Residential Leadership
Boarding students have additional opportunities to serve in leadership roles in the residential life community. Students may apply to become a dorm leader in their dorm, be elected to serve on their dorm's judicial body, or run for various positions on the Boarding Life Committee. Additionally, one boarding student is elected each year to serve alongside a day student as a voting member on CSW's Board of Trustees.
Opportunities for Boarders
Dorm Leaders
Dorm Board Members
- Serve as role models and liaisons between students and dorm parents.
- Act as the unofficial "big siblings" to many students in their dorms.
- Help plan and run orientation activities for the entire residential community.
- Assist dorm parents in managing weekly activities in the dorms and with weekly study-hour check-ins.
- Support dorm and school policy.
- Encourage healthy activity and to promote dorm unity and spirit.
- Serve on the Residential Advisory Board.
- Hear cases pertaining to minor rule infractions in the dorm.
- Work with dorm parents to determine consequences.
- Represent student voice in the disciplinary process
CSW—a gender-inclusive day and boarding school for grades 9-12—is a national leader in progressive education. We live out our values of inquiry-based learning, student agency, and embracing diverse perspectives in every aspect of our student experience. Young people come to CSW to learn how to learn and then put what they learn into action—essential skills they carry into their futures as doers, makers, innovators, leaders, and exceptional humans who do meaningful work in the world.