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D-E 360° offers engaging programs for students, including sports clinics with expert coaching across various sports, an educational trip to Peru for 8th graders, and a Summer Day Camp for Preschool through Grade 5 featuring arts, athletics, and STEM activities.
Our Middle and Upper School teams showed great D-Etermination, sportsmanship, and promise for the future as they competed both home and away. From exciting, close wins to some losses that served to bring our athletes closer together, highlights from most of our Winter...
Can you spell “spectacular”? From the Upper School’s Winter Musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” to the incredible showcases by our music ensembles and visual artists in all divisions, take a look back at this season so far…
In this issue, Michelle Carstens-Potts, Chair of the Health and Wellness Department; Dr. Danny Carragher, Chair of the Human Development Department; and Lisa Wittner, Director of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), discuss their roles and the programs they implement....
In March 2018, President Donald Trump appointed Lawrence Kudlow ESB ’65, a 2015 D-E Distinguished Alumni Award honoree, to be the Director of the National Economic Council.
In an effort to promote self-confidence, self-awareness, and ultimately foster empathy, the teachers in Grade 5 used The Best Part of Me, a book by award-winning photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, to drive a story-sharing project this past fall. Through striking...
The Lower School’s Hudson River Project for second, third, and fourth graders is an exciting place-based approach to learning developed by science teacher Elizabeth “Beth” Lemire. It is also an interdisciplinary curriculum that uses Native American storytelling and...
Humans of New York is the brainchild of photojournalist Brandon Stanton, who set out to photograph New Yorkers on the street and “create an exhaustive catalog of the city’s inhabitants,” a project that has evolved into a blockbuster blog, two bestselling books, and a...
The first semester Grade 9 Seminar at D-E is designed to help orient students to life in the Upper School. This year the seminar focused on exploring the concept of identity within a diverse community, and it relied heavily on students feeling comfortable enough to...
The People of Color Conference (PoCC) for faculty and staff and the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) for students, sponsored by the National Association for Independent Schools (NAIS), brought nearly 6,000 attendees to Anaheim, CA, November 30-December...
