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Mike Vachow
Dec 14, 20213 min read
Ready to Climb: Hiring
Employee retention and hiring will be the front-burner operational challenges for independent schools in the New Year.
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Mike Vachow
Nov 21, 20213 min read
Behind
Schools should design special summer camp programs for their youngest students.
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Mike Vachow
Oct 20, 20213 min read
Not Home, Part 2
Driven by necessity but limited by elemental human need, remote learning will grow only on the margins.
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Mike Vachow
Sep 10, 20213 min read
The Longer Game
To protect faculty and staff, independent school heads should set June of 2023 as the default horizon for institution-wide projects.
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Mike Vachow
Aug 29, 20213 min read
Review: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning, by Audrey Watters
Audrey Watters traces the history of personalized learning and teaching machines from 1920 to today. The through line is behaviorism.
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Mike Vachow
Jul 20, 20213 min read
New Again
Families who came to independent schools last school year are the marketing opportunity of a lifetime for independent schools.
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Mike Vachow
Jul 16, 20212 min read
Boundaries
Setting boundaries will be one of the signature challenges for heads and boards in the 2021 - 2022 school year.
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Mike Vachow
Jun 28, 20213 min read
The Good Stuff
The "old normal" at schools had much going for it.
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Mike Vachow
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Board Reset
After the past year, boards should do some simple planning to set off on the right course next fall.
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Mike Vachow
May 24, 20214 min read
Keep it Real
Next year, schools will weigh convenience and intimacy when organizing how adults will work together.
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Mike Vachow
May 3, 20213 min read
Relaxed, With a Sense of Urgency
How can schools use the tools they developed during the pandemic to create the ideal rhythms of school life and learning?
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Mike Vachow
Mar 23, 20212 min read
Bridge
A practical approach for independent schools for strategic planning in a pandemic.
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Mike Vachow
Mar 9, 20213 min read
A Modest Proposal
A prescription for a post-pandemic fall at independent elementary schools.
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Mike Vachow
Mar 2, 20214 min read
Balancing Act
School leaders will help their communities balance competing priorities next year.
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Mike Vachow
Jan 31, 20213 min read
The Road Back
Thoughts on how schools should prepare for the long-tail impact of the pandemic on the lives of educators, their students and families.
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Mike Vachow
Jan 19, 20213 min read
Groundhog Day
Hiring is a year round job. You'll need a great process to evaluate candidates, but first you'll need a deep network to find them.
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Mike Vachow
Dec 30, 20203 min read
My Top Hits 2020
The pandemic brought these ideas to the fore of my thinking this year. I'm still wondering about them.
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Mike Vachow
Dec 15, 20203 min read
The Long Game
In the contrail of the pandemic next year, independent schools will have to play the long game with innovation.
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Mike Vachow
Dec 8, 20203 min read
Farewell to (Facility) Arms (Race)
It's time to develop a realistic understanding of the long and short term needs of your facilities.
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Mike Vachow
Nov 30, 20203 min read
Moving Forward
It was a good Thanksgiving on average for independent school heads. Auspicious vaccine news corresponded with the future-gaze of budget...
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