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William M. Lowman Idyllwild President and Headmaster Announces Retirement
We recently learned that William Lowman, Idyllwild Arts President/Headmaster and founding head of Idyllwild Arts Academy, a performing arts boarding school, will retire effective June 30, 2010 (correction: June 30, 2011).
Mr. Lowman assumed leadership of Idyllwild in 1985 as the school became independent from the University of Southern California. Idyllwild prospered and grew during his Lowman’s [...]
Getting to Know Vermont Academy
Sean Brennan, Vermont Academy’s Head of School talks about the strengths and underlying values of VA that he has come to understand during his first year as head.
Relationships knit VA into a tight community. VA students benefit from healthy relationships with involved adults. Everyone helps; kids help; adults help. Paraphrasing Brennan- Everyone working [...]
How A Prep School Rivalry Became A Long Term Grudge
Rivalries aren’t limited to college football. They exist at all levels of sport and prep school football holds some long and storied rivalries in Exeter vs. Andover, Kent vs. Loomis for the spoon…Always fun are the how’s and why’s of how a particular rivalry began.
On Worcester Academy’s WA Mash is the story how a [...]
Bath Shout: Student Produced Podcasts Capture Hyde School (Bath, ME) Campus Vibe
Nicolas Figueroa, a senior from Spain, hosts “Bath Shout,” periodic podcasts covering current happenings and life on Hyde School’s Bath, ME campus. The tone and organization of “Bath Shout” nicely captures all of the different things happening simultaneously at Hyde.
At school, things don’t happen one event at time. So many events overlap; kids [...]
A New Series: Getting to Know…
As part of participating in the Independent Educational Consultants Association’s (IECA) new Speed Meeting event, we produced a series of “Getting to Know (Insert School here)” videos that we’ll feature on our blog over the next few weeks.
A bit of background… IECA’s Speed Meetings give educational consultants seven uninterrupted minutes to talk with admission directors [...]
Our First Year
After writing frequently last year about our daughter’s search for a boarding school, it seemed timely now to post an entry about how her first year is progressing. Our daughter, now 14, looked at a number of schools last year, both in New England within driving distance of home and in California. The [...]
Read MoreThe Webb School Announces New Head of School
After a nationwide search, narrowing a list of more than 30 excellent candidates to three, The Webb School (a co-ed, 6-12, boarding & day school in Bell Buckle, TN) Board of Trustees announced that Raymond S. Broadhead will become Webb’s 12th Head of School.
Mr. Broadhead currently serves as the Head of The Elon School [...]
“Was this in the job description?”
When Peter Baron asked me to write a few words about my first few months as Head of School here at Vermont Academy, I found myself wondering where to begin. I can say that no words of advice from friends who are sitting heads, nor sessions with the great faculty at the Institute for [...]
Read MoreThe Importance of Local Support: The Hotchkiss School Makes $400,000 Matching Donation to Firehouse Project
Affirming the modern age of cooperation and shared responsibility, The Hotchkiss School recently pledged a matching gift $400,000 to the town of Salisbury, CT in support of the town’s efforts to build a new fire station. The new station will cost an estimated $3 million; the town is working to fund $1 million of [...]
Read MoreWhen Market Realities and Mission Conflict
You’re a seasoned admission director, new at your current school and enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. Within a year, you have established a marketing strategy that includes the usual glossy viewbook, flash presentations, E-Newsletters, bump mailings along with the requisite round of school fairs and informal receptions. By the third year, application numbers have improved [...]
Read MoreVermont Academy Head Sean Brennan Chronicles His First 100 Days
In a nod to traditional coverage of the changes, potential, and optimism of a new President of the United States, new Vermont Academy Head of School Sean Brennan will chronicle his first one hundred days in the head’s chair through his own blog- BrennanBits.
His installments just started and his first two posts recap his convocation [...]
Great Leadership; Confidence and Continuity at Blue Ridge School
I’ve always been a fan of promoting from within; it tells so much about an organization and its people. The Daily Progress published a story about Blue Ridge School’s (St. George, VA) coming transition at the head’s position. These transitions occur all the time. Blue Ridge’s confidence, perspective and understanding make this one a worthy [...]
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