As my final fall season came to a close, I was overcome with the bittersweet feeling of my final days on the field hockey field, while looking forward to a successful squash season. Along with the start of a new season came my responsibilities of captainship. This was a chance to leave my mark on Tabor Academy as the Varsity Girls Squash captain. As the team began to take shape, I noticed the escalating and palpable energy and excitement the players brought to practice each day.
Topics: Athletics, Leadership at Tabor
Welcome to the Maker Lab, a small building across the street from the Hayden Library, commonly known around Tabor as Ashley House. Recently, it was turned into a fully functioning workspace for Tabor’s new Engineering program, as well as an awesome learning environment.
Topics: Engineering, Science Education
The following are excerpts from chapel speeches given by Tabor's 2017 participants in the Student Diversity Leadership Conference. SDLC is a multiracial, multicultural gathering of upper school student leaders (grades 9 - 12) from across the United States. SDLC focuses on self-reflecting, forming allies, and building community. Led by a diverse team of trained adult and peer facilitators, participants will develop effective cross-cultural communication skills, better understand the nature and development of effective strategies for social justice, practice expression through the arts, and learn networking principles and strategies.
Topics: Student Life, Diversity
I was a child when I came to Tabor my freshman year. However throughout my past four years here I have undergone an extraordinary amount of personal growth. Many people at Tabor have impacted me, however no one has had more of an impact on me than my advisor, Mrs. Marceau. She has been someone for me to celebrate with, to look to for advice, and to rely on for the occasional dose of “tough love”. She has been there for all of my big moments and I am so grateful that I have had her by my side as I navigated my way through my years at Tabor.
Jennifer Delahunty, Associate Dean of Admissions at Kenyon College, spoke of her role in her daughter’s college process as that of “wallpaper.” In her collection of essays on parents and the college search, I’m Going to College –Not You, Delahunty says, “I wanted this to be her experience entirely, but I knew she was watching me for clues. It’s not easy to impersonate wallpaper.” She went on to describe the role as so “ill-defined that we end up feeling like something between a taxi driver and a walking checkbook.”
Topics: College Counseling
Tabor's Advanced Engineering class received a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant to create a Remote Operated Vehicle named Sammy the Seabot. Sammy will monitor water quality variables in Buzzards Bay. The following blog post is from the different teams in the Engineering class as they work to create Sammy over the course of the semester!
Tabor’s musical theater department is extremely excited to be putting on Grease this year, a popular musical written in 1971 by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The classic and comedic story follows two high school students from the 1950’s, Sandy and Danny, and their friends throughout their senior year, with all the drama and friendships that take place over the year.
It’s beginning to look a lot like application season! With each passing day, we are clicking “complete” on more and more applications completed by our prospective Seawolves. Most admissions people appreciate the cyclical nature of our work. From travel to interviewing to reading, each phase of the process has distinct elements to it. Traveling is wonderful, but you can’t wait for the awesome kids you meet on the road to visit campus. Campus visits and interviews are great because they get you excited to read their applications! And lastly, reading applications is rewarding because you start to imagine all these great kids becoming part of the story of your school.
Topics: Admissions
I have had the unbelievable opportunity to take part in the founding of the Special Olympics Club here at Tabor. Last year I volunteered to help jumpstart the club with my teammate Molly Bent ’16. Unaware of the gratification this would soon bring, I found myself convincing fellow Tabor students to buy into the values of this volunteer work, while working with intellectually impaired people for the first time myself.
One of the best parts of my job is visiting college campuses. I enjoy walking around, talking with students, and getting a feel for each school. I do what I hope my college advisees will do: 1) I make sure I am prepared to ask questions that might not be answered in a tour or information session; 2) I go into the visit with an open mind; 3) I take photos and write notes to help remind me about the school later on.
Topics: College Counseling
I have had so much on my mind these past months, across an incredible array of topics. Many of you have heard me talk about Tabor being “on the move.” It is, for sure, but it feels in some ways to me like the movement of a small planet within the much bigger context of a swirling solar system or galaxy. We’re going pretty quickly, that is, but we are part of other things, a larger system that is surely moving even and ever more quickly. This pace of our world in flux connotes uncertainty, and a breathless sense that things don’t quite add up. For some, it has led to a declaration that 2016 might have been one of the worst years ever! I can tell you, it’s not that way here at our school. We have challenges to face, and we will face them together in the year ahead. But the successes that have blessed us – this is what’s on my mind as I write.
As 2016 draws to a close, we thought we'd take some time to reflect on all that's happened over the year at Tabor. Here are the top ten most read blog posts from TaborTalk:
