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 Art and Act of Knowing—and What It Means for Teaching
Featuring Jonathan Buttaci
A student coming to know something is not passive at all. It’s an act. And that act does not primarily belong to the teacher.
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.
The Web-Head Wins: A Review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Director Destin Daniel Cretton takes great care with the action, pacing, sets, surprises, and emotional beats of Spider-Man: Brand New Day—the kind of superhero movie we haven’t seen in the MCU for some time.