Mike Vachow
Report from the Admission Office
Report from the field: independent school enrollment trends, November 2020.
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Mike Vachow
Oct 28, 20203 min read
Core Work
Enrollment professionals follow these core principles in their work with prospective parents.
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Mike Vachow
Oct 21, 20203 min read
Yard Sale
The pandemic offers schools the opportunity to distill their programs and tighten their brands.
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Mike Vachow
Oct 13, 20205 min read
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, 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
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 21, 20202 min read
The Wolf
Time's running out. Invest in proactive board 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 24, 20204 min read
New Trustee Kit
Advice for new independent school trustees: find your inner extrovert.
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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
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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