Wisdom of The Willows Blog

Welcome Back Willows! We hope that you had an enjoyable summer full of rest and relaxation and are ready for the start of school next week! Before you know it, we’ll be fully immersed in academics, athletics, and the arts, so take a moment now to establish a plan for the upcoming year.

The school-wide theme for the 2023/24 year is Strength. Throughout the school year, we will consider Strength in curriculum and community, investigating how each of us can adopt healthy mental, emotional, and physical ideas of strength.

As any Willows teacher will tell you, they assume numerous roles to successfully lead their students through an entire school day, inspiring and...

The Willows curriculum, based in part on the principles of experiential learning, offers engaging, hands-on approaches to bring learning to life for...

Few skills, if any, are more fundamental to early childhood education than reading. The American Academy of Pediatrics affirms this sharing that “reading regularly...

Preparing students for the future remains the principal purpose of a child’s school career, even as curricula and educational practices evolve. Teachers and...

Looping, the practice of keeping the same students and teacher together in a class as they move through to the next grade level, is implemented...

In what ways do you observe or feel Impact?

You might think of the impact you have had on someone, whether that be family, a friend, or someone...

With the new school year drawing closer, the natural approach for many is to anticipate what set of changes and challenges may arise in the near...

As the school year winds down, it’s important we all take time to reflect on the year. So many of us get consumed in the daily grind that we often forget to intentionally...

For many of us, we use these two words interchangeably. However, there’s a major difference between the two. What’s the difference...

For teachers, one of the best tools in solidifying concepts and tying together classroom learning is through real-world experiences such as field trips. Whether it be a local trip...

Conversations are incredibly important. It’s a pivotal component in communicating our thoughts, opinions, and emotions to one another. It’s our way of communicating...

This past fall in art class, students learned about cranes and their cultural significance around the world. In Japan, origami cranes are symbols of hope and peace. An old Japanese folktale...

What does a Willows’ music teacher, one hundred Willows students, and four Willows’ alums have in common? A duck astronaut.

This piece is about collaboration...

As our world becomes more digital and automated, the skills we teach our students need to be tailored to the future careers when our students graduate into the work force. Many of those positions...

Stress is a part of life and always will be. There’s no way to avoid it. Our minds are constantly processing, sometimes at speeds faster than we’d like. Often our thoughts compete with one...

It’s Friday after lunch and there’s a lot of buzz and shuffling happening in the middle school hallways. Students are swapping out their lunch boxes for the supplies...

With the last 18 months being extremely difficult for many families and it’s very easy for parents to think about the educational and developmental losses...

At The Willows, we believe each child brings our community an extraordinary gift: a curious mind, ready to explore, and eager to learn. We believe that in order to allow our children to grow into lifelong...