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

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

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

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.

A practical approach for independent schools for strategic planning in a pandemic.

It's time to develop a realistic understanding of the long and short term needs of your facilities.

The pandemic has revealed anew a great number of truths about education.

Time's running out. Invest in proactive board education.

Approval of the 2021-2022 budget is 4 months away. Retention plans for students and faculty are the key.

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

Advice for new independent school trustees: find your inner extrovert.

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

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

School leaders should focus on the guiding principles they'll use to design fall scenarios before moving into the details.

In planning for the fall, independent school leaders should be creative in finding ways to have elementary students on campus every day.

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.