Administrative Searches Top Our Work This Autumn
VisM has been busy this fall mentoring administrators, doing administrative searches and, most significantly, concluding a key head of...
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team6702
- Aug 28, 2019
- 1 min
Welcome Back to Another School Year
I am sure you have a new set of goals and action plans for 2019-2020. I am suggesting that VisM can help you use your best resources to...
Dexter Morse
- Mar 11, 2019
- 2 min
Help with Your Spring Hiring
When you return from Spring Break, you know it is a downhill schuss to graduation! As March break quickly approaches, I wonder if you...
Dexter Morse
- Oct 24, 2018
- 2 min
How YOU Successfully Change Your School’s Curriculum
In general terms, what I mean by “changing your school’s curriculum” is to set a new direction for what you teach, how you teach and how...
Dexter Morse
- Sep 26, 2018
- 1 min
VisM.company is NEW for 2018 Check us out!
VisM finished its second year of business in August and, like most schools, is looking at a fresh start with new goals and an expanded...
Dexter Morse
- Jun 12, 2018
- 2 min
Build A Head's Support And Evaluation Team
I hope your year is beginning well. January is a great month for heads of school to begin to relax and finish up their performance...
Dexter Morse
- May 16, 2018
- 1 min
Curriculum Change
What is a student-centered curriculum? Simply put, a student-centered curriculum places the student in the center of the learning...
Dexter Morse
- Apr 17, 2018
- 2 min
Can't Build A Larger Endowment? Then What?
If you cannot easily build a larger endowment, then what? I have always thought that enrollment was the most critical area to save an...
Dexter Morse
- Apr 10, 2018
- 1 min
What Keeps Heads of School Up At Night
An article appeared on March 31 in the Boston Globe entitled “For Small, Private Colleges, Fewer Students Means More Worries.” The author...
Dexter Morse
- Feb 6, 2018
- 2 min
Leadership Succession Planning
Boards of Trustees must have plans for the succession of their officers, especially for their chair and treasurer. Unfortunately, most...
Dexter Morse
- Jan 10, 2018
- 2 min
Heads Beware!
I have spent 19 years of my professional career in the classroom and 31 years as an independent school administrator (19 of those as Head...
Dexter Morse
- Oct 25, 2017
- 1 min
4 Points Critical To Your Success
The following is critical to your success as a Head of School: Do your administrators work as a group or a team? Do they work...
Dexter Morse
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min
Topic For The New School Year
The beginning of the school year is always exciting. I hope you are off to a positive start! In the last three months I have been working...
Dexter Morse
- May 16, 2017
- 1 min
Trustee Giving Practices
Dear Head of School: I am consulting an independent school on their annual and capital giving plans. The school has asked me to gather...
Dexter Morse
- Sep 13, 2016
- 2 min
How My Mentoring Will Help You Have a Successful Year
After forty-three years as an independent school administrator, nineteen as Head of School, I have established a mentoring business...
Dexter Morse
- Jun 23, 2016
- 1 min
Plan Strategically
After forty years in leadership roles at independent schools, literally from Vermont to Arizona, I have made the decision to start VISM...