Community Life

Inclusion and Belonging

Every school day, more than 475 students travel to Winsor from across Greater Boston to create a neighborhood on Pilgrim Road. Our students bring their whole selves to school—including their diverse talents, family backgrounds, and racial, religious, and gender identities.

Because our teachers and staff welcome students to leave no part of who they are behind, students can be themselves. They find acceptance, pass it on to their neighbors, and a community in which everyone feels like they belong.

Cultivating Connections

Students thrive in a supportive environment. We work to make everyone in our community feel valued and accepted.

Winsor Builds Community

We gather for weekly assembly
We unite around shared interests and identities
We connect with our city
We invest in the long term work of diversity, equity, and inclusion

Community News

Thankful for Grandparents and Grandfriends 

Eager older learners streamed into the Wildcat Room ready to start their school day at Winsor’s annual Grandparents’ and Grandfriends’ Day event. The special program brought more than 160 visitors to campus the day before Thanksgiving break.  While the whole school enjoyed a festive morning snack of cinnamon sugar donuts, students with grandparent and grandfriend…

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Two women of color seated on a stage holding microphones.

Bearing Witness to History: A Conversation with Civil Rights Activist Dr. Valda Harris Montgomery

Civil rights activist Dr. Valda Harris Montgomery experienced many firsthand accounts of racism and segregation. But when asked when she first realized the full extent of it growing up in the south in the 1950s, she points to the irony of religion that was not lost on her as a child as a defining moment…

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students and a teacher seated around a conference table, facing a television with others on the screen for a remote discussion

Local Author Sparks Rich Classroom Discussion

Local Puerto Rican–Bostonian author Elizabeth Santiago visited campus last week for a conversation with two sections of AP Spanish, a course for which students had spent the summer reading her debut novel Claro de Luna. The book, which explores colonial history, Taíno identity, gentrification, and the power of community, became the foundation for a wide-ranging…

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