It’s with strongly mixed feelings that I write this final, brief letter to parents. After four years as Upper School Principal, I am leaving Milton in June to begin doctoral studies in education at Harvard. I am tremendously excited about taking this chance to read and write and think deeply about schools and teaching and learning, and I am sad about leaving Milton Academy and the wonderful family of students, parents, and faculty that I have come to know and love here.

The things that brought me to Milton were its extraordinary students and faculty, its deep and varied history, the exciting changes in the works (renovations to the academic buildings and opening the Schwarz Student Center; welcoming new boarding students to two new dormitories; and planning for new curriculum and a new building for science), and its tradition of providing intellectual and academic excellence on the one hand and of taking good care of the individual on the other. Milton strives to be a vigorous and humane school, and mostly, we succeed.

All of those things are truer to me today than they were four years ago, and I am honored to have been part of the Milton community as a teacher, a leader, and the parent of two sons who have thrived here in the Lower and Middle Schools. Working with your children has been rewarding and challenging in all the good ways, and I am grateful for your thoughtful engagement with the school in raising intelligent, caring people.

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