[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvlfBxFOXH0&w=420&h=315]It has been a great ride with St. George’s this fall! It is important to point out when things go well. We can get so caught up with what is coming next that we forget to be grateful when things fall into place in just the right way. On Thursday and Friday of last […]
Creating a Progress Culture Through Pilot Programs: Compiled Thoughts
In the Spring of 2012, I wrote a number of blog entries about the role of pilot programs and courses in creating thoughtful progress in a school. These entries feel more relevant than ever to me. My writing in this area grew out of other thinking I had been doing around a concept of a […]
Deep, Thoughtful, Engaged Lives NOW for our Students
As I left The Westminster Schools this summer after serving as Upper School Head, I found myself refining my wishes for high school students in this particular moment in history. In an interview about my departure for the school’s magazine, I said:“It’s not what our students are going to do ten years from now; it’s […]
Looking Up and Out: Response Inspired by NAES’s New Heads Conference
Over the last three days I participated in the Jonathan T. Glass Institute for New Heads, sponsored by the National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES). Led by the Rev. Dan Heischman, Executive Director of NAES, and Ann Mellow, Associate Director of NAES, we spent our time together discussing specific issues relevant to Episcopal School Heads […]
A Visit to Senior K at St. George’s
I had the wonderful opportunity to spend some time with the Senior Kindergarten classes at St. George’s Independent School in Memphis, TN today. I was invited to come and talk about what my kindergarten class was like and also what my kindergarten teacher was like. This allowed me to tell them about Mrs. Alley who taught me at St. Christopher’s School in […]
Luncheon Speech to The Germantown Chamber, August 20, 2015
(The text here is edited in minor ways from the speech I gave last Thursday to the Germantown Chamber of Commerce.)Thank you for the invitation to be here today. I am especially grateful for the opportunity to speak to this group because a good school and a successful Chamber have important characteristics in common. A […]