Wise Insights

I’ve always loved stories, especially biographies and memoirs. In elementary and middle school, I always seemed to have my nose in a book about a famous person. It wasn’t unusual for me to be called... Read more

What Education means to me has a great deal to do with relationships. When I look back at the influential people that have taught, guided, and nurtured my learning, the process began early. The teachers,... Read more

It’s 2am and I’m twenty miles out to sea. It’s my shift so I’m alone in the wheelhouse lit only by the instruments on the helm and staring out at the black sky. If I’m lucky, there’s a moon lighting... Read more

Amidst the distracted haze which served as my 9th grade, I remember religiously taking notes about the House of Tudor for Mr. Topka’s History class since he would run out with us at recess and quarterback... Read more

It was a love of literature that brought me to education. I was a freshman at the University of CT, following a path to become a physical therapist. Along with a heavy load of science courses, I also... Read more

Education, to me, is life itself, like breathing, and I realize that it usually involves meaningful questions. It certainly doesn’t exist solely, or even primarily, in a classroom. I remember someone... Read more

My early educational experiences were remarkably typical for the early 1970s - the baby boom had ended, and public schools everywhere were closing due to low enrollment. Throughout elementary school,... Read more

Anyone who has a big sister can probably relate. As a little kid, I looked up to my sister and assumed that anything she said was gospel. So when faced with the choice of where to go to prep school,... Read more

I grew up an only child, always extremely aware of the microscope through which my parents constantly observed me. Our household was clean, orderly, and calm, and perhaps as a result, I was a quiet... Read more