Last November I wrote a piece the morning after the Paris terrorist attack. (I have copied it below). Much of what I wrote seems sadly relevant to the Orlando attack at the Pulse Night Club where there were forty-nine victim mortalities and even more injuries, many critical. This latest attack is just that…the latest attack. […]
Deepening Student Engagement: A Parents Association Presentation
“It [Engagement] is a vital skill/habit for young people in the life they will lead once their diploma has been framed and put in a place on honor on the wall.” This morning I presented a talk entitled “Deepening Student Engagement” to our Parents Association Spring Breakfast in the parish hall of the Germantown Campus of […]
Christmas Thunder and a Type One Diagnosis
It has not been normal December weather. Last night, coming out of church, Eleanor and I spotted the full moon, and as we looked up waiting for my wife Katie to join us, it felt like a comfortable September evening. For a brief moment it WAS a September evening. This feeling, only a flash, was fleeting […]
Parenting in the Wake of the Paris Terrorist Attacks
As our thoughts have been drawn today to France and to Paris in the wake of the tragedy of the terrorist attacks yesterday, I feel a bit ill-equipped as a parent. My daughter is in sixth grade–old enough to have some understanding of the scope of the event, of the larger global context, and of […]
The Significance of Parent Leadership
I am always reminded in my monthly meetings with our parents organization leadership (PAWS) that strong partnership between school and parents is essential to the success of an ambitious strategic plan. These parent representatives have been working extremely hard with their respective grade activities, and today we met to both debrief the opening of the […]
A Brave Question: “Am I Worth Dying For?”
Dear Lord Lest I continue My complacent way Help me to remember Somehow out there A man died for me today. As long as there be war Then I must Ask and answer Am I worth dying for? –Prayer Eleanor Roosevelt kept in her wallet during WWII My daughter dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt at […]