Welcome to LA! Whether they live on or off campus, all faculty participate in Lawrence Academy’s residential life program, either as dorm parents or affiliates. Additionally, all serve as advisors, and most have coaching or extracurricular responsibilities as well.
Kyle Adamian joins the Lawrence Academy staff as an accountant in the Business Office, after spending more than five years as the accounting supervisor for Privatus Care Solutions in Lexington, Mass. He holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology from Eastern Michigan University and an M.B.A. from Southern New Hampshire University. Jackson Bilbrey is new to Lawrence Academy’s history department this school year. A 2023 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. (B.A., English), he spent this past summer working as a Summer Session teacher at Canaan, N.H.’s Cardigan Mountain School and was a nature camp counselor at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Woodstock in Summer 2022. Jackson also has experience as a student instructor with America Reads. Melanie “Mel” Dexter returns to the math department this school year, after previously teaching math and coaching varsity field hockey and varsity girls’ ice hockey at Lawrence Academy in 2014-2016. She arrives back at LA from Connecticut’s Avon Old Farms School, where she taught engineering and computer science; was both a coordinator and instructor for the school’s health, wellness, and DEI program; and coached the varsity swimming and diving, JV tennis, golf, and robotics teams. Melanie received her bachelor’s degree (industrial engineering) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and her master’s degree (education) from the University of Pennsylvania, and she is working toward a Ph.D. in transformative social change from Saybrook University.
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The Lawrence Academy Spartans have gained Sean Foster, LA’s new assistant athletic trainer. A graduate of Springfield College (B.S., athletic training), he is a certified and licensed athletic trainer with experience in athletic training at his alma mater, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. New history teacher Mike Foustoukos joins Lawrence Academy from Littleton Public Schools, where he taught history and social studies since 2013. During his time at Littleton, Mike also coached the boys’ varsity basketball team and served on the school leadership team as a curriculum coordinator and as a club advisor. He holds both a bachelor’s degree (business administration, with a focus in finance) and a master’s degree (education) from Merrimack College in Andover. Anthony Giovino, who previously worked as a fight choreographer and movement director at Lawrence Academy, is now teaching theatre at LA. Anthony graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.F.A. in acting. During his time there, he also studied abroad at Theatre Academy London. He has previously worked as a director at Boston College High School and a music and drama specialist at Camp Three Rivers in Concord, and also as a special education tutor at Concord’s Willard/Alcott Elementary School and an LTS English teacher at Watertown High School.
