Ethics Everywhere: The Ethics Institute’s Year Ahead
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The Ethics Institute at Kent Place has an exciting year ahead, set to be full of lively ethical dialogue, workshops for parents, challenging ethics bowl competitions, and deepening how our community engages with the world’s most pressing topics. Here are just a few of the initiatives to look forward to.
REBOOT has rebranded! The student-led group that empowers their peers to take charge of their digital lives has updated the REBOOT acronym to “Resetting Ethical Boundaries on Our Technology.” Read more here.
Lodestar, the Ethics Institute’s student-run journal, is in its second year of publication. Editors-in-chief Claire Cherill ’26, Liv Peters ’26, and Kara Hoang ’27 are hard at work planning for the 2025–26 issue. Learn more about Lodestar here.
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a dominant issue in our classrooms and our lives, the Ethics Institute is paving the way to be a thought leader on the subject. Karen Rezach and Anna Conti, the Director and Associate Director of the Ethics Institute, respectively, have already given faculty training on ethics and AI to schools in the area. They’re working with the Kent Place Upper School on an Ethics and AI assembly and are creating thought leadership pieces to ensure that students’ ethical understanding keeps pace with the new challenges AI presents. Those who have AI expertise are warmly invited to serve as advisors to the Ethics Institute.
The Ethics Institute continues to offer programming as part of Kent Place’s Empowered Parent Program, and kicks off on Friday, September 19, with Ethics 101. The Ethics Institute looks forward to welcoming new and returning community members who are interested in learning more about the Ethics Institute and how to take part in ethical conversations about current issues. Register for this workshop, and learn more about the Empowered Parent Program, here.
The High School Ethics Bowl is looking ahead to a successful competition season. There are three spots open for new members on Kent Place’s Upper School Ethics Bowl Team, and tryouts will begin next week. Students are encouraged to check their inboxes for application information. Learn more here.
A New York Times’ award-winning podcast, Kent Place’s very own Tapping In, is preparing to launch its next season: The next episode is anticipated for early fall. The podcast is led by Tara Khurana ’26 and Ayushi Wadhwa ’27. Listen to previous episodes here.
The Portraits of Empowerment: Leading with an Economic Mindset course, one of our newest ethics offerings, is being held in the Bloomberg Lab in the Upper School. Throughout the trimester class, students will use the Bloomberg terminals to expand their understanding of economic topics and participate in ethical dialogue about issues they discover. Students in this course are pictured in the cover photo during one of their first lessons of 2025–2026.
The Bioethics Project continues with its 2025–2026 cohort. Learn more about what the students were up to this summer — from visits to Overlook Hospital, to religion panels, to challenging bioethics cases — here.
Keep an eye out for the Ethics Everywhere Newsletter, which will be sent out monthly starting later this fall. All Kent Place parents are included on this distribution. If you’re don’t receive this newsletter and would like to, please email ethics@kentplace.org. In the meantime, check out last year’s newsletters here.