Peter Gow is a retired educator who was privileged to write, present, and consult on many areas of independent school programming and operation. In his many-decades career, he taught, coached, and advised students at four independent schools and served as academic dean and director of college counseling at Beaver Country Day School (MA). He was a founder and later executive director of the Independent Curriculum Group, a consortium of schools working to develop mission-based advanced courses, where he learned the value for schools of being “part of the conversation.”