Article VI: Every Headmaster Can Use a Good Advisor Mentor, trusted counselor, coach, advisor, guide, tutor, teacher are synonyms that describe the kind of person The Headmaster needs to gain wisdom for good decision-making.   Sometimes, The Headmaster needs to talk to someone that is not in one of his or her many constituencies [...]

Article V: Introducing The Headmaster as Chief Executive Officer As Chief Executive Officer, and the only direct report of the board of trustees, the Headmaster is comprehensively responsible for successful achievement of organizational ends while maintaining organizational integrity.  The board will link governance and management functions through a single chief executive officer, titled Headmaster by [...]

Article IV: The Headmaster as Head Teacher Head master means head, or lead teacher.  The origin of the word in Latin is caput magister, meaning the capital, like the capital on a column, teacher.  The Headmaster’s learning audience includes every constituency related to the organization.  He teaches directly, and indirectly, the board, the administrative team, [...]

Article III: The Headmaster as Visionary The Headmaster as visionary acts as the ardent proponent of the Academy’s stated mission, and one that reads well the signs of the times to deftly lead the academy to achieve its unchanging mission in the midst of a changing world.  He thinks and leads strategically.  While managers care [...]

The Headmaster as visionary leader will run an organization of excellence that maximizes achievement of the vision, and therefore maximizes satisfaction of all the various constituencies, while assuring solid business administration and organizational integrity.  The key difference is that The Headmaster is first a leader then a manager.  A leader can learn to manage but [...]

The Headmaster’s calling is a broad and exciting one because the Headmaster is leading an organization that changes the lives that will influence the future, and everything rises and falls on leadership. I am planning multiple articles on each of the three characteristics of the effective school Headmaster as 1) visionary, 2) head teacher, and [...]

Dear Friends, and Colleagues, We write to wish you a merry Christmas, inform you of some life changes we have experienced this year and to provide you with our new contact information. May God bless you in this time of Advent and Christmastide as we all celebrate the first coming of our Lord and Savior [...]

Class of 2010: Classical, Christian School Students Best Their Peers on the SAT Exam Reposted from accsedu.org Students in classical, Christian schools earn higher scores than their peers in independent, religious, and public schools on the critical reading and writing portions of the SAT exam. Classical, Christian school students are tied with their peers on [...]

Tomorrow my wife Robi and I depart for Austin, TX to participate in the twice yearly retreat of the Institute for Classical Schools with whom I am an Arete Fellow. Together we are developing a comprehensive, practical resource center for schools, to train and mentor capable leaders to establish and grow thriving classical schools, and [...]

Four Cultures of the West Reviewed In Four Cultures of the West, this cultural history, by John W. O’Malley, Distinguished Professor of Church History at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, provides the reader with another interpretive grid for the history of the West. The method of writing is straightforward and iterative and includes examples of [...]