New Year’s Resolutions
Year 2013 is here… Never thought it would come so quickly. The year when I graduate, the year when I become an adult, the year for me. Only two years away til the day, according to Back to the Future,...
View ArticleHow I Got Here
Thacher was the best choice of the high schools which I considered. Among the others I considered were the likes of Deerfield, Northfield Mount Hermon, Andover, Exeter etc. While looking at these other...
View ArticleMy Journey to Thacher
I grew up hearing about my dad’s boarding school exploits on a regular basis. It used to be a family joke that he’d “send us to boarding school” if we did wrong. Over the years, though, he began to...
View ArticleSour and Sweet
The last trimester of the year is a bitter-sweet time. Seniors are choosing colleges and senior exhibition weekend is coming up, however, we all feel a bit melancholy as graduation approaches....
View ArticleDecisive Moments in History
This trimester, I started a new class called Decisive Moments in U.S. History. I have never taken a class like it before or even imagined that there could be one in this fashion. A group of teachers...
View ArticleAlmost Summer
I write this in the midst of the end of year blur found at Thacher. The last week is filled with finals, fun, packing, goodbyes and events with little time to spare. I can’t believe the year is drawing...
View ArticleHabitat and habits
Are those mountain lion prints? Pre-dawn, and I'm hiking the Forest Cooke solo. My dog won't go with me anymore, since her best canine buddy dropped out of the picture last June. Karleanne isn't here...
View ArticleSenior Fall and Dance Class
It is an unusually cloudy day here in Ojai– kind of refreshing after all that heat. Senior fall has been progressing very fast. One of my favorite parts so far has been my dance class. Our primary...
View ArticleWorld War I in the classroom, through the archives, and on stage
Students in the 10th Grade European history course recently wrapped up their study of World War I. The unit highlighted best practices in education including differentiated instruction and project...
View ArticleAp Gov’t Articles
This past week in my AP US government and politics class, we each wrote a political article, about any subject conceivably related to government or our political system. We spent a few class days and...
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