Monthly Archives: January 2011
Learning With My Students
Each week, the Humanities 7 students write blog entries on a protected website about the books they are reading. I always write back, and love the give and take that can ensue as well as the chance to learn a … Continue reading
A Busy Start to the New Year!
The atmosphere at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School Equestrian Center has been lively during the last few weeks. On January 15th we held a Jumper show which was well attended despite the subzero temperatures outside. The SBS girls did particularly well and … Continue reading
Filed under Equestrian Program
Horns of a Dilemma
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig describes the main character Phaedrus as being caught in a dilemma. In discussing the idea of Quality which Phaedrus had been developing, the English Department at the college where he … Continue reading
Things that Matter
(a speech delivered in housemeeting on Martin Luther King day) In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King wrote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Think quietly about that a moment. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to … Continue reading
Getting Past Partisanship
When I walked in to the Faculty Meeting room on the first Thursday after Winter Break, I noticed two of the middle school students hovering uncertainly and as inconspicuously as possible in a corner of the room. They were the … Continue reading
Facing the Truth
“When was this book written?” I looked up from my well-worn copy of Jacqueline Woodson’s If You Come Softly, and answered, “1998.” It was a question I had been predicting, as it gets asked nearly every time I share the … Continue reading
Filed under In the Classroom, On Education
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Bill Ivey, Stoneleigh-Burnham Middle School Dean
Laura Lavallee, Assoc. Dir. of Admissions
Liz Feeley, Associate Director of Development and Alumnae Relations
Sally Mixsell, Head of School
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