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.
Latest posts
2020
Words to Belong To
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When Time Stopped “Turn to page 90 in your books,” I instructed my class of seniors. It was 2009, and we were reading the…