Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School Blog: Take Charge

Anyone who walks into my Morgan Hall office will immediately be struck by a life-size cardboard cutout of landscape painter and childhood favorite Bob Ross, a giant campus master planning map, CH-CH family gifts from travels across the globe, leadership lessons from Ted Lasso, and a rainbow of colored sticky notes adorning a large section of wall space reserved for our annual SWOT analysis derived from the Parent Satisfaction Survey.

Topics: Leadership, Empathy

As lead learner at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School, I am forever absorbing and reflecting on the various teaching and learning practices around our community.  Teaching and learning not simply in the classroom environs, but also in our Co-Curricular programming, Student and Residential Life programs, and even in our school operation spaces.  Simply asked, how can we better engage and seek greater learning and meaning from the moments we nurture throughout the day and each week?  What reflective practices are we committed to as individual learners, as well as a school community?

Topics: Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, Student Skill Building, Leadership

As we embark on the new 2022-23 school year, I reflect upon the challenges facing school leaders and schools over the past two years while, at the same time, identifying the opportunities moving forward. We experienced a tumultuous two-year stretch weathering a global health pandemic, as well as other historic socio-political events and economic headwinds in America. Working through this unprecedented set of challenges, we look forward to moving beyond, identifying new opportunities, and leveraging many of the strengths making CH-CH such a special community.

Topics: Student Wellness, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, Student Skill Building, Leadership, Beyond the Classroom

As parents, it often catches us off guard. Your child heard something at school or saw on the news, and has questions about race. What is Black Lives Matter about? Why are people upset? Why are people treated differently?

Topics: Boarding School, Embracing Diversity, Inclusion, Leadership, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Anti-Racism

To honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s call to service, CH-CH students continued the tradition of creating and leading MLK workshops to bring diversity and inclusion to the forefront, while giving their peers opportunities to understand experiences different from their own.

Topics: Boarding School, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, Caring Community, Embracing Diversity, Inclusion, Leadership, Beyond the Classroom

Dylan grew up witnessing the leadership example of his older brother, and when his younger brother came along, he felt the drive to become a leader himself. Now, as a boarding student at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, Dylan has found his spot as a leader in the classroom and in the dorm.

Topics: Boarding School, Caring Community, Leadership, Rewrite Your Story

I currently have 2,357 photos in my phone. They are mostly of funny moments, family, celebrations...all captured for nostalgia.

Topics: Student Skill Building, Alumni, Leadership, Running Brook Camps, Experiential Learning, Class of 2019, Independent Study

What values are essential for tomorrow’s leaders? This is a question that is top-of-mind for the directors of CH-CH’s Running Brook Camps’ Leadership Training Program, and the lessons they have focused can benefit leaders of any age.

Topics: Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, Caring Community, Leadership, Running Brook Camps

 

Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall is excited to launch a new series titled Rewrite Your Story, a collection of stories from students in the CH-CH community who are accomplishing more than they ever thought possible. Follow the stories at www.chch.org/story.

Topics: Boarding School, Multiple Intelligences, Student Wellness, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, Student Skill Building, Caring Community, Leadership, Rewrite Your Story

When students at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School were given the freedom to create their own lesson plans for Diversity Day workshops, 16 individuals and groups came together to lead rich workshops designed to educate our community on a wide range of topics.

Topics: Boarding School, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall, Student Skill Building, Caring Community, Embracing Diversity, Inclusion, Leadership