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Coding for All: Online Learning Resources
“I think everyone in this country should learn to program a computer. Everyone should learn a computer language because it teaches you how to think.” Steve Jobs, The Lost Interview, 1990 Both children...
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School of the Week: Maimonides School
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Maimonides School Brookline, MA 545 students K-12 Founded in 1937 Who is your school’s best-loved/legendary teacher? Image...
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Back to Basics: What is an Independent School?
If you read this blog or follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you know that we frequently discuss “independent schools”—our core client base. If you’re new to this sector, you may be wondering what,...
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Each summer we travel the northeast, visiting summer programs at client schools and meeting the engaging, kid-loving, hard-working individuals who commit several weeks of their summers to teaching,...
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School of the Week: Hargrave Military Academy
School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Hargrave Military Academy 200 Military Drive, Chatham, Virginia 24531 Approximately 280 students per year. Hargrave serves grades...
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School of the Week: Hyde School
Image Credit: Hyde Facebook School name/location/number of students/grade levels/year of founding: Hyde School Campuses in Bath, Maine (150 students) and Woodstock, Connecticut (180 students) Grades...
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Play: It’s More Than Just Fun
Fred Rogers once said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” Play is a vital...
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Promoting Women Leaders
For quite a long time now, there has been talk about the small number of women who serve as school Heads and other top leaders in our independent schools. There has been speculation about the reasons...
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Blessings: Grace and Catholic School Leadership
Recently I called a former candidate we had placed as Head of a Catholic school to see how he was doing. For purposes of this story, let’s call him Patrick. This is an inner city coed secondary school...
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How Do We Prepare Truly Global Students?
“The mission of ______ School is to …prepare responsible global citizens….” Sound familiar? In recent years, more and more US independent schools have added a phrase pertaining to global citizenship to...
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Why Should You Work in a Boarding School?
At CS&A, we work with a wide range of private schools: small and large, traditional and progressive, urban and rural. One reason we love our work is that each school “type,” and each individual...
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Travel Log: Early Fall in New England
We’ve kicked off our season of visiting client schools across the country. Last week, Emily and Alex visited schools in our own neck of the woods. Here are Emily’s reflections on her visits. Stop 1:...
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Travel Log: Three Schools in MA
Liam and John visited client schools in our home state of Massachusetts last week. Here are Liam’s reflections on their day. First Stop: Catholic Memorial – West Roxbury Pulling into the parking lot...
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Are You Marketing Your School All Wrong?
Normally, the fact that I spent my professional life in business and came to the independent school sector via being a trustee—of schools, of a regional association, and of NAIS—can be something of a...
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Natives in America: Empowering Youth Leaders
Today we are thrilled to welcome Megan Red Shirt-Shaw to the blog. Megan is the founder of Natives in America, an online literary publication featuring Native youth voices. What follows is her...
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Travel Log: a Private School Pair in MA
Last week, Emily and Todd visited two private schools in Massachusetts on a beautiful fall day. Here’s what they learned about St. Sebastian’s and Park. St. Sebastian’s School The sun shone...
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Part of a School Community for a Day
Ok, I’ll admit it: I’m all jazzed up. I’m sitting on a plane headed home to Boston, having just spent two days on campus at Cranbrook Kingswood Schools in Bloomfield Hills, MI. I’m helping run a search...
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Get to Know a Boarding School: Phillips Exeter
Our inaugural boarding school-specific hiring event, CS&A @ TABS, is under one month away. This month, join us as we showcase some of our boarding school clients, each of which has already...
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Get to Know a Boarding School: Brooks School
Our inaugural boarding school-specific hiring event, CS&A @ TABS, is under one month away. This month, join us as we showcase some of our boarding school clients, each of which has already...
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Travel Log: Leaf-Peeping & School-Hopping in NH
In late October, Molly visited four boarding schools in New Hampshire–right at the height of the state’s gorgeous fall foliage. Here’s her travel log recounting her time at these excellent schools. 1....
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