Seattle Academy Head of School Joe Puggelli is retiring after serving the school for 22 years. Next year, Joe is looking forward to “sleeping a little bit more,” reading material that has piled up over the last two decades, and “working out during daylight hours for a change.”

The new schedule adds an 8th period to be filled with new required classes, and makes blocks longer, to further develop Seattle Academy’s curriculum and advance the school in a new direction. Seniors Avidan Baral, Ben Gode, and Avi Shapiro sat down with Deans of Faculty Alison Ray and Fred Strong to get some answers.

Recently there has been quite the buzz in the Seattle Academy Upper School regarding #IHABC2018, a High Altitude Balloon Challenge that innovations teachers David Pynchon and Lysie Taylor created for their 12th grade Innovations course.

Returning from summer break this year, many Seattle Academy students were surprised to see the brand new Clear Touch boards which were installed during the two months off. These massive SMART Board replacements were hung throughout the STREAM and even in a few Temple classrooms.