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June 2025

Governance Basics: Context is Everything
A recent Independent School magazine, Summer 2025 collab between Stony Creek Strategy, ISCA and ICAISA - PDF linked below
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Tough Talks: Top Five Tips on Saying No
Yep. I said it. Big pile of nope!
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Tough Talks: Tips and Insights for Difficult Conversations
This is Talking Out of School, a weekly newsletter about schools, change, leadership and being a human in the 21st century.
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Tough Talks: Five Tips for More Productive Conflict
It's summer and we're all relaxing - why not talk about conflict?
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Tough Talks: Managing Complicated Parents
Tips and Insights - an edited post from the archives
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Top Five Talking Out of School Posts
From the 24-25 school year - all unpaywalled - plus some thoughts!
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Summer 25 Links and Resources (gift links updated!)
For paid subscribers - it seems not all the gift links were working so I updated what I could! There are two pieces from the Atlantic and one from the…
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Top Five Tips on Having Hard Conversations vs Resolving Conflict
It might feel conflictual, but sometimes there's nothing to negotiate
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From the Archives: Five Guiding Principles for the First Year of Headship
On the short list of one of our most viewed posts
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Top Five Reasons To Do "Summer Fridays"
If you're not doing some kind of altered workplace schedule, why not start? A TopFive Tuesday for all.
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Confronting the Existential Crisis of AI
"AI literacy" is necessary but does it obscure the bigger issue?
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