Hollinger International | School Consultant | Starting a School | Private School Management
Hollinger International provides tailored, strategic assistance to clients starting a school. An experienced school consultant who will work with you to establish your school, improve your education programs and help you with private school management.
Project-Based Learning: The Secret to Success
Project-based learning is essential to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities in a global economy and information age. To perform successfully in meaningful and rewarding jobs today, people need critical thinking skills, creativity, interpersonal skills, understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures, technology skills and other similar knowledge and skills. As Phyllis P. Blumenfeld explains, "Project-based learning is focused on teaching by engaging students in investigation. Within this framework, students pursue solutions …
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Creating Fabulous Schools: Faculty Collaboration is Key
One of the most important factors in school improvement and creating fabulous schools is the quality of collaboration among teachers. Certainly, there are other important factors, but faculty collaboration is an absolutely necessary condition. It is possible, with high quality teaching, to have a good school. It is not possible to have an outstanding school without excellent teamwork among teachers. Faculty collaboration is what makes the sum of the parts greater than the whole. It's what creates the conditions for students to excel …
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Leadership Coaching and Consulting to Build Strong Management Teams
As school leaders, we delegate many responsibilities to members of our management team and depend heavily on them to run our schools. The bigger the school, the more we delegate. Our management teams are critical to the successful functioning of our schools. While members of our team may be smart, capable people, they are not always excellent team players. Once, I had a talented, intelligent business manager who couldn't figure out how to play on our team. After trying many approaches, I hired a topnotch management consultant and organized a …
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Leadership Coaching to Help Leaders Manage and Develop Boards
As Head of School, I sometimes felt overwhelmed by the complexities of managing my Board and the attendant relationships. While I enjoyed the support of my Board, Board relationships, development and management were ongoing challenges. I quickly discovered I was not alone. School governance and the challenges of managing boards were regular topics at gatherings of school leaders. Once I got squeezed between my Board Chair and my Facilities Committee Chair in their disagreement related to the choice of an architect for school expansion. In …
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School Leadership: The 8 Critical Areas
There is enough research on leadership to fill oceans. Indeed, we can easily find ourselves swimming in the leadership data and wondering where to focus our energies. Since most leadership research doesn't focus on school leadership, how do we know what's most important for school leaders? After all, schools are unique institutions. It stands to reason that they require a unique kind of leadership. Thankfully, Independent School Management conducted research on school leadership and found that effective school leaders do the following …
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Has a Leadership Coach Got Your Back? And Front?
School leadership is like a contact sport. You never know from where or whom the hit will come. And it can be fatal. In fact, school leaders get a fatal hit every three years, on the average. Very few have a leadership coach to help them avoid fatal blows. Yes, the average tenure for school leaders is about three years. After that, they're fired or move on because they've taken too many hits. As a leading school consultant once told my board and management team, "You gotta have your head's back. It's an open target. Protect it." …
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Danny Hollinger
