Stealing Home

The end of the school year always feels a little bit like the very rare baseball occurrence of stealing home. It seems to happen so fast that spectators and the other team are left wondering “what in the world just happened”. However, to the runner that just scored and the third base coach that sent in the sign, it was a well-timed and executed play. 

Springtime ushers in a lot of things I love about the work we do in schools, but it is a consistently dizzying pace. Students and teachers are busier than ever this time of the year. Seniors are inching closer to their graduation day. Younger students are looking forward to a more sustained break and requesting courses for the next school year. Teachers are digging in for all the craziness that happens over the last two and half months of the school year. I love guiding students to appropriately challenge themselves and helping students navigate choices when they try to take on too much.  Most importantly, this is the time of year when everything starts to come together. Future decisions get locked in, culminating course work and months-long projects come to fruition, and we take time to reflect and to celebrate successes, both individually and as a community. 

As an Upper School community, we are preparing to “steal home.” Don’t blink, or you might miss it!