Campus Voices
Each month, The Link visits each of BB&N's campuses to hear directly from directors or teachers about what's on their minds. We share their letters below.
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Lower School
Rebecca Thomas Geary
To paraphrase a quote by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, “We at the BB&N Lower School strongly believe that the single most important use of information technology is to improve education.” Technology is not simply our future but our present and a gateway to our past. Presently, at the Lower School campus, teachers are embracing and using technology in a variety of ways that draw students’ interest and showcase their talent and creativity. More
Middle School
Betsy Canaday
For three weeks every fall, seventh grade English students find themselves doing something quite unexpected in an English classroom. They spend most of their class time observing slides of visual portraits. In a darkened room, teachers project images of these rich and complex images on the screen and ask three basic, but clearly defined questions: “What do you see? What do make of what you see? What can you understand about the artist’s choices?” More
Upper School
Awais Ahsan
As you may know, last year marked the first time that BB&N offered a course in Arabic, making it one of only a handful of secondary schools in the United States to do so. In light of recent developments and the strained relationship between the United States and the Middle East, the cultural aspect of the class proved to be just as important as the language itself. More
All School
Geordie Mitchell
I love my job! As director of enrollment management, I spend time on all three campuses each week, sometimes on the same day. Because I interview students and families for every grade, I have to be conversant with regard to the curriculum and extra- and co-curricular programs on each campus, and I need to know how each grade and division builds on the work of the previous grade or division. I enjoy telling people that doing admission work is a license to be a professional know-it-all. More