Research has shown that the school-level factor that explains the most variation in students’ academic outcomes is a student’s teachers.
Converge 2025: Faithfully Present, Courageously Good
The theme for Converge 2025 is Faithfully Present, Courageously Good. This series invites leaders, thinkers, and practitioners to unpack this theme and consider its implications for our time together at Converge 2025.
Cost of Leadership: 2023 Update
We were going to wait until 2024 to update this series to see how the pandemic may have impacted this data, but due to the number of Head of School searches happening this fall, we thought it might be helpful to both school leaders and boards to update our reporting now.
Tee Up: A Lesson About Christian Education from the Ryder Cup
You may wonder how a team golf event has any correlation to Christian Education. What could Christian school leaders learn from the Ryder and Solheim Cups?
Four Reasons Christian Schools Need Adaptive Leaders
Adaptive Leaders use a particular approach to facilitate significant organizational change. These changes help an organization to adapt and thrive under new circumstances.
Chuck Evans: Re-calibration, Growth, and School Success
Introduction: In his recent Better Schools newsletter Chuck Evans shared data on the slight growth of the private school sector where he suggests that the economic downturn of 2008 may have been a good thing as it forced school leaders through a re-calibration of expectations and re-assessing of educational experiences. Therefore, I chose to reach out to him to hear … Read More
Choosing PD Conferences: 3 Criteria
Introduction: Recently, two blogs were written in regards to choosing conferences that I found helpful for Christian school leaders. CACE Fellow, Paul Neal, wrote a blog entitled Thinking about Conferences? as he reflected on conferences he attended this past year while our friends at Sevenstar recently published a blog entitled A Guide to the Premier Events for Christian Schools this … Read More