June 12, 2020
Welcome and Speaker Introduction by Allison Gaines Pell, Head of School Welcome, all. It’s such a pleasure to see each of you here this morning on such an important day. While this was not what we envisioned in September, I will tell you that standing up here with you in… Read More
June 12, 2020
Delivered June 12, 2020 to the 131st graduating class of The Wheeler School WELL, HERE YOU ARE AT ONE OF THE POINTS IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU SHOULD BE CAREFREE. ENJOYING YOUR LAST MOMENTS AS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. HANGING WITH YOUR FRIENDS. GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT ACT… Read More
June 12, 2020
Recorded for the Class of 2020 Commencement, June 12, 2020… Read More
June 3, 2020
Walk with Us Searching for signs of the goodness that I believe lives in all of us in the sea of deeply sorrowful news, I came across a video from Flint, Michigan. A local Sheriff asked a group of protestors how he and his officers could help and they all… Read More
June 2, 2020
Dear friends, I am writing to you as your colleague, friend, Director of Unity & Diversity, and the mother of two Black sons many of you know and love. While anxiety is a daily constant in my lived experience as a Black mother in the US, the recent events which… Read More
June 1, 2020
Hear this message in an audio version. To our Wheeler Community, I have been thinking a lot about the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or repair the world, this week, because my daughter will become bat mitzvah this weekend (over Zoom,… Read More
May 26, 2020
Moving to virtual learning separated teachers from their students in ways neither side liked all that much. In advance of 8th-Grade Graduation — a time when separation is a traditional outcome — one teacher emailed her homeroom with memories of them as a class that she will carry always. Read More
May 20, 2020
By Summer Spiller, Third Grade Teacher Today was the most fun day of digital teaching thus far. I logged onto the computer with my Abraham Lincoln top hat and beard and was greeted by famous baseball player Jackie Robinson, scientist Albert Einstein, and abolitionist Harriet Tubman. As the rest… Read More
May 7, 2020
Teaching our youngest in the time of distance learning By Mo Abdalah and Michelle Dolan, Nursery Faculty Distance learning has changed the landscape of education in dramatic ways and inevitably affected how we, as teachers, approach instruction. It presented a unique and interesting challenge to us in Nursery… Read More
April 29, 2020
Wheeler alumni are often on my mind these days. I frequently think about our young alumni who have returned home from college — some on the cusp of an interrupted graduation. I’m grateful to our alumni doctors and nurses who are courageously meeting this challenge on the front lines. Read More