My mother's kindness never wavers. She had plenty of reasons to be hateful and bitter — but her belief that…
The Wider Circle
Strategic change doesn’t happen in broad strokes. It happens in the patterns inside the patterns. I often ask leaders, “What…
Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared in the AISGW Fall 2025 newsletter. It is November! Too late to deny that…
There’s a kind of peace that settles when you step into a museum — a quiet hush that demands a…
We have navigated some rapids in recent years and the water ahead does not look much calmer. Perhaps now is…
The idea was simple, but somewhat unorthodox. We would bring a small group of students north for two days. They…
We need The Story She Left Behind and we need Cinderella. We need the whispered confession in a family letter and the…
Education is heart-centered work, and I am grateful every day to serve Kent School. Yet, it also warms my heart…
When I despair about our world (the endless wars, the climate crisis, the mass shootings, the violent rhetoric, the destruction…
“. . . there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines…
During this music concert, tucked into my favorite back-row aisle seat, I’m carried away by these high schoolers’ earnest 1960s…
The first time I set foot in my daughter’s kindergarten classroom is the morning after the Uvalde school shooting. Because…
In teaching, we’re in the very business of kids leaving us. Often we get them for one year –sometimes, if…
