Consultations, workshops, "critical friendship", and more...
“Leadership in the past meant coming up with solutions. Today it is learning how to ask new questions that we have been too scared, too busy or too proud to ask.”
– Tod Bolsinger, “Canoeing the Mountains” (2015).
Perhaps, more than any other service, what you and your school really need is a critical friend? Somebody who can look in from the outside and ask significant questions.
Questions like...
Are your mission, vision and purpose congruent? Are they coherent? Are they consistently worked out in the day-to-day practice of the school?
Is the education your school provides truly holistic? That is, does it attend to the needs of the whole child – body, mind and soul?
What do “flourishing” students look like?
Does your school have an effective student wellbeing framework?
Does your school equip students with an ethical framework that will help them navigate the challenges of adolescence and early adulthood?
Are the priorities of your school appropriate for the times in which we live (this “Age of accelerations”)?
