AI is changing how the world sees you
Much of the discussion around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the education sector has been focused on its use in assessment tasks. But the AI impact …
Challenges
Are we measuring the right things?
The administrative burden on teachers and schools has increased continuously and significantly over more than a decade. It places a substantial burden on schools and …
How are you protecting your school’s most valuable asset?
Schools have many valuable assets and all of them require careful protection and management, however, some get more focus than others. How much consideration and …
Catchment Analysis
Share of catchment is the best indicator of future enrolments, but it is not the only consideration. In working with different schools, it is apparent …
Key inflection points in school enrolments
School enrolments are a lag indicator of school success, because the cause of the change in enrolment numbers precedes the change by months and even …
What are the leading indicators of future school enrolments?
The difficulty with enrolments being a measure of past school performance (lag indicator) is that it raises the question – “what are the leading indicators …
School Enrolments – Reversing Decline
A common problem inherited by an incoming school principal is declining enrolments. Unfortunately, it is often just one of a number of issues that they may …
Building On A School Community’s Common Ground
While diversity is getting a lot of consideration, it is most often what we have in common that provides the foundations on which we can …
Engaging a new generation of parents
Lots of school leaders talk about the difficulties in engaging parents post COVID. While COVID was certainly a circuit breaker, a bigger factor might be …
Reputation vs Reality – why reputation wins
There are numerous examples of excellent school leaders positively transforming what goes on inside the school fence without it impacting on the school’s reputation in …