Specialities
Diversity and Inclusion
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5 Things to Consider as You Set Up Your Classroom This Year
The way in which you set up your classroom space can affect both you and your students. Here are some tips to ensure everyone is set up for success.
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Mentoring Program for Heads of School in their First Three Years
Now that you are a Head of School, do you secretly wonder what you are supposed to do? With The Gowan Group Heads POD (“Peer Open Dialog”) program, you will be joining a cohort of eight to ten new heads led by an experienced Head of School who will guide you through the challenges of […]
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How Learnfully’s Executive Function Simulation Improves Educator Awareness and Preparedness
Help your school community understand how it feels to struggle with executive dysfunction and see how it evokes unnecessary anxiety in learners. The Executive Function Challenge™ is a workshop that lets participants experience what it feels like for a learner to have weakness in executive function. It includes an overview of executive function, covers common […]
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Independent Governance in a Post-Pandemic Era
As we ease out of the pandemic, independent school governance needs a thoughtful and conscious reset. Here’s why. Senior Consultant Peter O’Neill shares his insight.
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Free Counselor Resources Improve College Access, Affordability & Matriculation
Independent High Schools can sensitively equip all families for the realities of paying for college in a way that empowers counselors and improves student outcomes, but we must acknowledge gaps in the status quo, embrace innovative strategies, examine our assumptions and challenge families to do the same. When Financial Aid education is successful, it’s because […]
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Free resources for college counselors help parents make informed decisions about the financial health and well-being of their families.
Independent High Schools can sensitively equip all families for the realities of paying for college in a way that empowers counselors and improves student outcomes, but we must acknowledge gaps in the status quo, embrace innovative strategies, examine our assumptions and challenge families to do the same. When Financial Aid education is successful, it’s because […]
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Free Counselor Resources Improve College Affordability & Student Matriculations
Independent High Schools can sensitively equip all families for the realities of paying for college in a way that empowers counselors and improves student outcomes, but we must acknowledge gaps in the status quo, embrace innovative strategies, examine our assumptions and challenge families to do the same. When Financial Aid education is successful, it’s because […]
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How to write an RFP for a Head of School search
If you are putting together a search process for a Head of School search or Superintendent of Schools search, Tradition recommends that you create and distribute a Request for Proposals (RFP). Here’s a brief guide for how it should be done.
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What Our Heads Survey Tells Us About School Leadership in 2022
For the past six years, we have surveyed new heads of school — both those new to the role and those at a new school — asking about their challenges, needs, and concerns. What do our most recent results indicate? In this article, CS&A Senior Consultant Ann Teaff outlines key findings regarding coaching, COVID-19, support […]
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Data Driven Decisions – Lessons Learned Through the Pandemic
A HOS and admissions director speak to how Metric Marketing use customized data to make a difference. “Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School and St. John’s-Kilmarnock School – together with Metric Marketing – will share their learnings around growing enrolment through the pandemic. Learn through real world examples how two respected and successful schools in different markets strategically grew […]
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Free DEI Professional Development Event: 2022 Virtual FORUM/Diversity
You’re invited to a free weeklong PD event centered on diversity and inclusion in our schools. Join us January 24-28 for more than 20 live sessions, videos, live discussions, networking, and more.
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Pollyanna Position Paper III: Centering Student Voices in Antiracist School Transformation
This Position Paper shares feedback, advice, and recommendations for Heads of Schools directly from students on creating antiracist school communities. The recommendations in this paper were aggregated from a survey of students across the country and are broken down into clearly discernible segments for creating more racially just schools: Listening and Learning; Actions: Reforming Training, […]