The Budget Already Told the Staff What the School Believes
A board chair once asked me to help her school figure out why staff morale kept declining despite what she called, genuinely, their best year of fundraising.
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The Guide Who Kept Asking Permission Was Not the Problem
A head of school called me in her second year with a specific complaint about a guide in her upper elementary program.
Organizations Fail When the Environment is Not Designed
I have spent years inside schools and mission-driven organizations.
Example Leader's Calendar
re: The Head of School's Calendar as Infrastructure
The Head of School's Calendar as Infrastructure
A head of school I have been coaching for two years sent me her calendar this June, in advance of a call we had scheduled to look at what her year had actually been.
The Playbook We Never Wrote
In this episode, I talk about the employee every school eventually has — the one who yells, who makes people uncomfortable, who makes the whole building brace before a meeting.
Observation as Infrastructure
A guide I have worked with for years told me at the end of last school year that she had not been observed by her head of school in any meaningful way since the head's first month at the school four years ago.
Hiring as Infrastructure
A board chair I work with called me last August about a hire that had just gone visibly wrong.
Family Communication as Infrastructure
A head of school I work with sat across from a father in early May to deliver news about his son.
Money as infrastructure: building Montessori finance around how Montessori schools actually fund themselves
A financial aid committee at a school I work with met one evening in February to decide on the year’s tuition assistance awards.