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It’s Been a Week for Questions

On June 1, 2014   /   AISAP, charter schools, Facebook, Independent Curriculum Group, Josie Holford, misogyny, NAISAC15, New Orleans, NotYourFathersSchool, Sandy Hook, Santa Barbara massacre, school segregation  

As I try to sift out the experience of a week, sometimes I reach a point of desperation that comes out in the form of questions. Some recent ones: The post-Santa Barbara conversation over misogyny in the “nerd” community has gone in some interesting directions. But I […]

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Mission and Admission–Some Reflections

On November 14, 2013   /   admission, AISAP, Association of Independent School Admission Professionals, collaboration, Crane MetaMarketing, marketing, mission statements, NotYourFathersSchool, school mottos  

Last week I and my friend Tiffany Hendryx of Crane MetaMarketing presented a webinar for the Association of Independent School Admission Professionals called “Selling Mission: Aspirational Statements as Selling Points.” Our mission, if you will, was to remind admission officers that their schools’ mission statements, mottos, taglines, […]

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Thinking Retention: Beliefs and Dreams

On November 12, 2013   /   AISAP, Association of Independent School Admission Professionals, families, internal marketing, mission statements, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, student retention, students, Tiffany Hendryx  

It’s the time of year when schools are thinking extra hard about next year’s enrollment numbers, which means it can also be the time of year when some families are thinking about making a move. Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with a faculty about retention […]

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AISAP Webinars Coming Up, ASAP!

On November 5, 2013   /   admission, AISAP, Crane MetaMarketing, NotYourFathersSchool, school sustainability, Tiffany Hendryx, webinar. mission statements  

Readers may think that I’m something of a nut on mission statements and other aspirational declarations made by schools. I think these matter a great deal, and that schools that understand their own missions and use them to power policy and program development. Aligning what a school […]

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