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Dear Keystonians,  

There is a great show tonight (Friday) and Saturday night at the PAC! Don’t miss it! It is the Dance Drama, Mirror Self, is a masterpiece of transdisciplinary student-led learning!  

At the conclusion of the Thursday night performance, DP Theatre Teacher and advisor Joel Godiah welcomed all the performers to the stage for a final bow and then began to describe the roles all the students played in making the event happen. Students wrote, directed, choreographed and performed the entire show. Some DP music students wrote original music for some of the scenes. There were other students running the set design and tech, including the lighting design. There were lots of teachers involved too, but it was a student-led performance from soup to nuts.  

This is the power of our Performing Arts Center and a curriculum designed for student exploration and invention—and you still have a chance to go see it—don't miss out! In addition to having a beautiful message about the fragility of a quest for perfection and the enduring and universal need for self-acceptance, it is a microcosm of what a wonderful school looks like.  

The show brought me back to the idea that Dean of Students Kelly Sanchez shared when I first arrived at Keystone—she shared that the best thing about this school is that we do our best to say “Yes” to kids. Can we work all year and develop an original performance? Yes.  

Can we talk to your classmates and see if they can write some original music, maybe as part of their coursework? Yes.  

Can we get help from half a dozen different teachers and staff members who will support us on top of the rest of their demanding work? Yes.  

Can we collaborate in ways that we have never seen done before, so big, cool and new they might fail? Yes.  

Yes, let’s try! 

What an amazing sentence—one that promotes big (deep, enduring and transferable) learning through raw bravery and risk-taking. Every student involved in this play knows how to get stuff done and the amazing feeling that comes from taking a risk and winning, big. Opportunities like this—where we say YES to students, is a critical element of a New World School that pushes learning out into the unknown and lets the students see what will happen. YES!  

Congratulations to all the students involved and all the adults doing their best to say “YES!” to them every day.  

Yours,  

Emily  

P.S. If you are a student packing for an ELP this weekend (or a parent helping), say “NO” to hiding a phone or any kind of tech in the luggage. Every year we find that a small number of well-meaning parents stash cell phones or tracking devices in their child’s bags. This creates lots of challenges and, in some cases, disciplinary issues. Instead, please say “YES!” to challenging the kids to unplug for the week and enjoy the ELP experiences and each other. It can be difficult for us sending them off untethered to any technology, but this challenge is also training us -- the loving adults in their lives—to be ready someday to give them more and more distance. They will use that freedom to soar, I promise.