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Blog - Akribos Professional Associates and Guest Contributors
The vast majority of the 250 schools I have visited over the last decade were designed and
built with little alignment to what many of use believe is the future of learning. School
communities have spent vast treasure building learning spaces that re-enforce an industrial
model of education that should have been retired thirty or more years ago.
If you are like me, this is certainly one of your favorite seasons of the year and the particular season to which I refer has little to do with the weather. On the other hand this season has everything to do with school colors, fight songs, tailgating, game-day attire, and how we structure and schedule our Saturday afternoons and evenings.
Some of the most interesting conversations about grants happen when I am on the road or in
the air.
Recently, a gentleman named Emmanuel and I started a conversation while waiting for a plane.
Naturally, I am always eager to talk about grants. But unfortunately, I hear the war stories of
those who have been too fearful even to try to seek a grant, or I hear lament from those who
refuse to run into a brick wall again.
Emmanuel runs several non-profits, so he was especially eager to hear about my work. Again, I
found myself quoting from my own book, The "How to" Grants Manual, as I tried to put grant
seeking in perspective. Quoting from my book is not challenging after authoring nine editions of
it and teaching it for 50 years.
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
