几分钟 ... Ms. 博兰

切尔西·李21岁

Kim 博兰 ’94 is a 视野 Teacher at MHS, as well as Coordinator of Diversity, Equity, & 包容，还有教练. Kim grew up in Pittsfield 和 attended Miss Hall’s for high school. After she graduated, she came back 和 worked in Admissions. 她在MHS工作了大约22年. 视野 Media Team member Chelsie Li ’21 caught up with Kim in the spring of 2021 for this conversation.

你是怎么到澳门威利斯网站家来的?

我来自匹茨菲尔德. 我八年级的时候, the high school I was planning to attend was going to consolidate because of financial reasons, so I started to look at the local Catholic high school. Then I saw a newspaper advertisement about Miss Hall’s, 和 they offered a full scholarship for local students to attend, 所以我申请了奖学金, 和 this was how I became a student at Miss Hall’s in 1991. 我1994年毕业.

因为我太爱这所学校了, 也因为学校为我所做的一切, I always knew I wanted to come back at some point to give back 和 be a faculty member. I graduated from college, 和 I studied abroad in Germany for a year. 当我参加五年同学会的时候, the School was looking for an admission counselor, 所以我申请了这份工作, 我明白了. 我1999年开始在这里工作!

• What’s the difference between the first year you came here 和 this year? 学院发生了怎样的变化?

无论是在1991年, 当我第一次在澳门威利斯网站学习时, 或者在1999年, 我刚开始在这里工作的时候, what has certainly changed are the facilities 和 the campus itself. We did not have the Cross Center, Library, Linn Hall, or anything like that when I was a student.

What hasn’t changed is the magic feeling of Miss Hall’s that I felt on the first day I walked in for my interview when I was thirteen years old. The magic of Miss Hall’s is the reason why I first attended the School, 和 it made me certain I would want to work here. 这对我来说是一个非常特别的地方.

• What is something that has left the biggest impression on you since coming to Miss Hall’s?

What impresses me the most is the phenomenal diversity of people. 当我还是个学生的时候, 我们的孩子来自世界各地, 就像我们现在做的, 和 that was when I really fell in love with the idea of languages, 学习不同的文化, 和旅行. It prompted me to really be a student of the world. This struck me so much during my student years 和 helped form what I wanted to study in college 和 what I really wanted to do as a career.

我们的学生也让我印象深刻. I find them to be tremendous; I learn so much from them every year. I love working with them, helping them, supporting them, cheering them on… it’s awesome!

你能分享一个有趣的故事吗?

任何与蓝色/金色有关的都是我的最爱! When I was first working here, we had a faculty 和 staff tug-of-war at a Blue/Gold event. 拔河比赛非常激烈, 来回地, 但最后, 我的队(蓝队)赢了, 我们用力拉，结果都摔倒了. 真的很有趣, 因为我们都趴在对方身上, 和 the students were cheering us on; it was a great event. 去蓝!

你会给新老师什么建议?

除了他们的澳门威利斯网站设置, it is important to try as much as possible to join other events, because that is where you can really form strong relationships outside of the classroom that will help you to have even greater bonds with your students in the classroom. Joining weekend events 和 attending concerts 和 games can help immerse you in the culture of the School. Creating these connections will undoubtedly help you be a more successful teacher.

• How did you decide to go into teaching or coaching?

I technically never thought I would be a teacher, 和 I see myself as more as a coach. When I first started at Miss Hall’s, I was in Admissions, 和 I did that for eleven years. Then, I switched over to 视野 和 started teaching. I love what I’m doing now — teaching ninth-graders in the DEI curriculum 和 helping the Seniors find their way. 我喜欢和老年人一起工作, 因为每个学生都很有个性, so I can help them to find different internships 和 achieve their goals.

• What hobbies or interests do you have outside of school?

I do a lot of work locally with different organizations. I’m on a couple of committees through the Elizabeth Freeman Center, 这些都与LGBTQ问题有关. I have been very active over the years with the Special Olympics, which is a sports organization for children with disabilities.

•  What are some differences between co-ed schools 和 all-girl schools?

First of all,  I want to say that I recognize that gender 和 gender identity fall along a spectrum. I love that our school is talking about this 和 how we can ensure that our campus 和 school culture is more gender inclusive.

I benefited so much from attending an all-girl school. 我对自己有了更多的了解, 我所代表的, 我的价值观, 我的声音, because I was in a place where girls were centered 和 were always the leaders.

I believe that all-girls’ schools are revolutionary. Schools weren’t set up for girls way back in the day. 在这里, we have a school which was founded by Mira Hall to educate girls, 和 it’s always about education 和 not about being a finishing school or learning how to be a good lady. I think girls in girls’ schools are pushed in areas that are traditionally for boys, like STEM areas. 另一方面, all-boys schools encourage boys in the humanities 和 the arts, which were originally reserved just for girls a long time ago.

• What advice do you have for students 和/or graduates?

My advice to seniors is that sometimes it takes time to adapt to the new environment 和 make friends in your next school or community. 别着急，你会找到你的朋友的. 这可能需要一点时间, 和, 与此同时, stay in touch with the ones that you made at Miss Hall’s.