Our executive director (Bau Graves) has started a blog on our homepage. You can find it at oldtownschool.org. Here's the first entry:

Welcome to Bau's Blaug, a corner of our website where you can come to get the latest news from "the Big Cheese." There is much going on at Old Town School, and it is my hope and intent to use this space to communicate with our extended community about what we're doing, and why.

For example, you may have heard that the School is planning to create a new facility across the street. But you may not be aware that our dance programs have grown so fast over the last decade that Old Town is now the most comprehensive school of dance in Chicago – which is why we're planning to build four big new dance studios. If you've ever taken a guitar lesson downstairs from the Irish step dance class, you know how badly we need acoustically-designed classrooms, but unless you've been a fly on the wall in the admin suite, you probably don't know that the new building will feature technologically "smart" classrooms, capable to serving new audiences through fully interactive distance learning.

My plan is to knock out a couple paragraphs every week just to keep you posted on what's being discussed, what ideas are in the air, and which direction(s) I see us headed. A running commentary on the state of the School, the School's place in the community and the world, and our navigation of the great rivers of tradition and innovation. You're invited to visit this blog often, and to join in the dialogue yourself.