Bill Southwick, C.A.G.S.

Bill has held a variety of teaching and administrative roles in schools serving students from Pre-K through grade 12. As a classroom teacher and dorm parent at Landmark School in Beverly, Massachusetts, Bill built the foundation of his formidable understanding of students who learn differently while teaching language arts and providing intensive tutorials for students with language-based learning disabilities. The consummate student-centered professional, Bill also enjoyed his time supervising students in the dormitory and during weekend activities. While he would move on from Landmark’s boarding school life to Dexter Southfield, an independent Pre-K-12 day school in Brookline, Massachusetts, Bill kept his affinity for residential programming alive as camp director of O-at-ka in Sebago, Maine. His appreciation for and deep knowledge of the distinctive ways in which boys develop and learn are definitely informed by his experience in single-sex school and camp settings. While at Dexter Bill taught pretty much everything, from history and English to algebra and public speaking, and coached rowing, lacrosse and swimming. Always a selfless team player and perpetual student, he taught himself Latin to fill a teaching need. Bill’s extensive admission expertise comes from overseeing the distinctive elementary, middle and high school admission practices at Dexter Southfield and his close working relationship with the school’s college office.

Bill’s boarding school experience started as a student at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. He then attended Colgate University in upstate New York, earning his undergraduate degree in English and political science. He pursued his graduate-level study of education at Boston College and went on to earn a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Educational Leadership at Simmons University.

A native of Boston’s north shore, Bill has always been a devout outdoorsman, enjoying camping, fishing, survival skills, and all things outdoors. He continues to serve as a judge for a survival certification program in the woods of Maine. Bill and his wife live outside of Boston and are proud parents of three children and black lab Stella.