Welcome to my monthly blog, your exclusive insight into the heartbeat of our community and our commitment to educating gifted students. Through my lens as Head of School, I'm thrilled to share this journey with you.
On the first Monday of each month, join me as we explore the forefront of educational excellence, celebrate diversity, and offer a glimpse into the extraordinary world of Roeper. As we delve into these topics and others, expect to witness Roeper's leadership in gifted education and our students' potential as future change makers.
I take it that the aim of education is not to gain more and more detailed knowledge of the world but to understand the world and ourselves in it. If we split the world up in order to gain detailed knowledge of it, at some point we have to put it together again in order to understand it.
Just before the Thanksgiving break, I had the opportunity to attend the annual conference of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) in Seattle, Washington.
In leading professional development workshops, I have often given groups of teachers and administrators a crayon or a chisel-point marker and asked them to draw a picture of someone or something across the table.