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Leadership Part III: What do you wish you knew more about when you started?

Posted Friday Jan 07 2011, at 03:11PM by Admin IT | Categories: Featured, Heads of School, Leadership | Tags: Administrators, Best practices, Head of school, Independent schools, Leadership, Management, Professional development

Heads of schools who began tenures in July 2008 shared their responses to the question below. 

What do you wish you knew more about when you started?

  • Unless a Head has training in finance, accounting, etc., I think it can be intimidating, particularly when speaking with Board members...

Leadership Part II: What best prepared you to be a head of school?

Posted Monday Nov 22 2010, at 02:42PM by Admin IT | Categories: Featured, Heads of School, Leadership | Tags: Administrators, Boards, Faculty, Head of school, Independent schools, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Professional development

What best prepared you to be a head of school?

  • The breadth and depth of my various previous independent school positions.
  • A mentor relationship.
  • Being given the opportunity to learn about aspects of independent schools not directly related to my position at the time.

Why'd we do it answered

Posted Wednesday Oct 28 2009, at 09:29PM by Jane | Categories: Leadership | Tags: Administrators, Hiring, Recruitment, Social media, Teacher placement
How do we do IT?

For ten years the founding partners of Independent Thinking have asked themselves, each other and many school people that question. How do we do IT? How do we offer independent schools a teacher recruitment service that gives schools what they really need-something different from what is already out there?

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