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
Dear Intrepid Ed News reader, As you read the title of this announcement, you might be wondering what responsive leadership is and how we define “the truth.” Both are essential
In 1942, my father was appointed Headmaster of Tabor Academy, a school in Marion, MA, with an enrollment of 42 boys. (The job title “Head of School” was not used
There are three recommendations I’ll make with respect to what independent schools might do to control costs: Follow the advice of legendary management consultant Peter Drucker, whose admonition was: ‘Nonprofits
Learning by head, heart and hand was the radical thought proposed in the moving writings of swiss reformer J.H. Pestalozzi in the 17th century. At Walnut Hill School for the
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
Not all stories are timeless. In fact, only a very few are, and yet there is a self-reinforcing practice at schools to keep repeating the stories of their founders and