Engaging the Digital School Community
While most school leaders are Gen X and can remember a world before the internet and mobile phones, most school parents are digital natives. To …
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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 …
Seeds of decline often sown in good times
Schools are often judged by their enrolment numbers. While it is definitely a key indicator it is often a lag indicator, with the seeds of …
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 …
Have Parents expectations of school changed?
I recently came across this article written by my father for a regional publication over 40 years ago. Two things stood out for me, the …
Nothing to see here
Denial might be a reflex response to negative community accusations being levelled at a school but it is not an appropriate long-term solution. While it …