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.
Struggling in Math: Where Digital Tools Can Assist in Academic Virtue
Featuring Dave Maxham
An extremely practical guide to the best digital resources out there and how to use them effectively.
Thomas Merton: Wide-Awake in the World
By Michael Ortiz
The real is a closely woven fabric. —Maurice Merleau-Ponty In the fascinating life of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), we can see a biographical arc intertwining many themes and realities, traditional and modern. As a young adult, Merton was fairly typical of an intellectually-inclined college student in the first half of the twentieth century, but in his later vocation as a Trappist monk, he was deeply formed in the pre-modern outlook of the Cistercian order. Even then, he was conscious to a high degree of the prestige of the literary profession that...
Newman and his Idea of a School featuring Dr. Paul Shrimpton
Featuring Dr. Paul Shrimpton
You may know The Idea of a University, but fewer have heard about St. John Henry Newman's extensive efforts in primary and secondary education.
Boy-Girl Socializing: Fostering Healthy Peer Groups
Featuring Alvaro de Vicente
Alvaro de Vicente speaks to the different roles of families and schools in building up healthy, mixed-gender peer groups for teens.