News from the BHS Innovation Fund
Browse through our past communications to find out more about the Fund.
YEAR IN REVIEW: School Year 25/26
Looking back, Looking forward, and celebrating innovation at BHS What a year it's been!In school year 2025-26, the BHS Innovation Fund proudly invested more than $240,000 in emerging educational initiatives. These investments provided yearlong release...
Program Spotlight: Experiential Physics
From 2019–2022, the BHS Innovation Fund invested $120,000 to support the development and pilot of Experiential Physics, a teacher-led redesign of 9th grade science. That investment proved especially timely during the pandemic, enabling a team of...
Program Spotlight: Engineering By Design and Engineering Innovation & Design
From 2006-2016, the BHS Innovation Fund invested more than $110,000 to launch Engineering By Design and Engineering Innovation & Design. What began as faculty-led pilots is now a sustained Engineering & Technical Pathway. Read on to learn more about...
Good Grief
The emotional wrangling behind an intellectual response to AI's influence on humanities education... And where to go from there. Evan Mousseau Feb 26 SubStack An opening confession: A major component of what took so long to get...
Powered by the BHS Innovation Fund
As students begin selecting courses for next school year, we encourage parents and caregivers to review the BHS 26/27 course catalog (released Feb. 6) and explore the wide range of opportunities at Brookline High School. Many of the courses students can...
Justice in Action explores the criminal justice system with a hands-on approach
Daria Stoyanova, News Managing Editor • January 13, 2026 AMALYA SILBERT/CYPRESS STAFF Students in the Justice in Action class do a gallery walk around the MLK room as they present their poster projects on Boston Neighborhoods. Interning for a judge, visiting jail and...
Program Spotlight – Justice in Action
This school year, the BHS Innovation Fund is supporting re-envisioning Legal Studies as Justice in Action, a new two-block senior elective that links English and Social Studies to examine how the law operates in both theory and lived experience.In year...
Program Spotlight: Innovation Fellow: Centering the Humans of the Humanities in the Age of AI
Dear Friends of the BHS Innovation Fund,One of the great things I have come to admire about working with the BHS Innovation Fund is its ability to give Brookline High School educators the time, flexibility, and resources they need to reimagine what teaching and...
Program Spotlight: Heritage Spanish-Speaker Pathway – Looking at Year Two
The BHS Innovation Fund is proud to play a foundational role in launching this transformative initiative. In 2024, the Fund approved a three-year, $167,000 grant to design, pilot, and implement the Heritage Spanish-Speaker Pathway - now in its second year. These two...
BHS Innovation Fund inspires new creativity in education
Alexander Muravyov, Staff Writer, The Cypress • November 18, 2025 The Galarama fundraiser celebrated Britt Steven’s culinary pathway. From left: Stevens, Rob Lawrence and Ben Stern pause to take a photo and capture...
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