Boston Day and Evening Academy

The admissions process begins with completing an application, either online (under the "Admissions" tab), or in person.

If you have any questions, please reach out to our Admissions Manager, Jordan Tavares:

jtavares2@bostonpublicschools.org 

C: 857-269-6962

T: 617-635-6789

F: 617-635-6380

The best way to learn about this extraordinary experience is to read the daily Ship's Log written by our students and accompanied by daily photo journals. 

In February of this year, BDEA was visited first by a film maker and then by a journalist, both doing a story for the education web site The Hechinger Report. Not only did videographer Emrys Eller and journalist Natalie Gross get it right, they produced such a compelling piece that it was immediately picked up by The Christian Science Monitor. You can read the article and see the video here.

Boston Day and Evening Academy today announced that it has received a grant from Salesforce.org, the philanthropic arm of Salesforce, to deliver a customized data platform that measures student progress in a competency-basd system of teaching and assessment. Read more

We are still gaping in wonder, so it may be best to visit their web site (click picture or headline) but in short, here it is. A friend to the school has gathered a small team of competitive and recreational cyclists who, at their own expense, are riding their bikes from Seattle to Boston next summer, to raise awareness about eduation reform for our most challenged students--and to benefit BDEA. See what I mean? Gaping in wonder.  

Beginning on the first day of school, Wednesday, September 8 2016, BDEA will change its hours to include a start time of 9 a.m. and a start time of 10 a.m. Monday through Friday. In addition, there will be "early release" on Wednesdays and Fridays.   We have made these changes to the school's hours after a year of research, and surveys of students, parents, sending schools, and the district. There has been so much interest by students over the last few years in attending the "Day" program, that we have shifted everything to earlier in the day. We are looking foward to September and wish everyone a safe and wonderful summer.

Hear from graduation speaker Trinidad Ramkissoon, now a BDEA alumnus and Teaching Assistant in Humanities--and college bound in September.  Also hear Commencement speaker Porsha O and the poem she wrote and performed just for our students!

It isn't often that a science teacher walks into a development office with a stack of checks and says "Here.  I just got these grants."  But that is exactly what happened today when teacher Jake Cipro presented 3 checks totaling $3,000 to add to the original 2 checks he received last year. Read More

Click on the image to the left and get a snapshot of the work of our students, our teachers and our graduates over the past year.  

In preparation for the demolition of the Dearborn School, BDEA's parking lot is being rearranged in order to accommodate construction vehicles and contractor's access to the site. BDEA is losing its oldest garden to the project in order to provide parking for staff and visitors to the school. Check out our new Construction Gallery to keep updated on changes in access to the school.

BDEA is honored to be among this year's recipients of a $100,000 award from the Cummings Foundation.  The school will use the award to support a new Teaching Assistant program which will bring BDEA alumni interested in becoming teachers into classrooms to work with mentor teachers as part of BDEA faculty. This unique program will train graduates of a competency-based system in the pedagogy and classroom practice of competency-based teaching and assessment. We are grateful to the board of Cummings Foundation for their vision and support of our work.

An article in The Wall Street Journal summarized a new report from The Carnegie Foundation describing how the foundation is looking to become more responsive to assessment  needs for all students.  An excerpt from the Journal article follows. The report itself cites BDEA several times for its work n the area of competency based education.

"Adding to the debate over whether learning should be judged by classroom time or skills mastered, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is pushing for a shift in perception toward its namesake innovation: the Carnegie Unit, otherwise known as the credit hour.

“The Carnegie Unit for the most part does its job well for what it was intended,” said Elena Silva, senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation and co-author of a report published on Thursday. “But there is a bigger job out there. We need to improve quality and measurement of learning…Our call to action is to improve the system.”