Inauguration at Park

It has been far too long since I posted, with many exciting things happening over the last month. We got a small taste of the media's focus on President Obama's inauguration, with some local reporters visiting the school to see how we were using it as a teachable moment.

All of our divisions, with the exception of Prekindergarten, spent the afternoon watching a live feed of the speech. Our local media focused on the Lower School, with two cameras set up to record students watching the speech.

This type of meta-process (being watched while watching) certainly heightened my awareness of the historic nature of the inauguration, but our students did not seem phased in the least.

Our curriculum for the day included focusing students' attention on the text of the Oath of Office (which became particularly germane given the fact that the Oath was not executed according to the strictures of the Constitution and was redone the following day), the fact that they were witnessing a peaceful transfer of power, and a general recording of the key phrases of President Obama's speech.

After the speech, reporters interviewed students and faculty. A sampling of their stories appear below:

Buffalo News article