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  • Fly spouses down for finalist visits.

    Even though many consultants and schools wait to bring a Head-elect’s spouse to campus as the sole nominee, it’s a risky and suboptimal idea. I strongly recommend bringing three candidates to campus as finalists and — equally importantly — bringing their spouses with them. Let me explain. If you wait to bring a Head-elect’s spouse to…

  • What your website says about your school operations

    Search consultants who really pay attention encounter school-operations issues in many different ways. Consultants have to understand our client schools’ operations in order to understand the kinds of leader that each school needs. We need to understand competitor schools’ strengths and weaknesses to understand our clients’ position in their markets. Finally, we can learn about…

  • A Proposal: The 5Ps Model of Change Management for Schools

    The many models of change management don’t seem to work in N-12 schools, which tend to be higher in emotion than corporate environments, more resistant to change than most corporate environments, and more diverse in stakeholder identities and opinions than most corporate environments. As a result, change is often made chaotically, scaring tuition-paying parents, leaving…