Boys School Blog
An Educational Consultant’s Notes on South Kent School
I love going back in time at a school like South Kent. South Kent School boys live and work in a family-style, structured, boarding school community. South Kent has a powerful program that builds strong relationships between students and faculty. As each student gains new friendships, respect for each other, and academic confidence, he gains [...]
Read MoreGrand River Academy Students Appreciate the Snow
WEWS-TV covered Grand River Academy boys in news segment last Tuesday. The quick piece covered the ways boarders adapt and appreciate snow. For some students it’s their first snow; for others, snow is old hat. The Grand River boys were doing what all the boarders I’ve ever known do. Making the best of fresh snow [...]
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant’s Notes of The Woodhall School
The Woodhall School has unique boys that are uncovering their potential in a very family-like, intimate traditional boarding school in a rural setting (Bethlehem, CT). Woodhall’s approaches and programs feature great flexibility; each person on campus has a story to tell. The school builds a very safe environment in which everyone is accepted for who [...]
Read MoreA Pendulum Too Far: Is it time to pay attention to boys education?
Lisa Wolfe published a thoughtful musing on the current state of boys education over at The Daily Beast, “Boys’ Self Esteem Problems.” She begins, interestingly, with a question posited by a colleague of mine about 20 years ago. We had been sitting through faculty meetings, over a few years, with topic-after-topic, idea-after-idea, and speaker-after-speaker covering [...]
Read MoreThree Under 23K: Subiaco Academy, St. Bernard Prep, Houghton Academy
Talking about boarding school bargains is something of an oxymoron. How can a $23,000, or less, annual tuition for a high school education be construed as a bargain? Easily, in light of the fact that traditional boarding school tuition runs about $42,500. Easily, in light of the lasting affects that a sound boarding school education [...]
Read MoreLocal Players Find Opportunity in Blue Ridge School Football
The annual rivalry between Blue Ridge School and St. Anne’s-Belfield School earned a storyline on NBC affiliate WVIR this past Thursday (Albermarle Natives Lead Blue Ridge Football). Blue Ridge features three local Albermarle players leading the team Cameron Anderson, Mayn Francisco, and Andre Roberts. Blue Ridge coach Del Smith describes them as “program type players.” [...]
Read MoreEthel Walker School Celebrates 100 Years
The 2010-2011 academic year marks 100 years of girls eduction at Ethel Walker School. The opening chapel service featured reflections designed to make the community cognizant of the special place Ethel Walker holds in the hearts and minds of its faculty and alumni, but also the value that girls education and girls schools bring to [...]
Read MoreLiving and Working the World’s Fiercest Negotiators: Our Kids
Last week, we shared opening of boarding school thoughts for students from Episcopal High School dean, Kevin Soja. Today, we look at the opening of school through the eternal parental quest- meaning what we say and following through when we say ‘no’. We (parents/guardian of adolescents and their teachers) live and work with the world’s [...]
Read MoreFork Union Alum Anthony Castonzo Distinguishes Himself On and Off the Field
Anthony Costonzo gave up one sack last year- a play during the Boston College Eagles 31-13 loss to North Carolina. A consumate left tackle, Castonzo can beak down his technique and tell you exactly what he did wrong on the play: “I can run it over and over…I know exactly what I did. I stopped [...]
Read MoreAn Appreciation of All Girls Education
As great supporters of single gender education- girls and boys, this appreciation of her girls school experience was a nice find. At Mommy CEO, Sabrina Parsons has written a post exploring how her Castilleja School experiences shaped her and contribute to her success (Girls’ School Graduates Have and Edge). She touches on much of the [...]
Read MoreThe Academic+Athletic Post Graduate Student Combination Done Right
It’s no secret that the grade improving, transcript burnishing, transcript mills that work to qualify students for NCAA division I athletic programs have been newsmakers of late. The stories leave us all shaking our heads at the complicity and willful ignorance of coaches and schools. On the flip side, competitive men’s basketball and football teams [...]
Read MoreHargrave President Wheeler Baker Leaves Great Legacy as He Plans to Retire
Hargrave Military Academy President Wheeler Baker recently announced his July 2011 retirement date. He is Hargrave’s eighth president dating from the school’s 1909 founding. Hargrave grew and built a solid foundation for the future during Baker’s tenure. Under his direction, Hargrave built its educational technology infrastructure, opened the Gen. Colin Powell Center for Leadership and [...]
Read MoreCatching up on Avon Old Farms: A Quick Minute with an Associate Director of Admission
Yesterday I spoke with a group of private school administrators about how admission offices can fold social media into their outreach to build stronger relationships with families. The session (part of a mid-week conference hosted by Finalsite), took place on the campus of Avon Old Farms School- an all-boys boarding schools; grades 9-12, PG in [...]
Read MoreA Few Athletic Stories to Close the Year
With graduation has provided a spate of stories about boarding school athletes and their achievements. Spanning basketball, football, and baseball- the affects, strengths, and lessons of a boarding education runs through the four pieces. The stories also cover some time and history covering the current status of athletes looking beyond their boarding schools and and [...]
Read MoreShowcasing the 2010 Green Cup Challenge Video Entries
As big fans of the Green Schools Alliance‘s Green Cup Challenge and promoters of boarding schools, we collected the boarding school entries to the 2010 Green Cup Challenge video contest and made them available on our Boarding School Videos blog. Here you can see how boarding schools participate in the Green Cup Challenge. Like our own [...]
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