Dear AIS Community,
In my AP World History class, students write earnest answers to largely unanswerable questions. A prompt might ask them, say, to assess the most impactful innovation of a given period. Some would argue for humble paper, invented in Han dynasty China. Others would point to the concept of zero, first treated as a true number in seventh-century India, or to the now ubiquitous joint stock company, pioneered by the Dutch East India Company in 1602.
Here, I will argue that the greatest innovation of our era is perhaps my favorite school activity: reading buddies. Consider what it offers to our civilization. Friday mornings filled with new literary friendships, time together in green spaces, and one of life’s true pleasures: a good book. I would take it over a large language model chatbot by a country mile.
On Friday, our students met their reading buddies for the year. Throughout the week, students competed in varsity basketball, visualized fractions, prepared for upcoming international trips, and engaged in dialogue in our seminar courses, among many other highlights in this week’s bulletin. Please have a look and read all about it.
Thanks for being a part of it,
Mr. Nash
