Let Us Pray
It is often said that Episcopal schools are praying places. Each of us can point to the unique ways that our school prays together. It might be the short prayer that the youngest students learn as... Read More »
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Why Don’t They Just Trust Us?
A school head looks at the student’s advisor, as the parents of that student leave the office feeling dissatisfied with what they have heard. Both school head and advisor shake their heads in... Read More »
When Children Worry
In one of my first years as a nursery school director, our lives were disrupted by the DC sniper. The next year brought 9/11. The year after that came Hurricane Isabelle. Last year our fears centered... Read More »
Moral Courage
I recently heard an interview with journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault who was, as a young Charlayne Hunter, one of two black students to integrate the University of Georgia exactly 50 years ago this... Read More »
When Christmas Comes
Christmas is one of those times of the year when we are most likely to fool ourselves. We assume that in order to get into the Christmas spirit we must engage in a certain number of activities,... Read More »
Advent People
As a little girl in Maine, I was truly confounded by the notion of Christmas among sunshine, shorts, and palm trees. To me, the season was inextricably bound to December’s cold darkness and... Read More »
Re-forming Education
There are a lot of very smart people in Episcopal schools and they are thinking about education in complex and exciting ways. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the workshops and plenary sessions... Read More »
I Thought This Was a Religious School: Episcopal Schools Responding to the Problem of Bullying
We’ve all heard that veiled accusation, in one form or another, as someone claims that we are not living up to our name as a religious school. Be it the perceived absence of mercy or the... Read More »
Taking the Long View
Along with Halloween and Thanksgiving, October and November usher in the season of parent-teacher conferences. This week, in fact, I will babysit my sister’s youngest child so that she and her... Read More »
A Dean’s Commentary
Editor’s note: The comments below were originally posted on September 16, 2010 as “The Dean’s Commentary,” a daily reflection by the Very Reverend Ian Markham, dean and... Read More »