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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
Aug 25, 20204 min read
Exposed
The pandemic has revealed anew a great number of truths about education.
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Mike Vachow
Aug 20, 20204 min read
On the Horizon: Budget 2021 - 2022
Approval of the 2021-2022 budget is 4 months away. Retention plans for students and faculty are the key.
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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 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
May 19, 20203 min read
Killer Piano
School leaders should focus on the guiding principles they'll use to design fall scenarios before moving into the details.
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Mike Vachow
May 12, 20202 min read
Start at the Beginning
In planning for the fall, independent school leaders should be creative in finding ways to have elementary students on campus every day.
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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 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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Mike Vachow
Feb 27, 20203 min read
Seen and Known
Any member of a school community should expect to be seen and known. Heads must lead and model this effort.
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Mike Vachow
Feb 16, 20204 min read
Bubble Season
In their employment and enrollment decisions, heads balance compassion with their duty to protect the school's mission and bottom line.
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Mike Vachow
Nov 26, 20193 min read
Governance Check Up
A format for heads and board chairs to use in performing a yearly governance check-up.
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Mike Vachow
Sep 2, 20194 min read
Community as Marketing
Cultivate the complex web of relationships between families and the school that generate loyalty. That's independent school marketing.
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