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Features
D-E Students Level Up in National Chess Championships
Checkmate! The D-E 360° ACE (AfterCare & Enrichment) Chess Team had two players compete in the U.S. Chess Federation’s 2024 National K-12 Grade Championships in National Harbor, Maryland, from Dec. 6-8. Third grader Adam Y. ’34 and 11th grader Anna Radchenko ’26...
US Robotics Teams Are Positioned for State Competition
D-E’s Upper School Robotics, which has made a name for itself in the student robotics circuit, annually takes part in the FIRST Tech Challenge, an international robotics competition for high school students in which teams go head-to-head to design, build, program, and...
Sixth-Graders Learn How Food Shapes Their Identity
How are we what we eat? This is the guiding question our sixth graders were asked to consider on Tuesday, Jan. 7, as a new unit was kicked off in their MESH subjects (that is, Math, English, Science, and History). This first lesson centered around “how food shapes...
D-E Embraces the Season of Giving
’Tis the season! D-E’s students are fulfilling the school’s core value of community with pre-winter-break donations to families in need. In the Lower School, third graders have been embracing their program tradition, “Third Graders Making a Difference” (TGMD), for...
An Overview: A Fireside Chat With D-E’s Next Head of School, Dr. James Calleroz White
D-E recently introduced our next Head of School, Dr. James Calleroz White (aka Dr. CW), who officially begins his tenure on July 1, 2025, by way of a “Fireside Chat” held during Dr. CW’s visit to our campus in late November. Dr. CW, who holds a Doctorate in...
Swartley Gallery Presents: Alumna Artist Sophia Seriale ’22
D-E welcomed back Sophia Seriale ’22, a “D-E lifer,” as the Swartley Gallery’s featured alumna artist, with a meet-the-artist reception on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Her exhibit, “Until Now,” includes sketches she created as an Upper School student and in her art classes...
Recent News
Upper School Celebrates Hispanic Heritage
The Upper School concluded Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated from Sept. 15 through...
Club Être Celebrates the ‘Day of the Girl’ at Nasdaq
Club Être, a chapter of the greater Être organization run by D-E alumna Illana Raia ’86...
D-E Principals Host Discussions On Supporting Children In High-Pressure Settings
D-E Principals Kim Lalli (Upper School), Jonathan Davis (Middle School), and James Choi...
Celebrating Chuseok and The Mid-Autumn Festival
D-E’s Chinese Culture Club (CCC) and Korean Culture Club (KCC) hosted a joyful Chuseok...
LS Fall Festival Highlights
On a bright and sunny October day, a beloved...
The Latest Buzz: MS Hosts Beekeepers Visit
Like the Nettie Coit Teaching Garden, D-E’s Apiary offers our students another on-campus...
Upper School, Lower School Students Team Up to Write a ‘Small Story’
In a beautiful display of cross-divisional partnership, the Creative Writing class of...
Lower School Assembly Celebrates Respect, Hispanic Heritage
The Lower School’s second assembly of the year focused on the core value of Respect and...
Black Affinity Goes to the Met
D-E’s Black Affinity Group, with the support of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion &...
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Arts
Jazz Brunch Concert, featuring Stage Band & Jazz Workshop, on Sun., 11/17
Our student musicians are hard at work preparing for the upcoming Jazz Brunch Concert!...
Antigone Now Performing! Showing Now – Nov. 9
After months of hard work on creative set design, lighting, staging, costumes, and (of...
Street Art, Commercial Illustrations, and Caricatures: Works by Paul Edwards
The Swartley Gallery Series’ latest exhibit highlights the work of D-E’s own Paul...
Athletics
Athletics Highlights
Bulldogs fans had plenty to cheer about this Spring 2024 sports season! Our playing fields and courts (as well as tracks and waterways both near and far) hosted hundreds of memorable moments. Some moments were more challenging than others, but they were always representative of student athlete ideals. Consistently demonstrating grit, purpose, and pride, our Middle School (MS) and Upper School (US) athletes gave it their all.
On the following pages you’ll read coaches’ highlights from many of our Spring 2024 teams. Congratulations to not only our Spring Team athletes but also all our coaches, trainers, families, friends and fans. Go Bulldogs!
D-E Ultimate Reaches State Semifinals, Tied for 3rd in State!
WOW & Congratulations to D-E’s Ultimate Frisbee Team for posting an amazing 18-6...
A Look Back: Year-End Sports Banquet
D-E Athletics officially recognized all our Upper School athletes who have played in a sport during the Fall, Winter and Spring Seasons, at the recent Year-End Sports Banquet! Athletes and their families gathered in the Myrna B. Sherman Gymnasium and heard from Athletic Director JD Sand visiting featured alumna speaker Audrey Leak ‘20 who recently concluded her college athletic career playing for the Yale University Bulldogs.
School Life
Sixth Grade Experimental Design Fair
Sixth graders unveiled the results of weeks of scientific research, experimentation, and...
Eighth Grade Living Wax Museum
This year’s Eighth Grade Living Wax Museum, facilitated by English Department Faculty...
Magic 2025
On May 22, D-E’s school spirit was on full display at the Myrna B. Sherman Gym, where...
Inclusive Excellence
DEIB Dialogue Dinner
Last night was our last LEAD Dialogue Dinner hosted by our DEIB (Diversity, Equity,...
Celebrating Eid al-Fitr
Earlier this week D-E School officially observed Eid Al-Fitr on Wednesday, April 10. To...
DEIB Visiting Presenters
Last week we had the pleasure of having Dr. Elisabeth-Becker Topkara and Dr. Rachel Wahl...
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