Community
It’s not about the dishes
What do doing the dishes and being a middle school student have to do with each other? Both require grit, responsibility, and care for each other.
August 22, 2025
Alumni & Student Accomplishments
What Happens When You Trust Young People With Real Problems?
Watershed Head of School Tim Breen, Ph.D., and Upper School Division Head Bridget Collins recently contributed a guest blog to the Getting Smart Collective, a leading voice in education innovation. In their piece, “What Happens When You Trust Young People with Real Problems?”, they explore how
July 30, 2025
Alumni & Student Accomplishments
We have a name!
Friends School and Watershed School are pleased to announce the name of our unified school: Watershed Friends School. The new name reflects a shared commitment to academic excellence, student wellbeing, and the unique legacies of both schools within the Boulder community.
July 12, 2025
Alumni & Student Accomplishments
One step closer: unifying Friends and Watershed
We’ve made meaningful progress on the unification of Watershed School and Friends School.Building a preschool through 12th grade school in Boulder is a transformational endeavor.
June 11, 2025
Community
8th Grade’s Magical Retreat
What a fun, chaotic, hot, happy, amazing, crazy (but in a good way) first day of our Eighth-Grade Retreat (adjectives generated by eighth graders). Knowing we couldn’t check into the Retreat House until 3:00 p.m., the teachers decided to take the students to Lyons for a long hike and a cold plunge.
May 15, 2025
Alumni & Student Accomplishments
Joining Forces
Today, we announced that, after more than a year of discussion and exploration, the boards of Watershed School and Friends School voted to join forces.
April 9, 2025
