• To be an amazing Head of School, you should be a good listener and communicator.
• Be connected to the students and be reachable.
• Give more advice to other people to make everyone happy.
• Trust your gut when making decisions.
• Educate younger classes about issues going on in our world, such as inequalities, wars, politics, and other important things that generally only Middle Schoolers learn about.
• Create more freedom and choice for students and support them in their academic careers.

• Uno de los consejos que queremos darte, Joe, es que podías ir de vez en cuando a las clases para que nos conozcas mejor y veas como trabajamos las unidades de indagación.
  También nos gustaría que nos invitaras a a conocer a las personas que trabajan en la administración para conocer mejor el funcionamiento de ISB.
• Be openminded to new ideas and learn from your mistakes.
• Be a principled principal!
• Continue to think of others and have ideas to help our community grow.
• Trust your instincts.

As the assembly concluded, Joe collected the students’ advice to be kept in his office as words of wisdom that he can refer to, and he shook hands with every single student as they went off to their classrooms. Please join us in welcoming Joe Santos as ISB’s new Head of School!