Author Archives: Mary Brochu
Everyone Is Your Friend Here – January 13, 2011
Dear TCS Community, At our last community meeting, we welcomed one of our new students in Tamara’s class. (Our other new student wasn’t in school that day but we will soon find an opportunity to welcome him to our school, … Continue reading
Finding Our Voices – January 6, 2011
Dear TCS Community, On the last day before our winter break, I visited each class to read Shel Silverstein’s wise and wiseacre poem, “The Bear, The Fire, and The River.†It’s about the ironies of cycles of fear (the bear … Continue reading
OSP Performance: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Join us for the Older Students Program’s Production of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream on Thursday, February 10 in the Common Room. The play will be shown three times. A morning performance reserved for an outside audience, an afternoon performance for … Continue reading
Family Night
Come share Touchstone on Family Night, Wednesday, February 9, from 6-&:30 p.m. Visit you child’s classroom, where much preparation has taken place to share with the class’ thematic work with you. You’ll also want to visit all of the other … Continue reading
Happy Holidays – December 16, 2010
Dear TCS Community, In our community meeting last week, I asked us to name the other holidays that happen around this time of the year. We had some standard answers: Dewali, Chanukah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa. Then we had some … Continue reading
The Learning Revolution – December 9, 2010
Dear TCS Community, Over the weekend, I watched another thought-provoking affirmation of Touchstone’s progressive education—in the form of Sir Ken Robinson’s latest TED talk, “Bring on the Learning Revolution,†filmed in February 2010 in Pasadena and posted in May 2010. … Continue reading