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What Does It Mean to Belong When You’re the Only One Observing?
Yom Kippur gives boarding schools a chance to think beyond recognition and ask a deeper question: Can students bring their whole selves into the communities where they live and learn? Today is Yom Kippur! For Jewish students, families, faculty, and staff observing the holiday, it is a deeply significant day centered on reflection, repentance, prayer,…
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Beyond the Bell Announces New Chapter for Andrew Waugh at Franklin Academy
Some opportunities feel professional. Others feel personal. For Andrew Waugh, accepting the role of Admissions & Student Engagement Associate, Research Fellow at Franklin Academy feels like both. After spending the past several years working in boarding school communities across the country, Waugh will officially join Franklin Academy in August, bringing with him a background in student life,…
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The Second Enrollment: How Student Life and Belonging Shape Boarding School Retention
When a student enrolls at a boarding school, the admission office celebrates a milestone. Yet the true test of a school’s culture comes later, when that same student chooses to stay. That decision to re-enroll is what I call The Second Enrollment, the moment when a student decides that this is not just where they attend…