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Episode 014- Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs, Colleen O’Boyle
Roots and Wings- Voices of Independent Schools
English - August 15, 2019 20:32 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCourses Education Kids & Family Education for Kids education independentschools privateschools Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Colleen O’Boyle began her career, as an educator, at La Jolla Country Day School in the college counseling and English departments in the Upper School. She left to earn her master’s in English literature through Middlebury College, where she studied with some of the great professors of literature at Middlebury College, St. John’s College and Oxford University. Colleen has been a member of the faculty at High Tech High. Later she was a founding member of the Da Vinci Schools in Los Angeles and, specifically, head of Da Vinci Design. Colleen returned to LJCDS as the academic dean of the Upper School in the 2013-2014 academic year, followed by her time as head of the Middle School. In her current role as the Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs, Colleen reflects upon the academic experience at La Jolla Country Day School and its ongoing evolution.