Any board that hires a new head, or is renegotiating an HOS agreement mid-contract or renewing a contract that is coming to an end must keep the following in mind: Most heads with whom […]
Head of school evaluation is a sensitive subject both for heads and governing boards. Boards want to and should know that annually, the head is being […]
Most heads may initially be very wary of working with three committees made up of teachers, administrators and board members working collaboratively to help design evaluation/growth […]
Most boards embrace a head of school search enthusiastically. Searches are exciting and usually transformative. Because they are also time-consuming and often exhausting, most boards do […]
Independent and international schools have been making the news lately but not about what you might think. The local headlines have been about the dismissals or […]
A first-time, young Head of an independent School arrived at a somewhat floundering school and inherited a Board of 18 dedicated, caring professionals in middle management […]
School surveys of faculty and staff generally reveal that they value most highly their health, retirement, and tuition reduction/remission benefits and in the overseas and boarding […]
One of the cardinal tenets of healthy board governance is that the combination of long-term, supportive board chairs and long-term board members produces long-term heads. This […]
