The HMI Summer Expedition is off to a great start! Seventeen students arrived on Sunday, July 5th and headed out into the wilderness yesterday on their 14-day backpacking expedition. Students spent the first three days on our campus getting to know each other, setting community expectations, taking short acclimatization hikes, and preparing to spend the […]
People often ask me what has changed in the fifteen years since I was a student at HMI. I tell them that the best parts of HMI remain the same: our students still live in cabins, go backpacking with their teachers, and have dance parties while mopping up the kitchen after dinner. But the school
Written by: Dylan Kane, HMI Math Faculty What does an antiracist math class look like? I’m not sure I know. But I’m working on it. For me, it starts with two questions. What is mathematics, and who does mathematics? Students often think of math as a bunch of men who look like Albert Einstein writing
Jess Wolinsky is our Dean of Students and P&P (Practices & Principles: Ethics of the Natural World) faculty. “Since sharing our statement from our Head of School, we have received many comments and questions from our alumni and broader community on what action HMI is taking to become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.
Dear HMI Community, I write to you today during a time of sadness, anger, pain, and conflict. We grieve the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other Black Americans to name here. To see our fellow citizens killed because of the color of their skin is devastating; it is an
Join Lydia Denworth, HMI alumni parent (Semesters 33 & 39) and author, for a discussion on why friends are as important for your health as diet and exercise, and why they matter more than ever in the time of COVID-19. Lydia Denworth is an acclaimed science journalist and speaker. She is a contributing editor at Scientific
HMI Semester 44 student Maple Buescher has put her 2020 spring semester experience into words for a powerful and superbly-well written op-ed published yesterday by Cleveland.com. Check it out!
Dear Semester 44 families and students: I’m writing to let you know that we have decided to continue distance learning at HMI through May 20, the end of Semester 44. This is obviously a difficult decision to make; we work at HMI–we love HMI–because of interpersonal interactions and the opportunities to watch students grow before
Dear Semester 44 students and families, As many of you are aware, yesterday the federal government extended coronavirus guidelines designed to reduce the spread of the virus through April 30. These recommendations affect non-essential travel as well as gatherings of over 10 people. These guidelines mean that we will need to modify further our semester
March 19, 2020A message for current families Dear HMI Families, I am writing with an update on our return to campus. Last night (during our parent meeting), Colorado Governor Jared Polis issued a new directive, prohibiting in-person instruction for all Colorado public and independent schools through April 17; our approach will continue to be to follow the direction of public
