Collaboration – EXPLO Elevate

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Elevate Newsletter: The Far and the Near: June 24th 2022

July 2022

by Ross Peters, Managing Partner. The Far and the Near: Keep long-term strategy and shorter-term tactics operating in relation to each other This week my daughter and I are in Glacier National Park. Even with…

Case Study Essay

This is Me, Learning About How I Learn

June 2022

by Gary Chapin, Consultant and Writer for Educating for Good, Boston. We free the chickens. Well, not all of them. Trial and error can be harsh. I met with Dave Hamilton at the Explo office…

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Chicken Run: Documenting Process Without Sucking the Life Out of PBL

June 2022

by David Hamilton, Director of Programs. “Do you have astroturf?” That was Gary Chapin’s first question when I introduced this challenge: There is a chicken on a car about to roll down a ramp onto…

Essay Resource Toolkit

The 4 C’s: How Administrators Can Best Support Department Heads

April 2022

by Elise London, EXPLO Elevate Senior Consultant In my consulting work, I have the privilege of meeting one-on-one with individuals who serve in a variety of different roles in schools. When I get to meet…

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Transference in the Teaching Life

December 2021

by Moira Kelly, President, EXPLO Back in the ‘90s, when David Torcoletti and I were beginning our school leadership roles at Northfield Mount Hermon School, we read Ned Hallowell’s “Who Do They Think You Are?…

Tools and Tips

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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