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title: Harvard Highlights St. Luke's Curious Conversations
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# [Harvard Highlights St. Luke's Curious Conversations](https://blog.stlukesct.org/harvardcaring)

 by [Liz Perry](https://blog.stlukesct.org/author/liz-perry)

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[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. Luke's "Curious Conversations.\*" Below is our interview  featured on their blog.

\*Frequently referred to internally as Community Goals for Learning (CGL) discussions.

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 Excerpted from the [Harvard Graduate School of Education — Making Caring Common Blog:](https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/resources-for-educators/talking-across-the-aisle-at-st-lukes-school)

**Talking Across the Aisle at St. Luke's School**

Building on their commitment to engage students in activities that enable them to "talk across the aisle" as part of the [Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign](https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/high-school-campaign), [St. Luke’s School](https://www.stlukesct.org/page) has launched the “Curious Conversations” series. We connected with Elizabeth Perry, Head of the Upper School, to learn more about their program and her advice for other schools.

[Read the full interview with Liz Perry on Harvard's Making Caring Common Blog](https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/resources-for-educators/talking-across-the-aisle-at-st-lukes-school)

 

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