Welcome from New Head of School, Neal M. Brown

While you cyber-traveled to Green Acres School via the click of your mouse, my family and I arrived in the summer of 2008 the old fashioned way: in a minivan down Route 95 from our home in the Boston area. We came for one reason only – because of the quality of Green Acres School.

Green Acres School has stood since 1934 for everything that I believe in and have worked toward in my professional career. This applies first and foremost to how students experience their education. Ask yourself, as my wife and I did, whether you want your son or daughter to:

• Develop deep, caring and respectful relationships with each teacher?
• Engage in challenging work that builds and fine-tunes core academic skills?
• Complete projects that reflect habits and skills that have value beyond school?
• Practice being a respectful citizen, collaborator, self-advocate and confident leader in a close-knit community?
• Experience the joy of music, the arts and athletics?
• Develop a deep appreciation for our multicultural world and diverse local community?
• Exercise creativity and pursue areas of interest?
• Enjoy the outdoors, developing a sense of stewardship for the environment? and
• Love coming to school every day?

Green Acres faculty members understand that at the heart of a great school lies both a deep level of respect for each student and a curriculum that challenges students academically but also ethically and socially. They know that students need to become strong readers, writers, speakers, mathematicians and scientists; however, they also believe that students must become independent thinkers and be able to move beyond rote memorization and test-taking to complete tasks and solve problems that may not yet exist. Our teachers are knowledgeable about their subjects, about pedagogy and about child development. They are also curious, reflective, collaborative and innovative – the kinds of role models to which we want our students to aspire.

I welcome your exploring the Green Acres School website and am delighted that you are interested in learning more about our school and community.

Sincerely,

Neal M. Brown, Ed.D.
Head of School