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Recently, I travelled to meet with other trustees of the International Boys’ Schools Coalition (IBSC) at our January Board meeting. Their group convenes in person twice a year to support the work of approximately 300 member schools across the Americas, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. This year, a central theme emerged during our conversations as we began strategic planning: the health of young men. The group will meet next to continue this work at the annual conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, in late June.

The mission of Crescent’s Outreach program is straightforward yet powerful: to help students develop compassion, empathy, civic engagement, and leadership skills through authentic experiences. Outreach is all about making a difference, be it large or small. What’s most inspiring to me is that the changes I witness are not just about the impact on our partner organizations, but in the personal growth and self-actualization of our students engaged in the program.

In school communities like Crescent, we continually reflect on ways to engage our students, whether in the classroom, during study periods, in Mentor Group, or on the sports field.