On Thursday evening of April 29, upper school students and teahcers received an email with an attached special schedule, a vague hint about a guest speaker, and most importantly, the promise of a dress-down day. As students arrived on Friday, they were content in comfortable clothes but confused about what was to come.

Under the leadership of our new Upper School Counselor, Shekyra DeCree, and Director of Diversity, Dr. Beckett Broh, Academy is hosting a five-part Community Café series aptly named, “The Real on Relationships.”

They beep. They ring. They buzz. It is a wonder we can resist these ever so tempting devices at all! With the siren song crooning from our back pockets, it can be hard to focus on our immediate reality instead of the infinite digital world available on our phones.

A new word has surfaced in our community: microaggression. Microaggressions are defined by The Atlantic as “small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless.” This term isn’t just gaining recognition in high circle of academia; rather, it…

Following this year’s presentation of Columbus Academy’s Annual Celebration of Leadership Assembly, seven Academy Life staff members had the opportunity to sit down with Alison Levine and discuss her life as a business woman, explorer, mountaineer, and leader of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition. Additionally, Levine is a New York Times bestselling author of…

On the first Friday of the school year, August 21, every 9th grade student participated in one of the best days ever: Unity Day.