My high school journey in India, like that of most people across the globe, was intense for the wrong reasons. The goals of the institution were clear: deliver top performance
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
October 19, 2021 My most recent memory of a traditional onsite education conference was Spring 2019. It was similar to so many of the conferences I had attended over the
I do not live in the most politically prejudiced county in the United States. That would be Suffolk County, Massachusetts, home of Boston. But I live next door, and my
In 2000, Peter Senge, of the MIT Sloan School of Management, published his fourth book, Schools That Learn. Early in the book, Senge says the following about learning communities: The
What is it really that we are talking about when we speak of “the education system”? Surely, you and I, educators around the world, students, school leaders are the system.
This article was inspired by my conversations with Louka Parry and David Penberg. Sometimes I fixate on a subject or idea and find myself buying a bunch of books and
Thousands of schools around the world have leaders pushing for some sort of change. Educational change exists on a spectrum from administrative to an organizational learning culture. Listening to the
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
CSI: Capacity Before Strategy & Implementation The previous two articles (Part 1 & Part 2) in this series have highlighted the deficiencies in the current governance models in failing to