“[At St. George’s] I HAVE learned not WHAT to think but HOW to think, and not just HOW to think but HOW to think WITH OTHER PEOPLE.” I have been meeting with my advisees to discuss their upcoming student-led teacher/family conferences. I met with four of the seven of them yesterday, and two more today. My […]
St. George’s and Serve901: A New Partnership to Meet an Old Need
[Last night we sent a letter to the St. George’s Independent School community about a new, and I think, unprecedented partnership with Serve901 to share space and to create service learning experiences for our students. Serve 901 is an initiative of Memphis’s City Leadership, which also supports the vibrant and successful Choose901 campaign. I will […]
Adam and Louie Showing Us the Way
In my last entry, “When It Is Good, Name It So”, I wrote about some good things that happened in our school’s first week back from Thanksgiving Break. Central to that piece was a reference to Adam Cruthirds, a senior at St. George’s, who gave the Chapel Talk on Friday, December 4th. Over the last year […]
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 […]