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Brandon McNeice

Brandon McNeice is Head of School and CEO of Cornerstone Christian Academy in Southwest Philadelphia and the founder of Tack Educational Consulting. He is a 2025 Klingenstein Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is an EdD candidate at Purdue University Global. His writing explores the intersections of educational leadership, moral formation, and cultural renewal.

Articles by Brandon McNeice

Their Land Brought Forth Frogs in Abundance

When the same symbol keeps emerging in such different scenes—Hebrew scripture, neighborhood storm drains, progressive street theater, alt-right image boards—it is worth asking why. We are not choosing frogs at…
January 16, 2026

Everything Was Once a Place

Practices that began as bounded places we visited have thinned into atmospheres we inhabit.
November 28, 2025

The Commons in a Cardboard Box

A box by a door. A hand that picks up. A name that calls an object to account.

In Defense of Children’s Work

Apprenticeship, not exploitation—and why place still matters.
September 26, 2025

The Vestigial Front Porch

Still it waves. Still it sings.
September 2, 2025

A Dress Code for Democracy

How school uniforms foster a common life in an age of fragmentation.