Remember SchoolHouse Rock? “Conjunction – Junction, what’s your function?” If you are too young, it’s worth a Google. I loved it and learned plenty about “Hooking up words, and phrases and clauses…” But another thing that always stuck in my …

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“Cheddar, Swiss, American – I never knew Americans ate so many dairy products – so many kinds of cheese! I didn’t know what was what!” laughs an East Asian student talking about her first year at boarding school in the …

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The following is published with permission to authors David Wolowitz, J.D., McLane Middleton, P.A. and Claude Marchessault, Strategic Leadership Group, Inc. ——— Educators understand that nothing is more important than promoting the health, safety and welfare of students in a …

Avoiding Crises Through Values–Driven Leadership: Are You Leading Your School’s Culture Or Is It Leading You? Read more »

In our wired world it’s easy to extol the virtues of the web, mobile devices and social media. These time-bending technologies have generated previously unimaginable ways of searching, creating and sharing information instantaneously. Yet as our hours and days are …

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Brendan Schneider is the Director of Admission and Financial Aid at Sewickley Academy (PA). He is one of the leaders in the field for teaching on and knowledge about inbound marketing for schools. He presents and consults on inbound marketing, …

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I remember clearly how angry I was as I started reading Beverly Daniel Tatum’s brilliant book, Why are all the Black Children Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Her “open-and-shut case” attitude regarding the question of white men suffering “reverse discrimination” …

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