It was a shocking offer. Steve Loy was just 24 years old when the Head of the Brentwood School in Los Angeles offered him the position of High School Principal. Brentwood was transitioning from a small Military Academy to being one of the first independent schools in the area to build a co-ed strategy in a market that was, at the time, heavily single-sex biased. That extraordinary moment of trust and confidence left a mark on our OESIS Member School profiled Head, Steve Loy, of Rutgers Prep School (NJ). Six years later at Brentwood, another extraordinary moment of remarkable emotional self-control and grace was to have a lasting impact on his career, and we were to see the culmination of this courage again in 2021. Join us in the story of how Steve built upon these formative experiences in his decades of leadership to do something virtually no other Head we knew had decided to do.
Six years into his tenure at Brentwood while Assistant Head of School, the Board Chair recommended Steve…
