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Welcome to HeightsCast, the official podcast of The Heights School! Every other week, we feature interviews with teachers and educators here at The Heights School and elsewhere, on the educa...
AI tech has come knocking at the classroom door, and schools across the country are rushing to design their AI policies around information t...
A rapid rollout of integrated AI into technology we use everyday brings with it new considerations for our tech policies at home. At this ye...
Saving civilization well may begin with eye contact, a tucked shirt, a sincere apology, or a held door. For the dispositions we have toward...
How have we allowed such a daring story as the American founding to become so flat? A history lesson so simple, tidy, and inevitable that it...
Why tell the truth when it doesn't always pay? It's important to let boys encounter this question through example, literature, and enough fr...
Could creativity and intellectual freedom actually depend on the rote? Following up on his recent article for the Forum, math teacher Dave M...
What do our children need most from us in the unsteady years of middle school? First, says Head of Middle School Andy Reed, they need our av...
Today, we have an increasing store of research to evaluate the claims of educational tech. Where does it assist or upend our goals as a scho...
Volume, pitch, pace, tone, inflection: the human voice is our primary teaching instrument. The spoken word has not just a logos and an ethos...
When we join a school community, it should be to join forces with teachers, administrators, and other families in the "conspiracy for the go...
Does a talented person have a duty to serve others? What do leading citizens really need to live well, freely, impactfully—even greatly? How...
"Charity and clarity" are the lodestars when teaching middle school boys with various faith backgrounds—and who are developing faith disposi...
The crisis of meaning among young people gets a lot of press; but a quieter crisis of calling afflicts every generation today. Dr. Arthur Br...
Kevin Twomey is a husband, father, and a principal consultant at Table Group, founded by Patrick Lencioni, which specializes in helping exec...
The first images of a "protector" that flash through our minds might be the warrior, the superhero, the movie star physically holding back e...
To prepare for Homer, Virgil, Beowulf, the Eddas, and Dante—The Heights begins with Tolkien. In a talk from 2016, former middle school core...
From utero and into infancy, babies recognize their mother as being essentially one with them. So, being placed in their father's arms is in...
Our mission is to assist parents in the intellectual, moral, physical, and spiritual formation of their sons… At The Heights, we repeat thes...
"Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matt. 16:25). This week we're joined by...
Please, thank you, after you … Do manners matter? Are they artifice or virtue? In this rebroadcast from 2019, lower school head Colin Gleaso...
In our school communities, we talk a great deal about moral and intellectual formation. But physical development, too, has an essential plac...
One philosopher of our time claims that "today, the experience of beauty is impossible." Dr. Jason Baxter, director of the Center for Beauty...
The joy of "being known here" is not just for the students. When a faculty cultivates friendship, it benefits the entire school community. T...
What are parental rights? Are they a legal stance—or a philosophical one? In today's conversation, Dr. Melissa Moschella of the University o...
There should be no contradiction in pursuing hard sciences, humanities, and moral virtue all in one day. For upper schoolers switching class...
"Be perfect" (Matt. 5:48) and "anxious for nothing" (Phil 4:6). This tall order from the New Testament may put modern parents into a cold sw...
The art of mentoring is not just for teachers and coaches, but also parents—who can never really be out of mentoring mode. In a recent Subst...
In the broader society, mistrust increasingly defines the parent-teacher relationship. But it doesn't have to be this way. As a Heights pare...
"One of the best places to cultivate a Catholic worldview in the hearts and minds of young people … is in the backcountry," writes Fr. John...
How many times a day do I tell my son what to do next? In this rebroadcast from 2015, our Head of Middle School Andrew Reed offers his ideas...
To help our seniors synthesize the many ideas, events, and texts they've surveyed across high school—and to help them better understand thei...
Properly understood, the imagination is not something you escape to ; it's something you draw upon every day to make decisions, understand e...
"… the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild...
In 2008, Tom Vander Woude died saving the life of his youngest son. But this radical self-gift was really the culmination of a quiet life of...
They know we love them; but do our children sense that we like them? And how does that relate to their formation? In the intense season of t...
Months ago, Heights teacher Joe Lanzilotti took up a prodigious project: reviewing the body of popular literature on boys' education. Partwa...
The ever-changing tech landscape and the ever-growing research on interactive screens means that the topic must come up anew year after year...
In 1858, six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is forcibly removed from his family's home in accordance with civil and canon law. His Jewish family's...
In a world competing for our attention, our guest this week admits: "It's probably harder to read novels now than it ever was." But their va...
As we conclude the school year, parents are turning their sights to summer and the much-anticipated family vacation. We bear such hope for r...
As more families scrutinize their post-high school options for virtue and value, the field has perhaps never been wider. Choosing a path car...
Human reason: what is it? How does it cooperate with faith and the will? How can we distinguish between authentic reason and its counterfeit...
Prayer is not prescriptive. So how could we hope to teach our children a practice that St. Thérèse called "a surge of the heart"? Lower scho...
We often speak of a pedagogical friendship between teacher and student: the earnest desire for the student's good, the collaborative adventu...
"Offer it up!" Do we receive that invitation with a wince or a nod? Heights Assistant Headmaster Tom Royals invites us to examine our approa...
As a Valley veteran, Tom Steenson has seen patterns emerge from his two decades of parent-teacher conferences. He invites us to sit down for...
"Are you a classical school?" It's a question many parents and educators will have to answer at some point. St. Martin's Academy in Fort Sco...
Pope St. John Paul II outlined the four pillars of formation for seminarians back in 1992 with his apostolic exhortation Pastores dabo vobis...
A great learning experience comes at the material using different practices—listening, reading, memorizing, interrogating, doing, speaking,...
Mr. Tom Cox's approach to telling great stories in the classroom starts with a self-limiting 3×5 notecard. The challenge when telling any st...