The Impact of IDEALS
This past weekend I travelled with Patricia Westerhof, our Young Round Square Representative, to Palmer Trinity School in Miami for our Annual Round Square Regional meetings.
This past weekend I travelled with Patricia Westerhof, our Young Round Square Representative, to Palmer Trinity School in Miami for our Annual Round Square Regional meetings.
This past Tuesday, I spoke with our community about hope as we began a New Year and I thought I would include these words as my weekly blog.
There is nothing better than being together as an entire community to celebrate a New Year and a new term.
As a new term is about to begin, I reflect on the headspace in which I, admittedly, began my holiday: tired, feeling some trepidation for what busy family time might bring,
On Sunday morning I was going through my Twitter feed and came across Seth Godin’s daily post entitled Slow and Steady. Most often, Godin’s posts are thought-provoking.
This time of year involves the giving of gifts; whether Christmas, Hanukah or Kwanzaa, there are traditionally gift exchanges within the celebrations. However, over the past couple of weeks at St.
On Saturday I received an email from a Grade 7 Clementine who wanted to share a TED Talk by Mamoush Zomorodi that she had found while on a homework break.
I read a beautiful article by Jeannette Dowson in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail that opened with the following, “Fed by the sun and soil, trees are the most noble organisms on Earth.
On Thursday I attended a workshop hosted by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education entitled Advancement for Academics. This was a wonderful day-long forum highlighting the benefits of advancement staff working alongside faculty to leverage understanding about the impact a potential gift can make to the realization of a school’s dream or vision.
I hear the words ‘creativity’ and ‘happiness’ a lot in the context of parents’ desired outcomes of school environments. Who wouldn’t want these traits for their children? While the words are different- creativity a skill,
This weekend I read two poignant and timely articles. Both stressed the urgency of not just talking about feminism and equality, but also ensuring equity in these conversations by addressing the double bind that women of colour face when it comes to accessing positions of leadership.