Well-being

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Care for Your Chair: Improving Department Chair Support

February 2023

by Elise London, Senior Consultant. In a professional setting, CARE can take many forms, but ultimately, it is the support to do our jobs to the best of our capacity. [At NAIS 2023, Elise London…

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Strategic as a Beaver

December 2022

by Sara Mierke, Senior Consultant. Schools should be like beaver ponds. In today’s complex, dynamic, and uncertain world, our students and our communities need our schools to be: spaces of safety, growth and wellness for…

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How to Create Actionable Hope in Our Students

December 2022

by Leah Van der Sluis, Director of Teaching + Learning, EXPLO Junior. Actionable hope needs to be the north star that guides our work in education right now, and the tools of immersion and overview…

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Practice Vertical Empathy… Please! Vital Ingredients for a Healthy School Culture

July 2022

by Ross Peters, Managing Partner. Steamy stuff in our part of the world. This week my family and I started in Atlanta, GA, went to Norris Lake, TN, and now are in Richmond, VA, my…

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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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Out on a High Wire: How Department Heads Balance Leadership Roles

April 2022

by Elise London, EXPLO Elevate Senior Consultant When I talk to department heads these days, I can’t help but picture them as tightrope walkers on the high wire. Although they are always excited to take…

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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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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…

Tag: Well-being

Care for Your Chair: Improving Department Chair Support

Strategic as a Beaver

How to Create Actionable Hope in Our Students

Practice Vertical Empathy… Please! Vital Ingredients for a Healthy School Culture

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

Out on a High Wire: How Department Heads Balance Leadership Roles

Transference in the Teaching Life

Productive Collaboration

Surfacing Reflective Thinking in Ourselves and Our Students

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

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