Our Mission
The Heights Forum is a department of The Heights School. We assist parents, school leaders, and teachers in their own efforts to educate boys into men fully alive. Through in-person and digital resources we share our experience in forming the hearts and minds of boys, and invite you to join the conversation.
Educating Boys: Nature, Risk, and the Making of Men
By Dr. Joseph Lanzilotti
In order to thrive, boys need teachers and parents to give them the freedom to act out their natural need for physical play.
The Father as a Guide to the World
Featuring Michael Moynihan
At the Fatherhood Conference, Michael Moynihan shared how a father’s parenting outlook now will shape his son’s vocational and professional readiness as an adult.
Trust Your Gut
By Alvaro de Vicente
Experienced parents know that reality is always more complex than rigid paradigms can capture. Decisions on the ground are a mix of principles, common sense, and God’s guiding grace. So, trust your gut.
Go Fly a Kite: On Growing Up Without Growing Old
By Elias Naegele
Every Thursday morning, the teachers of the Valley gather for a weekly meeting that is low in procedural fluff and high in substance – that is to say, rather than talking about nothing to accomplish nothing, we may read an essay or short story (Edward Abbey’s polemic from Desert Solitaire, Fr. James Schall on grades, Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture, to name a few) or chew on some poetry alongside bagels and coffee. One such morning last school year, we read and discussed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “My Lost...