I just had a second meeting with parents in our High School this month. These meetings primarily regarded the important and defining new language the school has created entitled, “Learning for Life: A Vision for Westminster.” We call these gatherings “Coffee with the Principal.” Last week the group was fairly modest, while this week the […]
The Haywood Gap Stream Discovery
View from Tennent Mountain of Black Balsam, Mount Hardy and Little Sam’s Knob (Ross Peters) In the summer of 2000 I drove into Pisgah National Forest almost everyday. Living in Asheville, NC at the time, I decided I would focus 6-12 mile walks in those parts of Pisgah that I either hadn’t been in a […]
The Role Models We Need For Our Students
If this teacher-as-silo approach was ever a good teaching strategy, those days are gone.
Scholarship as the Antidote to the Addiction of Comfort
(After a brief welcome, I gave these remarks earlier this evening at the National Honor Society and Cum Laude Induction Ceremony at The Westminster Schools.) If I told you that I could take you to a place right now where every desire you ever have, EVERY DESIRE YOU EVER HAVE, […]
A Thought for NAIS: An Emerging Practice Cohort Structure
I have a proposal for a structure that will sustain and support innovation and emerging practice in independent schools. As conversations are taking place across the country and indeed beyond our national boundaries about what our schools will need to become over the coming years and decades, our institutions and […]
The Role of Communication in Establishing a Progress-Culture in Schools
School faculties and school leaders need families and students to exert the same attachment to innovation and to progress in their schools that they have demonstrated to technological innovation and progress elsewhere. Think about how quickly we have moved toward the latest iterations of the digital age—we are forever poised […]