Individualized learning is central to our approach at Wellington - in the classroom and at home. So when all students shifted to a new Learning from Home model in the spring, the school pivoted quickly to ensure that all students stayed on track. Thanks to the Annual Fund, small group tutoring and unique mini courses were offered to Wellington families over the summer to reinforce and review lessons from the spring, while also keeping an eye on the return to school in the fall.

Student voice is celebrated from an early age at Wellington, so it was only natural for middle school social studies teacher Victoria Pang to reexamine the voices present (and missing) in her history lessons. Thanks to support from a student engagement grant, Pang revamped her approach to the annual colonial newspaper project by challenging students to imagine how Native people and enslaved Africans would have expressed themselves freely and without repercussions had they been afforded the opportunity in 1775.