Porter’s Voices

Congratulations to Miss Porter’s Connecticut Scholastic Writing Award winner: Kinley Simmons |

Article after article documents the ways adolescents are struggling with mental health. Schools are responding, and those that can — like Miss Porter’s —  are adding mental health services and working to integrate social-emotional learning into the curriculum.

Spend the day at Miss Porter’s with fellow educators interested in Competency-based Mastery Learning.  Learn about how Miss Porter’s School is approaching this transition and share ideas with like-minded colleagues.

Two questions guide my thinking as I lead the academic program at Miss Porter’s School. I believe all well-resourced private schools must find ways to answer them with a “yes” if they truly wish to justify their existence and the privilege that they bestow upon students.