| Brad Rathgeber The tendency for a post-COVID world will be to revert, but high-performing organizations won't do that: they'll grow. Yes, there have been challenges and things that have gone wrong. And there are things that have gone well: processes that have changed, traditions altered, and new skills learned. Changes are happening fast though -- can you remember all the decisions that you made back in May? It is important for schools to keep track of our experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic as we live it, so that we can learn and grow from it. That's the focus This Week at One Schoolhouse: how we're learning from this moment to be better in a post-COVID world. Take the one question survey, engage in one of our fall cohorts to learn with colleagues from around the country, and read Peter's thoughts below. Question of the week: Does your school have a point-person to document your responses, actions, and decisions to the COVID-19 pandemic? Taking the Pulse: Flash Survey This fall, you are learning from your school's lived experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also an opportunity for you to learn from colleagues around the country. Cohorts at One Schoolhouse allow you to learn from one another as we all grow to be better in a post-COVID world. Cohort for Academic Leaders Cohort for Department Chairs & Instructional Coaches Peter Gow In each school the COVID-19 crisis has precipitated a whole raft of new practices, some adopted in the moment or planned by an administrative crash program. Many simply appeared one day, either to persist or to disappear the next. Who even remembers, or cares? So what? That was in April (or May or June or July or August). But in three or four years, assuming the virus has been tamed and some semblance of order or at least predictability restored to the world, what will your school’s COVID narrative be? What will keep the predominant memory, and thus the predominant narrative, from being anything but a recitation of “the year that wasn’t”, or worse, the failures, stop-gaps, complaints, and disappointments? We know that there have been plenty of the above, but there have also been good things, even great things, happening. Read more. Join One Schoolhouse and Emmi Harward, Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools, today, Wednesday, September 30 at noon ET for a webinar to help academic leaders better understand the college application landscape that our seniors and their families are entering. Register for our Webinar Series |
 Brad Rathgeber |
The tendency for a post-COVID world will be to revert, but high-performing organizations won't do that: they'll grow. Yes, there have been challenges and things that have gone wrong. And there are things that have gone well: processes that have changed, traditions altered, and new skills learned. Changes are happening fast though -- can you remember all the decisions that you made back in May? It is important for schools to keep track of our experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic as we live it, so that we can learn and grow from it.
That's the focus This Week at One Schoolhouse: how we're learning from this moment to be better in a post-COVID world. Take the one question survey, engage in one of our fall cohorts to learn with colleagues from around the country, and read Peter's thoughts below.
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Question of the week: Does your school have a point-person to document your responses, actions, and decisions to the COVID-19 pandemic? | |
This fall, you are learning from your school's lived experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also an opportunity for you to learn from colleagues around the country. Cohorts at One Schoolhouse allow you to learn from one another as we all grow to be better in a post-COVID world. | |
 Peter Gow | In each school the COVID-19 crisis has precipitated a whole raft of new practices, some adopted in the moment or planned by an administrative crash program. Many simply appeared one day, either to persist or to disappear the next. Who even remembers, or cares? So what? That was in April (or May or June or July or August).
But in three or four years, assuming the virus has been tamed and some semblance of order or at least predictability restored to the world, what will your school’s COVID narrative be? What will keep the predominant memory, and thus the predominant narrative, from being anything but a recitation of “the year that wasn’t”, or worse, the failures, stop-gaps, complaints, and disappointments?
We know that there have been plenty of the above, but there have also been good things, even great things, happening. Read more. | |
Join One Schoolhouse and Emmi Harward, Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools, today, Wednesday, September 30 at noon ET for a webinar to help academic leaders better understand the college application landscape that our seniors and their families are entering. | |
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