What I’ve Learned at Sudbury Schools
After sixteen years at Evergreen Sudbury School in Maine and Fairhaven School in Maryland, I retired in June. It was time to go and I have exciting plans, but leaving was hard. (And I hope to be back now and
A Happy-Ending Story
I recently spent an hour explaining the Fairhaven/Sudbury model to a relative and friend, whose brilliant, unusual son is dealing with a public school system that expects normalcy, appropriateness, passivity, and neutrality from its students. I was reminded of how
From The Parent Of A 2009 Graduate
I can’t begin to express what Fairhaven has meant to our family and to Robbie’s success in finding out who he is and how he wants to interact with the world. As you may know, he was a defiant, rebellious,
My Building Blocks for Life (2009 Thesis #7)
(Fairhaven School has just graduated seven students. As a way to celebrate the class of 2009, over the next month, we will be posting the theses that they successfully defended. Below is a brief description outlining how somebody earns a
Making My Mark (2009 Thesis #6)
(Fairhaven School has just graduated seven students. As a way to celebrate the class of 2009, over the next month, we will be posting the theses that they successfully defended. Below is a brief description outlining how somebody earns a
The Paths of Explorations Leading, Shall Lead ( 2009 Thesis #5)
(Fairhaven School has just graduated seven students. As a way to celebrate the class of 2009, over the next month, we will be posting the theses that they successfully defended. Below is a brief description outlining how somebody earns a
Fairhaven School Thesis #4, 2009
(Fairhaven School has just graduated seven students. As a way to celebrate the class of 2009, over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting the theses that they successfully defended. Below is a brief description outlining how somebody
A Firm Foundation For The Building Blocks Of My Success (2009 Thesis #3)
(Fairhaven School has just graduated seven students. As a way to celebrate the class of 2009, over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting the theses that they successfully defended. Below is a brief description outlining how somebody
Talking in the Quiet Room (2009 Thesis #2)
Fairhaven School has just graduated seven students. As a way to celebrate the class of 2009, over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting the theses that they successfully defended. Below is a brief description outlining how somebody
Taking On The World (2009 Thesis #1)
Fairhaven School has just graduated seven students. As a way to celebrate the class of 2009, over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting the theses that they successfully defended. Below is a brief description outlining how somebody
What I’ll Miss The Most
WHAT I’LL MISS THE MOST A Graduation Poem by Zoë Woodbridge 4:50 – that magic number Each day we hear the page echo through both buildings telling us it’s time to go. We grab our lunches, backpacks, art projects or
"A Certain Kind of Matrix or Fabric or Foundation of Childhood"
It is indeed May here on campus. Just last week students found a toad, a skink, and a worm snake- all in one day. After a week of cool spring rains, it was as if all the reptiles and and
