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.
The Teacher’s Voice
Featuring Tom Steenson
Volume, pitch, pace, tone, inflection: the human voice is our primary teaching instrument, one that comes with enormous advantages.
The Role of Parents in the Conspiracy for the Good
Featuring Alvaro de Vicente
When we join a school community, it should be to join forces—with teachers, administrators, and other families.
Automaticity and Creativity
By Dave Maxham
Increase and multiply! The Heights motto, Crescite, is taken from this scriptural exhortation. In it, we see two distinct ways in which there can be more of something. A tree, for instance, increases by getting bigger, but it multiplies by producing more trees. This distinction is at root the difference between “much” and “many,” “quotity” and “quantity,” etc. If we intend to learn—that is, to have more knowledge—then we can do that by learning more about the subjects we already in some sense know or by seeking out new yet...
Educating Leaders with Thomas More
Featuring Stephen Smith
Does a talented person have a duty to serve others? What do leading citizens really need to live well, freely, impactfully—even greatly? How do we, parents and educators, order the educational goods?