MESSAGE from the Head of School
DEAR CATHEDRAL SCHOOL COMMUNITY: Time travel is a fairly common cinematic motif, and I was recently reminded of how often such travel places the protagonist in an academic setting. (Children of the ’80s may recall this phenomenon in Back to the Future !) The somewhat unsettling reality of these scenes,
however, is that the classrooms depicted all look the same, regardless of the epoch, regardless of era. Invariably, each classroom is arranged in the rather industrial configuration of individual desks in rows. Cinematic technology has evolved. Our appreciation of the classroom experience has not. We now occupy a phase in educational history when the way we teach and the settings in which we teach must evolve in order to prepare students for a more modern and complex world. Classrooms and schools need to look and feel more like the world in which we live if we are going to prepare our students for that world. The recent renovation and campus addition project at Cathedral School for Boys is designed to do just that. Driven largely by input from teachers and emerging instructional methodology, our new classrooms look and feel much different than their predecessors. The classrooms are larger, and the furniture is mobile, an arrangement that gives teachers much more instructional flexibility than they had previously. This configuration provides a more innovative and adaptable academic space. Each classroom opens into the new learning commons areas, which teachers will use to augment and enhance the arrangement in the classroom. Of course, the modernization of our curriculum not only includes how we teach. It also includes what we teach. Recent additions of Engineering, Lower School Spanish, and Coding represent just a few examples of how Cathedral’s academic program is evolving to reflect our understanding of the education our boys need to be successful in the modern world.
With this backdrop in mind, we hope this edition of the Red&Gold gives you a glimpse into the type of modern and rigorous academic programming that we now offer. In addition, we hope that circumstances will allow you to visit us soon to witness Cathedral School in action.
Very truly yours,
Burns Jones Head of School
FALL 2021 • RED & GOLD | 1
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