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Winning Your Market: A Framework for Independent School Strategy

Winning Your Market: A Framework for Independent School StrategyPeter Baron

David Hanson joins the podcast to share an optimistic framework for strengthening school business models and building purposeful, integrated strategic plans.

What Resumes Cannot Tell You About Your Next Hire

What Resumes Cannot Tell You About Your Next Hireby: Peter BaronPublished on: 08/10/2026

Resumes tell you what someone says they can do. Rich Boerner on the evidence that actually predicts how a new hire will perform in your school.

What Resumes Cannot Tell You About Your Next Hire

Designing Faculty Well-Being as Strategy

Designing Faculty Well-Being as Strategyby: Peter BaronPublished on: 07/20/2026

A head of school on using land, childcare design, coaching, and endowment strategy to strengthen faculty retention and long-term institutional capacity.

Designing Faculty Well-Being as Strategy

From Aspiration to Practice: One Head of School on Child Development, Friction, and 98% Retention

From Aspiration to Practice: One Head of School on Child Development, Friction, and 98% Retentionby: Peter BaronPublished on: 06/29/2026

A head of school on building child development programs, why friction matters, and how one K-8 school achieved 98% retention in a declining market.

From Aspiration to Practice: One Head of School on Child Development, Friction, and 98% Retention

The Board Governance Blueprint Every School Needs

The Board Governance Blueprint Every School Needsby: Peter BaronPublished on: 06/22/2026

Discover how forward-thinking independent school leaders and board chairs design resilient governance, navigate transitions, and elevate strategic alignment.

The Board Governance Blueprint Every School Needs