This past Saturday morning, while working at Café on the Park at the Wheaton Public Library, I saw my freshman English teacher from college.  I had recently gone through my old college files, and I had intentionally looked at my essays and papers from Ms. Hecht’s English and Composition class.  I

The other day I was on the phone as I arrived at school, and I waited in my car in the parking lot until the conversation was over.  All of the sudden a gold finch (the state bird of Washington!) landed on a shrub just outside my car.  I was so happy.  They are somewhat rare here in Illinois, but as

From Stratford Caldecott's, Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education: "The modern mistake about freedom...is that freedom has nothing to do with truth.  We imagine that the more choices we have, the freer we are.  In reality, a multitude of choices makes us no freer than we were

At the classical Christian school where I work, we are constantly looking for new ways to increase enrollment in healthy ways.  We do this by maintaining those students who currently attend, and bringing in new families.  Over the past 2 or 3 years we've improved our retention of families, but one