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Welcome to The Propeller

Read our monthly newsletter, where we share good ideas, practices, and wisdom to help schools and their communities flourish.

Recent Newsletter Preview: #127

Some ideas need time to settle before they're ready to share. These past few weeks have given me plenty to chew on — from a day of generative thinking about the future of high school in Denver, to redwood forests and a regenerative ranch in Northern California, to a conversation with a head of school in New Jersey who pulled a binder out of her bag and reminded me why we do this work. Here’s where the thinking has taken me.

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Past Newsletters

#126 - SXSW Edu; Connected Learning for Middle Schoolers; Vertical Empathy; Making the Case for Enterprise Literacy; AI in Teaching + Learning

#125 - What You Deliver and What Families Need; Why Student Voices Belong at Your Strategy Table; The Job of a Mission Statement; Job Crafting; Is Assessment Ruining Teaching; Introducing Lindsay Whitman

#124 - Parenting Anxiety; Strategic Plan Post-Mortem; Rigor and Failing to Define Your Terms; Athletic Events as Enrollment Catalysts

#123 - Hope as a Means to Flourishing Independent Schools in Unprecedented Times; When High Achieving Kids Ask Questions Achievement Can't Answer; Schools Operating With Underpowered Infrastructure; High Performing Teams; A Looming Crisis

#122 - New Pathways; Career Connected Learning; The Two Word Job Description; Table Stakes Aren't Strategy; Why Students Need Stories of Failure

#121 - How can board members navigate an era of dizzying change without losing sight of mission?; Intent and Purpose; Cognitive Skills and AI Impact

#120 - Leadership Metabolism and Building High Performance Leadership Teams; Place + Connection + Expectation = Engagement; The Power of Visitors and Visting Teams

#119 - Overcoming Over-Thereness; The Case for Fractional Senior Leadership; Role Models; Turning Families Into School Champions; The Crisis at Northampton Academy

#118 - Strategic Choices; The Altitude Problem; Overparenting; The Future is Upon Us with AI

#117 - Building a Progress Culture; The Business of Auxiliary Programs; Leadership Reenactment as Board Development; Deaning is Just Hard

#116 - Lessons from the Startup Frontier; Wellness Thinking and The Habits of Becoming; The Hidden Economics of Independent Schools

#115 - Five Mistakes That Once Killed A Great School; Innovate or Die; Leading in an Era of Uncertainty

#114 - Notes From A Gathering of Heads of School; Developing Your School’s Habits of Becoming; Upping Your Governance Game

#113 - Combining High Standards With Support; Approaching Strategy as Hypothesis; Interview Questions to Explore for Organizational Adaptability

#112 - Wrapping a Successful Pilot at Applewild School; Martin’s What Would Have To Be True; A Market Map for Generative AI Use Cases; Radical Hospitality

#111 - Why Leaders Need to Understand That We Are All Projectionists; Does Your School Keep Its Promises?; Meteors, Grey Swans, and the Swerve; The Muscles of Imagination

#110 - Three Metaphors for School Strategy; Turning Families into School Champions; Data Informed Decision Making and Institutional Research

#109 - Managing for Progress and Results; Faculty Engagement; Artificial Harmony; Fueling an Innovative Culture

#108 - A Call to Civility; Early Early College Admission; Building High Quality Role Plays; Navigating Alternative Educational Programs

#107 - Inspiration Before Education; The Power of Partnerships: Parent Experience Audits; Summer is a Mindset

#106 - Better Mad than Sad; Fostering Academic Excellence: What is the Role of the Board?; Tyton Report: Education Savings Accounts

#105 - Practice Vertical Empathy; Heroes, Villains, and Victims; Creating a Sustainable Student Led Science Program

#104 - Be the Adults We Want Our Children to Become; What Is a School to Do?; The Importance of Data Collection; An excellent board assessment tool

#103 - Progress Culture; Design Thinking + Change Management; Tyton Research: Parents Seeking Alternative Education Choices

#102 - Who is on the Bus?; The School’s Mission: The First and Best Tool

#101 - Meet some new team members

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