By Steve Williams, WSD Executive Director In 1986, my younger brother Darrin tore the old engine out of his Dodge Challenger, rebuilt it piece by piece, and put it back together again all by himself. He was 16. The car…
On a recent Teacher Professional Development Day, WSD staff members gathered in the school’s cafeteria to assemble 500 Easter baskets for the Christian Center of Park City. They spent a half-day sorting and filling the baskets with self care items,…
At this year’s Discovery Gala fundraiser, “Night On The Nile,” local songwriter and popular performer, Mary Beth Maziarz, surprised the crowd with an original song dedicated to Weilenmann School of Discovery. Approximately 200 guests were treated to the debut of…
WSD’s annual benefit dinner and auction was held on Saturday, November 12 at the St. Regis Deer Valley. This year’s theme was “Night on the Nile” and celebrated the mysteries of Ancient Egypt, including the 100th anniversary of the discovery…
Most days offer us opportunities to show kindness – as well as any one of its opposites, impatience, selfishness, greed, or intolerance. It is also relatively easy to express the idea of kindness in platitudes – “Kindness can change the…
“Today we must create the world of the future.” Eleanor Roosevelt The school theme we have chosen this year comes from Eleanor Roosevelt’s deathbed manifesto, Tomorrow is Now, in which she writes, after a lifetime of facing seemingly impossible and…
As we gathered on the playground last Wednesday morning to photograph our entire student body and staff, I was reminded how much I had missed seeing all of us in one place. Although we have been in the same building…
By Steve Williams, Executive Director One of the things I’ve always loved about being a teacher is the beginning of each new school year — returning to the building to meet students and colleagues, new and old, reorganizing my classroom…
By Natalie Morgan, WSD Theme Committee Chair As we were searching for a theme for the 2020-21 school year, the world was still in the grip of COVID-19 and issues of equality and social justice were resurfacing across our country.…
On July 29, Christine Napier of Park City TV interviewed WSD’s Executive Director, Steve Williams, about his new role and the school’s plan for welcoming students back to school. CHRISTINE NAPIER: ON this Parenting and Education Day, we are checking…