Adaptability Quotient

Essay Issue Brief

Adaptive Leadership: Reducing Drag Without Losing Forward Progress

May 2023

by Ross Peters, Managing Partner It has been a busy time at EXPLO Elevate as we, like schools, strive to embody the ability to change as we navigate strategic initiatives and as we respond daily…

Essay Resource Toolkit

How to find The Grail: Creating the Path to Student Engagement (Part One)

May 2022

By Ross Peters, Managing Partner, EXPLO Elevate We are distractible. We say this about students all the time. And students have been making a game out of trying to distract teachers for millennia – ”mention…

Essay

Fighting Fires With Hope: The First Virtue for 2021-2022

August 2021

by Ross Peters, Vice President of School Strategy, EXPLO Elevate I felt as if I was on the receiving end of 911 calls. Given the tone of the callers, one might have thought the intruders…

Notes from the Field

Sharing the Process: Teaching Math through COVID

July 2021

By Terri HerrNeckar, Math Teacher, Milton Academy In the spring of 2021, EXPLO Elevate hosted the Tech Tools for Teaching and Learning Community of Practice, in which educators shared their experiences and lessons learned from…

Resource Toolkit

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…

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 Interview

In Conversation with Okorie Johnson

April 2021

How can a cellist make something foreign feel sacred enough to soothe the soul? Okorie Johnson is an American cellist-songwriter who performs under the moniker OkCello. His artistry integrates cello performance, live-sound-looping, improvisation, and storytelling…

Essay

Five Mistakes that Killed a Once-Great School and How You Can Avoid Them

February 2021

By Moira Kelly, President, Exploration Learning With thanks to Kevin Roose for his article, How the Blackberry Died: Five Mistakes That Killed a Once-Great Device. Blackberry Academy was founded in 1962 and serves students in…

Notes from the Field

Teachers as Lifelong Learners, Now More True Than Ever: Fall Successes from the Classroom

January 2021

By Paloma Cotton-Herman The Covid-19 pandemic brought “learning as usual” to a halt in the spring of 2020, causing teachers and administrators to shift plans and routines with little to no runway for planning. Throughout…

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