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Booth Kyle named assistant head of school B
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ooth Kyle, director of admissions and financial aid, is taking on the additional role of assistant head of school. Kyle will assume his new duties in July. “Booth is a thoughtful, dedicated, down-to-earth school leader who will bring wisdom and energy to his new responsibilities,” said Head of School Bernie Noe in announcing the promotion. As assistant head of school, Kyle will serve as a member of the senior administrative team, as well as have oversight responsibility for athletics, technology, and Lakeside Educational Enrichment Program (LEEP). Before joining Lakeside in 2008, Kyle served as the associate director of admission and director of financial aid at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass., and as assistant director of admission at the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass.
Kyle is a graduate of the National Association of Independent Schools’ Fellowship for Aspiring School Heads. Kyle received his Master of Education from Boston University, where he conducted research in athlete satisfaction. He is on the board of the George Pocock Rowing Foundation and has served as a crew coach at Lakeside, Deerfield, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at Boston Rowing Club. He and his wife, Colleen Kyle, who is head of the Upper School History Department, are the parents of a Lakeside Middle Schooler and an 8-year-old daughter. ■ Read more about leadership and transitions in the Board chair letter, page 5.
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pilot project to integrate service learning more deeply into classroom curriculum sent 10th-grade English students this fall to weed at an urban farm, serve dinner at a youth shelter, help at a tent city, and write about the vendors of the street newspaper Real Change. Service learning is hardly new to Lakeside. Completing service hours has been required since the 1980s, as it is at many schools nationally, and various Lakeside classes already integrate service projects. The Middle School sets aside four days where the entire school tackles a service project together. But the new twist offered by the pilot project is to make service learning in the Upper School a regular ongoing feature of all English sophomore classes. And the broader goal is for service learning to become “less an ‘extra’ curricular and more integral to the mission and the learning goals of the school,” says Upper School Assistant Director Bryan Smith. That goal, he says, came directly from Head of School Bernie Noe. The thematic focus of the 10th-grade curriculum is “home and place.” Zinda Foster, coordinator for Upper School service learning, researched organizations that address that topic and gave the English teachers examples of nonprofit organizations that work with homelessness and related issues of poverty and hunger; each teacher selected a nonprofit project.
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Weeding vegetable beds at Marra Farms in South Seattle was a service-learning activity for 10th-grade English students.
In another pilot project, this fall Spanish IV students will assist high-school-age children of farm workers at Broetje Orchards with their college applications. Broetje, in Eastern Washington, is also a Middle School Global Service Learning program site. ■
Does your organization have a service-learning opportunity that might be right for Lakeside students? Message zinda. foster@lakesideschool.org.