In his book Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner argues that schools should teach skills to think in the manners specific to particular disciplines. Teaching students these ways of thinking—these conceptual frameworks so that they are able to ga...
In my phone conversation with NAIS president John Chubb, he stated an alarming statistic: fifty percent of all NAIS schools are facing enrollment pressures. His next statement startled me even more: “the reason, in my opinion, is a lack of leadership...
In 2011 Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winning behavioral psychologist at Princeton, wrote Thinking, Fast and Slow. This rich and rather dense book details the bias that runs rampant in human decision-making and highlights the illusion of objectivi...
The accelerating retirement of baby boomer heads and the enrollment pressures many schools have been facing since the Great Recession present a significant challenge for independent school trustees as they select new heads to guide their schools in u...
Teachers and administrators take notice when a first-year head of school eats lunch with the same group of teachers and administrators at “the coaches’ table.” Within the first three months, a first-time head tackles what he sees as a major ethical i...
