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Blog - Akribos Professional Associates and Guest Contributors
John F. Kennedy stated, “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.”
The quote is resonant, particularly in this time as since March of 2020, school operations and education
delivery have been highly variable across our country. However, it is overly convenient to attribute our
difficulty in getting timely supports to children solely because of the COVID pandemic.
In my first two pieces as guest contributor, we focused on the urgency of what some refer to as the
“twin pandemics,” social unrest and COVID 19, causing us to need access to high quality data to ensure
we are framing the issues unique to each school system during these tumultuous times. In addition to
having high quality data to frame clear problems of practice, it is essential each school organization
consistently measure and build high-quality culture, as absent high-quality culture, little work
benefitting children gets done.
In my last piece as a guest contributor, we covered the critical need to have actionable data to help our
systems navigate through and beyond the COVID 19 pandemic. The title, To Set Your Course, You Must
First Know Where You Are, applies to the following four data domains that we work in as professional
educators...
Business sector author Patrick Lencioni stated, “If you could get all the people in an
organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market,
against any competition, at any time.”
Educators have always acknowledged the problem of summer learning loss or “summer slide”
and the resulting achievement gaps observed in their students.
By: Grant Lichtman, Recognized Thought Leader and Akribos Guest Contributor
What can a wildly diverse group of architects, engineers, educators, and district administrators teach us about how to transform the K-12 learning experience? Plenty.
As I posted last week, I am involved in helping to design and build a new public middle school in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Our charge: build the best school in America and make it a core of the community. As I mentioned in that post, such an audacious goal would not be possible were it not for the most “obstinately visionary” (my new favorite hashtag!) group of district leaders I have ever worked with.
