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.
January Teaching Boys Conference Recap
The Heights Forum welcomed nearly 100 men and women from eighteen states to a two-and-a-half-day conference dedicated to exploring what it means—both in theory and, more importantly, in practice—to educate boys according to their nature. Participants gathered for an immersive program that included lectures, discussions, and classroom observations. The conference opened Wednesday evening at the Bolger Center with a welcome reception and a headmaster’s lecture by Alvaro de Vicente, followed by a group dinner. Thursday’s programming paired semi-plenary lectures with small-group discussions. Andrew Reed, Head of Middle School, explored Freedom...
Frantic Families: Three Questions for a More Intentional Life
Featuring Kevin Twomey
Kevin Twomey is a husband, father, and a principal consultant at Table Group, founded by Patrick Lencioni, which specializes in helping executive teams build a healthy operational work culture. Lencioni’s book, The Three Big Questions, brings that same expertise to bear on the modern frantic family: helping parents find their family identity, create intentional priorities, and live with more order and purpose. Chapters: 4:01 Typical family operations 9:09 Frantic families in a frantic world 14:36 What makes your family unique? 21:57 Parent leadership 26:02 What is your family’s top priority...
In Defense of Wasting Time
By Alvaro de Vicente
Professional and vocational work requires practice and the building up of good habits; but so does our leisure. In his latest article, Alvaro de Vicente defends the disappearing art of wasting time.
A Review of The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Dr. Christine Rosen
By Robert Greving
It’s been said that reading a translation is like kissing your wife through a handkerchief. What comes between changes the experience; something is lost. Today, as technology increasingly “mediates” our experiences, we are losing something too—perhaps our humanity. This is the argument of Dr. Christine Rosen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, in her book The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World. Experiences are direct contacts between our human nature—our bodies, minds, emotions, and perceptions—and reality. Technology (and our desire for ease, comfort, and safety)...