My Life’s An Open Book: Hattie
Someone asked me the other day what I’ve been reading lately. I realized, with something close to shock, that I haven’t read anything since…
Students win S.A.F.E. prize
For a 5½-year-old boy, that’s about as good as it gets,” said Kate Squire of Oak Hill Road about her son Will’s recent adventure…
Beyond the graves in the town’s cemeteries
I dare you! ‘Fraidy cat! Cluck, cluck, chicken! I double dare you! It’s a rite of passage: walk through a cemetery all alone in…
Then and now: Harvard’s elementary school—practices and philosophies (Part 2)
Those students who protested in the first year of MCAS had predecessors in 1868: According to that year’s report: “Almost all the large boys…
My Life’s an Open Book: The second time around
I didn’t open it for three months. What was I waiting for? I guess I was putting off the possibility that it wouldn’t live…
Then and now: Harvard’s elementary school—practices and philosophies (Part 1)
Perhaps no profession can better lay claim to the “swinging pendulum” than that of education.…
Unitarian Church kicks off capital campaign for new fellowship building
This coming Sunday the Harvard Unitarian Universalist Church will kick off its “Building for Fellowship” campaign, a fundraiser chaired by Susie Macrae and Cary…
My Life’s an Open Book: Curbing a habit
I spent much of the summer trying to curb a habit—actually, it was more like curing an addiction. For years, whenever I ran out…
Elementary education has seen many Harvard venues
If you were to ask a 10-year-old Harvard child today what school he or she goes to, you would most likely get one answer:…
My Life’s an Open Book: Summer romance
As a teacher, I looked forward to summer because that was when I had time to pursue a romance. I wanted it to be…
