The Heights Forum
The Heights Forum
Partners in Formation
The Heights Forum is the outreach branch of The Heights School. Our mission is to support educational leaders, teachers, and parents in their own efforts to educate the children entrusted to them.
¡Bienvenidos!
Last week, The Heights welcomed a group of six school heads from Spain. Hailing from schools located throughout the Iberian Peninsula, the visitors were especially keen on learning about practically feasible ways to develop and improve the humanities programs offered at their schools. Through observations of core classes and strategic meetings with administrators at The Heights, the visitors worked on developing ways to integrate a solid humanities sequence into their already strong science and math programs. In addition to humanities, the school heads also sought to learn more about sharpening...
Alexander Havard on Free Hearts and Magnanimity
This week's episode features Mr. Alexander Havard, an internationally recognized authority on leadership and virtue. Mr. Havard gives us, as parents and teachers, a beautiful introduction to the virtue of magnanimity.
April 13, 2024
Fathers Conference 2024
The Heights School • Potomac, MD
Dangerously Good: Raising Magnanimous Sons
Forgiveness and the Person: Why Shakespeare’s Tempest is better than Hamlet
English teacher Joe Bissex reflects on what makes Prospero better than Hamlet, and thus the Tempest greater than the Danish play.
Starting a Mentoring Program
The idea of starting a new program is exciting; the practical execution of the idea is difficult and takes time. This is especially true of a mentoring program. While the aspiration of truly personalizing the education at one’s school sounds good and beautiful, in truth, developing an organized program of formation that does more than merely sound good at an open house is perhaps one of the most difficult things to realize at a school. Nevertheless, with time and perseverance, developing an effective mentoring program is possible. The aim of...