Now that I have a 2-year-old daughter, I'm much more sensitive to finding a school that strikes the perfect balance. Well, I have found it and it was right under my nose.
What I want for my daughter is a school that is warm and caring that will take on the role of parent while my wife and I are away. I don't want a school that gives you the Heisman at drop off and pick up, nor a school that's going to baby her to where she's dependent upon people for everything.
Yet, at the same time I would like this school to prepare her for what is to come. We live in a world where the gap between what is and what is to come is almost non-existent because it's already here.
Christ Episcopal School, where I work any my daughter attends, created a program in conjunction John's Hopkins University's Center for Technology in Education called LIFT: Learning Integration For Tomorrow. What LIFT does in a nutshell is it teaches students in the same fashion they would learn on the job: collaborating, experiencing and creatively problem-solving.
Hey, if she can memorize the Periodic Table that's great, but if she can organize a group of fellow 6th graders and plan a class trip to Costa Rica for 5 days, that's amazing!
