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Blog - Akribos Professional Associates and Guest Contributors
Have I done everything I can to prepare for this school year? Have I forgotten
something that's key to keeping everyone informed? As school leaders, we are always thinking
about what we need to do next.
The Winning Grants Institute is an innovative partnership between The Akribos Group and
David G. Bauer Associates and is based on The “ How To” Grants Manual, now in its 9thedition.
The Winning Grants Institute has developed a program that results in a success rate of
approximately 50% and made it available in a cloud-based format.
This week I am visiting the venerable Tower Hill School in Delaware to share thoughts about
the status of education in a rapidly changing world, and some vision about how a leading
school might impact the big challenges ahead. I was asked to share a few examples of
schools that are really leading the way. This is always a difficult task because there are so
many, and so many I don’t even know about. Over the last decade there has been a virtual
tsunami of K-12 innovation, much of it leading towards a much more student-centric, inquiryproject-experiential learning environment. As I said back in 2012, we are re-finding what eduleaders like Montessori and Dewey knew 100+ years ago.
“The Core of Change is Learning.
Which is ironic.
Our institutions of learning are slow, some might even say, immune to change.”
– ‘The Human Side of Changing Education’, Julie (Wilson) Jungalwala
Here we are in spring 2022. COVID-19 is shifting from pandemic to endemic. Putin invaded a sovereign nation and revived the threat of global nuclear war. Inflation is the highest it has been in four decades. And if you have been working in schools, you are the closest to burnout you have ever been – or well past it.
School administrators and teachers have been heroic in their efforts to prop up the creaking bureaucracy of our inherited system of schooling. A system that was designed during a time when teachers and textbooks were the predominant sources of knowledge and the path after secondary school was highly predictable.
If engagement through two-way communication is part of your strategic plan, it may be time to
think critically about the tools teachers are using to reach parents. Most K-12 communication
solutions weren’t built with consideration for analytics, or administrator oversight.
Other common issues are lack of language translation, one-way mass text blasts, and robo calls
with no way for parents to return a phone call. Feature-rich parent apps may seem like the
solution, but apps only work for the parents who will download them. What results is inefficient
communication that frustrates teachers and parents alike.
For a district administrator, these issues may go unnoticed because they can be difficult to
observe. Educators are innovative–experts at making the most of the tools available to them
with little extra time. Your teachers may be using a free app with little security, a tool with no
administrator oversight, or their own cell phones to talk to parents. What are the signs that your
teachers need better tools so that parent engagement is supporting your district goals?
At The Akribos Group, we are fully committed to research-based practice and data informed
processes and solutions. In support of that commitment, we attempt to provide informative
insights and resources that support educational institutions and organizations in their efforts to
facilitate productive and efficient programming. In this edition of Thought Leader, we are
pleased to share content from our friends at SchoolStatus with a focus on data informed parent
communication for effective strategic planning.
