Rethink Operations
Strategies and ideas for adjusting current and future independent school operations to ensure business continuity and sustainability in uncertain times.
Strategies and ideas for adjusting current and future independent school operations to ensure business continuity and sustainability in uncertain times.
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Palisades Episcopal School Shifts to Student-Centered Scheduling
Palisades Episcopal School (PES) is thrilled to share the adoption of a new school-wide schedule beginning this 2022-2023 school year called Student-Centered Scheduling. Student-Centered Scheduling incorporates the needs of a 21st century student and considers the biorhythms of our children, adjusting the times of day our students participate in a given subject/class. For instance, if […]
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Caring for Our Community 2020-2021 Operating Guide
The school’s Community Guide presents four operational modes influenced by four interconnected variables: external risk factors, internal risk factors, teacher readiness, and parent preferences. The schools’ transparent and inclusive decision making processes seek to respect the needs and feelings of all constituents.
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Mission Driven Plan to Return to Campus
Preliminary information for a three-scenario plan for students to return to campus in the fall. The Fall Opening of School Task Force is a team of administrators charged with examining different opening scenarios and developing actionable plans for each of them. The Task Force has expanded to include six collaborative, working subgroups. The subgroups are […]
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Milwaukee Montessori School: Getting Back to Work
Milwaukee Montessori School uses a “Layered-Defense Approach” to lower the risks of transmitting COVID-19 on School Grounds.
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Linden Waldorf School Plans for Re-entry 2020-2021
Here is communication that outlines the Linden Waldorf School Re-entry Taskforce plan for the 2020-2021 school year. It describes three options for returning to campus.
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Re-Entry Plan 2020-2021: Grandview Preparatory School
Here is a re-entry strategy that allows for flexibility, transparency, and prioritizes the health and safety of our community. Grandview is currently preparing the physical campus to support students in the fall of 2020, however, the administration recognizes that some families may not be comfortable with their child(ren) returning at that time. The administration has […]
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Partners in online safety
Since COVID-19 forced us to close our school doors, many of our students are spending more and more time online. Whether our students are engaged in distance learning classes, connecting with friends, or using technology as a way of entertainment, the number of hours they spend online has significantly increased. Of course with this increase, […]
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BrowningConnect: Online Learning Platform During Extended School Closure
Both students and faculty learn best when we connect with others. In the event of the prolonged school closure, we created a public facing online learning platform that served as an aid for students, parents and faculty to maintain continuity of teaching and learning, while also putting emphasis on social and emotional connections with others. […]
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WIS Joins the Fight Against COVID-19
After we were contacted by an alumna from the Class of 2006, events moved rapidly to allow our currently-unused Primary School parking lot to serve as a COVID-19 drive-through testing area. The tests are by appointment only, scheduled for those who have already gone through a pre-screening process. Testing began on April 6 and will […]
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The Financial Future of Independent Schools
Rethink models and what is possible, not what was.
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Resources for Remote Hiring for Schools
This guide is a summary of how Avenues approaches interviewing and hiring at a distance. We’re sharing it in hopes that these ideas and materials can support other schools to keep hiring well during these challenging times. Find us on Twitter: @Avenues_org
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Making decisions about tuition and fees
Many schools are grappling with how tuition and fees will be impacted by the challenge of distance learning and endeavoring to provide a fulsome educational experience. Additionally, most schools are eager to support their employees, many of whom are economically vulnerable during this turbulent time.