The Time We Spend in School ...
The 650 Words educator series has dropped some pretty serious wisdom on the world. Rai Wilson , Ginny Robinson , Nina Ochoa , Alex Santiago-DiBiaso , Olga Livshin , Rachael Abernethy -- all have looked back at their experience with the kind of perspective and reflectiveness that could only come from teachers. Grant Lichtman continues this tradition here in a piece that really resonated for me. As I look back at my time in high school -- and college to some extent -- it feels like a montage sequence without a real theme, just a bunch of jumbled up images without a consistent soundtrack. Grant catches that mixed up patchwork of emerging identity beautifully here. Grant is the great-grandnephew of Francis Parker founders Clara Sturgess and William Templeton Johnson. For about a dozen years he was a senior administrator at Parker and was largely responsible for re-building both the Lower and Upper campuses. His children, Josh and Cassidy, graduated in 2005 and 2007, and are fo