Campaign Completion by Nashoba Brooks

T H E C A M P A I G N F O R O U R F U T U R E

Through the generosity of and thoughtful partnership with our community, The Campaign for Our Future has transformed Nashoba Brooks School for generations to come. Always keeping our program, teachers, and students top of mind, this far-reaching campaign was the largest and most successful capital fundraising project in the School’s history, and the results of our community’s philanthropic investment have been nothing short of awe-inspiring.

The Sureau Family Discovery Barn

The collective achievements of this campaign enabled Nashoba Brooks School to create the Shilling STEAM Lab, add three flex classrooms, establish the Merry Long Garden, rebuild the Denault Library Courtyard, reimagine the pond cabin into the Devitt Learning Outpost, build the award-winning Sureau Family Discovery Barn, and renovate our Arts Platform. The Campaign for Our Future has not only transformed our campus but has also sparked the imaginations of our teachers and students. Each space provides innovative new ways to create, perform, and engage with the curriculum. The spaces now match the depth and breadth of the program, as well as our teachers’ skills, interests, and expertise. Middle School Drama Teacher Sherie Ouellet comments, “Investing in these spaces signals the value you placed on the work being done in them. By renovating every aspect of our performance spaces, we are actively showing our students that we respect and take seriously the work they are doing.”

Notably, The Campaign for Our Future was completed without incurring any additional debt. Each phase was designed with consideration of how it supports the Nashoba Brooks School mission while delivering the greatest impact. Furthermore, each phase of the Campaign supported and enhanced the School’s unique, interdisciplinary, and integrated approach to learning, benefiting students across all grade levels. Lower School Art Teacher Kara Angeloni Williams reflected on how she is “moved and touched that our community recognizes and honors the importance of arts curriculum by making this investment in our spaces.” Similarly, Middle School Music Teacher Rachel Williams describes the change to her students’ experience as a result of the work of The Campaign for Our Future, noting, “the Grade 8 advanced unit on choral studies and sight reading notation has progressed in a way that never would have been possible without a calm, organized, intentional work space. This Campaign made that possible.”

While the Arts Platform renovation is the final phase of the Campaign, it is in no way the only impactful change brought about by The Campaign for Our Future. In considering the new addition of the Shilling STEAM Lab, Director of Informational Education and Technology Hank Bryant

The Devitt Learning Outpost

offers, “The STEAM Lab has profoundly impacted our school overall and is truly a hub for everyone. Teachers can now better prepare students to be successful in the digital age, with a physical space that enables collaboration, problem solving, and the ability to work on projects with readily accessible tools and supplies.”

Perhaps the most outwardly visible aspect of the Campaign has been the building of the Sureau Family Discovery Barn. As the primary project of Phase II, the Barn serves as a launchpad to our outdoor learning environment, enhances our students’ skill development as stewards of our natural world, and provides additional performance and event space. Students create obstacle courses for their robotics competitions, study birds from the porch, prepare for a hike and pond study, and explore rhythm and improvisation in a space created to provide program flexibility and connection to the outdoors. The Barn stands as a beacon on our campus of the value we place on gathering, connecting to nature, and participating in our broader community, as it generates non-tuition revenue through our rental initiatives.

The success of The Campaign for Our Future is both a testament to and a celebration of Nashoba Brooks School’s enduring commitment to creating inspired education that is on the cutting edge of innovation and honors the creative process at every developmental stage across the School. The dedication and generosity of our community in bringing about this transformation have been an inspiring demonstration of the belief in the value and need for exactly this approach to learning.

According to Head of School Danielle Heard, “Investing in Nashoba Brooks education has impacts that transcend grade levels, subject areas, and generations. As we reflect on all that we have accomplished, I am both deeply grateful for and inspired by the generosity of this community and all that we can and will accomplish together.”

Lower School Music