A lasting change from the pandemic: schools will need dedicated communication and recruitment leaders.

Next fall, schools will focus on re-integrating the structures they relaxed in the course of the pandemic.

More than ever, schools should be countercultural.

It's a great time for independent schools to consider reviving or creating a strategic plan.

Some counsel on hiring independent school consultants. . . from a consultant.

A year-round networking approach to hiring is important in any season, crucial in the sellers' market that the pandemic has created.

Independent school leaders should expand their definition of ideal candidates for positions in their schools.

Independent school headship was enormously complex before the pandemic. Boards must plan more carefully for the support that heads need.

Here are the recurring topics and themes in my writing on independent schools this year.

Employee retention and hiring will be the front-burner operational challenges for independent schools in the New Year.

Schools should design special summer camp programs for their youngest students.

Driven by necessity but limited by elemental human need, remote learning will grow only on the margins.

To protect faculty and staff, independent school heads should set June of 2023 as the default horizon for institution-wide projects.

Audrey Watters traces the history of personalized learning and teaching machines from 1920 to today. The through line is behaviorism.

Families who came to independent schools last school year are the marketing opportunity of a lifetime for independent schools.

Setting boundaries will be one of the signature challenges for heads and boards in the 2021 - 2022 school year.

The "old normal" at schools had much going for it.

After the past year, boards should do some simple planning to set off on the right course next fall.

Next year, schools will weigh convenience and intimacy when organizing how adults will work together.

How can schools use the tools they developed during the pandemic to create the ideal rhythms of school life and learning?