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.
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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The Art of Exceptional Leadership
Are you an exceptional leader, or an average one? By now, you probably know a lot about school leadership. You've taken courses, received training and attended conferences on effective school leadership. If you're like most people, much of what you studied remains in your notes and on your list of things to do. Most you simply don't remember. That's okay. The data is overwhelming. We've become data junkies living in data junkyards. In education, everything is about data these days - data-driven decisions, data-driven instruction, …
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The Key to Ridding Schools of Nasty Social Behavior and Emotional Harm
I am deeply saddened by the way some teachers and students treat each other in school. We have all observed or heard about teachers and students belittling, ridiculing, intimidating and ignoring each other much too often. This kind of mistreatment occurs in our "best" schools and our "worst" schools. One might expect it in our worst schools, but not in our best schools. Yet, it happens all the time. Students go to school to learn - not just subject knowledge, but how to be good citizens in school and their worlds outside of school. Learning …
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Danny Hollinger
