Carney, Sandoe & Associates is an educational recruitment, search, and strategic consulting firm that places teachers and administrators in K-12 private, independent, and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot, and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. They have placed over 32,000 teachers and administrators in independent schools since 1977. CS&A works to fill thousands of teaching and administrative openings at hundreds of K-12 schools each year.
Skip Kotkins
About half of Skip Kotkins’ work at CS&A is leading senior executive searches; the other half consists of governance consulting, which includes designing and leading board retreats, helping schools create their strategic plans, board training, and special governance projects. The two halves of his work improve each other, as Skip likes to say that he works at the intersection of leadership and strategy.
Skip has led dozens of searches and worked with schools from Alaska to Florida and everywhere in between. His consulting work includes board development and strategic planning in more than two dozen states and for schools in places as diverse as Vietnam, Jordan, Korea, Mexico City, the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic and more. A favorite project was three pieces of work over two years that led to the successful unification of governance for The St. Paul’s Schools (MD). He has also led Strategic Plans for both Buckley School (NY) and St. Bernard’s School (NY). Another of his favorites was four projects including the Strategic Plan for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the largest accrediting organization in our industry. He is pleased to say that he has done work with the largest (two searches for Punahou School{HI}) and some of the smallest schools in the country, as well as Montessori and Waldorf, Jewish and Episcopal, coeducational and single gender, and boarding and day schools.
