At Chadwick School in Palos Verdes, Dal Sohi leads by observation
Dal Sohi inside Chadwick’s “telepresence” room. Members of the school’s board used it to talk to him in the early stages of the head of school interview process. Students use it to talk to their peers at Chadwick’s campus in South Korea. Photo by David Fairchild Daljit Sohi tiptoed through a dark hallway. He reached a set of doors, then turned around and said in an elevated whisper, “Let’s see if there’s something going on.” We stepped into the performing arts practice space at Palos Verdes’ Chadwick School to find two teenage girls lit on a stage. The jagged chords of Nirvana’s “Smells like Teen Spirit” displaced the quiet of the previous moment like a gust of wind forcing open a door in a blizzard. Nigel Williams, the Chair of the Performing Arts School at Chadwick, stood in the shadows prompting the pair on stage with themes to wordlessly act out as the music played. “Bullying!” Williams cried in a voice unlikely to ever shed the crisp lilt of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Sohi became Chadwick’s Head of School last July. On most days, he rises early and answers emails before leaving his house so he can spend as much of the school day as possible walking around the 45-acre…
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