I visited Proctor Academy this afternoon to meet with Chuck Will and learn more about his popular blog, Chuck’s Corner. We recorded a podcast interview that goes into a good bit of detail about the origins of the blog and how it has evolved over the years. I’ll post it to the site in the next day or two (Update: I posted Chuck’s Corner: The Blogging Voice of Proctor Academy. Check it out.).

Following the p’cast, Chuck took me on a tour of the campus- my first walk on the school’s grounds since I interviewed there in (gulp) 1986. The school facilities were impressive– from an environmentally rated dormitory to their Fowler Learning Center to a boat building woodshop- but my conversations with the students that we met along the way stuck out the most.

Each spoke thoughtfully about the school and the reasons why a prospective student might consider Proctor Academy. Their answers ranged from, “the school has shaped who I am as a person and what I want to be” to “the strong relationships between teachers and students.” I’ll post a video wrap up soon that features the students who took the time to chat with me (Update: you can watch the video below).

Reasons to Consider Proctor Academy from Peter Baron on Vimeo.

I snapped some photos and posted them to our Flickr account. You can check out the set below:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.