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.
Teaching with Body Language: How Movement Shapes Learning
Featuring Joseph Bissex
Being attentive to body language strengthens your teaching and your students’ comprehension.
Rising to the Challenge: Resolutions of an AI Task Force
Featuring Mark Grannis, Michael Moynihan
Two upper school faculty share takeaways after months of research and group discussion around AI and education.
Claude Has Called Our Bluff
By Joseph Bissex
Too many students think school is just about getting those ink blots on that piece of paper. If AI does it for them more efficiently, have they not achieved success?
Faith and Poetry: A Symphonic Unity
By Michael Ortiz
I don’t want to turn this into a lecture, because it’s not in a lecture that I discovered how much I loved poetry. The world I enjoyed as a boy was suburban—south of Boston—but somehow enchanted. Leafy backyards became whole forests, neighborhood parks battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War. My family’s summer vacations in Maine glitter in my mind; I can still feel the cold waves wash over me, see the tall pines on the rocky coast. In the delicacy and ruggedness of its natural beauty and people, Maine itself is...