Features

In the following pages we share stories of how Baylor remains committed to sending students out into the world and bringing the world to Baylor in authentic and meaningful ways. 

Today, world language classes at Baylor are a stark contrast with the staid grammar charts, rote language labs, and nitpicky details from decades ago that were designed to teach students how to speak a language perfectly.

Baylor School hung a (metaphorical) ¡Bienvenidos! banner this school year when a small cohort of students kicked off a new sixth grade language program.

As a child growing up in Spain, Javier Garcia Nieto ’23 began learning English at a young age, but it wasn’t until he traveled to England at age 11 that he began to fully understand the advantages of learning another language.

Baylor’s exchange program is off and running with the arrival of two French exchange students this winter and a send-off in May for six Baylor students heading to France, Spain, Germany, South Africa, and New Zealand.

Bobby Lahiere’s ’88 love of languages and travel and his success as Founder/CEO of SpokenHere Language Services are rooted in his desire to nurture relationships.

The Baylor football team has accepted an invitation to compete in the Global Ireland Football Tournament in August of 2023 in Dublin, Ireland.

Even as students experiment with new ways to discover books that are radically different from the card catalogs that were a familiar site to generations of library users, the ability to inspire curiosity about the world through reading is unchanged.

Reference and instruction librarian Lee Howick is in the perfect position to help Baylor students navigate deep dives into a variety of research topics.

Even though it can be common for Middle School students to gradually lose interest in reading, Rhonda Sixto is not going to let it happen on her watch as Baylor’s reading librarian.