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Pilot Post – Jan 6, 2023

Dear Families,  Happy New Year!  I hope your winter breaks were filled with joyful moments of togetherness and plenty of rest and relaxation.   In case you missed it, just before…

Pilot Post – Dec 9, 2022

Dear Families,  We’ve been talking a lot about reading lately at Pilot! Perhaps this one seems obvious, but we’ve been specifically chatting about a couple of concurrent happenings in the…

Pilot Post – Dec 2, 2022

Dear Families, The Pilot School–and most importantly our own amazing Susan Stewart–was featured in this article from the Hagley Museum.  Click here to learn more about the exciting archeological discoveries our…

Pilot Post – Nov 18, 2022

Dear Families,  Because of the holiday, we will not be sending out a Pilot Post next week.  I want to take the time now, then, to wish you all a…

Pilot Post – Nov 11, 2022

Dear Families,  On Monday, we started a month-long community Gratitude Practice.  Rather than share the goings-on of our lives in Monday morning Opening, I asked students to reflect on things…

Pilot Post – Oct 28, 2022

Dear Families,  I’ve been thinking a lot about collective joy this week, or as Adam Grant wrote about during the end of the pandemic: collective effervescence.  Collective effervescence is “the…

Pilot Post – Oct 21, 2022

Dear Families,  This week, the faculty met again as part of our ongoing study of Neuroteach by Glenn Whitman and Ian Kelleher.  The book has provided plenty of rich conversation…

Pilot Post – Oct 14, 2022

Dear Families,  Next week is National Digital Citizenship Week.  While there are plenty of resources that come out each year around this time, I think we can all agree that…

Pilot Post – Sept 27, 2022

Dear Families,  I’ve had some great conversations this week with parents about our weekly Student Progress Analysis (SPA) meetings, and I thought it might be worthwhile to share with all…

Pilot Post – Sept 23, 2022

Dear Families,  It was wonderful seeing so many of you at Meet the Teachers Night last night.  We had a great turnout and there was a lot of positive energy…