Welcome to the new school year! I’m very grateful for the opportunity to join such a dynamic community and excited—after two months of preparation—for things to get started.
As difficult as it will be to coax our kids out of bed these next few days, we can be thankful that unlike many folks on the East Coast, we’re opening on schedule, with power, and without Irene-induced flooding.
During Faculty Orientation two weeks ago, I shared with our new teachers a wonderful source of inspiration to which I find myself returning year after year. I confess to being a fairly jaded consumer of education “literature” and conference presentations, impatient with much of the jargon and trendiness which pervade them, so when I encounter a jewel like Sir Kenneth Robinson’s TED talk, “Schools Kill Creativity,” my immediate impulse is to spread the word.
At The Northwest School we often talk about how important it is to create a vibrant and supportive school community. We also recognize that while we are an independent school, we don’t live in isolation. In fact, our mission and philosophy demand that we be generous neighbors and actively engage the environment around us, not merely coexist with it. One of the fun ways that we do this is by participating in various Capitol Hill events each year.
