Monthly Archives: November 2011

As family holidays go, I have always loved Thanksgiving best of all. Thanksgiving always invokes memories of my maternal grandparents’ home in Newark, N.J., where my mother and her siblings were raised. There are memories of running up and down … Continue reading →

A recent New York Times Magazine cover referenced a series of articles about failure as the path to success. On a few occasions I have reminded our faculty that if we expect our students to make themselves vulnerable to the … Continue reading →

While enjoying the Heads Conference at Mohonk last week, I became familiar with the work of Tony Schwartz, one of the terrific speakers at the conference whose work on The Energy Project is making me rethink the school day and … Continue reading →

As a still new head of school, and as one still new to Tuxedo Park School, I pride myself at appearing (and being) relatively unflappable. I can take many things in stride. I understand that there is much to learn … Continue reading →

Many schools can view the arrival of a NYSAIS accreditation team as a three-and-a-half day event to be endured: schools worry about judgment, about feeling affirmed and about testing out our mission. But quite the opposite feeling was apparent yesterday … Continue reading →

As parents we often worry: Are we are doing the right thing? Too much? Not enough? When we approach conference day (or in my case, with a child in boarding school, Parents’ Weekend) we arrive with a mix of excitement, … Continue reading →

October brought a gorgeous first week of weather, the launch of the TPS faculty iPad pilot program and the untimely death of Steve Jobs. As I think about Tuxedo Park School and imagine all the possibilities that technology can bring … Continue reading →

As we close September and open October at Tuxedo Park School, I look at back at all of the things we have already accomplished in this very young school year. We began our year on September 6 with record enrollment, … Continue reading →

Last week I had the privilege of attending the inaugural “Schools For Tomorrow” conference sponsored by the New York Times and I’ve returned with many ideas, some of them contradictory to each other! You’ll notice, as I did, that the … Continue reading →

I grew up in a neighborhood in New Jersey where everything I needed was within walking distance: I walked to school, I walked to church, I walked to the corner market for a quart of milk for my mother, I … Continue reading →