HMS News

Hello from the Hilltop Board! We held our April Board Meeting on Wednesday evening and were able to accomplish all kinds of important things over a delicious dinner made by Asher. On the financial side of things, we officially accepted the school’s proposed budget for 2024-2025, and approved a new Investment Policy and Investment Subcommittee....Read More

We loved seeing the turnout of staff, engaged parents, neighbors, and interested community members at our Pie Day Open Board Meeting. The pies were delicious and the opportunity to get to know each other further was so much fun!  The content and direct purpose of the meeting involved two parts:  Sharing information about board service...Read More

Happy New Year! We are all back, though you won’t have seen me in person this week. I’m quarantined with COVID (my first time having it!), but am very much working on school projects. The staff had a great In-Service day meeting on Monday, including a lively discussion about “choice” in the Montessori classroom. We...Read More

As teachers returned to school to welcome new community members and reflect on and prepare for the year ahead, the Hilltop Board of Trustees did the same. Trustee Shelley Lockyear generously hosted the board and their families at her inn (The Nutmeg Inn, in Wilmington) on Saturday, August 26. The Board is thrilled to welcome...Read More

Dear HIlltop Families, After years of carefully expanding staffing and services, and broadening our support of equity and economic diversity through Indexed Tuition, we find ourselves needing to focus on financial sustainability – and specifically, to plan for some belt tightening around all of our programs for next year. The vast government grants and tax...Read More

May 7 Clean up and goodbye to Q4 Speeches at Bryant Park Talk with Chelsea MacMillan Interfaith minister and climate activist Depart from Grand Central Station to New Haven on Metro North Today has not yet ended But the gift and privilege I have Been handed Has made my thoughts extended People’s faith in humanity...Read More

May 6th Speeches at St. John the Devine Lunch in Central Park Meet with Jamal Joseph at IMPACT Theater Great Migration Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum Dinner at Hunter’s Point with Singer / Songwriter / Historian Tom Shaner Speeches on the peer at Hunter’s Point Jamal [Joseph] smiled the entire time, no matter what he was...Read More

May 5th – Stonewall Inn LGBTQ history scavenger hunt in the West Village The Center with Michael and Enrike Weeksville Heritage Center 158 Buffalo Ave., Brooklyn Dinner at the Fulton Street Food Court While we were at [the Stonewall Monument] park [in the West Village] we had a scavenger hunt that was so enthralling it...Read More

Thursday – May 4th Sugar Hill Creamery with Petruschka Bazin Larsen Lunch in Harlem Walk through Bryant Park New York Bar Association with Maria Cilente Dinner at Desi Galli with Zoe Timms and Pria Vanda Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ on Broadway, Music Box Theater At Sugar Hill Creamery, the work that was being done for the...Read More

Wednesday – May 3 Tenement Museum Walking tour of LES Drawing in Tompkins Square Park Nuyorican Poets Cafe and met and wrote with Claudia (CAP) Walk to Chinatown Dinner at Mott Street Eatery Staten Island Ferry ride – At the Tenement Museum, on our tour, there were so many unexplained things, Why were Dora the...Read More