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Excellence depends upon association. No important enterprise can flourish without the strength that comes from moral support, from the exchange of ideas, from mutual encouragement and criticism.
The Rev. Canon Preston B. Hannibal
Canon for Academic Ministries
The Episcopal Diocese of Washington
Excellence depends upon association. No important enterprise can flourish without the strength that comes from moral support, from the exchange of ideas, from mutual encouragement and criticism.
The Rev. Canon Preston B. Hannibal
Weekly Meditation
The Weekly Meditation is a regular, Monday-morning email message from the Rev. Daniel R. Heischman, our executive director, to NAES member heads, rectors, and chaplains.It’s intended to inspire and encourage you in your leadership of your Episcopal school.
The Weekly Meditation is a regular, Monday-morning email message from the Rev. Daniel R. Heischman, our executive director, to NAES member heads, rectors, and chaplains.It’s intended to inspire and encourage you in your leadership of your Episcopal school.
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The National Association of Episcopal Schools gives thanks for the life of the Venerable Faye Somers, who passed away at the age of seventy-two on February 19. With gratitude for her faithful…
Last week, February 10–13, the National Association of Episcopal Schools presented the Episcopal Identity: Equity & Justice Conference in Montgomery, Alabama. Approximately 220 Episcopal…
NAES announces the creation of a new leadership certificate program, a one-year professional development opportunity designed to equip current and aspiring heads of school, chaplains, administrators,…
NAES is pleased to announce the launch of a new “Wisdom Circle,” exploring how Episcopal churches and preschools can support parents in early faith formation.
NAES is pleased to welcome Bill Bennington, Spencer Taintor, and the Rt. Rev. Ruth Woodliff-Stanley to the NAES Governing Board. Each will now begin a three-year term, running from 2025 until 2028.
I recently heard a brilliant colleague’s presentation entitled, “The Human Advantage: Preparing Future-Ready Students in an AI-Shaped World.” In my role as a school chaplain and in my…
A winter storm settles over campus, canceling plans and reshaping a long weekend for students who remain. As snow piles up outside, another kind of storm flickers across a television screen—one…
I love being a part of the NAES Chaplains Group. For a long time, I felt all alone in my role as a chaplain. Then I attended my first conference and discovered, much to my delight, that I was part of…
Seventy toddlers follow a cross and banner into chapel every week at St. David’s Episcopal Day School in Wilmington, DE. A bible sits atop the altar. Nearby, a single apple hangs from a…
I have always been a massive fan of superhero films. There is something so captivating about watching the various powers be used for good; the suspense that the music brings as you await to find out…
An eighth-grade student recently offered her chapel homily on the theme of “What is the Meaning of Life?” and connected it to the story of Jacob wrestling with God. She said “my purpose in life…
Last summer, my director of enrollment management encouraged me to read the book Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara. While I initially approached the book from the lens of enhancing the…
Each August, as students return and classrooms come alive again, I’m reminded of how I found a place in Episcopal schools—and why I’ve rooted my career in the Episcopal school tradition….
It has been 16 years since I went through the interview process for the position I currently hold as Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Oakland, California. At the time, I had never been to…
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The words “school” and “stillness” don’t always go together. Our campuses are energetic: a cacophony of voices, play, activity, and bells. The adults in the building navigate endless decisions, e-mails, grading, and adolescent urgency. Running across a Psalm focusing on “stillness” feels very different from our daily experience in education.
I am a planner. I love having a roadmap or a script that I have developed and rehearsed. I suspect that many of you feel the same way! With each new week, we have a basic idea of what is waiting for us. And generally, that basic idea is thrown out the window before I’ve finished my first cup of coffee! Despite our best efforts, we really don’t know exactly what today holds. Perhaps, that’s a gift.
In The Episcopal Church, deacons are one of three distinct orders of ordained ministry (along with priests and bishops). In the early church, deacons were the ones who crossed boundaries—between the gathered community and the world outside, between those with enough and those without, between the sacred and the street. They were threshold figures. Further, they were the noticers—they would notice the needs of the world and identify the best ways to help.
Last week, we gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, for the Episcopal Identity: Equity and Justice Conference at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). We had the privilege of hearing Bryan Stevenson—a moment that called us to reflect deeply on what it means to live out our baptismal covenant in pursuit of justice. His words continue to resonate as we return to our schools and our students.
Picture the last contentious conversation you witnessed—perhaps a faculty meeting where voices rose, a school board discussion where neighbors became adversaries, or simply the evening news with its parade of talking heads speaking past one another. Notice how there are no pauses anymore, no space between claim and counterclaim. We have lost what the Japanese call ma (間) —the meaningful interval, the pause that creates room for listening. Our political discourse has become all reaction and no reflection, all speaking and no hearing. This is not merely a failure of civility. It is a spiritual crisis.
No doubt that question has crossed your mind as we march through the long winter on our campuses. It’s easy to lose perspective during this stretch of the academic calendar that never seems to end. So, what is it that we are trying to accomplish day in and day out?
This past week, the NAES Governing Board gathered for our winter meeting at the headquarters of The Episcopal Church. Our Presiding Bishop—and honorary NAES Board Chair—the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe, joined us for important conversations around Episcopal identity and how that identity informs our work with young people. Whenever we meet at the Church Center, it provides an opportunity to reflect upon the relationship between our schools and the larger ministry and mission of the church. I wonder if sometimes we lose sight of that in the busyness of our daily lives.
Last week, we hosted a webinar, focusing on the importance of nurturing mental well-being with our students. This is an area where Episcopal schools shine. We build communities that take seriously both the academic and emotional development of our students. We also lean into the role spirituality plays in our students’ health and wellness. Researchers like Dr. Lisa Miller from Columbia University (author ofThe Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain) have researched and quantified what we already know well in Episcopal schools: spirituality can play an important role in keeping kids healthy and happy.
As we mark the anniversary of the California wildfires that consumed St. Matthew’s Episcopal School in Pacific Palisades and St. Mark’s Episcopal School in Altadena, we remember what it means when the ground itself shifts. We remember colleagues who watched their school buildings—those sacred spaces of learning and community—disappear into flame and ash. We remember the particular grief of losing not just a workplace, but a home for hundreds of children, a gathering place for families, a physical embodiment of mission and love built up over generations.
