Editor’s Note: In June of 2013, Pat Bassett retired as president of NAIS, the National Association of Independent Schools, and now consults with schools. Pete Upham is executive director of TABS, The Association of Boarding Schools.1 This blog was originally …
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By Brad Bates, Head of School, Dublin School. Originally posted on 2 Brads Blog. The recent presidential election brought about an unprecedented level of vitriol, hate and anger in our country. As a history teacher I had to go back …
We continue to live in an era of rapid cultural evolution. Reasonable people navigate these turbulent waters with humility, curiosity, and openness, yet even reasonable people can feel the passionate, loud, and often uncompromising voices of extreme perspectives – extreme …
Remember SchoolHouse Rock? “Conjunction – Junction, what’s your function?” If you are too young, it’s worth a Google. I loved it and learned plenty about “Hooking up words, and phrases and clauses…” But another thing that always stuck in my …
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The following is published with permission to authors David Wolowitz, J.D., McLane Middleton, P.A. and Claude Marchessault, Strategic Leadership Group, Inc. ——— Educators understand that nothing is more important than promoting the health, safety and welfare of students in a …
I remember clearly how angry I was as I started reading Beverly Daniel Tatum’s brilliant book, Why are all the Black Children Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Her “open-and-shut case” attitude regarding the question of white men suffering “reverse discrimination” …
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As seen in the Marin Independent Journal, January 25, 2015 At the January 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — a gathering of more than 160,000 technology trade association members looking for a piece of the $208 billion U.S. …
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This iteration of “Wondering” begins with a simple statement of gratitude which many of us share for the rare privilege of leading a boarding school. We are blessed with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young …
Michael K. Mulligan is the Head of The Thacher School in Ojai, California. A graduate of Middlebury College, The Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he has taught, coached, and counseled teens for …
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