September 12, 2022 Note from the editor: Most of our readers know that NAIS is searching for a new President. We would like the search to be a more open
September 5, 2022 The May-June 2017 issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) contained an interesting article entitled “What Sets Successful CEOs Apart.” As a consultant to independent schools for
September 1, 2022 Employing the agile framework in the classroom is highly beneficial for students and for teachers, but the benefits extend beyond the classroom walls. Agile brings incredible changes
August 17, 2022 Sometimes the greatest impediment to change is trying to do it from within the structures, formats, restrictions, and histories of a system. In doing so, answers to
This is the second time in less than 12 months that we have surveyed Heads of School in our network: in July of last year we had 75 Heads responding
Ozymandias There is a fast-developing problem for independent schools. It is more systemic than alleged racism and more disruptive than pandemic-induced protocols. Independent schools are becoming ungovernable. A 1970’s Management
The Extrinsic In Part 1 of this series, we focused on how the 50-year NAIS governance experiment around mission failed to build constituency alignment. The resulting landscape is one of
America and other countries are finally waking up to the unfairness and thus meaningless nature of standardized testing. The sad part is how predictable it was that it would take
This is the first in a series of articles written by either Ray Ravaglia or Sanje Ratnavale in which topics of disruption and mission will be explored in the broader