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Across the Quad
In•Sight
41 Faculty Perspective A 14-Minute Talk
64 On Centre
by Lisa Baker
News and notes from the campus and beyond
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Classroom
Class Notes
Anatomy of a 1212 Performance by Liz Matson
48 Head of School
88 Post Script Resuscitating Compromise by Katie Leeson ’93
Dare to Be True, the Version with Love by Todd B. Bland
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Editor Cathleen Everett
Sports
Associate Editors Erin Berg Liz Matson
Why respect your opponent? Teaching sportsmanship must be explicit, coaches find. by Erin E. Berg
Photography Erin Berg, Michael Dwyer, John Gillooly, Chester Higgins Jr., Michelle Horwitz, Mauricio Lima, Liz Matson, Dave Morgan, Richard Pasley, David Regen, Claire Robertson ’13, Richard Skidmore, Greg White Design Moore & Associates Front cover by Stoltze Design
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Talking It Out in Grade 2
Commencement 2012
In Sachiyo Unger’s and Tasha Summers’s classrooms, students gather in an “open circle” once a month to learn skills that will help them deal with conflict. The goal is keeping the children’s conflict between the children.
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by Liz Matson
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