Preschool DEI Education Program Coming Soon!
We are currently in the process of developing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion education program for parents of young children. We will meet approximately every other month with the first…
A High School That Prepares Your Child for College and Life
High school is about many things — social-emotional development, growing from a young adolescent into an almost-adult, exploring intellectually, and honing skills. All of this, in the end, translates into…
Changing and Growing, Too!
It’s that time of year when change is visible all around us. We notice the trees as they begin to show us their color before losing their leaves. The mornings…
Extracurriculars – A Fun Way to Connect!
Somehow, we’re rocketing through the second quarter of the 2020-21 school year! Normally, being in late October means a full slew of extracurricular activities on the docket for our High…
Learning Is Alive and Well!
Witnessing Lower and Middle School life on any random school day this fall, so much looks and feels the same as any other school year, and yet, so much has…
Facilitating Election Conversations
This week at St. Francis has been largely dominated by the election and conversations surrounding it. Every election is a consequential event in the High School world – we have…
May Our Shared Values Guide Us
When it comes to students and politics at school, their go-to is often to parrot what they hear in the culture outside of school. In the grown-up political climate and…
Cultivating a Love of Reading
We all know that reading to children is crucial to the development of future literacy skills. That is why our teachers read to their classes every day, multiple times throughout…
Our Faculty: The Most Compelling Reason to Choose Our High School
In interviews, we tell prospective teachers that we are looking for two main things: passion for subject and passion for teaching teenagers. Passion for subject means that our teachers are…
Our Curriculum and Pedagogy
In past articles, we’ve talked about the St. Francis schedule and the faculty; now, we turn to the curriculum itself to share information with you about what we teach and…