The Leader's Lens

By Jim Best At the heart of every independent school are relationships — between teachers and students, heads and boards, schools and their communities. Those human connections give our work meaning. They also make change feel risky, especially when that change comes wrapped in something as fast-moving and unfamiliar as AI. Microsoft’s Rajesh Jha describes the challenge as “figuring out how to make the elephant dance” — helping complex, tradition-rich organizations become mor