As part of DA’s Spring Signing Day, Thomas Pollard (baseball, Kenyon College), Emmet Christian (baseball, Tufts University), Allison Hall (cross-country & track, Tulane University) and Kate Norry (volleyball, Bates College) celebrated their commitment to collegiate athletics programs.
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The third installment of our series highlighting what happens during a typical day at Durham Academy takes us to the Lower School, where we’ve already seen math, language arts and visual arts in action this year.
Durham Academy believes Diversity, Equity & Engagement provides the foundation for producing moral, happy and productive graduates. It is inseparable from the identity — and future — of DA. And now it has a definitive future, courtesy of a new action plan.
Raising a child in an inescapably digital world is a recipe for pitfalls and potholes. That’s why the Durham Academy Family Matters speaker series turned to Dr. Devorah Heitner, an author who provides parents and families with strategies to help their children build lasting, constructive habits around social media usage and screen time.
The goal for Giving Day is widespread participation in support of the Durham Academy Fund — not dollar amounts — so your support is invaluable, no matter the amount of your gift!
An educational approach that promotes real-world feedback, supports learners of all varieties and instills in middle schoolers the value of intrinsic motivation? It’s not Pollyanna. At Durham Academy’s Middle School, it will soon be a fully realized reality.
The 2024–2025 Durham Academy Upper School Curriculum Guide features several firsts. There’s a fresh catalog-style design showcasing a plethora of new courses marking the full debut of the Upper School’s Advanced curriculum — comprising 52 intellectually rigorous, internally designed courses. It also represents an emphatic commitment to what DA does best: delivering top-flight, real-world instruction to curious and enthusiastic students.
In each of Durham Academy’s divisions, future generations of writers are finding their purpose and audience — all the while becoming lifelong readers, debaters and thinkers. Come take a look inside DA’s language arts classrooms, the second of our Subject Spotlights that we’re sharing in News & Notes this school year.
At a time when the nation's blood banks at at the lowest they've been in many years — with the lowest number of people donating in the last 20 years — your donation matters more than ever. You can do your part to help save lives Tuesday, Feb. 20, and Wednesday, Feb. 21, at Durham Academy’s annual spring blood drive. The event will be held in the lobby of Kirby Gym on the Upper School campus from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. both days.
One of the most important responsibilities of the Board of Trustees is to advance the school’s mission through oversight and support of the Head of School. For the past decade, we have seen the benefits of Michael Ulku-Steiner’s tireless, mission-driven work — including the development of a strong and collaborative Administrative Team, an outstanding faculty and staff, a rapidly-improving campus, and a curriculum that is preparing each student for life in more purposeful ways than ever.