Effective Practices : Report Writing & Documentation REPORT WRITING & DOCUMENTATION MENU 1. Report Writing in the Grades 2. Report Writing in the High School 3. Report Writing in the Kindergarten 4. Other Documentation, Interim Reports and Notices
Effective Practices : Long-Range And Strategic Planning LONG-RANGE AND STRATEGIC PLANNING MENU 1. Statements of Vision, Mission and Values 2. Strategic Planning 3. Annual Performance Objectives
Effective Practices : Enrollment ENROLLMENT MENU 1. Outreach and Promotion 2. Admissions 3. Transition from Kindergarten to Grade 1 4. Transition from Grade 8 to the High School 5. Registration 6. Wait List Management 7. Retention and Exit Interviews 8. Management Reporting 9. Re-Enrollment Introduction Educating students is the purpose of the Waldorf School and, […]
Effective Practices : Human Resources HUMAN RESOURCES MENU 1. Recruitment and Hiring 2. New Hire Orientation 3. Employee Handbooks and Procedure Manuals 4. Mentoring and Professional Development 5. Evaluations 6. Complaints, Corrective Processes and Termination 7. Conservation and Nourishment 8. Classroom Assistants 9. Immigration 10. Personnel Records 11. Workloads 12. Teacher Trainees
Effective Practices : Development DEVELOPMENT MENU 1. Publicity and Public Relations 2. Community In-reach 3. Fundraising Events 4. Annual Appeal 5. Alumni 6. Grants Introduction Development is a term that has various associations and meanings among people. In one sense, development means “developing relationships” with the various communities in which our schools exist. Many see […]
Lessons from Jazz Bands and the New Leaderless Symphony for Organizations Practicing Collaboration Both the creative “in the moment” improvisation of jazz bands and the studied and practiced leadership in the context of a leaderless symphony offer real and important insights into the practice of collaboration in any organization. While the product and the goals […]
Jorgen Smit, long-time Waldorf teacher and former head of the Pedagogical section in Dornach, Switzerland, offers his insights into the ways that teachers could focus their group work to create a living spiritual atmosphere that would permeate the school and engender improved collaboration. This excerpt is from the book, The Child, Teachers and Community, a […]
Review and Comments on “Collaborative Leadership”, an article by Arnoud DeMeyer of Cambridge, UK, about the trends affecting modern day organizations and the need for collaboration. Review and comments (in blue) by Michael Soule. LeadTogether2014 This article by Arnoud DeMeyer from 2009 provides readers a deeper understanding of the trends in business and culture that […]
THE CONDUCTOR-LESS ORCHESTRA by Harvey Seifter Institute, No.21, Summer 2001 Tapping into the unique skills of knowledge workers requires leaders to adopt new ways of thinking and to apply new models of organization to the workplace. According to Harvard business professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Executive Excellence, "Your structures should be very loose and […]
The Jazz Process By Adrian Cho, February 18, 2010 What can software developers learn from jazz musicians? Adrian Cho has worked in the software development industry for more than 20 years as a consultant to banks and research development labs at Fujitsu and IBM and as a key contributor to multiple class-leading and award-winning software engineering […]