Fairhaven School Slideshow
http://youtu.be/qgdudBYOKgg A slideshow of Fairhaven School presented at the Greenfest during October 2009.
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The Play's The Thing
Like any good theater project, Fairhaven’s recent outdoor production of MacBeth proclaimed its merits on many levels. Student actors, crew, and sound all executed their jobs with distinction. Fulfilling the doomed Scottish king’s prophecy–Blood…there will be blood–oh, yes, there was…
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What Are We Teaching These Kids?
I recently had the great honor of directing a play at Fairhaven. Many know that theatre is very near and dear to my heart. I formally taught it in the public schools for many years. Throughout my time there, I…
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All In Favor Of Honesty?
“She wouldn’t play with me, even after I asked her!” She’s young and she’s upset. Her friends at school console her in the stairwell when she cries about the incident. Staff members, including me, check in, see she’s upset but…
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The Shapes Of Thoughts: Field Notes From The First Month
How does a mind grow? How does a person become a person? Sometimes the best measures are collages, as thoughts take shape before our eyes. In no particular order, then, here are some things we’ve seen and heard in this,…
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Another Year Of Civility
When Congressman Wilson of South Carolina shouted “You lie” during President Obama’s speech the other night, it became yet another example of the coarsening of the political dialogue in the nation. What’s become of civility? Picture, if you will, a…
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And We Could Talk To Water
Welcome back to Fairhaven! As we begin our twelfth year, we give thanks for the opportunity to provide young people a unique educational environment, a place where freedom meets responsibility. Sometimes we marvel at the contrast between the light-filled experience…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
