This book is a game changer! When we started reading it together in January, one of our first thoughts was, “We’ve got to read this with other parents at Ambleside!” So here we are, eight months later. In this short book, Justin Whitmel Earley taps into the heart-shaping power of habit and applies a wide […]

Yes, indeed, it is. We are off to a tremendous start– my 11th as principal– and I am still so grateful for this place and the people it draws. The above expression (title of the article) is our working definition of joy, and it can be often overhead on our campuses and in our classrooms. […]

One by one the middle schoolers loaded into vehicles to take an overnight trip to Lake  Swan.  As a parent chaperone, I remembered when my now 8th grader took her first Lake Swan trip two years ago. The same giggly excitement she had the night before back then was repeated two years later.  When we […]

My children and I were walking up to the Lively House recently one morning when we noticed a large hawk land at the top of a nearby oak tree.  My son excitedly pointed it out to his bird-loving friend.  Soon, a large group of kindergarten through second graders were all standing together on the playground […]

Surely national history is sufficient! Why learn the history of ancient Rome, Europe, and Asia? In this modern era shouldn’t we solely focus on advancement of the future and disregard the unchangeable past? Surprisingly, what we discover amazes us. Time, location, dress, technology, ideology, and culture may alter, but character- the basic core of humanity, […]