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According to Madeleine L’Engle, “A Namer has to know who people are, and who they are meant to be.” In her stories the act of naming people is a way of loving them and helping them become the people they are meant to be.

Recently, I attended a spring choir concert at a nearby school. It was lovely. The students were well-prepared, they were wearing dresses and tuxedos, their voices blended well, and cut-offs were great. But as an audience member I felt something that I have not felt for a long time...

The fact that I've spent the last decade helping build this school and teaching these texts and believing with my whole self that this work matters, that's a story. I think it's actually the most honest case I can make for what we're doing here, and why your child being in one of our classrooms this year is a real and important thing.