As our year winds down, we are already looking ahead to the next one. One of the exciting things about being a small independent school is that we don’t have to do it the way everyone else does. We can find a different way. That is why our students are here in the first place. And […]
accentuating the positive
A parent called me last month about the possibility of her son attending JRA. He was being counseled out of his current private school, and she was feeling quite nervous. Her concerns were all legitimate: he’d be devastated to leave his group of friends, and we were SO small compared to where he’d been. And […]
Structure without rigidity
We have just finished our first week of school and it’s been great. I’ve never seen kids so determined to succeed. They are funny, bright and want desperately for this to be the place that works. We’ve tried to stack the deck in their favor. Each child visited at least twice this summer and met […]
