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Time: 12:00pm ET
Webinar Length: 60 minutes
Teachers, staff, students, and parents deeply desire transparency and predictability for the 2021–22 school year, particularly when they sign their employment and enrollment agreements. They will naturally wonder if students will return to campus full time, what their days will look like, and the value of the educational program relative to a tuition increase.
They want to know what your school will do to keep students and teachers safe in the ongoing COVID environment. School leaders must provide answers even while they continue to manage this year’s uncertainty.
How do you manage expectations and communicate with transparency when no one knows what the fall will look like?
The solution: Start with the six questions every school leader must ask now to lay the groundwork for success in the fall.
School leaders can address these six questions and communicate a framework to their communities to optimize faculty and student retention. They will also allow you to address a range of possibilities for the fall, conduct robust planning with clear guidelines, and take ample time for reflection and identifying possible contingencies.
Join this FREE webinar to explore this six-question framework and to determine how your school can use it to engage in an active dialogue with your community about the upcoming school year. Scott Erickson, Head of School at Phillips Brooks School in Menlo Park, California, and Mike Gwaltney, ISM’s Director of Online Learning will discuss the framework they are using at Phillips Brooks. Scott will explain his approach as they plan for fall 2021 in an ongoing COVID environment.
Don’t miss this webinar—It will provide valuable information for all school leaders. Manage expectations, ensure confidence, and keep your community engaged with your 2021–22 school year plans—no matter what the future holds.
Dr. Scott Erickson
Head of School, Phillips Brooks School, CA
Dr. Scott Erickson is an independent school leader and has been Head of School at Phillips Brooks School since 2011. He successfully led a negotiation process to extend the school’s lease through 2062, an effort to re-imagine PBS’s approach to educational technology, an entitlement process to grow the school, and a market study to launch a new brand in 2014. He has positioned PBS to initiate its first-ever comprehensive capital campaign to invest in faculty with creative solutions for talent retention, establish an innovative Invention Program, and build a community center.
Scott implemented the school’s first formal curriculum review process called the PBS Curriculum Deep Dive and designed a Program and Teaching Dashboard that uses an evidence-based methodology to track success metrics and key performance indicators. He designed a new faculty compensation system, added a new Emotional Intelligence Program, expanded PBS’s STEM-curriculum, and revamped the Early Learning Center into a full-day program. Scott has also focused on expanding parent education, optimizing community relationships, and partnering with the board to strengthen the school’s financial position.
A frequent speaker at workshops and conferences, Scott serves on the Board of Directors at Common Sense Media as well as the Advisory Boards for Independent School Management and Art & Science Group. He founded and convenes the Peninsula Heads Group to create a collaborative environment among independent schools on the Bay Area Peninsula. Prior to moving to San Francisco, Scott was Middle School Director at the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington D.C. He began his independent school career as a teacher, chaplain, and humanities department chair at St. Paul’s School, a coeducational boarding school in New Hampshire. An Iowa native, Scott’s undergraduate degree is in music, and he holds a doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden, where he lived for six years.
Mike Gwaltney
Director of Online Learning | ISM Consultant
Expertise
Mike is one of the pioneering leaders in online learning within the American private-independent school community. He is a recognized thought leader in developing constructivist learning experiences that connect students to each other online in highly collaborative, "high-touch" projects. Mike shares his expertise in blended, online, and project-based learning, along with faculty development and evaluation, high-quality project-based learning, mission-based curriculum development, and transformative school leadership.
Current Role
As a Consultant for ISM, Mike advocates for progressive school approaches that include project-based and inquiry-based learning, equity-focused and evidence-based leadership, and connecting students with online communities and other learners around the world. Mike presents at regional and national conferences and facilitates on-campus trainings and workshops for private-independent schools.
Prior Experience
Over his many years working in schools, Mike has led a variety of strategic academic initiatives while providing leadership and mentoring to scores of teachers. As a previous Head of Upper School at Rocky Hill School, RI, Mike helped lead school decisions on all issues related to academic and co-curricular programs.
Mike is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including recognition as “Most Inspirational Teacher” by the Mayor of Los Angeles six times. His work has been featured on National Public Radio, the New York Times Learning Network, Edutopia, and in several recent books.
Mike was given the annual Friends of the Muslim Educational Trust Award in 2016 for envisioning and designing project-based blended-online learning opportunities between students at an Episcopal independent school and students from the muslim community in the Pacific Northwest. In February 2017, Mike was given the OESIS “Innovation Leader” award for Digital Citizenship, Project-based Learning, and Interdisciplinary Learning, and in 2020 Mike was named a OESIS Faculty PD Pathways Leader.
Education
Mike received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from California State University at Fullerton.
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