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I have been looking forward to this group beginning! I am the Dean of Boarding at The Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Canada. This is my third year in the role and outside of my Boarding portfolio, I work with our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging groups as well a member of our COVID Response Team.

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I am the Director of Student Life at Holy Name of Mary College School (HNMCS) in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. We are an all girls 5-12 school. Our 5-8's are learning on campus full time with our 9-12's in cohorted groups in one week and out the next. We are trying our best to keep the girls engaged in online co-curricular programmes.

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I am the Director of Student Life at Purnell School.
A small all girls boarding school in NJ. We have been back in person since the 24th August, we started earlier and finishing on the 20th Nov.
I am excited to share and discuss how you all have navigated this tricky path.
IT'S BEEN EXHAUSTING!

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I'm the Assistant Director of Student Activities at Georgetown Visitation in Washington, DC. I'm joining my colleague (also Lisa!) in this group and I'm looking forward to working with everyone. This is my 22nd year at the school, and I don't know if I can find the right words to describe this year. Our school transitioned to a hybrid model today, and I've been working since the spring to put together the virtual / hybrid co-curricular program for this fall. It's tough to be in DC given the contentious political climate, but we're doing the best we can to make it a great year for our students.

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I am the Director of Christian Service at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, DC. We are a school of approximately 500 students. I have been in roles of Student life for the past 20 years to include Christian Service, Coordinator of Youth Ministry, Classroom teacher and a myriad of other roles. We started back in our hybrid model today. The Christian Service activities look a bit different this year but we are moving forward.

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So excited to join this group and meet all of you later today. I am the 11th Grade Dean, and MS/US Faculty in World Languages at The Hewitt School (with my colleague Jackie). This is my 14th year at the school and more than 20 in education. This year is like none I experienced before. As Jackie mentioned, we started remote but as of this week, we are moving to in person in a hybrid mode. The beginning of this unusual year has certainly been a lot, and even the summer preparing for it.

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I am the Fellow of Boarding School life at St. Margaret's School located in Tappahannock, VA. This is a small, all girls school located on the beautiful Rappahannock River. We began this year with a preseason for our student athletes and student leaders, then most of our girls came on campus for the academic year. We are in person with the option of hybrid learning for students. The start of the year has been fulfilling!

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I am the Dean of Student Activities at Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School located outside of Philadelphia.  We are an all-girls 9-12 school run by the Sisters of Mercy.  We have an enrollment of about 400.  For most of my 20 years in education I have been a History teacher but started the process of transitioning into this position in 2018, first part time and now full-time.  I am teaching history course this year also.  The job description expanded as a result of our strategic plan.  We are currently in a hybrid model and the start to this school year has been non-stop!

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I am the Upper School Dean of Students at The Hewitt School (all girl school k-12) in New York, NY. We began the year with online learning and will be transitioning to hybrid on October 7th, with upper school students on campus 2 days a week. The beginning of school has be an interesting and exhausting adventure!

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I am the Dean of Girls at Culver Girls Academy located in Culver, IN.  This is my 34th year at Culver and my 7th year as Dean of Girls.  We have two schools on our campus, Culver Girls Academy with a prefect leadership system and Culver Military Academy with a military leadership system.  The girls school has 360 girls and the boys school has 481 boys.  We are a boarding school with in person learning.  We have approx. 70 international students that are still working on obtaining their visas to try to come to school.  We are able to rapid test every one on our campus every week so that has been great!  Can't wait to meet everyone on this headway!

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I am the US Dean of Students at Kent Place School in Summit NJ.  This is my 20th year (I am with you Phyllis!!) We are all girls school Nursery through 12th grade - over 600 students and over 300 students in the Upper School. We are totally in person - with choice of being hybrid/remote for students.  The start of the year has been exhausting!

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I'm the Director of Student Activities at the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, Maryland. I've been with the school for 20 years (started as a child). We are an all-girls Catholic high school, with 440 students. We're are currently virtual, but transitioning to a hybrid model in two weeks. The beginning of the school year?  Rocky Road is not just an ice cream flavor.

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I'm so looking forward to getting to know and learn alongside each of you this year. Please also check out my separate post with program norms and participant expectations ahead of our first call on October 6!

-Jean Baker, NCGS, Manager of Membership & Outreach

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I am Melissa Whelan, Dean for Student Life and Registrar at Trinity Hall. I am also back in the classroom teaching World Religions this year, a last minute addition. This is our 8th year as a school and my 27th year in education. Currently we are 100% in person with students at times remoting into class although no one chose that option fully. The beginning of the year has definitely been an adventure! I am looking forward to getting to know all of you and discussing our roles on campus.