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Rivers School, The
333 Winter St.    
Weston, Massachusetts  02493  
   
Private/Independent School
Coed Day 6 12 530 students
 

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Employer Description
 

Located in Weston, Massachusetts,The Rivers School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for students in grades 6 through 12. 

Rivers faculty challenge students to attain their highest levels of excellence in academics, arts, and athletics. We set high standards and expect students to participate actively in their learning. Guided by our motto of "Excellence with Humanity," we cultivate a caring, respectful, and collaborative environment that encourages student performance, including demonstration of logical thought, informed and articulate voice, diverse perspectives, creative vision, and integrity. Rivers is dedicated to preparing its students for leadership in a world that needs their talents, imagination, intellect, and compassion.

We believe that excellence in education and social development requires a diverse, inclusive and socially responsible community. To that end, we seek students, trustees, and employees from diverse backgrounds and provide opportunities for a broad range of experiences and viewpoints. As a community, we encourage students and adults to value themselves, celebrate differences, promote mutual respect, and participate with confidence and courage in a global society.


At Rivers, we believe that cultivating a caring, respectful, and collaborative learning environment requires a focus on equitable practices across all areas of operations that encompasses all members of our professional community and is driven by informed, reflective, and accountable leadership. Additionally, Rivers recognizes that intentionally creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community takes more than good intentions. It is an ongoing process that requires conscious effort, meaningful action, and measurable outcomes.

Rivers Facts 2024-2025:

- 530 students from 70 Massachusetts towns
- 6:1 student/teacher ratio

- 31 artistic awards won by students Massachusetts Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition: eight Gold Keys, nine Silver Keys, and fourteen Honorable Mentions

- 46 honors, Advanced Placement, and post-AP courses
- 34% of student body are self-identified BIPOC individuals

- 50 students are in the Conservatory Program, including classical and jazz instrumentalists, vocalists, and musical theater performers in the middle and upper schools
- Rivers regularly sends members of the Professional Community to the People of Color Conference, the Diversity Leadership Institute, the Multicultural Teaching Institute, the White Privilege Conference, and the AISNE DEI Conference

Rivers graduates are currently attending Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, Columbia, Princeton, Duke, Georgetown, Cornell, Northwestern, Washington University, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Colby, Bates, Tufts, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Boston College, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Wellesley, Carnegie-Mellon, New England Conservatory of Music, and other outstanding four-year colleges and universities.
 
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Diversity Mission Statement
 
The Rivers School believes that developing a sincere appreciation for and understanding of diverse perspectives, experiences, and identities is integral to achieving its broader mission of preparing students to lead and live in a world that “needs their talents, imagination, intellect, and compassion.” We embrace difference in its myriad forms, encourage every individual to be their authentic self, and value the inherent dignity of every member of our community. As we confront issues of injustice, prejudice, and bigotry in the world around us, we challenge all members of our community to engage in courageous conversations that require us to speak across difference of experiences and opinions, to examine our individual and collective privilege, to ask hard questions, and to seek solutions to complex global issues.

At Rivers, we seek to inspire curiosity and cultivate empathy in our students. We also want our students to develop into engaged citizens—young people who will stand up for themselves and one another, who will challenge all forms of prejudice and bigotry, and who will seek solutions to systemic problems of injustice.

Thus, we believe DEI skills are essential to upholding the school’s mission that aims to prepare our students to live and lead in a multicultural society. Some of the skills we strive to develop in our students include: 

  • Examining our own implicit biases and areas of privilege
  • Understanding the ways in which identity shapes one’s view of the world and one’s position in society
  • Using our community norms to foster authentic conversations, encourage risk-taking, and navigate conflict constructively
  • Engaging meaningfully across difference of opinion and perspective
  • Asking the kinds of questions that reveal complexity and nuance within any given topic
  • Understanding how systems of power shape history and our present reality
  • Interrupting microaggressions and other bias incidents