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title: "St. Luke's School Blog | Liz Perry: Assistant Head of School for Academics"
description: Liz Perry is St. Luke's Assistant Head of School for Academics. She chairs the Upper School Academic Council and is a member of the Equity Leadership Team and the Faculty Growth and Renewal Team. Liz empowers her team to be bold and creative as they inspire deeper, student-centered learning. Prior to joining St. Luke's in 2013, Liz taught English and was the Director of Educational Design and Innovation at The Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY, where she was the recipient of the John Reidy Award for outstanding contributions. Before that, Liz was an English teacher, working at Escola Graduada de São Paulo (the American School of São Paulo, Brazil), The Brimmer and May School in Boston, and Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Liz also serves on the faculty of the Klingenstein Center, part of Teachers College at Columbia University.
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# St. Luke's Leading Voices Blog
## Liz Perry: Assistant Head of School for Academics
Liz Perry is St. Luke's Assistant Head of School for Academics. She chairs the Upper School Academic Council and is a member of the Equity Leadership Team and the Faculty Growth and Renewal Team. Liz empowers her team to be bold and creative as they inspire deeper, student-centered learning. Prior to joining St. Luke's in 2013, Liz taught English and was the Director of Educational Design and Innovation at The Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY, where she was the recipient of the John Reidy Award for outstanding contributions. Before that, Liz was an English teacher, working at Escola Graduada de São Paulo (the American School of São Paulo, Brazil), The Brimmer and May School in Boston, and Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Liz also serves on the faculty of the Klingenstein Center, part of Teachers College at Columbia University.
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### Recent Posts
### [A Curious Talk About A Wildly Different Tool: St. Luke’s School Embraces Emerging Technologies](https://blog.stlukesct.org/curioustalk)
The New Canaan Library audience sat riveted as a conversation about using generative AI in education unfolded. Conducted by [...](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-chatgpt-ai-to-be-more-productive-2023-4)
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
### [Prepare to Thrive in High School: Four Skills to Build in Middle School](https://blog.stlukesct.org/preparetothriveinhs)
We know that students experience dramatic growth and change as they make their way through secondary school. Personal freedoms...
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
### [Hope And Courage Are Real: Celebrating MLK](https://blog.stlukesct.org/mlkhope)
Before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I always read at least some of [King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/letter-from-birmingham-jail/552461/). I often find...
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
### [Moving forward, slowly, slowly](https://blog.stlukesct.org/admissiontips-0)
Recently, I was asked,
### *What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?*
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
### [How Not To Lose Your Mind (Or Morals) Over College Admissions](https://blog.stlukesct.org/collegeadmissions)
Just a few days after the[FBI arrested fifty people](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html)in the college admissions bribery scandal, [Harvard University’s Making...](https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/home)
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
### [Teens and Sleep: Every Minute Matters](https://blog.stlukesct.org/teensandsleep)
Upper School students are arriving at St. Luke’s a bit more well-rested. Our school pushed start times for grades 9-12 back...
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
### [Harvard Highlights St. Luke's Curious Conversations](https://blog.stlukesct.org/harvardcaring)
[St. Luke's participates in Harvard's Caring Schools Campaign.](https://patch.com/connecticut/newcanaan/harvards-caring-schools-launches-st-lukes)The team at [Making Caring Common](https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/about) wanted to learn more about St....
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
### [J-Term: Where Students Become Leaders](https://blog.stlukesct.org/j-term)
When we launched the first J-Term in 2014, we considered it an experiment. We would take a few days away from the regular...
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- [*Liz Perry*](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)
Assistant Head of School for Academics
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