Board Chair Corner – Fall 2018
A message to the Parker community from Board Chair Robert Gleason.
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Month: October 2018
Parker Community Ways of Being
Being an educator who is also a parent has its advantages. It also has a downside. Toggling between the two roles isn’t easy, especially when I encounter those “teachable moments” with my children.
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Teamwork in Middle School
Built into just about every experience at Parker, students have the opportunity to learn about both leadership and teamwork. From structured character education lessons that embrace the ethical framework of S.T.R.I.V.E. first introduced in the Lower School, to classroom expectations, and even camp. Camp? Yes, camp.
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Character Building: A Lower School Perspective
As a young principal years ago, I came to appreciate the power of teams to shape school culture, and it eventually became my dissertation topic. However, the road to that understanding was long and occasionally rocky.
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The True Aim of a Parker Education
Col. Francis W. Parker believed that the greatest democratic ideal was to ensure that every school in the land “should be made a home and a heaven for each child”. An ideal that could only be accomplished by passionate, committed, and enlightened faculty who fully understood the true aim of education – the development of the whole child.
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