Jake Weld

We are thrilled to share that Elevate: 16 Boarding Schools and the Practice of Holistic Education, is now available on Amazon. This project is the culmination of over 18 months of coordination, collaboration, and exploration, and we are incredibly grateful to the participating schools for being willing to tell their own story about what it […]

Elevate has officially been shipped to the printer, and we are eagerly awaiting formal publication and release dates. The process of writing this book – from conceptualization and conversation to collection, collation, curation, and occasional coercion – all the way to copy and layout editing, has been an incredible experience. It has resulted in writing,

Call it Thanksgiving, or Fall Banquet, or The Harvest Appreciation Meal – regardless of its name it is such a unique time in a the annual life cycle of a boarding school, awkwardly sandwiched as it is between Family Weekend & Fall Break and the much larger/longer Winter/Holiday Break. It often means a lot of

I’m not sure what it is about schools, and school people, that I like so much. Especially since I must admit to having spent the vast majority of my own schooling considering all the other places I’d rather be and all the other things I’d rather be doing. But now that I’ve been in and

The idea for Elevate started in a conversation, followed by a second, and then a third, and then we had the confidence (foolishness?) to include some other people. We started setting meetings and making time commitments and reading and visiting and researching and writing… and now it seems this train is actively loading up in