WELCOME
Welcome to Field!
What would you say if your son came home from school telling you that today, he used a saw, cooked a meal for his peers and teachers, learned a Shakepeare soliloquy set to hip hop music, built a working model electric boat, and played flag football? How transformative for your son and our world if he came home loving school everyday?
This is what a middle school designed uniquely for middle school boys can achieve. This is the kind of difference Field has made for our students, and continues to make every single day.
When I was teaching at Julia Morgan School for Girls, I went to an event at which Gloria Steinem was speaking. I will never forget her words: “We will never get where we want to be in the feminist movement if we don’t start teaching boys differently as well.” It was an aha moment for me, having taught both genders in middle and high school and seeing the boys slowly retreat into their hoodies while girls often forged ahead. Shortly thereafter I became the Founding Head of School at the East Bay School for Boys and have never looked back. When I was offered the Head of School role at Field, I jumped at the chance to build a dream all-boys middle school for the 21st century.
At Field, we build self esteem, academic resilience, and go karts. We cook and serve meals to each other, practice regular meditation and gratitude, and take field trips that connect to our curriculum nearly once a month. We encourage each others’ passions and learn from our differences. We run complex mathematical equations and regular 50-yard dashes. We take accountability for our actions and learn accounting in financial literacy class.
Field is not a school for everyone, and we embrace that. It’s a school for boys and families that want to fully engage in their learning—academically, socially, and emotionally. It’s a school that’s building toward a future where men understand that their greatest power comes from compassion, not control. It’s the kind of school I hope my own young son will someday attend.
With hope and gratitude,
Jason’s belief in—and experience in making—irresistible learning spaces has fueled his career of being a founding teacher and leader in three schools across the Bay Area: Julia Morgan School for Girls, East Bay School for Boys, and, now, Field Middle.
An inspirational, thoughtful, and visionary educator, he is committed to fostering intentional learning communities with significant purpose, and is driven to inspire change through creating mission-driven and values-based schools and communities.
Jason creates dynamic environments in which students and staff feel seen, are held equitably, and have agency to become lifelong learners and leaders. Over his years as a teacher and leader, Jason has discovered that providing a safe space for boys to be boys and also to be vulnerable enables them to access their authentic selves and to learn that real power comes from self-love and through empowering others. He believes that teaching this to boys at a critical point in their development—middle school— is essential to dismantling racism and misogyny and in creating the critical thinking change agents our world needs.
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