être recently hosted a Lunch & Learn with Yansi Fugel, the founder and CEO of Tux Couture. Her company specializes in making suits tailored for women with the goal of empowering women through clothing. Ms. Fugel appeared virtually to discuss the history...
Gratitude Strikes the Right Chord at the Thanksgiving Assembly
A rainy morning on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, didn’t dampen the spirits inside the Myrna B. Sherman Gymnasium, where enthusiastic students from all divisions gathered for D-E’s annual Thanksgiving Assembly. Interim Head of School Preeti Fibiger gave opening remarks with...
Thanksgiving Drive
D-E’s Thanksgiving Drive 2024 was a huge success! Thanks to the D-E community’s overwhelming generosity, we collected more than $5,000 for the Center for Food Action in addition to a large quantity of food items. We also filled half a school bus with all the oversized...
Jazz Brunch D-Elivers Great Live Jazz Performance
CHEERS to our Stage Band and Jazz Workshop, and of course Director Rob DeBellis, who ‘D-Elivered’ a great live Jazz Brunch performance this past weekend! The concert featured classics from Oliver Nelson including “Hobo Flats” and “Kilimanjaro” as well as other jazz...
Way to Grow, D-E! Garden Work Party Highlights
Way to ‘grow’, D-E! Thanks to the parents and students who participated in our recent Garden Work Party! Volunteers helped weed, tend and tidy the Nettie Louise Coyt Teaching Garden and also did a great "leaf round up" for which volunteers brought in bags of dead...
Throwback: D-E MUN 2024 Highlights
Dwight-Englewood's Model UN team recently hosted its first-ever interscholastic Model UN conference on campus. Over 90 delegates registered from 5 different schools, and they were spread across three committees: The United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs...
Spirit Week Sparks Friendly Competition and a Sense of Community
D-E Spirit Week 2024 was a high-spirited success, engaging our students in some healthy competition, giving Upper School students the opportunity to earn daily points, and raising nearly $3,500 for the Center for Food Action! Spirit Week began with Pajama Day, during...
