Years Past

2019: Born a Crime

• Speakers Dr. Zoliswa Mali and Dr. Barbara Brown, from the African Studies Center at Boston University on South Africa and apartheid

• Community art projects

• Read-a-thon

• Whole-school trivia

2018: Scythe

• Author Neal Shusterman assembly and small group lunch

• Would you Rather questions

• Design your Scythe

• Challenge to find all the teacher scythes

2017: Speak

• Author Laurie Halse Anderson assembly and small group lunch

• Partnership with BARCC ; fundraiser for sexual assault awareness

• Read-a-thon

• Teachers-as-students contest

• Community Wishing Trees

2016: All American Boys

• Authors Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely assembly and small group lunch

• FIRST Read-a-thon!

• Celebrate Waltham: Door Decorating Contest

• Community Art Projects

• Workshop Day:

  • Conversations with Waltham Police

  • Sports and Race

  • Identity and the World

  • Video interviews

2015: Serial

• Who stole the Trophies? Mystery Intro

  • Hand writing analysis

  • "Foot" print analysis

  • Camera tracking

2014: Ready Player One

• 80s costume day!

• Teacher Trivia Fundraiser

2013: Left for Dead

• Author Pete Nelson meets with 100 students and Waltham veterans

• Hunter Scott, the main impetus for the story, speaks to all students in an assembly with Naval Commander, Sean Kearns

• Everyone is reading!

• "Field Day" with English classes:

  • World War II Scavenger Hunt

  • "Shark-infested waters" Team Building Event