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Lower School News Archive

2024

  • March

    Assistant Director of the Middle School Damon Hall

    Hackley Perspectives: Cultivating Imagination

    By Damon Hall, Assistant Director of the Middle School
    In this month’s blog post on Hackley Perspectives, Assistant Director of the Middle School Damon Hall reflects on the role of imaginative thinking in education. “I believe that creative, imaginary, big-picture thinking should supplement traditional skills and that they should work together as an ‘and’ rather than an ‘instead,’” he shares. Read the post here.
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  • February

    Associate Head of School Cyndy Jean, Ed.D.

    Hackley Perspectives: What is Education But the Balance of Character and Intellect

    By Cyndy Jean, Ed.D., Associate Head of School
    In this month’s blog post on Hackley Perspectives, Associate Head of School Cyndy Jean, Ed.D. reflects on Hackley’s core value, Character is higher than intellect. “It is our job to help Hackley students in our care maintain a balance of character and intellect in order to reason through the questions before them,” Dr. Jean writes. “Character and intellect must go hand-in-hand if we desire to bring forward a generation of deep critical thinkers and inspiring leaders.” Read the post here.
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2024