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

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...

Good Rapport: Maintaining a Professional Online Presence

Check out Jay MacMullan's recent post on the edSocialMedia blog. Jay discusses how candidates need to be aware of their online footprint and how to manage their social networks.

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

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.

Life in these independent schools take 2

Life in These Boarding Schools part 2:

If you are a teacher who has slaved over student comments, you have undoubtedly wondered if your division head really reads each and every comment. A few colleagues decided they would test their division head. They made up a student. A terrible student. A student who appeared to be failing just about every class, and not behaving particularly well either.

What A Great Job

On a recent school visit to Newark Academy , I was lucky enough to go to morning meeting. It began with the usual—adult announcements, kid announcements, and reminders about deadlines, games, club meetings, etc. Certainly information that might have been managed through email or news events postings—even scrolling on one of those cool electronic