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Comment on 21 Things I Want My Kids To Do This Summer by Lora Kight

Lora Kight — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:51:02 +0000

I LOVED this post. Can’t wait for summer!

Comment on Remembering the Importance of Resilience by Remembering the Importance of Resilience « Toward Wide-Awakeness

Remembering the Importance of Resilience « Toward Wide-Awakeness — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:40:31 +0000

[...] This was my final contribution to Trinity This Week, the School’s weekly publication which highlights “Notes from the Administrative Leadership Team” in the form of a short blog post on a weekly basis. The original post is on the Trinity site and can be found here. [...]

Comment on Remembering the Importance of Resilience by Megan

Megan — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:32:24 +0000

Maryellen and Kay — thank you for your kind words! I will be forever grateful to Trinity and the incredible teachers and staff who helped untangle the many things in my own elementary life! What a blessing to be a part of the TS community — as a student and now as an adult!

Comment on Remembering the Importance of Resilience by Kay F Johnson

Kay F Johnson — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:46:45 +0000

Megan-
I love this! I have vivid memories of my mother doing the same thing to my “rat’s nest”, as she used to call it. The analogy to our children learning through mistakes and failures is timeless and spot on! Thank you for your love and dedication to our sweet Trinity School. We will miss you but wish you the very best!

Comment on Remembering the Importance of Resilience by Maryellen Berry

Maryellen Berry — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:33:10 +0000

What a lovely reminder to us all that growth includes bumps and tangles – and the loving care of those around us – parents and teachers – untangle the knots along the way.

Comment on Where Do Ideas Come From? by CHANGEd 60-60-60: CHILD-CENTERED « Toward Wide-Awakeness

CHANGEd 60-60-60: CHILD-CENTERED « Toward Wide-Awakeness — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:59:16 +0000

[...] Head of School, Stephen Kennedy recently shared his thoughts in a post titled Where do Ideas Come From? It’s a bit of a plug for our upcoming parent (and community) education event, but it’s [...]

Comment on Where Do Ideas Come From? by Margaret Motley

Margaret Motley — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:56:48 +0000

Thank you Stephen for your ever-thought-provoking insights. Please pursue the post-retirement writing!
Gwen Cleghorn taught me to write in high school, and one of her mantras was that “There’s nothing new under the sun.” What weight that statement carries. Every day I am faced with the challenge of remembering how simple life really can be, yet we are the ones who complicate it all. Just watching toddlers these days who approach a screen of any kind will poke at it to make something happen — how simple! I am so thankful for the folks out there who look at the “old things” under the sun in a whole new way. Technology has trudged through plug-in keyboards, “if then” statements, system-wide crashes to reach this point of facility. We should rejoice in the beauty of it all, yet instead we too often complain of shortcomings. As parents, caregivers, and educators, we cannot afford to fear the new ways of looking at things. Because after all, they are just the “old things” that we’ve always known; they just need a little poke sometimes.

Comment on Founder’s Day by Weekly Learning Links 2.19.12 | Teaching & Learning at Trinity

Weekly Learning Links 2.19.12 | Teaching & Learning at Trinity — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:28:58 +0000

[...] 27, Trinity School will celebrate Founder’s Day and sixty years of child-centered education. Maryellen’s beautiful reflection in last Thursday’s TTW is a must-read. Her words about Allison Williams and the founding of Trinity School are [...]

Comment on A Poppy-Inspired New Year by Kay F Johnson

Kay F Johnson — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:07:30 +0000

Wow! Just the attitude and perspective we’ve been talking about in our family! We had a wonderful, family-filled holiday and now, as the new year dawns, with its busy-ness and bills, we are discussing how a positive, eternal (big picture) perspective can help us deal with frustrations and hurts, big and small.
Thank you, Stephen, for sharing Poppy’s lessons and legacy with us!

Comment on A Poppy-Inspired New Year by Maryellen Berry

Maryellen Berry — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:26:53 +0000

What an incredible legacy Poppy has left in his daughter and in his grandchildren. I am touched by this article that focuses on the perspective we can choose to take. Our attitude is one of choice and not one of circumstance. I will choose to give a Coke to someone today. Thanks, Stephen.