Rooted in Glen Urquhart’s mission statement, “Bring peace to your world by discovering the best within yourself,” is the theme for the 2011-12 school year. An integral part of our mission statement reads, “At Glen Urquhart School we encourage children to discover the best within themselves.”
Discovering the best within ourselves is a journey that begins [...]
In preparing for a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE), Steve Clem, Executive Director, assigned each member of the Board the task of reading and reflecting on three to five essays from the book This Will Change Everything, edited by John Brockman. The essays, [...]
The Crisis in Creativity
This past summer, Newsweek magazine produced a cover story on the crisis in creativity in the United States. (“The Creativity Crisis,” Newsweek, July 19, 2010, pp. 44-50.) One sentence in the article really caught my attention: “The age-old belief that the arts have a special claim to creativity is unfounded.” I believe [...]
“The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
Did you know that when NASA was searching for the first person to walk on the moon, the filter that became most important to them was finding people who had failed and recovered? I learned this interesting [...]
An article on the front page of the Boston Globe caught my eye this morning. Titled “Schools Caution About Pricey Teacher Gifts,” it was about the fact that several public school officials have recently written parents to caution them about “going overboard with gift-giving to teachers.” New legislation apparently makes it illegal for [...]
Welcome to the first installment of the Head Boar’s blog, and welcome to the school’s new website. I’ve been thinking and reading a lot over the past few months about this whole business of social media, something that I suspect many of you have thought about as well. I took the step of establishing my [...]
