February 13, 2012
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
On Saturday morning I was privileged to have been invited to attend a St. Luke’s student’s Bat Mitzvah service at Temple Beth El. It was a very moving service that marked the moment when, in Jewish law, the child becomes morally responsible for their own actions. This rite of passage was celebrated with great love, kindness and humor, and I was so proud of the speech that our St. Luke’s student gave to the congregation.
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Saturday, February 4th was quite a day for our middle school students and parents. Three of our basketball teams reached the championships: Boys A, Girls A and 6th grade boys. Games were scheduled concurrently and back-to-back across the city, and whilst cheering furiously at one game, we were all texting equally furiously to check on the scores in the other competitions.
January 17, 2012
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
We are excited to announce new details about the 1-to-1 laptop program that St. Luke’s will begin when school opens in August 2012.
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January 11, 2012
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
One of the most important questions that a teacher must ask of themselves is: “What have my students learned?” Hour by hour, often minute-by-minute, good teachers assess how well their students are mastering skills and content.
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January 5, 2012
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
As many of you know, Mimi March, a beloved teacher who taught at St. Luke’s for twenty years, has been battling cancer for the last 18 months. I wanted to share with you the message that her family posted on their Caring Bridge yesterday.
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November 15, 2011
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
I want to let you know about a very important curricular decision that the school has made regarding the role of technology and digital learning in our program.
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November 7, 2011
The 2011-2012 school year is off to a great start!
Our inspiring faculty work hard every day to offer our students the finest education in San Antonio. Through daily chapel, creative enrichment programs and quality, one-on-one interaction with teachers, St. Luke’s instills in our children the characteristics of life-long scholarship, dedicated citizenship and confident leadership essential to the development of outstanding and successful young men and women.
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October 25, 2011
What are some concrete measures of student learning? Multiple-choice tests have their place, but in many ways the best education is a long conversation, in which a series of observant teachers lead their charges on a journey through many intellectual and imaginative worlds. At our grade levels, what do those teachers listen for, what questions do they ask, as they converse with their students?
October 7, 2011
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens’ novel about the unspeakable horrors of the French Revolution, has one of the most memorable opening sentences in literature:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity…”
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September 23, 2011
Dear St. Luke’s Community,
I began to talk last week about the complexity of measuring learning
in a school. That is particularly the case for a faith-based school
like St. Luke’s, for our mission is not limited to narrow academic
goals:
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September 22, 2011
Dear Parents,
I have been thinking a great deal recently about one question in particular: how does an institution grow and thrive? It is a natural question to preoccupy a new Head of School, for at bottom that question takes us to the essence of our stewardship.
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September 16, 2011
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
This summer the school administration asked itself a question: at St. Luke’s, how do we measure student learning? Over the coming months I will take up this question.
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September 9th, 2011 – Parents’ Night of Classes
Dear Parents,
As Head of School, it is of course my job to toot our horn about what a wonderful education we provide to our students. And we all know what a special place this is.
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August 31, 2011
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
So the endless days of summer are behind us, August’s heat is but a memory, pools are getting chilly, and little shivering hands reach for the fleece at night upon the porch…
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August 21, 2011
Dear St. Luke’s Families,
Welcome to the new school year. Your teachers are ready and waiting: rooms are decorated, lessons are planned, the sports teams are already training…
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