Mr. Moseley’s Message of Love and Kindness Inspires National Episcopal Schools Challenge
Mr. Moseley's kindness challenge was felt through the St. Margaret’s community, and it recently caught the eye of Rev. Heischman, executive director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools.
St. Margaret’s Head of School Will Moseley’s ongoing message of love and kindness to the St. Margaret’s school community served as inspiration for a nationwide back-to-school challenge by The Reverend Canon Daniel R. Heischman, Executive Director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools.
Last fall, Mr. Moseley encouraged the St. Margaret’s community to spend each day between Thanksgiving and New Year’s sharing kindness with those around them. The 40-day kindness challenge encouraged students, faculty, staff and parents to “be thoughtful about our impact on each other and the world around us.”
The kindness challenge was felt through the St. Margaret’s community, and it recently caught the eye of Rev. Heischman. In an article he wrote for the NAES Network newsletter, he praised Mr. Moseley and St. Margaret’s for emphasizing kindness and extended the challenge to all NAES member schools.
Rev. Heischman quoted Mr. Moseley’s words and added his own reflections. “We often take for granted how small acts of kindness, respect, and warmth towards other human beings—be they longtime acquaintances or those we encounter for the first time—can have a profound impact on people. They not only can ‘make one’s day,’ they can become infectious, even formative, in the lives of both the giver and receiver. In other words, they open so many doors," he said.
“These seemingly small acts or attitudes, practiced over and over, can lead to a deeper understanding of the needs of others, an affinity at the very core of empathy,” Rev. Heischman wrote. “Opening the doors through kindness and respect can lead to the open minds and open hearts we so long to generate in our world.”
He added, “These are things that we can surely do as adults and thereby instill in our students. There is no better time of the year to set this as a principal goal for our school community than now, as we open the doors to our students, and there is no better context for the flourishing of these virtues than Episcopal schools.”
You can read Rev. Heischman’s entire piece, titled “Opening the Doors,” by clicking here.
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