Providing Leadership to Develop a Vibrant Faculty Culture Everything rises and falls on leadership. Therefore, the board, head of school, director of academics and programs, director of advancement, division heads, and grade and subject chairs provide the leadership to develop a vibrant faculty culture as the most important initiative to improve student learning. 1. The [...]

Expanding faculty capacity through professional development is a key element when developing a vibrant faculty culture to improve students learning. It involves both form and content. The various forms include the coaching and mentoring inherent in the evaluation and growth cycle described above, peer-to-peer observation and demonstration and review, graduate level education and conferences and [...]

Just added Developing a Vibrant Faculty Culture as a chapter in the growing ebook THE HEADMASTER. https://marshalleducationgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/The-Headmaster2-11.pdf

The primary responsibility of the division head needs to shift from mechanical operation of the school day/quarter/year to that of “leadership of adult faculty in a manner designed to enhance the capacity of the faculty to deliver the mission with excellence. As evaluating, coaching and mentoring faculty are crucial elements of enhancing faculty capacity they [...]

Next week Robi and I provide training for two new classical Christian schools in Texas that are using our unique approach. Gloria Deo Academy in Bulverde just north of San Antonio and Grace Classical Academy in Granbury just south of Fort Worth start up at the end of this summer! Start-a-School With over 30 years [...]

Developing a vibrant faculty culture is the most important initiative to foster improved student learning at any school.  Many factors contribute to this culture.  The last post focused on 1) setting expectations, and this post on 2) observing performance.  The next few post will explicate 3) evaluating performance, 4) developing individualized teacher improvement plans, and [...]

Developing a Vibrant Faculty Culture Developing a vibrant faculty culture is the most important initiative to foster improved student learning at any school. Many factors contribute to this culture. This article focuses on that most important, which is maximizing teacher performance. School leaders should employ an orderly approach to improving faculty performance by 1) setting [...]

From the first day of a headmaster’s labor of love at any school, he works to sustain its accumulated successes and to generate virtuous cycles of improvement. (Watkins) He works to sustain innumerable successes such as delivering on the school’s mission, building a quality college of faculty, admitting and enrolling students, maintaining a positive public [...]

My interim head of school gig in the Research Triangle Region of North Carolina is coming to completion. We stabilized the school in the wake of a tumultuous leadership change, sustained its sixteen years of successes and initiated virtuous cycles of improvement as an institutional attitude. Almost every aspect of school life was affected positively. [...]

Valuing Tradition – Envisioning the Future Rodney J. Marshall I believe “the education of children for God is the most important business that is done on earth.”[1]  To succeed in the formation of young lives this education must be epistemologically well rooted.  It must value the traditions that produced western civilization and a vibrant teaching [...]