headmaster

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Paul Cummins, headmaster of a Santa Monica elementary school called St. Augustine-by-the-Sea, was in the market for a music teacher and a colleague suggested he call a Rustic Canyon pianist named Mary Ann.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Founders’ headmaster Jason Caros rejects the allegation of “Christian nationalism” but argues that there is much to be said for those traditional values, pedagogy and curriculum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Collins, born in 1940, was raised near Liverpool by a schoolteacher mother and a headmaster father.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

"We always said he was born to be a headmaster, and sure enough, he went on to teach and become head of not one but multiple schools," he wrote.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

Each desk had three inkwells and one drawer stuffed with schoolbooks, which the students weren’t allowed to take home without permission from the headmaster.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman