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“Make Box Brownies”: A Summer Pilgrimage
For educators, summer means many things: catching up on all the TV and books one missed during the school year; taking vacations; sleeping in; engaging ...
Read More Summer School: Gearing Up for Teaching Foundations 2017
We’re well into the 21st Century, and the buzzwords of a new era are part of our daily lexicon now: project-based learning, design thinking, differentiation, ...
Read More The Learning Continues
At the end of my final faculty meeting as Dean of Faculty Development at The Athenian School, I invited everyone to turn and talk to ...
Read More It’s Okay to Let Go
Gaps, detours and time away from our career path is not necessarily encouraged or acknowledged as a valuable use of time in our independent schools, ...
Read More Leading with Love: Lessons Learned from My First Year in Administration
First years at anything are hard. Kindergartners learn how to do school for the first time; middle and high schoolers learn how to navigate change ...
Read More Creating a Growth Mindset In and Out of the Classroom
We want our students to achieve growth, both in and out of the classroom. And we know that simple shifts and practice can have a ...
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