Dear Friends - This Wednesday, my calendar read “Pickett’s Charge- 1:00 pm.” Not my usual appointment for that time, to be sure. As I made my way to the upper playground, I came face to face with groups of the boys and girls of Mike’s Rainbow Room class with glorious Civil War beards and mustaches drawn in marker on their faces. They had each been studying key figures from the Battle of Gettysburg, and they excitedly told me about how General Longstreet from the Confederacy w

Dear Friends- I walked into our school kitchen the other day to find Anita and her student Lauren chopping vegetables. We do a lot of cooking with students at Randolph, but usually it is with larger groups of kids, so I asked Anita and Lauren what the special occasion was. It turns out that Lauren is an aspiring reader who had fallen in love with a book called “Vegetable Soup” by Ann Morris. After looking through the book several times and admiring the illustrations, Lauren d