Head's Articles

List of 12 news stories.

• Head of School's Message: January 3

  1/3/2023
  The 2023 Pasadena Tournament of Roses President, Amy Wainscott, announced: “Turning the Corner” as the theme for this year’s parade, celebrating the unlimited potential that each new year brings.
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• Head of School's Message: December 12

  12/12/2022
  One acre of Chandler’s four-and-a-half-acre campus is taken up by the field. It’s sacred school ground, a place to gather and to play.
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• Head of School's Message: December 5

  12/5/2022
  There’s something not right about a World Cup being played in November, in Qatar, in the midst of the NFL and NBA seasons, with college football reaching a crescendo and college basketball underway.
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• Head of School's Message: November 28

  11/28/2022
  Last week’s Thanksgiving Holiday was preceded by the return of two days of cherished community celebrations.
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• Head of School's Message: November 14

  11/14/2022
  Last week featured two ‘firsts.’ Seventh Grade Life Science Teacher Robert Calderon, known to his students as Lord Cal, called me during his free period on Thursday morning with dramatic news.
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• Head of School's Message: October 31

  10/31/2022
  Last Wednesday, I toured a kindergarten applicant family around the school.
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• Head of School's Message: October 24

  10/24/2022
  With an understanding that ‘nothing wilts faster than laurels rested upon,’ the 2023-2024 admissions season is underway at Chandler.
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• Head of School's Message: October 17

  10/17/2022
  Over the last ten years, rates of loneliness and depression among young people have gone up by 60 percent according to research done by The Connection Project at the University of Virginia and reported by Eilene Zimmerman in an article about mental health in the New York Times last Sunday.
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• Head of School's Message: October 11

  10/11/2022
  Opting to Read Banned Books, an article in the LA Times on October 2 by Minerva Canto, a member of the LA Times editorial board, began with praise for Captain Underpants. 
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• Head of School's Message: October 3

  10/3/2022
  Chandler is a secular school, but as we strive to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive, we believe it is important to support all members of our community in their faith traditions.
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• Head of School's Message: September 26

  9/26/2022
  Shortly after the turn of the century, which sounds long ago, I attended the National Association of Independent Schools annual conference in Boston.
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• Head of School's Message: September 19

  9/19/2022
  Visiting Yosemite for their outdoor education trip last week, the eighth-grade class was joined by visitors from all over the world who crowded the valley for late summer, early fall vacations to take in the iconic features.
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