Story Number OneEarly in my administrative career, the school was struggling with a weak French program. We decided to bring in a foreign language expert to spend several days examining the program, sitting in on classes, and talking to students. At...
A couple of renegade trustees—sometimes only ONE—can turn an effective board into a contentious, unsupportive, parsimonious, or a dysfunctional one; often the board turns into all of these. So how can you screen new trustees effectively? And is it po...
Math Teacher to Students: “Hey, folks, it’s not me against you; it’s us against Algebra II.”A staple of board-head relationships is the establishment of the head’s annual goals. In the typical scenario, the head reflects on the past year, revisits th...
We are seeing an uptick in unexpected and unplanned turnover among independent school Heads resulting in a decrease in years that a Head is serving a school.We know that turnover and new leadership can be a healthy thing—productive and invigorating,...
