Edward M. Kowalchick

Our interactions with students and with each other, in and outside of the classroom, create a residential community of learning.  Students may hear what we say, but they learn what we do.

In a boarding school, what happens outside of the classroom is as essential to the learning process as the rigors in each academic discipline.  What the students at Phelps learn on the playing fields, in the student center, in the dining room, and in their dorms, creates for them a sense of responsibility for themselves and their community that is an integral part of their academic, personal, and social development.  As each student’s academic curriculum is carefully scheduled and monitored by his classroom teachers, the residential curriculum in each dorm is lead by the dorm parents and the proctors who are committed to encouraging each student to achieve his personal best in living responsibly with his peers.

In a healthy residential community, everyone belongs.  As affirmed in the schools’ Mission Statement, it is Phelps’ philosophy to provide each student an “environment that is consistent, supportive, structured and combined with challenge, care and honesty. The Phelps School is concerned with emphasizing the articulation and inculcation of personal moral values as an important part of our mission; educating the heart as well as the mind and body.”

You can reach me via email at: emk@thephelpsschool.org