In past years, I've offered a set of New Year's resolutions for independent school leaders. This year I recommend something even more practical--a yearly go...

At most independent schools, the most important board meeting of the year is embedded in the winter holiday season. In high-functioning boards, the finance ...

In David Mamet's "Glengarry Glenross," brilliantly adapted to the screen in 1992 with an all-star cast, Alec Baldwin plays Blake, sent from the Premiere Prop...

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance," perhaps the proto-battle-cry for today's disrupters. Some consis...

Each year on the first day of practice, my high school football coach would use the Fram oil filter slogan to signal the end of summer dissolution and to cal...

The relationship between the independent school Head and the Board is enormously complex and full of seeming paradoxes. For instance, the Board is the Head'...

Summer has arrived on independent school campuses. Summer Camp is underway, and the facilities folks are sweeping into project mode. The final Board meetin...

Strength, flexibility, agility--the same goals you might have for your own physical fitness in the new year--should be the defining elements of a renewed com...

You've conducted a long, successful head search, offering multiple opportunities for all of the school's constituencies to participate in the process, and, t...