| Brad Rathgeber As we pause to look back at the past week, we see moments of promise--historic voter turnout, the first Black and Southeast Asian female Vice-President Elect--coupled with moments that give us pause, as we watch the COVID-19 numbers skyrocket and listen to officials' warnings about more to come. As we balance these milestones, we hope we can help you meet the moment with the reflections and resources you need. Take our pulse survey, read my blog on why I'm thankful to have begun my career in a girls' school, and join us for our academic leaders webinar on the mission-driven and care-given conversations you should be having right now. Concern about the country’s surge in COVID-19 cases is fueling a shift in schools' in-person versus remote learning plans the remainder of the semester. Question of the week: How do you expect your school to operate after the American Thanksgiving break? Taking the Pulse: Flash Survey In Appreciation of Counter-Cultural Schools By Brad Rathgeber I’m grateful that I started my career in independent schools in girls’ schools. I had great mentors and colleagues at Holton-Arms, and, more importantly, I learned that girls’ schools are powerful places that lift up girls’ voices and places that give girls every leadership opportunity. In girls’ schools, girls can do anything and everything. At their best, girls’ schools are counter-cultural forces to a heteronormative, male norm Sunday morning, I went for a run in my neighborhood, and found myself at the gates of Howard University, the extraordinary historically black university in Washington DC, and alma mater of our Vice President Elect, Kamala Harris. I entered Howard’s gates, and walked around the campus for a while. Lots of folks were on campus that morning celebrating Kamala Harris, taking pictures, cheering, greeting old friends, and milling about, like me, in gratitude for the school. HBCUs are counter-cultural, too. They fight white supremacy and orthodoxy from their core, and make sure that their graduates know their power and to ensure others are listening to them when “I’m speaking.” Read more What mission-driven and care-given conversations should you be having right now to be prepared to make critical decisions down the road? Join One Schoolhouse and academic leaders from around the country for this week's Academic Leaders Webinar on Wednesday, November 11 at 12noon ET. Register here! We are thrilled to welcome The Riley School , Rockport, Maine, to our consortium. Two-hundred and thirty one schools and counting! Want to learn more about the consortium? |
 Brad Rathgeber |
As we pause to look back at the past week, we see moments of promise--historic voter turnout, the first Black and Southeast Asian female Vice-President Elect--coupled with moments that give us pause, as we watch the COVID-19 numbers skyrocket and listen to officials' warnings about more to come. As we balance these milestones, we hope we can help you meet the moment with the reflections and resources you need.
Take our pulse survey, read my blog on why I'm thankful to have begun my career in a girls' school, and join us for our academic leaders webinar on the mission-driven and care-given conversations you should be having right now.
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Concern about the country’s surge in COVID-19 cases is fueling a shift in schools' in-person versus remote learning plans the remainder of the semester.
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Question of the week: How do you expect your school to operate after the American Thanksgiving break? | |
In Appreciation of Counter-Cultural Schools By Brad Rathgeber
I’m grateful that I started my career in independent schools in girls’ schools. I had great mentors and colleagues at Holton-Arms, and, more importantly, I learned that girls’ schools are powerful places that lift up girls’ voices and places that give girls every leadership opportunity. In girls’ schools, girls can do anything and everything. At their best, girls’ schools are counter-cultural forces to a heteronormative, male norm
Sunday morning, I went for a run in my neighborhood, and found myself at the gates of Howard University, the extraordinary historically black university in Washington DC, and alma mater of our Vice President Elect, Kamala Harris. I entered Howard’s gates, and walked around the campus for a while. Lots of folks were on campus that morning celebrating Kamala Harris, taking pictures, cheering, greeting old friends, and milling about, like me, in gratitude for the school. HBCUs are counter-cultural, too. They fight white supremacy and orthodoxy from their core, and make sure that their graduates know their power and to ensure others are listening to them when “I’m speaking.” Read more
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What mission-driven and care-given conversations should you be having right now to be prepared to make critical decisions down the road? Join One Schoolhouse and academic leaders from around the country for this week's Academic Leaders Webinar on Wednesday, November 11 at 12noon ET. Register here! | |
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