Leadership Lab: The Power of Public Service
Working in small groups, students identified pending public policy issues that had meaning for them personally. This was the...
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Kate Parker-Burgard
Director of Community Connections

St. Luke's First Social Justice Leadership Summit for Parents
The students—veterans of the St. Luke’s student Social Justice Leadership Summit—set the stage for us. Their videotaped images...
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Kate Parker-Burgard
Director of Community Connections

How Not To Lose Your Mind (Or Morals) Over College Admissions
Just a few days after the FBI arrested fifty people in the college admissions bribery scandal, Harvard University’s Making...
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Liz Perry
Assistant Head of School for Academics

Launching Young Children into a Lifetime Love of Learning
I am always asking myself, our faculty, and families the same question: How can we best support our children as they grow and...
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Amber Berry
Former Head of Middle School

Student Leadership: I Am Black
“That was really courageous,” said one of my advisees as we gathered after Raven Sead’s Meditation. Raven, an 11th-grade...
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Kate Parker-Burgard
Director of Community Connections

Student Leadership: What's Holding You Back?
David Pakman's Lunch & Lead
We’ve had many fascinating Lunch & Lead speakers but never one who had us lay face down on the...
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Kate Parker-Burgard
Director of Community Connections

The Heroic Leadership of MLK
As an American History teacher, I’ve always been deeply interested in stories of human liberty. And it is in the quest for...
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Dr. Jason Haynes
History Chair

Teaching Emotional Intelligence
In his groundbreaking book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes a key set of abilities and characteristics central...
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Gareth Fancher
Director of Emotional Intelligence


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