Join Mr. Tom Longano for part two of his series on raising readers. He provides guidance here for refining the reading habits of two diametrically opposed categories of readers. No silver bullets, just points for consideration and reflection. Also, insights into Mr. Longano’s personal journey towards a love of reading.
“Have a great summer!” We hear it and say it incessantly, but what are we actually wishing for our boys? 21st Century America gives boys 3 months off–that is one quarter of the year and an enormous amount of time. Join Lower School Head, Colin Gleason, for a discussion of three ways that boys can fill their summer with healthy leisure and positive growth.
Can a 20 second prayer transform your day? How about your son’s? Heights teacher and author, Michael Ortiz, discusses how a century old norm of piety–the Morning Offering–allows us to renew each and every day while placing our prayers, works, joys, and sufferings on the altar. Our guest this episode is Mr. Michael Ortiz, longtime Heights teacher and recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. Michael had his children’s novel, Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare, published in 2006, and in this episode, discusses the topic…
In this episode, we talk to Mr. Tom Longano, a lower school teacher at The Heights School, about how to foster a love of reading in our sons and students. The conventional approach of commanding, exhorting, cajoling, and bribing might not be the best way.
Continuing last week’s lecture on the Moral Imagination, in this episode Mr. de Vicente turns his attention to the ways in which parents and educators can cultivate the moral imagination of their sons and students. Neither beasts nor boulders of marble, he explains how a proper approach to education must be rooted in an understanding of man’s freedom; that is, it ought to be neither mere training nor external sculpting. As the Japanese proverb goes, vision without action is a daydream; action without vision, a nightmare. If last week’s segment…
The moment that each of us was born, we stepped into what Chesterton referred to as the supreme adventure of life. To be born, he wrote, is to enter a sort of fairy tale, from which follows certain important questions. What are the rules? How does this world work? Who are the good characters and who are the bad ones? What is the plot? Most importantly, who am I in this story? In this week’s episode, we bring you the first part of a lecture delivered by Mr. Alvaro de…
Prof. Eddie Smith, former Heights faculty and long time history teacher at American University, shares a few moments with us on Frederick Douglass to prepare listeners for Saturday night’s Heights Lecture. Who was Frederick Douglass and how did he, a liberated slave, so dramatically change the course of American history? Enjoy this HeightsCast recorded in Hoban’s Pub in Washington D.C.
Athletics are many a boy’s first love. So many of our own students are passionate for sport–a transformative conglomeration of play and work, melded into one sweaty contest against others and the self. Indeed, our School has helped produce numerous Division I, II, and III athletes over the years. That said, the Washington D.C. area is leading the charge towards the continued professionalization of youth sports. Overuse injuries, club-team culture, and parental over-involvement can backfire on your attempts to instill good character in your athlete. Mr. Alex Berthe, a coach,…
This week’s HeightsCast features Mr. Tom Cox, one of the engineers of the Heights Core Humanities Sequence, who discusses the capstone 7th grade course. Our 7th graders tackle Latin and English simultaneously. How? Why? Listen in to find out. At The Heights, diagraming a sentence in two separate languages can lead to clarity of thought and the good moral life.
Mr. Joe Cardenas applies his years of experience in advisory to the tricky subject of devices.åÊ As with many things, the best way to teach good values, is to practice them ourselves.