Multi-faceted Refractions

Each fall, Beliot College releases its Mindset List. This list provides reminders, culturally, to what the incoming freshmen class have experienced in their lives. It is a wonderful reminder of how things have continued to change. You can access the full list at http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2015/, but here are the handful of my favorites from their list of 75 [...]

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Last Friday, we received our certificate of occupancy for our newly transformed high school. Faculty are beginning to arrive on campus to unpack their belongings into the new space. I am very excited about working in this space this upcoming year. The space, designed by Trung Le of OWPP is centered around collaboration and increasing [...]

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Today marked the end of an era at the North Shore Country Day School. After 12 years of faithful service, our help desk manager, Lori Brennan spent her last day at North Shore. A help desk manager is the first person that a user in crisis first contacts, whether it is a kindergartener trying to [...]

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Two weeks from tomorrow, our 2011-12 academic year will begin once again. In addition to classes and partnering with students and faculty, this will mean a series of meetings. Don’t get me wrong, it is essential to get groups of folks together so that progress can be made towards shared goals and initiative, but for [...]

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Yesterday, I returned home from a family vacation. 2000 miles, just the four of us. As I return home and begin to plug back into work and the network, I am realizing the benefits of a virtually technology-free time away from the daily grind. Unplugging allowed my thoughts to wander. After the first two days [...]

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