Category: Tools and Tips

Tools and Tips

Improve Your Teaching with One Piece of Data

May 2022

by David Hamilton, Director of Programs, EXPLO Elevate This is the first in a three-part series on how data collection + information design can expedite your progress toward a teaching goal (no matter what you…

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Productive Collaboration

November 2021

by Dave Hamilton, Director of Programs, EXPLO Elevate This is Part 2 of Designing for Collaboration: Read Part 1 HERE In Part 1 of this two-part series on collaboration, we offered “5 Must-Answer Questions Before…

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Surfacing Reflective Thinking in Ourselves and Our Students

October 2021

by Sudipti Kumar, Director of Research, EXPLO Elevate Last month, I wrote about a methodology called ORID for supporting meetings, conversations, and interviews at independent schools. I outlined the four components (O = Objective, R…

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5 Must-Answer Questions BEFORE You Collaborate

September 2021

by Dave Hamilton, Director of Programs, EXPLO Elevate This is Part 1 of Designing for Collaboration: Read Part 2 HERE You are 20 minutes into an hour-long meeting. The only thoughts running through your head…

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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…

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Avoiding a Strategy Archipelago

May 2021

by Ross Peters, Managing Partner 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 Look so Good on the…

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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…

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Remember More! Retrieval Practice for Deeper Learning

September 2020

by Sudipti Kumar | Director of Research, Dave Hamilton | Director of Programs On Friday Sept 18, Elevate hosted a webinar that went deep on the concept of retrieval practice, the process of recalling learned…

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Building a Sense of Belonging With Students

August 2020

by Sudipti Kumar | Director of Research As a follow-up to our recent piece that compiled tips for educators on building and nurturing relationships with students online, we wanted to dive deep on concrete and…

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Design for Remote, Optimize for Hybrid

July 2020

This post is part of a series of articles, blog posts, and short briefs produced by EXPLO Elevate focused on supporting schools’ virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Sudipti Kumar | Director of Research…