Coffee with the Head of School: Gratitude
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz speaks about the importance of gratitude, how to practice it in our daily lives, and how to cultivate it in our daughters.
Apr 27, 2022•42 min•Ep. 80
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Fostering Resilience in Our Daughters
History teacher Ginny Boles speaks with Theology teacher Mary Ann Messenger and former Oakcrest Director of Mentoring Kate Hadley about how to cultivate resilience in our daughters. They chat about how parents can model resilience for their children, how to walk the fine line between empathy and helping your child put things in perspective, and much more.
Apr 12, 2022•51 min•Ep. 79
Coffee with the Head of School: Your Daughter and Summer
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz discusses the importance of making the most of the summer months and gives suggestions for how parents can help their daughters have a happy, fruitful, and fulfilling summer.
Mar 17, 2022•36 min•Ep. 78
Coffee with the Head of School: Forgiveness
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz reflects on forgiveness—what it is, why it’s important, and how we can practice it in our everyday lives.
Mar 17, 2022•44 min•Ep. 77
7th Annual O’Donovan Humanities Lecture—Ancient and Modern Grief: Presence and Absence
A pair of scholars, father and daughter, look at grief from two angles. The daughter, a classics scholar, takes up an ancient story of grief and anger from Homer’s Iliad. The father, a priest and theologian in the Episcopal church, ponders the loss of his wife at the end of a struggle with brain disease. Both find tension between absence and presence. Achilles undertakes many futile efforts to “restore” his broken life after he loses Patroklos, and the father finds another Presence precisely in ...
Mar 17, 2022•40 min•Ep. 76
January 8, 2022 Mary Rice Hasson Presentation
Attorney and policy expert Mary Rice Hasson talks about the rapid increase in the promotion of gender ideology in movies, social media, and even in the medical community. With a compassionate and realistic approach she shares the understanding of the truth about the human person and urges us to take up our responsibility as parents to study the issue so as to provide guidance to our children.
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 74
How to Help Your Daughter Form Her Moral Imagination Through Good Books
English teacher Stephanie Passero talks about why good literature is so crucial in forming our daughters’ hearts and minds and how to encourage in them a love for reading good books.
Mar 03, 2022•39 min•Ep. 75
How the Oakcrest Grade Level Experiences Can Be a Resource for Fathers
Dean of Students Meghan Hadley Oakcrest Class of 2006 shares how Grade Level Experiences form students throughout their journey from Middle School to graduation. Oakie dad Philip O’Beirne shares examples from his own experience of how to utilize elements of Oakcrest’s educational vision to promote curiosity, virtue, and wonder in the development of your daughters.
Mar 03, 2022•28 min•Ep. 73
Our Academic Program
Middle School Director Cecilia Escobar, Upper School Director Christine Nussio, and Director of Academic Advising Catherine Courtney speak about the beauty of an Oakcrest education. They take a look at the big picture of our rich liberal arts curriculum, explaining what we teach, why we teach it, and how it follows the stages of intellectual development.
Mar 03, 2022•58 min•Ep. 72
O'Donovan Humanities Lecture: Beauty, Piety and Fun in Medieval Literature
Dr. Evelyn Birge Vitz, Professor Emerita of French Literature, Thought and Culture at NYU, takes listeners on an exciting journey through seven of her favorite works of medieval literature. She explores some of the fascinating history and themes in these great and appealing Catholic works from the Middle Ages.
Mar 29, 2021•48 min•Ep. 67
Coffee with the Head of School: Finishing the School Year Well
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz considers ways that families can finish the school year well, highlighting the important role of parent leadership along the way.
Mar 29, 2021•34 min•Ep. 66
The Importance of Mentoring
Oakcrest Director of Mentoring Jeannie Herrick talks about the importance of mentoring young women.
Mar 15, 2021•8 min•Ep. 65
The Oakcrest Difference: How Dads Can Contribute to Oakcrest's Current and Future Success
Head of School Mary T. Ortiz, Director of Parent Support Terri Collins and Director of Institutional Advancement and Oakcrest dad Michael Barvick discuss the importance of fathers to the Oakcrest mission. They offer insights and advice on how fathers can support, encourage and guide their daughters during these middle and high school years.
Mar 04, 2021•47 min•Ep. 64
Academic Advising at Oakcrest
Oakcrest's Director of Academic Advising and Head Librarian Catherine Courtney describes how Oakcrest works with students and parents to provide the best educational experience possible and prepare them for college.
Mar 01, 2021•10 min•Ep. 62
Coffee with the Head of School: February 2021
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz looks ahead to the summer and discusses how it can be a fruitful time for students and their families.
Mar 01, 2021•30 min•Ep. 63
Oakcrest's College Counseling Vision
Director of College Counseling Miranda Johnson dives into Oakcrest's College Counseling mission and describes how we assist students throughout the college application process.
Jan 07, 2021•28 min•Ep. 61
Coffee with the Head of School: December 4, 2020
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz offers some thoughts on making the best use of our time and gifts, especially during this season of Advent and Christmas.
Dec 04, 2020•36 min•Ep. 60
Dr. Leonard Sax: Evidence-Based Parenting: Raising Daughters in the 21st Century
Psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax discusses best parenting practices for raising daughters in the 21st century, especially with regards to social media and phone use.
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 59
But It's Not the Real World: Answers to Common Questions about an All-Girls Education
Psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax draws upon his 26 years of clinical experience, as well as his visits to more than 400 schools over the past 17 years, to provide evidence-based answers to some of the most common questions about all-girls education, beginning with "The real world is coed; school should prepare kids for the real world; so shouldn't school also be coed?"
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 58
How the C&O Canal brought about the United States Constitution
History teacher Ginny Boles delves into how the C&O Canal was a catalyst for bringing about the United States Constitution.
Nov 12, 2020•25 min•Ep. 57
Coffee with the Head of School: November 6, 2020
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz offers some thoughts on "raising heirloom flowers" and the Oakcrest mission, as well as positive COVID lessons she has learned that can help in the education of young women.
Nov 06, 2020•35 min•Ep. 56
Coffee with the Head of School: October 2, 2020
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz reflects on the value and impact of mentoring young women.
Oct 13, 2020•23 min•Ep. 55
Coffee with the Head of School: September 11, 2020
Head of School Emerita Dr. Mary T. Ortiz shares some reflections on the upcoming school year with parents in the first Coffee with the Head of the 2020 fall semester.
Sep 16, 2020•25 min•Ep. 54
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered Series: Everyday Practical Skills in Five Easy Lessons
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered is a series produced by the Parent Partnership team to inspire and to provide practical advice for parents during quarantine. In this fifth and final episode, Director of Parent Support Terri Collins and Director of Mentoring Kate Hadley talk about the most important practical life skills to teach your children before they enter adulthood.
Jun 23, 2020•25 min•Ep. 53
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered Series: 10 Tips for the Best Social Skills You Can Teach Your Child Before She Goes Off to College
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered is a series produced by the Parent Partnership team to inspire and to provide practical advice for parents during quarantine. Director of Parent Support Terri Collins and Director of Mentoring Kate Hadley are back, this time with a discussion on important social skills that will serve your child well as she becomes an adult.
Jun 18, 2020•31 min•Ep. 52
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered Series: The 10 Best Chores to Teach Your Children
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered is a series produced by the Parent Partnership team to inspire and to provide practical advice for parents during quarantine. Director of Mentoring Kate Hadley and members of her family discuss the value of chores in family life and the best ones to teach your children.
Jun 17, 2020•21 min•Ep. 50
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered Series: How to Make the Most of Family Dinner Conversations
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered is a series produced by the Parent Partnership team to inspire and to provide practical advice for parents during quarantine. Director of Parent Support Terri Collins talks with her daughters, who are Oakcrest alumnae, about the value of family dinner conversations and ways that families can make dinnertime conversations fun and meaningful.
Jun 17, 2020•24 min•Ep. 51
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered Series: The 10 Best Fun Things to Do with Family and Friends During Quarantine
An Inconvenience Rightly Considered is a series produced by the Parent Partnership team to inspire and to provide practical advice for parents during quarantine. In Episode 1, Director of Parent Support Terri Collins and Director of Mentoring Kate Hadley discuss fun and creative activities that friends and families can do when spending time together, whether in person or virtually.
Jun 15, 2020•23 min•Ep. 49
Big Battles in Small Spaces: The Balance Between Viruses, the Immune System, and the Unknown
Oakcrest science teacher Dr. Kat Hussmann takes listeners on an exploration of the history of viruses, what viruses are, what they do to our bodies, and the cutting-edge technology available to scientists.
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 48
What Does It Mean to Be Human? Moral Action
Dr. Edwina Maksym continues this series with a look at moral action—the idea of right and wrong and how morality reflects God's love and mercy.
Feb 26, 2020•45 min•Ep. 46
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