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Helping Your Child Have Healthy Friendships

Navigating childhood friendships can be tough for parents, especially when your child is dealing with a "frenemy." This kind of friendship can be confusing and hurtful, leaving parents unsure how to best support their child. In this blog post, Catherine Mallam, Shipley's Lower School Director of...

Electronic Screen Time & Your Child's Well-Being

The 21st century is redefining communication and education. We are interconnected in ways that seemed so fantastic a mere three decades ago. Information is literally at our fingertips and children have a greater voice and choice in their learning. Concurrently, however, statistical trends have...

Lower School Parenting social emotional learning

Teasing, Bullying, and Conflict: What’s the Difference?

The third grader was pensive as he described interactions with a classmate. “My mom is really upset because she thinks I’m being bullied,” he told me, “but I think I’m being teased.” Turns out, he was right! The words teasing, bullying, and conflict are often used interchangeably, but they describe...

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Prioritizing Student Well-Being in the College Admissions Process: A Q&A with Shipley’s College Counselors

It’s not every day that you hear college counselors suggest you should approach the college admissions process with an open mind and a sense of humor. But with several decades of experience among them, Shipley’s college counseling team knows what they are talking about. While making such a weighty...

The Story of Your Name

Saburah. It has been misspelled and mispronounced for my entire life. I’ve been called many things including Siobhan, Sabrina, Cebolla, and have received emails in which my name has been misspelled or even written as Simba. Growing up in this area, I remember hearing names like “Naomi” or “Kyle”...

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More than an Athlete: Prioritizing Mental Health in High School Sports

Most of us are familiar with the positive mental and physical benefits of playing sports: regular exercise, strong social bonds with teammates, and a way to relieve stress and anxiety. Being an athlete builds positive character strengths and develops leadership skills that translate to other areas...

DEI

Diversify Your Bookshelf

Looking for diverse texts to read for either yourself or your child(ren)? Shipley's Librarians are here to help with a heaping helping of books to satisfy your literary appetite.

Diversity in the Sport of Rowing

Shipley's Director of Rowing, Scott Gavin-Wisniewski discusses the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the sport of rowing and how Shipley's Rowing Academy is working to counteract that. The program's strategic partnership with Philadelphia City Rowing (PCR) both informs how we advance DEI...

3,2,1, Care to Share? A Quiet Lesson in Diversity

“3, 2, 1, care to share?” This is the way that we begin each class in SEED 6, our sixth grade social emotional learning course. In a time and place where abnormal is the new normal, ritual and routine are more important than ever.

I Accidentally Misgendered Someone! How Should I Respond?

October 20th is International Pronouns Day. According to the event’s website, this day “seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace.” Last year, I wrote a post about the importance of respecting pronouns and how to introduce yourself with your pronouns (read...

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I Accidentally Misgendered Someone! How Should I Respond?

More than an Athlete: Prioritizing Mental Health in High School Sports

Seeing Things Differently: Viewpoint Diversity in Education

Beyond Winning: Teaching Leadership and Character through Youth Sports

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