Ashely Kim ’23 Riya Mukherjee ’23 Erin Bilbao, current Upper School Spanish teacher, will take the position as the head of the World Language Department starting next year. The middle and upper school world lanuage departments will also combine under her leadership. “Currently, the world language department is broken into across the three divisions,” Bilbao explains. These three divisions are Upper, Middle and Lower school, and right now they each function independently. However, when Bilbao assumes the position, she will be responsible for overseeing grades six through twelve as a whole. This includes curriculum development, emphasizing a cohesive program from…
Author: TECHALERT
Albert Chen ’23 EA plans to hire a new, full-time psychologist for next year. The current school psychologist, Dr. Nicole Chaikin, will continue to counsel students part-time. The main reason for this change was the size of the Upper School. The student to psychologist ratio in the upper school has been almost double that in the middle and lower schools. There are around 420 students in the Lower School with two psychologists, one part-time and one full-time. In the middle school, there are around 285 with one full-time psychologist. In the upper school, there are 540 students with just one…
Albert Chen ’23 EA plans to hire a new, full-time psychologist for next year. The current school psychologist, Dr. Nicole Chaikin, will continue to counsel students part-time. The main reason for this change was the size of the Upper School. The student to psychologist ratio in the upper school has been almost double that in the middle and lower schools. There are around 420 students in the Lower School with two psychologists, one part-time and one full-time. In the middle school, there are around 285 with one full-time psychologist. In the upper school, there are 540 students with just one…
Within the EA community, there is a major lack of public knowledge regarding human rights crises occurring around the world. On social media platforms, activist movements have been able to spread to wider audiences than ever before. However, the movements that get shared around are the ones that we can easily relate to and better commodify and comprehend. First off, we as a society tend to gravitate toward obsessing over crises that personally affect us or first-world countries like us. Social and even mainstream media has spent much time covering the fires in Australia and now the spread…
Molly Limaye ’21 Grace Haupt ’20 EA’s administration should implement more restrictions on how many tests students can have at a given time. At this article’s publication, the only limitation on testing is that students are not required to take more than two tests in a day. If a student has more than two tests on a given day, they can reschedule them to another day. However, even with this rule in place, many students still struggle with the taxation of having many tests in a week. With the school’s recent emphasis on mental health, EA should…
Molly Limaye ’21 Grace Haupt ’20 EA’s administration should implement more restrictions on how many tests students can have at a given time. At this article’s publication, the only limitation on testing is that students are not required to take more than two tests in a day. If a student has more than two tests on a given day, they can reschedule them to another day. However, even with this rule in place, many students still struggle with the taxation of having many tests in a week. With the school’s recent emphasis on mental health, EA should…
Brianna Bellinghieri ‘22 According to the EA safety committee, all MayTerm trips to East Asia are on hold as of right now and it seems likely that a summer trip to China will be canceled. The trip to China includes many Mandarin students and will be chaperoned by Upper School Mandarin teacher Sophie Fu. The visit is not run by EA but by a third party tour company called Real China, although Paul Sanders, Assistant Head of Upper School says, “EA might take a position on the matter shortly.” Michael Letts, Head of Upper School, was unaware of the trip,…
Arjun Bhamra ’22 Over the course of the last few years, Episcopal has been becoming more selective. This means EA has been admitting a smaller percentage of total applicants. In fact, the Upper School’s admission rate has been decreasing since 2014, and is currently at an all time low of 34.1%. The school’s increase in selectivity can be explained by the need to balance a variety of factors, such as attrition and yield, as well as the needs of coaches, faculty, and alumni. These factors, however, can be increasingly volatile and hard to predict. Attrition is the number of students…
Arjun Bhamra ’22 Over the course of the last few years, Episcopal has been becoming more selective. This means EA has been admitting a smaller percentage of total applicants. In fact, the Upper School’s admission rate has been decreasing since 2014, and is currently at an all time low of 34.1%. The school’s increase in selectivity can be explained by the need to balance a variety of factors, such as attrition and yield, as well as the needs of coaches, faculty, and alumni. These factors, however, can be increasingly volatile and hard to predict. Attrition is the number of students…
Maggie Lo ’23 Substantial changes are being made to the science curriculum and will be in place for the 2020-21 academic year. The changes are the result of a long period of study. In the Upper School, the core courses will remain Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, but Environmental Science will be added. Each of the core classes will be divided into two semesters except for Environmental Science, which will only be one semester. The courses will be Biology I, Biology II, Chemistry I, Chemistry II, Physics I, Physics II, and Environmental Science. AP classes will also be offered in each…
John Bishop ’22 Episcopal’s undefeated swim team has been a force all season, winning the Inter-Ac title and gearing up for Inter-Ac championships which are just around the corner. With only a few more weeks left in the swimming season, senior Cole Whitsett ‘20, who has committed to the University of Tennessee, is looking to put an exclamation mark on the career he has had at EA. Whitsett has been swimming all of his life and started swimming competitively at around seven years old. He was inspired by Michael Phelps to swim competitively, which is why he chose to compete…
Celia Gallagher ’21 | Ella Sundstrom ’21 Kristen Weil ‘21 has earned her spot at number one on the Girl’s Squash Team this winter. Starting her squash career in fifth grade, Weil’s favorite moment playing for EA Squash was “during a big Inter-Ac match and we were tied four-four and it was the final match. It was so exciting seeing our final teammate play, we love supporting each other. To be able to support all the other girls on the team, I think that’s a big part of why our team is so important and special.” Weil also shares, “It’s…
Celia Gallagher ’21 | Ella Sundstrom ’21 Kristen Weil ‘21 has earned her spot at number one on the Girl’s Squash Team this winter. Starting her squash career in fifth grade, Weil’s favorite moment playing for EA Squash was “during a big Inter-Ac match and we were tied four-four and it was the final match. It was so exciting seeing our final teammate play, we love supporting each other. To be able to support all the other girls on the team, I think that’s a big part of why our team is so important and special.” Weil also shares, “It’s…
Ashley Kennedy ’22 John Smith has been serving athletes as a trainer at the Episcopal Academy for 44 years after coming from Widener University as their assistant trainer. This year, he has announced his retirement. Smith is held in high esteem here at EA and will be greatly missed. Football player Ben Kovacs ‘20 says, “Mr. Smith was great. He was such a large part of our football team. If something went wrong, you can always count on Mr. Smith to be there ready to help. I am thankful for the years of dedication he has given to our athletes.”…
Owen Maier ‘20 The high school jazz festival at Boston’s Berklee College of music has been a staple for Episcopal jazz bands for a decade. Now, however, it appears to be coming to an end. After over fifty years, the 2020 event has been suspended due to Berklee wanting to reallocate funds away from the festival and towards financial aid for students. The festival was targeted towards the improvement of jazz musicians across the country as well as Puerto Rico, with professors at Berklee judging high school jazz groups’ performances. The 2019 festival, which attracted four thousand students from over…
Kathleen Mark ‘21 Hilary Hutchison, 3D design teacher, is a very passionate and practicing artist alongside her teaching at Episcopal. Hutchison is involved in art at EA through many clubs, including Install-it, which helps to brighten up the school’s hallways with work displayed by students. In addition to all she does at EA, her passion for art is also extended to outside of EA. Hutchison’s passion for art started at a young age. “ I had a really good elementary school art teacher who recognized that I had an affinity and an interest in it, and my parents supported…
Caden Collins ‘23 | Eshika Tangri ‘23 Students walking on the second floor of the Crawford Campus Center may notice a constant flurry of student artists working in the gallery. The new showcase, created by the US Honors 2D Design III class, will serve as February’s gallery show. Upper School art teacher, David Sigel, explains, “Normally, we bring external artists to come and display their work, and then ask them to come into the classes and teach small workshops. This year we decided that we wanted to share the wealth and allow students to have a big, main show.” The…
Morgan Bramwell ‘21 A notable member of the theater and dance program at EA, Sarah Letts ‘20, is February’s Artist of the Month. Involved in groups such as Choir/Vocal Ensemble, Improv Club, Dance Team, and both the fall play and spring musical, she is known among her peers and faculty for her amiable personality and remarkable leadership skills. Letts reflects, “What got me so involved in theater at EA wasn’t exactly a show I was in specifically, but rather a show I saw. If I remember correctly, it was Peter Pan. I remember going after the show to see some…
Morgan Bramwell ‘21 A notable member of the theater and dance program at EA, Sarah Letts ‘20, is February’s Artist of the Month. Involved in groups such as Choir/Vocal Ensemble, Improv Club, Dance Team, and both the fall play and spring musical, she is known among her peers and faculty for her amiable personality and remarkable leadership skills. Letts reflects, “What got me so involved in theater at EA wasn’t exactly a show I was in specifically, but rather a show I saw. If I remember correctly, it was Peter Pan. I remember going after the show to see some…
Morgan Bramwell ‘21 A notable member of the theater and dance program at EA, Sarah Letts ‘20, is February’s Artist of the Month. Involved in groups such as Choir/Vocal Ensemble, Improv Club, Dance Team, and both the fall play and spring musical, she is known among her peers and faculty for her amiable personality and remarkable leadership skills. Letts reflects, “What got me so involved in theater at EA wasn’t exactly a show I was in specifically, but rather a show I saw. If I remember correctly, it was Peter Pan. I remember going after the show to see some…