A Light to Oneself, A Light to the World

Our theme for the 2024/25 school year

Each year we choose a school theme as a way to frame our ongoing inquiry into the intent of the school as articulated by our founder, J Krishnamurti. The following is a short video based on this year’s theme, “A Light to Oneself, A Light to the World,” produced for our Annual Fundraising Tea.

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DEIB Committee

DEIB Committee

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Oak Grove’s committee for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) met in early October to welcome new members and shape our hopes for this school year.
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Alumni Profile: Dr. Jayson Waters ’10

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Dr Jayson Waters graduated from Oak Grove in 2010. Originally from Australia, he attended the school as a boarder on a scholarship program funded by the American, British, and Australian Krishnamurti Foundations. He shares his Oak Grove story and talks about his work in Quantum Meta-Ethics at the University of Sydney.
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Alumni Profile: Genevieve Sky Waltcher ’05

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Alumni Genevieve Sky Waltcher reflects in her brief bio: "Oak Grove was more than a school; it was a family and a sanctuary to learn to be."
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Peace Day, Our Shared Garden of Responsibility

Peace Day 2023

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At Oak Grove, we acknowledged World Peace Day with a week-long exploration into the notion of peace. Throughout campus, we celebrated Peace Week within the classroom curriculum, through the construction of a collaborative art installation titled “Our Garden of Responsibility.”
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Community of Learners, Back to School Night

Community of Learning

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The Stanford psychologist, Carol Dweck said: “If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.” How can we extend this philosophy to our larger learning community of teachers, coaches, and staff members?
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Alumni Profile: Quinn Latimer ’96

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My time at Oak Grove was brief, just the last two years of high school, but I think its emphasis on living in coexistence with what we often call the natural world really impressed itself on me, as well as the school's sense, received from Krishnamurti, of a more international and philosophical sense of being in and with the world.
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Fall Camping Trip

Fall Camping Trips

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Our Fall camping trips are designed to bring the High School (9th-12th) and the Middle School (6th-8th grade) together early in the year to orient and integrate new and returning students and teachers.
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Lizard Talks Series

Lizard Talks: Geetha Waters

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For our first Lizard Talks series of the year, we welcomed Geetha Waters. Geetha, parent of Oak Grove School alum Jayson Waters '10, is an educator and writer, who facilitates programs at the Krishnamurti Study Centre in Summer Hill, Australia.
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A New School Year Begins!

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Today was our first day of school! There were hops and skips, and hugs and high-fives all around as we said hello to our returning students and welcomed our new incoming students.
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