There is a reverence, a sacred trust in being first a teacher.
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2023
Summer Daze: Long Days with Books!
How I loved the moment at the end of spring when our homeroom teacher would pass out the summer reading list. I clutched those…
2022
Safety First
This summer, I have thought a lot about safety at school. The safety and well-being of every child and of every faculty and staff…
2021
Facing Othello
We talked about race and othering, about passion versus reason, about women finding their voices, about how easy it can be to be manipulated,…
2021
Teaching Seventh-Graders: Midwinter’s Energy Boost
Tired. Depleted. Grumpy. The pandemic is wearing. We are long past novelty and the adrenalin that carried us through summer. In our community, numbers were down; then they soared. Now,…
2020
A Conversation Between Two Leaders
Kathryn Purcell: I first met Ann 16 years ago. I knew from my first two encounters with her that I would learn a lot…
2020
Wanted: Women Who Prevail
Why do we teach what we teach? What happens when a story we love isn’t greeted with enthusiasm by our students? I used to…
2020
Living Room Leadership
They are bored. They are lonely. They are sad and mad. They are a group who has led our school with calm and thoughtfulness…
2019
To Teach or Not To Teach?
The rhythm of teaching grounded me. Having a class allowed me to quickly come to know fifteen girls as individuals, and they grew up…
2019
Read, Restore, Grow
More than any other season, summer invites us to read. Whether we are traveling or staying home, working or taking vacation time, we school…
2019
My Office, Myself
Mine is a wonderful, complicated, fascinating job. To shape the culture of a school whose mission resonates; to work with brilliant, brave colleagues; to…
