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Middle School Final Projects Wrap Up the Year

D-E Middle Schoolers were busy with end-of-year projects to cap off a productive year! For their American History class, 8th graders were each...

D-E Alumni Return to Campus

D-E alumni recently returned to campus for a series of events, including a panel from recent graduates, speed networking with our class of 2025, a...

Congrats to Emma Hsu ‘25, Grace Dalgetty ‘26!

Cheers to Emma Hsu ‘25 and Grace Dalgetty ‘26, both of whom competed in the recent State Meet of Champions in Pennsauken, NJ (the highest level of...

A Look Back: Poet Dr. Joshua Bennett Visits D-E

D-E was recently graced with a campus visit from renowned poet Dr. Joshua Bennett, a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the...

Wacky Water Day and Kindergarten Field Day Spark Joy for Lower School Students

Wacky Water Day was a blast for D-E’s 1st through 5th graders! The annual tradition gives Lower School (LS) students the opportunity to get into...

Kindergarten Zoo Highlights

A beloved annual tradition returned to the Lower School (LS) when the Kindergarten Zoo was set up on Mr. Rocky’s Field by LS teachers Ms. Tricia...

D-E Celebrates Commencement 2025

The mood was joyous and a little bittersweet as D-E’s graduating seniors, their families, faculty, and staff gathered beneath a white tent on Leggett Field for Commencement 2025 on June 1. This momentous event was called to order by Student Government President-Elect Max Koppelman ’26. The processional followed, with the graduates led into the tent by a pipe band and the playing of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1” by the D-E Symphony Orchestra. …

End-of-Year All School Assembly Highlights

This morning Interim Head of School Preeti Fibiger P’24 welcomed the D-E student body, faculty, and staff to the End of Year All-School Assembly,...

Class of 2025 Wraps-up Year with Senior Selectives & More!

The end (of a chapter) is near for our graduating seniors! D-E’s Class of 2025 has had an active couple of weeks leading up to Commencement this...

8th Grade Discovery Field Trip to PIX11

Hot off the presses! Students in 8th Grade Dean Ali Miller’s ‘In the News’ Discovery class recently got a sneak peek at a morning news broadcast...

Features

Lower Schoolers Explore the Story of the Hudson River and Their Role as Earth’s Stewards

by Jung

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...

Middle School Explores “Humans of D-E”

by Jung

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...

Grade 9 “Identity” Seminar

by Jung

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...

Students Attend National Diversity Conference

by Jung

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...

Live from Crush Palace (Music CD)

by detoday

Karen Orzolek '96 Produced by Cult Records February 2015 Available to stream from Spotify, this album features Karen O performing tracks from her solo album Crush Songs, along with her movie soundtrack tunes, “Hideaway” from Where The Wild Things Are, and the...