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Summer Book Recommendations

June 2021

As of today, it is officially summer! Time to start — or continue adding to — your comprehensive and often aspirational Summer Reading List. We charged ourselves with the almost impossible task of recommending two…

Essay Issue Brief

Reimagining Assessment: Where is the Story?

June 2021

by Gary Chapin Assessments tell a story. What’s the story, and, more importantly, where is the story? The answers to those questions tell you a lot about the values and priorities of our education system…

Resource Toolkit Tools and Tips

5 Principles to Anchor Summer DEIJ Planning for Next Year

June 2021

By Sudipti Kumar, Director of Research As summer vacation arrives at independent schools, things look and feel far different now than they did in June of 2020. Last year, our team at EXPLO Elevate was…

Tools and Tips

Avoiding a Strategy Archipelago

May 2021

by Ross Peters, EXPLO Elevate Vice President of School Strategy A well-constructed strategic plan, among other things, is cohesive, and as I have written before in a post entitled Strategic Plans and Luxury Cars: They…

Tools and Tips

Strategic Plans and Luxury Cars: They Look so Good on the Lot!

May 2021

by Ross Peters, EXPLO Elevate, Vice President of School Strategy “Check out the new 2020 Strategic Plan—well-equipped, versatile, nodding to the past, styled for the future.” For a moment, think of a strategic plan as…

Interview Issue Brief

Supporting Staff through Change and Uncertainty

May 2021

What happened and what can we expect moving forward? In this interview, EXPLO Elevate, Senior Consultant Susan Perry, Ph.D., MSW, LCSW, discusses the impact of the pandemic on both school leaders and faculty. She outlines…

Essay

Creating the Space for Equity

May 2021

by Indu Chugani Singh For the last eight years, I’ve been working with colleagues at the Penn Graduate School of Education teaching a course for new teachers called “Effective Learning Environments.” The course lives in…

Essay

Making the Hidden Visible: The Lived Experience of DEIJ Practitioners in Independent Schools

May 2021

By Sudipti Kumar, Director of Research On May 4th, EXPLO Elevate released our latest research report. The report, Making the Hidden Visible: The Lived Experience of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) Practitioner at…

Essay

What We Can Now Do: Permissions

April 2021

By Ross Peters, Vice President of School Strategy Recently, it has been hitting me all the time. An idea that had no articulated space in my mind several months ago is now forming…

Consulting Brief

Supporting the Redesign of Hewitt’s Upper School

April 2021

Providing relevant research and tools to support school leadership in decision-making. The Challenge: Understanding the current urban place-based education landscape in the U.S. coupled with considerations for how a school can operate as a true…

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Summer Book Recommendations

Reimagining Assessment: Where is the Story?

5 Principles to Anchor Summer DEIJ Planning for Next Year

Avoiding a Strategy Archipelago

Strategic Plans and Luxury Cars: They Look so Good on the Lot!

Supporting Staff through Change and Uncertainty

Creating the Space for Equity

Making the Hidden Visible: The Lived Experience of DEIJ Practitioners in Independent Schools

What We Can Now Do: Permissions

Supporting the Redesign of Hewitt’s Upper School

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