A Case for School Improvement

School improvement is a powerful magnet: depending on its orientation, it can be repellent or attractive to faculty, and Leaders must make the case.

Three Secrets of Design Feedback

Use these tips to find openness, objectivity, and greater trust in talent. Anyone who has ever done design work for pay will tell you that there are two universal truths, always in play: 1) Everyone agrees that design by committee is bad. 2) Everyone wants to be on the committee. Managing this head/heart conflict is often the […]

All Hail the Memorandum

Purpose-built document formats in office communication can aid organizational alignment. In olden times, the Memorandum was the mainstay of organizational communication. It was a way to document something that needed to be shared and remembered; its format held just enough formality to garner attention, but not so much that it felt arduous or overwhelming to […]