For many school marketers, the thought of adding “content creation” to their team’s (or their own) to-do list is enough to cause a hive breakout. But in reality, school storytelling doesn’t have to be overwhelming, and it’s not an all-or-nothing concept. The key to making strong school storytelling a reality for your school is developing […]
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What would a school look like if it was designed, from the ground up, by the students in its classrooms? That was the question a team of educators in rural Edgecombe County started asking themselves two years ago. The schools in the county’s Northside district have long struggled with low student performance, attendance, graduation rates,
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Many families in the independent school world are struggling with ever-rising tuition prices and stagnant incomes at the same time independent schools are struggling to rein in expenditures, says Michael Horn in “The Job of Innovation,” an article in the Spring 2017 issue of Independent School magazine. Horn, cofounder of the Clayton Christensen Institute, a think tank
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Have a good learning idea? Try it with six kids tomorrow, plan an after-school event for next week or advertise a week long summer school opportunity. If that works, launch a small school for 15 students in the fall.
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Micro schools—private schools with sometimes as few as a half dozen students—are popping up in places from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C. And along the way, they’ve been generating excitement inside school choice circles and tech and business publications like Wired and Fast Company. Some experts predict micro schools have the potential to not only revive
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It’s getting easier to open a really cool school. A new wave of tiny schools are creating options for students, parents, and educators. Micro-schools vary in size, approach, and governance.
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Small innovative schools opened in months rather than years of planning could prove to be an important K-12 innovation strategy. For decades, quality school developers have used the 100 students per grade rule of thumb resulting in schools of 400-600 students. For a number of reasons, new schools have become more difficult and expensive to
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