What I felt about each student couldn’t be found in the cells of excel or in the margins of my hasty jottings on notebook…
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Jessica Flaxman
Jessica Flaxman is the Dean of Faculty & Employees and Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning at Rye Country Day School in Rye, New York. Jessica is a co-founder and editor of Well-Schooled and teaches at the Klingenstein Center.
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2020
Words to Belong To

I wish I could say that every student who ever took a class with me felt completely seen, heard, and appreciated. But that would…
2020
On Milestones

Spring, 2020: the season of missed milestones. Beyond birthdays, anniversaries, and religious gatherings that were not celebrated together or much at all, major school…
2020
Crucibles of Change

As my high school senior slowly accepts the possibility that she may fulfill her graduation credits through exclusively online classes, miss her senior prom,…
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
Embracing It

When Time Stopped “Turn to page 90 in your books,” I instructed my class of seniors. It was 2009, and we were reading the…