Head's Articles

List of 12 news stories.

• Head of School's Message: September 23

  9/23/2019
  Smog days during the fall and spring were everyday occurrences for seventh-grade English teacher Ashley Laird when she was a student at Pasadena's John Muir High School.
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• Head of School's Message: September 16

  9/16/2019
  Psychotherapist Dr. Tina Payne Bryson author of The Power of Showing Up, The Yes Brain, The Whole Brain Child and No Drama Discipline, spoke to Chandler parents in the Ahmanson Auditorium on Tuesday night.
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• Head of School's Message: September 9

  9/9/2019
  In this week’s New Yorker, there is a cartoon of a group of boy scouts sitting outside on a bench their ankles weighed down with a ball and chain looking perplexed at their group leader dangling a carrot over a candle.
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• Head of School's Message: September 3

  9/3/2019
  The first Band-Aid of the school year was given to a 5th-grade girl at 9:28 a.m. on Wednesday after she slipped on the gym floor and scraped her knee in gym class.
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• Head of School's Message: August 26

  8/26/2019
  Are you ready for school? Chandler’s faculty and staff have spent the past week working together and preparing for the students’ return this week. Let’s enjoy the incredible journey together during the 2019-2020 school year.
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• Head of School's Message: October 10

  10/23/2017
  John Finch
  Chandler students deserve excellent teachers and excellent administrators. Recruiting and retaining faculty and staff of the highest caliber has always been one of Chandler’s priorities. 
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• Head of School's Message: October 16

  10/23/2017
  John Finch
  At Friday night’s second grade parent party, hosted by Shahab and Nadia Shamsi, I asked several parents what points about Chandler they would emphasize to visitors at Saturday’s open house if they were me. The trifecta of community, teachers and program surfaced in everyone’s responses.
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• Head of School's Message: October 2

  10/23/2017
  John Finch
  My dad had a dim view of experts. He liked to say, “‘Ex’ is an unknown quantity and a ‘spert’ is a drip under pressure.”
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• Head of School's Message: September 5

  9/5/2017
  John Finch
  Triple digit temperatures challenged faculty and students last week. The weather should be more comfortable this week. Air conditioning in most classrooms held up under the stress.
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• Head of School's Message: August 28

  8/29/2017
  John Finch
  Chandler School’s mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced, and diverse environment. 
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• Head of School's Message: May 22

  5/22/2017
  John Finch
  One of the most important lessons we learned from STEAM night was how much the students love to show off their creations to their parents. 
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• Head of School's Message: May 15

  5/16/2017
  John Finch
  On May 2, Jill Bergeron, Anneke Emerson and I hosted a seventh grade parent meeting to talk about the high school placement process.
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