Strategic Framework News

The revitalized Hillsborough library has been expanded to create a humanities space designed for collaboration, creativity, and interdisciplinary learning.

A new financial-assistance policy moves Nueva toward greater socioeconomic diversity.

From seven essays to six choices, the eighth grade capstone project centers student agency.

In May 2024, Nueva welcomed a new Director of Equity and Inclusion.

Hear from students and parents about the positive impact of affinity groups.

With new facilities and new hires, athletics emerges as a top priority.

San Mateo campus renovation reshapes learning spaces.

The 2023 Innovative Learning Conference explored education’s intersection with AI, civic discourse, student wellness, and belonging.

A group of Nueva students, teachers, and administrators sat down to discuss the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence and how they see the tool being used in education.

Community members on “Nueva’s North Stars” — the founding values that continue to guide us as we chart a journey into an unknown cosmos.

An interview with Lyla Max, our new Director of Development, who is poised to build on Nueva’s strong legacy of philanthropy in support of the school’s strategic goals.

A cross-divisional look into Nueva’s qualitative approach to assessment.

A Q&A with Lauren Pool, our new Director of Teaching and Learning, who arrives energized to help us map out what learning progression looks like at Nueva and spearhead new curricular offerings.

The expansion of the Hillsborough library to create a Humanities Center, as well as significant campus improvements at San Mateo, are well underway in the fall of 2023. 

When The Nueva School opened in 1967, student agency became one of the core tenets of the institution. But what exactly is student agency? And how does Nueva help students build this skill so they can become agents of change in their own lives and the world around them?

Nueva sent an unprecedented 17 educators and six upper school students to the 2022 National Association of Independent Schools People of Color Conference (POCC) and Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) in San Antonio, TX.

A Q&A with Director of Athletics Brent McCabe on his decade-long coaching career and enhancing Nueva's program.

This fall, two of the newest advanced English seminars on offer are Allen Frost's 1980s and 1990s classes. In these literature and cultural studies courses, students spend the semester reading, viewing, and listening to texts of all kinds (novels, poems, short stories, television shows, films, and popular music) from that respective decade.

The Silk Road curriculum draws from a wide range of recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Through curated excerpts, the eighth graders develop an understanding of the fundamental conditions and systems that define human societies, and even civilization itself.

On Thursday, Nov. 3, melodies from the opera La Bohème reverberated through the Hillsborough mansion ballroom, as fourth graders took the stage alongside SF Opera singers for an abridged performance of Puccini’s most famous work. This performance was a showcase of one of the central themes of the lower school music program: the voice and body as musical instruments.