It’s possible that someone within the sound of my virtual voice recalls the kitchen scene in The Big Chill—although as one of my advisees informed me the other night, “My parents were hardly even born when that movie came out!” …
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Archives: Academics
What Makes Thacher Thacher
Including Some Extra-Credit Reading About What Teenagers Need When I came to interview at Thacher over a decade ago it was immediately clear to me that this was a school unlike any that I had encountered. To start with, there was …
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Gazing into the Future
Have you read our Deep Dive on Thacher’s Astronomy Program? If you haven’t, you should. It’s a great look at a model for academic work that not only requires students to take chances, make mistakes, and get dirty (see my last …
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Take Chances, Make Mistakes, and Get Messy!
My twin 7 year-olds and I have been watching old episodes of The Magic School Bus on Netflix lately. It’s an animated PBS kids show from the mid-nineties (based on a book series). It follows a class of elementary students …
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Advice on What Really Matters in the College Process
Each year the whole college process just gets more intimidating as ever more scholars throw their applications into America’s top colleges and universities. Acceptance rates now hover around 5 percent at the most elite colleges. Many applicants, as always, are …
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