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Growing School Enrollment with Simplicity & Story

Posted by Scott Barron on Mar 4, 2014 1:43:28 PM

How would a visionary design a school if starting today? Clean slate. No limits from tradition or the past.

What attracts students to your school is shifting from curriculum and safety to connection and relevance. Schools have used viewbooks, brochures, websites, and social media pages to market their "Excellence in Education," but what people seem to be emphasizing in their search for a school is the experience.

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Topics: Communication, Administration, School Design, Blended Learning, Enrollment, School Growth, Marketing

What do you believe about learning design?

Posted by Scott Barron on Mar 4, 2014 1:32:47 PM
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Topics: Administration, School Design, Blended Learning

Smart Sourcing: Innovative School Leaders are Financially Savvy

Posted by Scott Barron on Mar 4, 2014 1:21:41 PM

Schools have had fairly simple choices when it comes to financial management, but innovative school leaders are finding ways to improve their cash flow while also reducing operational costs.

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Topics: Administration, School Design, Leadership

9 Areas of School Operational Design

Posted by Scott Barron on Mar 4, 2014 1:18:30 PM

School operational design determines the leadership's capacity to economically and logistically accomplish the mission. This is especially true for those schools that pursue more advanced instructional strategies like blended learning. Incorporating technology such a personalized approach lets teachers get back to why they got into the teaching profession in the first place: to see the lights come on by providing a spark of inspiration. Blended, personalized learning should allow the teachers to focus more on each student, freeing them up to be the architects of the learning experience in the classroom. The 9 areas of school Operations design are outlined below.

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Topics: Administration, School Design, Blended Learning

Administrative Communication to Teachers

Posted by Scott Barron on Mar 4, 2014 10:57:31 AM

What do teachers want to know from their chief administrator?

We received some very insightful answers to this question from people around the world. Below are a few examples of this great feedback:

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Topics: Communication, Administration

6 Traits for Modern School Administration

Posted by Grace Lee on Oct 24, 2013 8:32:00 AM

McKinsey & Company recently released a report entitled, “How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better.” It is a very compelling bit of research that every school leader will want to explore. Through their research the McKinsey team found schools/systems that were consistently improving, and crafted this report around the elements of school design that were enabling them to attain consistent growth. They identified these 8 key points:

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Topics: Administration, School Design

What Teachers Want to Know From the Administration

Posted by Grace Lee on Sep 30, 2013 8:03:00 AM

What do teachers want to know from their chief administrator?

We received some very insightful answers to this question from people around the world. Below are a few examples of this great feedback:

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Topics: Communication, Administration

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