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Mike Vachow
Oct 1, 20207 min read
Safe Harboring
Over the summer, independent schools enrolled students leaving schools that had mismanaged the COVID crisis. Now they must retain them.
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Mike Vachow
Sep 22, 20202 min read
The New, Older Normal
Next year, the new normal for elementary schools may be older than the old normal.
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Mike Vachow
Sep 16, 20203 min read
Retention 2020 - 2021
A prescription for retention during a pandemic school year.
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Mike Vachow
Jul 30, 20204 min read
Hothouse
Independent school heads and board chairs should engage an outside counselor to help them remain focused on 2020 guiding principles.
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Mike Vachow
Jul 14, 20203 min read
You Are Here
This fall, it will be more important than ever for trustees to be present in the life of the school.
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Mike Vachow
Jun 27, 20203 min read
Odd Couple
Homemade micro-schools, staffed with deferring college kids, might be the best option for parents of elementary age kids this fall.
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Mike Vachow
Jun 18, 20203 min read
The Poet's Eye
Teachers' and advisors' first calls to school families in August will help ground them in the realities of the strange year to come.
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Mike Vachow
Jun 5, 20203 min read
One Voice
As indy schools communicate fall plans this summer, it will be more important than ever for boards to speak with one voice.
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Mike Vachow
Apr 30, 20203 min read
Crossroads
Indy schools will soon communicate major decisions that lie at the intersection of the school as a community and the school as a business.
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Mike Vachow
Apr 21, 20203 min read
Gap Year
College and elementary students could take a gap year in 2020 - 2021, together.
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Mike Vachow
Apr 13, 20203 min read
Chameleon's Dish
Just how promise-crammed is the pandemic crisis for independent schools? Count me very conservatively optimistic.
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Mike Vachow
Apr 5, 20204 min read
No Joke
Independent schools should begin planning for a remote-learning start to the 2020-2021 school year.
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Mike Vachow
Apr 1, 20203 min read
Summer of Love (and Money)
A summer 2020 budget and community support plan for independent school leaders.
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Mike Vachow
Mar 30, 20202 min read
So Last Week
School leaders risk hasty, well-meaning decision making in the current COVID crisis.
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Mike Vachow
Mar 26, 20203 min read
Together Again for the First Time
The COVID pandemic has separated elementary age students from their most important teachers, each other.
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Mike Vachow
Mar 18, 20203 min read
Love (and Retention) in the Time of COVID
A summer enrollment plan for indy schools recovering from the COVID crisis.
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