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 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...
