Welcome to a New School Year
August is a time of entries (and reentries). The largest cohort of new students and families in our history is joining the community this year, …
Life skills
All Of Who We Are
This past weekend, we hosted our annual Saturday Open House on campus, the largest turnout of prospective families that we have had in at least …
Why am I thankful?
Our youngest, Piper, woke me up at 3 in the morning the other night. It has become a pretty consistent pattern. She’ll sleep through the …
Partnership
During my summertime meetings with new families, I typically ask parents to share a little about their child. “Describe them for me,” I’ll say. Parents …
Of possibilities, challenges, and purple crayons
The following are my remarks from this morning’s Class of 2012 graduation: Good morning students, faculty, parents, grandparents, and friends and welcome to the Hillbrook …
A Gentle Nudge
One of the early lessons I learned as a parent was how to short-circuit toddler-driven decision-making gridlock. You know the routine. You don’t ask, “What …