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Gann Academy in the News
List of 20 news stories.
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David Ball Joins Gann Academy
Read MoreGann Academy is thrilled to announce that Mr. David Ball will be joining Gann next year as our new Assistant Head of School for Student Experience. David joins us from the Upper School at Milton Academy, where he has spent the last seventeen years as Upper School Principal, Academic Dean, and member of the history department. David brings a unique combination of deep administrative experience, incredible humility, and an unwavering commitment to advocate on behalf of students. David’s educational philosophy aligns deeply with our philosophy here at Gann: he is committed to building a student culture based on intentional values in an environment that prizes student voice and leadership. David also has an expansive, flexible view of what students can achieve, regardless of learning style. -
Get Ready For Purim!
Read MorePurim is right around the corner, and we are so excited!Festivities started this week during Z’man Kodesh, when students prepared mishloach manot, or gifts to friends. Each Z’man Kodesh group will give the treats to another group, creating connection among the vast array of different religious practices Gann celebrates. -
This Week at Gann
This has been an exciting and very busy week at Gann Academy! Our students have been hard at work, showing off all of their many talents.Read More -
MBIL Champions!
Read MoreAfter an intense game on Thursday, February 16, our Varsity Boys Basketball Team pulled out a win against Boston Trinity to become MBIL Champions! -
Gann Goes to Harvard Medical School
“They’re practicing what it’s like to be an attending doctor,” explained STEAM Teacher Mark Wilkins, one of the teachers of Gann’s “Anatomy and Physiology” course.Read More -
Judge a Book by Its Cover
Read MoreHistory meets modern publishing in History Teacher Zachary Albert’s “Jewish History” class. Students made book jackets for their final project and celebrated their hard work with a “cover reveal party.” -
Going Nuclear
Read More“I wanted my students to culminate their chemistry experience with a healthy debate of a real problem.”STEAM Teacher Marilyn Weiss designed a project to allow her “Advanced Chemistry” students to think deeper about a key area of scientific study: nuclear energy. With half of the class arguing for using nuclear energy and half of the class arguing against, the discussion was lively, intense, and thoroughly researched. -
A Deeper Look Using DNA
Are you aware that an invasive species of millipede inhabits the Gann Farm?Read More -
Laser-Focused Students
Read More“Thebes and Colonus are separated by mountains. In order to communicate with each other they must use light and mirrors. The messages from the King of Thebes to Oedipus in Colonus will only come through if you avoid the mountains.” -
Gann Robotics is Going to the State Championships!
Read MoreFor the first time in over five years, Gann Robotics is going to a state level competition, the Massachusetts FTC Championship! -
Commander Rami Sherman, Jewish Hero, Visits Gann
"Sometimes we should take risks,” said IDF Commander Rami Sherman, “even if we don’t know the result.”Read More -
Describing Data
STEAM Teacher Casey Moden challenged his “Data Analysis with Python” students to tell a story. Instead of prose and chapters, their stories were made of graphs and data.Read More -
Future Filmmakers
Lights, camera, action! Media Arts Teacher Maya Wainhaus’s “Filmmaking” class is making a trailer for a satirical coming-of-age movie.Read More -
In Reflection
Our students eagerly anticipated Thanksgiving this year. The familiarity and warmth of gathering with loved ones for the holiday is comforting, especially at a time that feels so uncertain in our local and global community.Read More -
Watching the World Cup
Read MoreThough this was the one week between fall and winter sports, athletics are still on the minds of many students. On Monday, during Flex Block, the World Cup match between the United States and Wales was projected in the Learning Commons! -
Engineering Class Meets "Project Runway"
Read MoreWhen art, design, and engineering intersect with fashion, it’s all about innovation. Computing, Design, and Fabrication teacher Rosa Weinberg and Danny '24 embodied that spirit with the three looks they created using the Classp, a mechanism Rosa invented, for fashion day at the Cambridge Science Festival. -
Gann Moot Beit Din Teams Win in Maryland!
From the friendships forged between all the participating students to the lively and sophisticated conversations about Jewish values and ethics, this experience will be one the students will take with them for a long time.Read More -
Congratulations, Fall 2021 All Scholastic and All Stars!
Congratulations to our 13 student-athletes who achieved all scholastic and all star recognition this fall!Read More -
Humanities 9: An Innovative Curriculum for an Ever-Changing World
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Innovation is Part of Our DNA
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List of 13 news stories.
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Marian, Or The True Tale of Robin Hood
The Fall Play is “Marian, Or The True Tale of Robin Hood,” a rollicking medieval adventure story, a modern twist on the classic Robin Hood tale full of swordplay and fisticuffs. The show is a gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take on the classic tale. Robin Hood is (and has always been) Maid Marian in disguise, and leads a motley group of Merry Men (few of whom are actually men) against the greedy Prince John. Modern concerns and romantic entanglements clash on the battlefield and on the ramparts of Nottingham Castle in this play about selfishness, selflessness, love deferred, and the fight. Always the fight. The fight must go on.Read More
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Making Memories at MacArthur
Read MoreA brand-new tutoring program is in the works, a chance for Gann students to volunteer at Waltham elementary schools. Currently the MacArthur Student Tutors—name subject to change—are a group of eight who visit classrooms on Wednesday mornings. -
Bunch of Brainiacs
Read MoreWe're losing our minds over this lesson! STEAM Teacher Laila Goodman had her “Biological Basis of Behavior” class dissect sheep brains to further explore neurobiology. -
Breaking Bread
Read MoreWho knew baking could be a form of literary analysis?Gann English Faculty Brenden O'Donnell’s Grade 12 “James Baldwin” class took a visit to the Gann Farm on Monday to make bread from scratch! -
Back to School at Gann
Read MoreWhen the Rabbis set the Jewish calendar thousands of years ago, they could not possibly have fathomed trips to Staples or back-to-school shopping. However, each year, modern Jews experience a beautiful alignment between the fresh start that a new school year brings and the preparations we make for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. -
Functionality, Fun, and Phone Cases
What if your phone case reduced your screen time? Computing, Design, and Fabrication teacher Rosa Weinberg asked her Design I class to do just that.Read More -
No Ruffles in our Feathers!
Why did the chicken cross the Gann Farm? To model for the Art From Observation class! Following the goal of drawing live bodies, Natalya took her class outside to show her students a new type of model.Read More -
What an excellent first week back!
Read MoreWelcome back, Gann Academy!Once again, our halls were filled with the sounds of joy, laughter, and learning. STEM Foundations, the brand new ninth grade course, is off to a great start. -
2022 Graduation Address from Dr. Dalia Hochman
Read MoreI wish I could devote this graduation speech solely to gratitude and celebration. But we are all adults here. And we need to talk about the hard stuff too. -
Senior Physics and a Pinewood Derby
The Advanced Senior Physics classes held a pinewood derby, but this time with science!Read More -
Ability in America Produces Original Research
Gann's Ability in America class has produced original research on Defective Delinquency in the United States and the effects of the 1911 Defective Delinquent Law in Massachusetts that portrayed people with disabilities as potential criminals.Read More -
ASL at Gann
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Gann Coach Wins NEPSAC Coach of the Year
Mazel Tov Jim Nole on winning the NEPSAC Class C Boys Basketball Coach of the Year!Read More
