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Pema Chodron’s book, When Things Fall Apart, is a set of provocative essays asking the reader to explore his or her heart in challenging times. In each essay, she takes us into a deeper place of exploration, searching for ways to make sense, both personally and collectively, in difficult times. In her first essay, Intimacy…
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In a recent edition of Education Week, a colleague at Westminster School, Caroline Diaz, the Director of our Nursery, published an article about her experience with our youngest learners during the COVID crisis. The article, What Happens to the Youngest Learners During This Crisis? Inside an Empty Preschool, reveals some of her insights regarding the…
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Innovation, a word that was in favor for many years, now seems to have gone out of favor. I hear many people in education recoiling when they hear the word, as though it is asking something of them that they are unwilling to give. On the other hand, creativity is a word that does not…
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In their On Being podcast, The Mystery We Are, Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser have a facilitated conversation with Krista Tippett about the interplay of different world views, that of science and that of myth. As a novelist and essayist who explores mythical ideas and the relationship between science and religion, Marilynne Robinson expressed this…
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Poetry often eloquently speaks to us about the work we have to do. John O’Donohue wrote a lovely poem, For a Leader, a blessing or prayer that offers a way of being for leaders. I found it on the Institute for Mindful Leadership’s website. When I read his poem, I see it as a challenge to…
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