Issues of diversity and empathy had long been important to the School, and the struggle to maintain the warm and welcoming environment was one being constantly renewed. Bruce Haines decided to form a special School committee focused on this issue, and he asked Emily Blanck, a parent and a Quaker with a special interest in this matter, to clerk a new School committee that would include both staff...

The administrative team led by Bruce and the newly hired Beth Reaves in the role of Admissions and Development Director devised a new initiative to address the enrollment crisis, namely the return of 3-year-old children to the School. It had been so long since the School had an organized 3-year-old program that no one at the School besides Hanshi Deshbandhu remembered anything about the program....

The focus this month on Gratitude is in direct alignment with World Kindness Day which is on Friday, November 13, 2020. World Kindness Day is “an international holiday that was formed in 1998, to promote kindness throughout the world and is observed annually on November 13 as part of the World Kindness Movement. It is observed in many countries including the United States, Canada, Japan,...