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
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.
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.
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.
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.
In two weeks, Friends School’s 5th-8th grade students will participate in our Immersion Program, a week-long, immersive, interdisciplinary, and experiential program where students will engage in a variety of educational experiences outside of the traditional classroom setting.
