Parent Education

Parent Education Fosters Lifelong Learning

Throughout the school year, we invite nationally acclaimed guest experts to campus to speak on timely and relevant parenting topics and offer a wide range of parent workshops and community book discussions. The Parents' Association sponsors regular grade-level and divisional education meetings to help parents with various developmental stages and challenges that arise when parenting. School divisions and the College Counseling and Athletics departments also host relevant topic discussions.

Parent Education Events

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Featured Guest Speakers

March 28, 7 pm Gorelick Family Theater
Rachel Simmons, author, educator, and consultant 

Rachel Simmons is a best-selling author, educator and leadership consultant helping girls and women to become more authentic, assertive, resilient, and fulfilled. Her most recent bestseller, Enough as She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling Lives, builds upon more than two decades of research to take on “supergirl” pressure, brutal self-criticism and toxic stress culture of constant competition and comparison that today’s girls face.

Past Speakers

Each year, we proudly partner with the Parents’ Association to invite nationally-acclaimed guest speakers and authors to campus to discuss and share relevant parenting topics. In past years, we have welcomed the following guest experts:

  • Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, author of Talking Back to Facebook: A Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age
  • Beth Purdy, mental health speaker and advocate, “Living, Surviving, and Thriving with Mental Illness”
  • Dr. Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World and blogger of “Raising Digital Natives”
  • Dr. Michele Borba, author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
  • Ron Lieber, author of The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
  • Kevin Powell, Humanitarian and author
  • Jessica Lahey, New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure
  • Ana Homayoun, nationally-acclaimed author of That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life
  • Joe Ehrmann, former NFL football star, minister, and motivational speaker
  • Kevin Breel, mental health activist and stand-up comedian, recognized for his TEDx talk entitled "Confessions of a Depressed Comic"
  • Rosalind Wiseman, bestselling author of Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and the New Realities of Girl World
  • Daniel Coyle, renowned journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code
  • Matt Bellace, author, psychologist, comedian, "Supporting Teens in Making Healthy Choices"
  • Richard Guerry, expert on digital technology and digital consciousness
  • Dr. Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
  • Dr. Wendy Mogel, author of Blessings of a Skinned Knee and Blessings of a B Minus

Parent Education Blog

Tips for Indoor Fun

What do you do on those cold or rainy days when kids have cabin fever? Our Extended Day teachers are resident experts on how to meet these needs for children. Here are a few of their favorite indoor activities when the weather is just too cold or too rainy to go outdoors.

How to Practice Mindfulness with Your Kids

Practicing mindfulness plays an important role both in our daily routines and in the classroom. Lower School Guidance Counselor JG Bailey shares the simple reminders to incorporate mindfulness into our lives

Group of Lower School Boys on the First Day

Whether you're a new parent of a junior kindergartner or going into your senior year, read on for advice and tools that will make back-to-school time a bit easier.