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OCTOBER 2020
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The US Constitution: A Look Back and A Look Ahead
Read MoreBy Jonathan Koenig, Appellate Division Chief in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Wisconsin and a BA Parent.
(The following is a condensed version of Brookfield Academy’s American Character Series Presentation on September 17, 2020.)I am privileged to work for the United States Department of Justice, the views I express today are my own.The story of our Constitution is—I hope—familiar. Delegates met in 1787 in Philadelphia with the mission of revising the Articles of Confederation, which had loosely bound the states together since the end of the American Revolution a few years earlier.
September 2020
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Embracing Challenge at Brookfield Academy
By Linda Pryor, Executive Director of Mission & AcademicsRead More
Each year at Brookfield Academy we spend time thinking about an appropriate theme for the new school year ahead. I always enjoy the process as we try to determine what message we need to move our Brookfield Academy family forward in the most constructive manner while remaining focused on our Mission. This year the decision was made quickly -- we chose Embrace Challenge as the 2020-21 school year theme. It was an easy choice -- and an obvious choice. We knew opening our campus this fall would have its challenges. We asked ourselves how we wanted to proceed; and by moving forward with a positive attitude and big hearts for our students and their families, we were already committing to our new school theme.
June 2020
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How Guiding Truths Influence Us
By Linda Pryor, Executive Director of Mission & AcademicsRead More
What truths do we face in the middle of a pandemic? During the last two months of the school year, the first truth that came to mind -- it was quiet. The children, our greatest joy, were missing. There were no messes in the halls or locker banks, telltale signs that our favorite people were not present. The hum of conversation and laughter in our buildings was no longer there. What a difference - you could feel it the moment you stepped into one of our buildings - it was just too quiet. We suddenly had a new normal. Our schedules were very different. The workload
was strangely more and less at the same time. Everything had changed and yet, nothing really had changed. These were and continue to be the truths of life at Brookfield Academy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
