A Tribute to Teachers

"She would make us greet her each morning with a Gutten Morgen, Frau Sauer! She chastised those who made mistakes while reading aloud and made them wear dunce hats for the rest of the day," my husband recalled about his grade two teacher. He shared that memory after learning that his old elementary school faces an... Continue Reading →

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Growing Resiliency

A recently published The New Yorker article, How People Learn to Become Resilient, caused me to stop and think about the word resiliency, what it truly means and how wonderful, and beneficial, it is that we as a school have chosen to emphasize the explicit teaching of learning dispositions, Resilience being one of them. I... Continue Reading →