Mike Vachow
Expensive and Messy
Next year, elementary educators will focus on reclaiming and growing what the pandemic took away from children this year.
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Mike Vachow
- Oct 1, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
Retention 2020 - 2021
A prescription for retention during a pandemic school year.
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Mike Vachow
- Aug 25, 2020
- 4 min
Exposed
The pandemic has revealed anew a great number of truths about education.
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Mike Vachow
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min
The Wolf
Time's running out. Invest in proactive board education.
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Mike Vachow
- Aug 20, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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 24, 2020
- 4 min
New Trustee Kit
Advice for new independent school trustees: find your inner extrovert.
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Mike Vachow
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
Gap Year
College and elementary students could take a gap year in 2020 - 2021, together.
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Mike Vachow
- Apr 13, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
Summer of Love (and Money)
A summer 2020 budget and community support plan for independent school leaders.
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