THIJS WITTINK/DEERFIELD SCROLL For Deerfield Yoga Instructor Lesley Crosby, yoga is more than a set of postures. With over 25 years of teaching experience, including six years at the Academy, she uses her classes to help students and faculty develop awareness of their bodies, manage stress, and build focus while finding calm. The yoga sessions, offered both as a cocurricular and three times a week for students, faculty, and staff, have become a consistent presenc

As physics teacher David Hallwood said, teachers at Deerfield Academy actively strive to find the “best way of teaching.” Throughout the past decade, administrators and educators asked themselves if they should continue with Advanced Placement-labeled courses. The Advanced Placement (AP) program was officially launched for high schoolers in the 1955-56 school year after the government-funded “Kenyon Plan” from Kenyon College in Ohio had conducted studies and trials runs with

Six senior leaders plan to leave Deerfield this year—among a series of other faculty and staff members—mirroring a national trend of increasing faculty turnovers since the 1990s. According to the Learning Policy Institute, faculty turnover rates today in the United States are about 27% higher than two decades ago, and nearly three in four teachers who decide to leave a position choose for reasons other than retirement. At the Academy, faculty turnovers and the process of we

THIJS WITTINK/DEERFIELD SCROLL Deerfield’s Student Life Office Senior Associate Kevin Kelly published his memoir Both Sides of the Line with the help of Bancroft Press in 2016. The book covers Mr. Kelly’s experience with Jack Clyde Dempsey, his high school football coach, who led the team to a championship season. While Dempsey acted as a mentor and leader for many high school students, including Mr. Kelly himself, his hidden identity as a mob enforcer forced him to flee the

In the past few years, faculty participation in DA Chorus has started to decline, according to Choral Director Mike Pfitzer. DA Chorus is Deerfield’s largest choral ensemble, consisting of both student and faculty members, a place where students see their teachers outside of the classroom doing the same thing they love—to sing. This weekly gathering on Monday nights promotes closer student-faculty relationships, especially among those who may not be in the same department or