A couple of renegade trustees—sometimes only ONE—can turn an effective board into a contentious, unsupportive, parsimonious, or a dysfunctional one; often the board turns into all of these. So how can you screen new trustees effectively? And is it po...
It’s so seductive, so intuitive, so logical. It stands to reason that casting a wide net will result in more applications and more enrollments. And when the economy is “hot,” perhaps this strategy will work. But the reality is that “being all things...
“Aren’t you glad you got out of school headship when you did?” I have heard this question, or variations on this theme, often over the last year, and I have generally answered in the affirmative. What was already a difficult occupation has become mon...
Story Number OneEarly in my administrative career, the school was struggling with a weak French program. We decided to bring in a foreign language expert to spend several days examining the program, sitting in on classes, and talking to students. At...
In these difficult times new heads of school are often tasked with building enrollment in order to achieve financial sustainability. In the minds of many trustees, the Herculean task seems straight-forward. More articles in the local newspaper, an up...
