Leadership Blog

On the second anniversary of closing school due to the news that the novel coronavirus had made its way to the Boston area. Two years ago, today, we closed school. We thought we would be doing so for two short weeks, that we would ride out the storm and be back in no time. Two […]

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As the new year enters its third month, independent schools start building their future. This is the height of the admissions season. Each school has a slightly different admissions process, and I have the privilege of working at a school that values the thoughts and insights of its community members when it comes to welcoming […]

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The primary analogy we have been working with throughout the pandemic is the dimmer switch. From the earliest days of navigating the pandemic, we realized that approaching this community safety effort through the binary frame of absolute statements of ‘on’ or ‘off’ was not going to work. Be it in school or out. All programs […]

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“Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.” – John Williams If you don’t know who John Williams is, I am almost positive you know his music: the theme songs from Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, and, […]

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For nearly two decades, this has been the week when I became the most insufferable sports fan to those who don’t root for our local pro football team. Blame it on the success of the New England Patriots and their nine Super Bowl appearances over the past twenty years. As fortune would have it, these […]

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It was difficult not to see the starkness of comparison last Friday. As I prepared to arrive at school on the morning we would celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a look at my weather app offered a bone-chilling 6-degree forecast. Alas, that required quick thinking by assembly coordinators Pati […]

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