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La Jolla Country Day School
10/20/21​
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Leading and Living Into Our Values
By Payton Hobbs, head of Lower School

Leadership is hard, especially during a global pandemic. Multiple decisions need to be made, projects to be managed, feedback to be given and received, and people who depend on you to support and care for them by meeting a variety (and sometimes conflicting) set of needs and wants. 
 
Sustaining Ourselves and Each Other
By Geordie Mitchell, assistant head of school for enrollment management and outreach

The pandemic has introduced stresses in all of our lives that most of us could never have imagined two years ago. As the projections of when life would return to “normal” stretched further into the future, our reaction shifted from short-term crisis mode to one of adaptation of the “new abnormal.”
 

Connecting the Past to the Present


Upper School humanities educator Colin Dalton shares how reading history textbooks for fun when he was in elementary school led to his passion for teaching history now and how learning about the past shapes our world today.
 
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Music Honor Society


The 4th Annual Tri-M Music Honor Society induction ceremony welcomes 15 new student-musicians.

Uzbekistan Business Leaders Visit


Fellows connect with entrepreneurs in the design and innovation program to determine how students develop products at LJCDS.

Alumni Story: Consciously Crafted


Jessica Hershfield ’08 shares how her passion for wine and bringing people together is good business.

Alumna is President of Condé Nast Entertainment


Lifer Agnes Chu ’98 celebrates her first year heading Condé Nast’s film and television productions.

Athletic Hall of Fame


Star players and treasured coaches returned to campus to be honored at the 2021 Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
More campus news
Second-grade mathematicians practice their skills with a game of four across.
Middle School musicians are getting ready for their Halloween Celebration concert.
Torreys in Marine Biology with Mr. Uyeda spent the afternoon collecting data on the abundance and distribution of sand crabs.
Students discuss Ships of Discovery, a book about the boats that explorers built and used when discovering new lands.
Middle School scientists took to the great outdoors and observed radiometers to discover how and why they rotate.
🎶The foot bone’s connected to the leg bone.🎶 Kindergarteners learn about the skeletal system in their human body unit.
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