Over the summer, independent schools enrolled students leaving schools that had mismanaged the COVID crisis. Now they must retain them.

Next year, the new normal for elementary schools may be older than the old normal.

A prescription for retention during a pandemic school year.

Independent school heads and board chairs should engage an outside counselor to help them remain focused on 2020 guiding principles.

This fall, it will be more important than ever for trustees to be present in the life of the school.

Homemade micro-schools, staffed with deferring college kids, might be the best option for parents of elementary age kids this fall.

Teachers' and advisors' first calls to school families in August will help ground them in the realities of the strange year to come.

As indy schools communicate fall plans this summer, it will be more important than ever for boards to speak with one voice.

Indy schools will soon communicate major decisions that lie at the intersection of the school as a community and the school as a business.

College and elementary students could take a gap year in 2020 - 2021, together.

Just how promise-crammed is the pandemic crisis for independent schools? Count me very conservatively optimistic.

Independent schools should begin planning for a remote-learning start to the 2020-2021 school year.

A summer 2020 budget and community support plan for independent school leaders.

School leaders risk hasty, well-meaning decision making in the current COVID crisis.

The COVID pandemic has separated elementary age students from their most important teachers, each other.

A summer enrollment plan for indy schools recovering from the COVID crisis.