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Peck Names Next Head of Upper School
The Peck School, Northern New Jersey’s premier independent school for kindergarten through eighth grade, is delighted to announce its next Head of the Upper School, Sadie Albertyn, currently serving as Grade 6 Dean and Math Department Chair at The Meadowbrook School in Weston, Massachusetts.
“We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Sadie and her family to The Peck School,” said Head of School Andy Delinsky. “Sadie is the right person to lead our Upper School into the future. She is a passionate educator, she is committed to excellence in everything that she does, and she will tirelessly work to cherish and to build upon the strengths of our program.”
Prior to her time at Meadowbrook, Albertyn served as a mathematics and economics teacher at the American School in London for five years. Earlier in her career, she had stints at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn and at Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts. From 2006-2009, Sadie took a brief hiatus from her work in independent schools and spent three years as an Associate Client Advisor at Bridgewater Associates, a multi-strategy institutional hedge fund in Connecticut. Sadie attended Barnard College in New York, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Economics, and received her Masters of Science in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
“I am deeply humbled and wildly excited to serve as the next Head of the Upper School at Peck,” Albertyn said. “The warm welcome I received during my visits to campus left me feeling inspired and eager to join a community that is so curious, confident, and connected.”
In its next Head of the Upper School, Peck sought a leader who has a genuine love and appreciation for middle school, is an excellent communicator, and whose character matches the warm, family environment of a K-8 school. Peck is known for its excellent secondary school placements, its respect for time-honored traditions, and its commitment to preparing students for the future without letting them grow up too soon.
“The intentionality embedded into the Peck Upper School program, from the Eighth Grade capstone project to the use of the Harkness method in Humanities courses, speaks to our shared belief in the power and potential of young people to authentically engage with unstructured problems in meaningfully complex ways,” Albertyn said. “Peck is looking beyond ‘answer-finders,’ and seeking to create problem-solvers – a noble pursuit and one that I look forward to both shepherding and spearheading. I couldn’t be more excited to join the team.”
Albertyn assumes the role effective July 1.
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