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The Power of Community: Embracing Interdependence at Turning Point School

September 17, 2024 | Dr. Laura Konigsberg

In our diverse community, each member brings their own complex histories, identities, and experiences to common experiences: we all enjoy celebrations and endure sorrows, and we all want to be seen and valued. At Turning Point, we celebrate our diversity and strive to create an environment where everyone can belong. This includes caring for each other in community by inviting new families to join events, reaching out to those who are grieving, listening closely to others to hear and honor their stories—not even when but especially when their experiences diverge from our own.

First Day of School 2024: Creating Connections

August 27, 2024 | Dr. Laura Konigsberg

This year our essential question is: How can we build strong bridges? Creating connections is essential to learning: connections between students and teachers, among students, between students and ideas, and between parents and the school. As interconnected and interdependent beings, we need the gifts and contributions of all to build a strong community defined by integrity, fellowship, and creativity. We know that creativity comes not from a bolt of inspiration from out of the blue but from the heady alchemy of uniting disparate ideas that no one previously thought to connect to generate something that wasn’t there before.