This article won 2nd prize in the Intrepid Ed News Summer Writing Contest. The writing prompt was: “I think my profession needs…”  Congratulations to Benjamin Freud! I think my profession

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

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

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

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

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

Our lives take different courses based on the decisions made by people we often don’t even know. This is because selection processes that are out of our control determine what

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

This article is a continuation of Jared’s discussion of theory and research in Part I, published yesterday. Today’s piece focuses on specific practical steps any school or teacher can take

As I wrote in Learner-Centered Leadership, the post-industrial education system will require post-industrial measures of success. We can no longer rely on letter grades and seat time as proxies of

July 9, 2021 This year we faced an incredible number of challenges from distance learning to plexiglass, but the lessons from the spring of 2020 have been learned. We must