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Mac Caplan has taught Upper School English since 2005. Currently, he advises, serves as head coach of the varsity golf team, and coordinates the senior speech program. The English department chair from 2015 to 2024, Mac also previously coached girls’ soccer and baseball, oversaw the Sages & Seekers program, served as a course counselor, and co-coordinated the 2023-24 AISNE Self-Study and Accreditation process, among other responsibilities. He received the Mida van Zuylen Dunn Award for Teaching in 2011 and was named a Senior Teacher in 2017. Mac earned a BA from Yale University and an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Outside of school, he is a competitive squash player, avid golfer, and voracious reader.

Meredith Caplan teaches Upper School English and serves as ninth-grade dean. Prior to joining Rivers in 2013, she taught and coached at Newark Academy in New Jersey and at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. She also worked for The Steppingstone Foundation in Boston. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Bowdoin College and a master’s degree in the teaching of English from Teachers College at Columbia University. She has traveled to Romania with Rivers students to work with Romanian children. In addition to advising underclassmen, Meredith is the assistant coach for varsity girls’ soccer.