The tagline of The Rough Draft, Flint Hill’s US literary magazine, is “…because good writing is never finished.” It’s a tagline an English teacher could have written. It’s true that my colleagues and I spend a significant amount of our time encouraging our students to take a second, third, or 14th look at the words…

At Flint Hill, we often talk about the importance of taking “meaningful risks.” It’s a phrase that sounds great in a mission statement, but seeing it in action is something else entirely. While a classroom provides the foundation, the high-stakes skills of negotiation, public speaking under pressure, and real-world data application are usually forged only…