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Posted on February 10, 2021 In Boarding School, Business, innovation, Observations, Podcast

Dr. Corrine Devin – One of these things is not like the other. Orthodontist. Naval commander. Beauty queen. One of these things is not like […]

Posted on January 31, 2021 In Boarding School, Business, innovation, Observations, Podcast

17 years ago I got a phone message from my friend Ray Quesnel. Ray and I worked together at Asheville school and he’d been a […]

Posted on June 16, 2020 In Boarding School, Business, innovation, Observations, Podcast

100 Things White People Can Do Learn …about your part to play in the struggle against racism …about white privilege …about the history of the […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In CFO responsibilites, For Schools, Observations, Schools

Would you invest two million dollars to get $50,000 a year in return?                 I hope not! Would you invest a weeks’ time to save […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In CFO responsibilites, For Schools, Observations, Schools

Those fish are all going to die. That is what happens when there are too many fish in the fish bowl…they die. Plain and simple, […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In CFO responsibilites, For Schools, Observations

It is difficult—close to impossible—to navigate the subway system in Tokyo if you cannot read Japanese. No matter how smart you are, you need to […]

Posted on February 20, 2019 In For Schools, Insider, Observations

Stay on the Beam! That is what pilots did to stay on course. It was a radio beam…when they were on the beam it was […]

Posted on June 18, 2014 In Observations

The Martin Institute “Learning Forward” Annual Conference held at Presbyterian Day School in Memphis, TN was OUTSTANDING!  The Presbyterian Day School campus was a perfect […]

Posted on January 27, 2014 In Boarding School Blitz, For Schools, Observations

During 2013 I visited more than 120 boarding schools from Florida to Victoria British Columbia, from Los Angeles to Maine, and from Toronto to San […]

Posted on January 23, 2014 In For Schools, Observations

Sir Percy Lake was Shawnigan Lake School’s first chairman of the Board of Governors from 1928-1941. His stamp on the school includes one of the […]