In today’s post I am providing data from a recent survey we gave students, faculty, and parents at St. George’s Independent School regarding a new daily schedule we implemented this semester for students in grades 6-12. Without describing the new schedule in full, its key components include: longer classes (70 minutes) that meet less often and […]
Ross All Over the Map – blog
St. George’s Bunkhouse Opens! A Video and Two Talks from the #SGBunkhouse Celebration
The bold vision of St. George’s Independent School, and the St. George’s Bunkhouse, calls us to think of our neighbors far more broadly to include not only our school, but our city, our county, our state, our nation, and our world.
My Candidate Questions Haven’t Changed
Just over a year ago I posted a list called “Nonpartisan Questions for Presidential Candidates.” What a year it has been since then! I have revised that original post and expanded it. I was reminded of this post when I read a story this morning indicating that as many as 100 million people would tune in […]
Updated reflections on The 9/11 Seawall and the The Empathetic Community
(The World Trade Towers and the QEII Photo:Neal Boenzi/The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/towers.html#1 _____________________________________________________________ [As we head toward the fifteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I am reposting (with some revisions) something I wrote several years ago that still reflects my thinking about the primacy of creating and sustaining a community that prioritizes empathy. Since posting this […]
DNA Tests and the House of Humankind
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaEQEmt5ls&w=560&h=315]Please watch the video above before reading my comments.I must admit from the start that I have not had DNA testing and thus cannot claim that I have felt the full power of the experience the people in the video felt upon receiving their results. However, I was powerfully affected by watching the story […]
Bombasticball–Let’s Take Our Ball and Go Home
It seems everybody is playing it. They are playing it in politics, in media, around water-coolers, after church on Sunday, in school hallways, on social media post comment threads, in post-game interviews, in the stands at High School (or Middle School or Elementary School) athletic events. Bombasticball. Bom-bas’tic-ball, n. a game played with sharpened tongues where combatants […]