June 16, 2022
New Resource: Head of School Database
The Head of School Database (HSDB) was created by the Southern Association of Independent Schools to help boards and Heads of School (HOS) better understand the search and transition process. In a recent NAIS article, Working Toward Better Head-Board Alignment, the HSDB was described as follows:
"The HSDB gathers publicly available data from a variety of sources, provides information and visible reports on school head histories, search timing, consulting assignments, immediate prior job appointments, school basics, and more.
Its robust search function allows users to learn more about search firms and individual consultants, the history of firms’ searches and tenure of placements, the history of headship at different schools, and heads’ tenure in different kinds of schools. Users can search by school to see its head of school appointment history; by head of school name to see an individual’s appointment history; by consultant name or agency to see schools that used that consultant; and by agency name to see a list of schools that used the agency and the head tenure for schools that used the agency."
Upcoming ISCA Events
June 23 and 30, 2022
12 - 3 pm ET
for incoming board chairs!
