Rafe’s New Book II

After having read the majority of Rafe’s book, I have to say that it might be the best and most important one so far. It is an extraordinary book about how to raise extraordinary children. It is written for parents primarily, but has been very meaningful to me as a teacher. He touches on nine [...]

Rafe’s New Book

Rafe Esquith, a teacher from Los Angeles who has visited Akiba and is a mentor to several of us in the Middle School, released his third book this week. You can purchase the book at bookstores or online. I’m very excited about the book (I had a countdown running for the last few weeks), and [...]

Welcome Back!

Wow! After a lot of preparing, we got what will be an amazing school year off the ground today. The energy in the school was incredible, and most noticeable was the lack of first day ‘adjustments’ on the part of the students. Everyone picked up right where they left off last year, which is a [...]