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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 uncertain times.Many search consultants think that... read more

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 objectivity that pervades our thinking. A summary of the ma... read more

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.” Moreover, in my role as consultant over the pas... read more

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 gain deep insight into a topic and use the skills to... read more