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P O S T OA K : E DUC AT ION OF T H E F U T U R E , NOW. by John Long, Head of School
Dear Parents: At this week’s board of trustee meeting, board chair Melissa Coleman reported about her recent participation in a conference with other board chairs from private schools around the country. The content she presented relates to other work that we are doing at the school, and I made those connections. It was a lengthy and interesting discussion, a different strategic issue than those which have dominated board work over the past several years, and a reminder that trustees volunteer their service to the school because of their deep commitment to our educational mission.I am copying you on a summary of that discussion, and some promised followup, that I sent to the board the next day. --John
Trustees: Here’s my variation on Melissa’s comment from last night’s board meeting: Post Oak: Education of the Future, Now. Melissa came to this realization while attending the Independent School Chairpersons Association (ISCA) conference in NYC a couple of weeks ago. One content strand running thru that conference dealt with how to transform independent schools so that they occupy the cutting edge and offer “education of