The Propeller

The end of the school year can bring forth strong emotions and opinions about someone’s impact on an institution whether that’s a retiring head or a faculty member leaving for another school. That’s why we recommend reading Ned Hallowell’s Who Do They Think You Are? Transference in the Teaching Life to help sort through how reasonable people can see things so very differently. (Thanks to NAIS for allowing us to republish.) If you’ve attended board meetings – or you’d like to in the future – altitude agreements are a useful tool to change the dynamics of board meetings. Ross writes about when to foreshadow – and when not to – in order to make strategic progress. We look at anxious parents + kids and overparenting. We tap into some AI news that sounds a bit like the foreshadowing of Skynet and Terminator. Current website data analytic tracking will soon undergo a dramatic change as websites will be visited by AI agents more than people. This has big implications on how successful websites will be built and what data should be tracked. And some recommendations on educating yourself around generative AI and angenic agents. (You need to put aside some time to experiment this summer.)