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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?…

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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 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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Elevate Newsletter: May 12, 2022

Transference in the Teaching Life

Productive Collaboration

Surfacing Reflective Thinking in Ourselves and Our Students

5 Principles to Anchor Summer DEIJ Planning for Next Year