A Chaplain Reflects on Ash Wednesday
Like many aspects of a school chaplain’s day, the students and teachers see us at our best and at our worst. With all our limitations and quirks, and hopefully in our steady presence and caring... Read More »
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The Human Imperative of Episcopal Education
The following comments are taken from a keynote address at the 1st Annual St. James Forum, “Episcopal Schools: Touching Hearts, Empowering Lives” held on February 22 at St. James School... Read More »
Watch Those Metaphors!
I seem to harbor a fascination with the words and metaphors we use so frequently in our contemporary discourse. For example, within the context of a three minute conversation on a local National... Read More »
Grit and the Soul
Grit. Mindfulness. Character Education. Conversations about the importance of cultivating personal “intangibles” and moral agency are all over the edu-sphere these days, particularly... Read More »
School Shootings: Revisited
It’s just over a year since the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. With the killing of over twenty young children and teachers, it seemed that, at last,... Read More »
Surprising Leaders
The December 28th edition of the New York Times carried a fascinating article about how the manner in which President Obama celebrated Christmas this year reflects some of the larger trends to be... Read More »
Invisible No More
The New York Times is running a powerful four-part series called “Invisible Child.” It offers an in-depth profile of Dasani, a middle school girl who lives in a Brooklyn family shelter.... Read More »
Girl Engineers Go Viral
One of the hottest videos flying around Facebook and the twitter-sphere is a two-minute promotional video for a new line of girl-friendly building toys called GoldieBlox. It’s been tweeted by... Read More »
Two Types of Episcopal Identity
In a big move, St. Athanasius School has decided to ask the vestry of the parish to approve a change in the school’s by-laws. It is requesting that the percentage of school board members who... Read More »
The Preschool Crisis
Despite ample evidence of the important role that early language development plays in reading and literacy and numerous calls for a focus on the education of young children, the United States... Read More »