There’s a question inherent to school itself: what are we preparing our students for?  It can’t just be more school. They live in a world flooded with information, alerts, notifications, and constant decision-making and because they do we owe it to them to do more than just tell them to “stay organized” and send them on. We need to give them frameworks that allow them to think critically, define problems well, and navigate complexity with confidence.

“So, how might we imagine our future?  

Pretty much the way we do everything at Stone: creatively and collaboratively, with a lot of intention, with a lot of ideation, with a lot of prototyping, with a lot of iteration.  It is indeed true that we are founded on a rich partnership between students, faculty, parents, and supporters who care deeply about this kind of education, and it is the honor of a lifetime to collaborate with each of you on our school’s future.”

If you Google “What animal has saved the most human lives?” the first answer—surprisingly or not—is the horseshoe crab.

For nearly four years, our community has been talking about horseshoe crabs. Like all things in this magical community, what started as an offhand joke gained its own internal logic. The randomness of it—the fact that of course this is the thing we’d obsess over—somehow made perfect sense at a school like Stone, where obsessive curiosity rules the day.

“Welcome to one of our favorite times of the year—Admission Season at Stone! While technically every day is Admission Season for us, the next 100 days are by far the busiest. This is when we see the most inquiries, host the most shadow days, hold the most events, and receive the most applications.”

On Friday morning at 10:30 a.m., Head of School Mike Simpson, Board President Sarah Hurley, and Dean of Students Alex Funnell will walk out of Stone, turn left, and race each other to Tellus360.

The winner? The first one who gets to Tellus360, orders a cup of water, and dumps it on their head.