Organizational Leadership in Education

The Woodward School was founded in 1869 by Dr. Ebenezer Woodward to establish a school for girls in preparation for higher education. Woodward continues to operate on Hancock Street in Quincy in the original, historic, wooden school building that welcomed the first class of seven teachers and seventy-six students, on April 10, 1894. Serving as Head of School from 2016 - 2018, it was an honor to lead the team through the most complex transformational investment since its opening in 1894. Read more about this historic announcement here.

According to the terms of Dr. Ebenezer Woodward’s will written in 1869, “within 25 years of [his] death,” the City of Quincy (the School’s original Trustee) would have to construct a schoolhouse paid for with the proceeds of his and his wife, Mary Greenleaf's, real estate. Just months shy of this 25-year condition, The Woodward School opened in a “temporary schoolhouse” with a promise from the Trustee to build a more permanent structure at a later time. The school has remained in the “temporary schoolhouse,” and the more permanent structure was never built.

The driving motivation for the historic renovation is to provide Woodward students with an optimal learning environment and preserve the school’s historic look and feel. The renovated school is equipped with cutting-edge learning technologies. 

Learn more about The Woodward School here.