Penn Charter Magazine Spring 2022

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STRATEGIC VISION

GOALS 2,3

PROGRAM • TEACHING

B ET H G L A S C O T T :

A Lifelong Commitment to Students by Ray Bailey OPC ’09

When Beth Glascott arrived at Penn Charter in the fall of 1982, she knew that she was fond of the place. But it wasn’t a four-decadesof-service kind of fondness—at least not immediately. And for all that she ended up accomplishing at PC, her intentions were, at that point, relatively humble.

“I thought I’d stay here for a few years and figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up,” Glascott said from her office below the clock tower, just months shy of her spring 2022 retirement. Somewhere along the line Penn Charter must have grown on her. Over the course of those 40 years Glascott forged an equally influential presence in PC’s classrooms, playing fields and administrative offices, balancing her science teaching schedule with duties as Middle School assistant director, Upper School director, assistant head of school and, finally, associate head of school. She had a seat at the table for every strategic planning initiative and capital campaign to move through the school since the mid-’90s. She led two accreditations with the National Association for Independent Schools and a Quaker self-study with the Friends Council on Education—notoriously complicated processes of institutional self-reflection. “It’s no secret I get to do that work because I’m highly organized,” said Glascott, who is also highly modest. Her deep familiarity with academics, athletics and administration across two school divisions left her wellpositioned to synthesize the big and small picture of life at Penn Charter and to articulate a vision for its future. Her savvy with spreadsheets and schedules was a bonus, for sure, but certainly not the main reason Glascott was entrusted with this kind of higher-order institutional thinking.

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