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 »
News
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 »
What the Marketing Surveys May Not Be Telling Us!
Few books have had such an impact on me as the one I recently completed, Kenda Creasy Dean’s Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church. It is her... Read More »
Tell the Story and Break the Bread
The “busy-ness” of the year always ratchets up too quickly. It seems that just yesterday we were sharing summer stories and wondering aloud about the year ahead. By the end of September,... Read More »
Episcopal Identity: Reflections from a Trustee
I am a leader of an Episcopal school because I know its Episcopal identity nourishes our children’s minds and enriches their lives in and out of school. Maintaining and strengthening that... Read More »
The Top Ten
Thanks to information supplied from PayScale.com, we have the dubious news of the top-ten worst paying college degrees. They are, in descending order: 10. Drama 9. Fine arts 8. Hospitality and... Read More »
Feeding the Soul
Earlier this summer I found myself engaged in an online discussion about the future of teaching, the question posed as follows: will those schools that do not adapt to the new reality of the internet... Read More »