- Academics
- All-Girls Education
- Head of School
And at Westridge—from 4th grade robot dance parties, to 10th grade “History and Pizza” discussions of important historical moments, to high-level conversations about key motifs in Beloved in junior/senior Perspectives class (a class I got to teach last week)—what are all these things if not intellectual adventure in action all the time? Ideas pinging around, the space and time to practice verbal expression, the satisfying (and maybe even essential) mix of silliness with profound learning, the trust to let go and dance with robots, the trust to munch on pizza while travelling intellectually to places far and wide. This is the opposite of perfection(ism). This is adventure. And in my heart and mind, this is what girls’ schools are at their best, at their core, at their reason-for-being level.