From the Head of School

2026

  • Head of School Rachel Rodriguez

    From the Desk of the Head of School: The new AI Innovation Fellowships

    Rachel Rodriguez
    Educational adventures outside of the traditional classroom that are driven by students’ curiosity have long been a hallmark of a Ransom Everglades education. For the past nine years, the Dan Leslie Bowden Fellowships in the Humanities program has provided a powerful illustration of this approach to learning, annually sending enterprising seniors across the globe in pursuit of intellectual discovery in humanities fields. 

    Last month, Ransom Everglades announced a STEM-based partner to the Bowden fellowships: RE’s new AI Innovation Fellowships. These fellowships, currently accepting student applications, will allow rising seniors opportunities for novel research, real-world problem solving and growth as ethical leaders.
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  • Head of School Rachel Rodriguez

    From the Desk of the Head of School: An Essential Tradition, the Everglades Experience for ninth graders

    Rachel Rodriguez
    For five decades, the Everglades Experience with Outward Bound, currently a four-day, three-night journey through the Ten Thousand Islands, has served as a definitive rite of passage for RE ninth graders. This meaningful, back-to-nature trek into the Everglades was the brainchild of legendary history and social sciences teacher Mike Stokes, who understood that the most profound lessons are often taught outside the walls of a classroom. 
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. It is rated the top private school in Miami and among the 10 private schools in North America. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.


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