I want to give some recognition and thanks to an educator, Jeffrey Benson, who is truly one of the best. If you have a chance to familiarize yourself with his work, you will find it a rejuvenating treat. We worked together years ago, and have recently reconnected when he came to work with some or […]
As a Leadership team managing the living, breathing extended community that is a moderate sized school system, we live with the reality that if you wait long enough, something bad is going to happen to someone in that community. I am neither a pessimist nor paranoid. Life contains some inevitabilities, such as death, accidents, and […]
Stoughton High School administration and guidance staff work very hard to maximize the opportunities for all students to go to college. In the last 5 years, 89% of our graduates have gone to either 2 or 4 year colleges. These are numbers to be proud of, in fact they rival prep school numbers. Other students, […]
It is generally a given that music, and other arts, reflect the life and cultural context from which they spring. Some art and artists speak to something more universal than a particular temporal context only, and those are the works that last for generations and become classics. We cherish such classics from as long ago […]
Ever since our Newcastle friends, Mike and Joanne, told us about The Last Ship, and showed us the British telecast of the concert reading of the album by Sting and some of his musical friends when we were in Newcastle in July, we had been looking forward to seeing it. When we found out that […]