The story is told of a man who found a chrysalis. He hung it up and watched it eagerly. Finally the time came for the butterfly to emerge. It struggled mightily to free itself from the hole in a process that took hours. Then it stopped and seemed to be able to go no further. […]
A wise man’s solution
One of the greatest gifts Wright School gave me is a unit coordinator who told me stories. I stop in from time to time to hear a new one. On my recent visit, Pete didn’t disappoint and had a new story waiting. It’s about a tired man who has walked around barefooted for many years. […]
Creating peace
Each month at JRA we have a unit study in social studies. We began with ancient Egypt, then ancient Greece, the Vikings, and Old Testament stories. Next month we will study Japan. And this month we are studying peacemakers. Many of our students are impulsive and don’t always self-edit before they speak. If our kids […]
What success looks like
Sometimes what looks like a child with severe problems is actually just a child who needs a different environment. Here is the first in a series of posts about students and their successes. This article was written with parental permission and input. R. came to us after unsuccessful experiences in both public and private schools. […]
Loving the sense of history
Today when I pulled up to the school there were lots of cars parked by the auditorium. I went inside to find about twenty senior citizens, all former Murphey School students. A free-lance writer had invited them for a tour as part of a Chapel Hill Herald story he was doing on the building. They had […]
