ARTICLES & RESEARCH PAPERS
The Important, Not Urgent Work behind Excellent Schools
As a new teacher stepping into my first day of summer in-service, I had no concrete sense of what my life in the classroom would actually look like, let alone what I would teach from day to day. Bright-eyed and holding my newly minted bachelor’s degree, I received the...
The Furrows Podcast
G.K. Chesterton once wrote a famous essay in which he described being suddenly arrested by the beauty of the furrows plowed across bending hills during a walk through the English countryside. Quick to marvel at a paradox, he reflected on the one before him: straight...
Know Thyself: the Oracle of Delphi on Organizational Health
I loved the first school where I taught. I loved its vision of academic discipleship: fostering the love of learning with a passion for Jesus. I loved my colleagues: we had real faculty culture, loved our students and families, and had real community taking shape. We...
Classical Conversion in the Andean Highlands
Medellin, Colombia is a city of over four million nestled in the breathtaking Aburra Valley, at an elevation of nearly one mile. Just twenty minutes outside the city limits, and another 1000 meters up, at the edge of the high-altitude rainforest that still blankets...
Is Your School Ready for a Great Leader?
Every school board dreams of hiring a great leader—someone who can transform their school from good to great. They believe the right leader will solve all their challenges: fundraising will soar, attrition will drop, enrollment will skyrocket, teachers will thrive and...
Recruitment & Retention Assessment
Faculty recruitment and retention are the lifeblood of a successful school. Yet many leadership teams struggle to diagnose the specific areas where their hiring processes or faculty support structures fall short. To address this gap, we’ve developed two targeted...
Do You Trust Your Team?
The first place I ever taught was at a small private Christian school with an enrollment hovering around 90 students in grades 7 through 12. We were a small, tight-knit faculty with a dynamo for a headmaster. Going into my third year on faculty, we gathered one...
Schools & the Wisdom of Patrick Lencioni
The Schooling America podcast covers issues and ideas relevant to leaders in American education. We bring in the brightest minds in administration, philosophy, culture, and beyond to reflect on topics that directly impact schools, organizations, and the children and...
Prioritize Leaders – A Vision Worth the Wait
In winter 2022, the board of Veritas Classical Academy in Eau Claire, Wisconsin faced a difficult decision. Years earlier, one board member had been introduced to the concept of classical education by his daughter, who had begun teaching at a classical school in...
An Interview with Divine Mercy: The Benefit of Market Analysis for Small Schools
The Schooling America podcast covers issues and ideas relevant to leaders in American education. We bring in the brightest minds in administration, philosophy, culture, and beyond to reflect on topics that directly impact schools, organizations, and the children and...