Welcome to the official podcast of Oakcrest School, an independent school for girls in grades 6-12, located in Northern Virginia.
Head of School Dr. Mary T. Ortiz shares the Oakcrest recipe, what makes an Oakcrest student and forms the Oakcrest community. She digs into the mission of Oakcrest and illustrates how it all comes together to serve young women well.
Leslie Kanuch, a science teacher at Oakcrest, presents Physics for Contemplation: finding pathways to God in unimagined places. In her discussion, she introduces both physicists and saints, explaining how their respective discoveries and insights reveal to us both God and the physical world.
Head of School Dr. Mary T. Ortiz speaks about the importance of gratitude, how to practice it in our daily lives, and how to cultivate it in our daughters.
History teacher Ginny Boles speaks with Theology teacher Mary Ann Messenger and former Oakcrest Director of Mentoring Kate Hadley about how to cultivate resilience in our daughters. They chat about how parents can model resilience for their children, how to walk the fine line between empathy and helping your child put things in perspective, and much more.
Head of School Dr. Mary T. Ortiz discusses the importance of making the most of the summer months and gives suggestions for how parents can help their daughters have a happy, fruitful, and fulfilling summer.
Head of School Dr. Mary T. Ortiz, reflects on forgiveness—what it is, why it’s important, and how we can practice it in our everyday lives.
Attorney and policy expert Mary Rice Hasson talks about the rapid increase in the promotion of gender ideology in movies, social media, and even in the medical community. With a compassionate and realistic approach she shares the understanding of the truth about the human person and urges us to take up our responsibility as parents to study the issue so as to provide guidance to our children.
English teacher Stephanie Passero talks about why good literature is so crucial in forming our daughters’ hearts and minds and how to encourage in them a love for reading good books.
Dean of Students Meghan Hadley Oakcrest Class of 2006 shares how Grade Level Experiences form students throughout their journey from Middle School to graduation. Oakie dad Philip O’Beirne shares examples from his own experience of how to utilize elements of Oakcrest’s educational vision to promote curiosity, virtue, and wonder in the development of your daughters.
