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Our 2026-2027 Isdell Global Leaders (IGLs)—senior Bayli Richardson and juniors Hiruni Manawadu, Noah Sender and Jack Spires—depart Friday, Oct. 9, for their fall study tour across coastal Georgia.

Selected following an intensive application process, the IGLs are spending the year exploring the Isdell Center for Global Leadership (ICGL) annual theme of Conservation through independent study, in-depth research and travel experiences. 

Led by ICGL Director Trish Anderson and Associate Director Tatum Branaman, the cohort will travel from the Okefenokee Swamp to Savannah. Along the way, they’ll stop at Cumberland Island, St. Marys, Brunswick, Darien, Sapelo Island, Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge and Skidaway to explore how coastal communities innovate and thrive while protecting vital ecological and cultural systems.

Want to travel along with them? Follow @pace_icgl for updates, photos and behind-the-scenes stories.

All Pace parents and caregivers are invited to join the Pace mental wellness team for an important presentation—The Power of Prevention: How to Talk to Your Child About Suicide—at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, in the Kam Memar Lower School’s Gandhi Hall. 

Ben Pargman of Manny’s Band and David Asbury of the Sam Asbury Foundation share something in common: they each lost a young son to suicide. Join Ben and David, in conversation with Pace’s Consulting Psychologist Dr. Christi Bartolomucci, as they share their sons’ stories and give families the language to ask the hard questions, recognize warning signs and make your home a place where hard things get said out loud.

This year's TEDxPaceAcademy, Trees of Knowledge, will take place Sunday, Oct. 25, from 2 to 4 p.m. in The Zalik Theater in the Fine Arts Center. Students from all three divisions and many affinity groups will reflect on the prismatic and unorthodox ways they learn beyond the classroom. 

TEDx student leaders this year are juniors Emma Alvarez and Mason Pinkerton. Speakers include fifth-grader Nayyab Shaikh, seventh-grader Laney Morris, sophomore Isaac Tal, junior Asim George and seniors Madeleine Ganz, Ava Grant and Kyen Washington. The event will feature short videos produced by sophomores Rohan Brahma, Carson Curtin and Ryan Janki and senior Paige Vadnais, highlighting students and faculty from all three divisions. 

Behind the scenes, sophomore Madeline Siskin created the TEDx Little Free Library. Sophomores Leela Desai and Bodhi Venturi and seniors Campbell Hanna and Eloise McDonald are creating the program, with artwork designed by junior Molly Koch. Junior Sam Schoeffler will serve as technical director, and sophomore Libby Rowe will be the scenic designer. The event is free and open to the public. You won’t want to miss it!

Students, faculty and staff in all divisions came together Sept. 14 through 18 to celebrate Mental Wellness Week, part of our Mental Wellness Initiative. 

The week kicked off on Tuesday in the Kam Memar Lower School’s Gandhi Hall with the year's first Parenting Toolbox Talk. Pace consulting psychologist Dr. Christi Bartolomucci presented The Science of Helping Your Child to Thrive: What Research Reveals About Children Who Flourish, and What Parents Can Do to Help and shared actionable strategies for parents and caregivers. Did you miss the presentation? Watch it in the Parenting Connection section of MYPACE and join us for the remainder of our Toolbox Talks series. 

Wednesday featured opportunities for both relaxation and community building. The counseling team partnered with visual art teachers Rachel Nicholson and Ty Nicholson to host self-care pottery painting workshops. Meanwhile, the Upper School Student Advisory Board hosted a daylong bake sale under the tent, raising funds for the Samaritan Counseling Center to help provide local mental health services. The Parents Club also treated faculty and staff to Wellness Bars in each division as a gesture of appreciation. Stocked with items like chocolate, tea and stress balls, the stations encouraged educators to pause, breathe and recharge.

Thursday brought a schoolwide dress-down day to emphasize the importance of healthy sleep habits, and celebrations concluded Friday under the tent with VIA Character Day. After taking the VIA Character Strengths Survey, Middle and Upper School students participated in a Our Strengths Pop!, an event hosted by the Middle and Upper School Wellness Councils featuring a popcorn and bubble tea bar to celebrate the diverse character strengths across the Pace community.

It’s time to get schooled as the Middle School presents the physical comedy blowout The Rules of Comedy in The Zalik Theater on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. and 9 at 2 p.m. Not only will you get a side-splitting lesson in what’s funny and what’s not, but to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the rules of comedy work anywhere, audiences will find themselves inserted into one of the most popular tragedies of all time: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Playing by the rules has never been so much fun! Performances are free and open to the public.