Brad Choyt
An experienced and talented educator
A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, Brad has devoted his professional life to working with students to expand and refine their relationship to learning. He brings to School for Life a deep commitment to experiential and holistic education through transformational teaching.
Brad began his teaching career fifteen years ago as a faculty member at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. From 2000 to 2005, he was a teacher and the chaplain for the Buddhist and Hindu communities at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. Prior to joining School for Life, Brad served as the first Director of Education at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. In each of these positions, Brad concentrated his efforts on bridging disciplines and establishing a safe environment in which students take intellectual and emotional risks through passionate engagement in their learning. While always interested in helping students to develop knowledge of a particular subject matter, Brad promotes learning through connecting each discipline to applications in the real world. The goal is to encourage students to be curious, self-motivated learners with an ability to appraise their work and the world around them with insight and honesty.
But classrooms and museum galleries are not the only places where he has had the chance to create and collaborate on the transformative work of education. After developing and supervising dozens of study abroad programs in the 1990’s, in 2001 he co-founded Global Learning Across Borders (Global LAB), a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring new generations of people to become responsible and committed global citizens. In his role as the Founding Director of Global LAB, Brad has direct experience developing international cultural immersion and community service programs for young adults; global studies professional development programs for educators; and experiential global curricula and academic programs for schools. Having been involved in planning over 50 study-abroad programs around the world, Brad brings a range of experience in refining everything from the program’s philosophy to the logistics of planning curricula that emphasize safety and profound learning. His effort throughout these endeavors has been on building responsive and flexible communities of students and teachers who deeply respect themselves, each other, and the other cultures and environments in which they work and study. In each facet of his professional life, he has put the holistic goals of education first: providing meaningful experiences for students in every area of their emotional, spiritual, and intellectual development.
He and his wife, Charlotte Bacon, a writer, are raising two young children at the School.
