New, smart ways.
The past 9 months have certainly been strange, interesting, challenging and testing. I know from actively working with our client schools and new schools right now how incredibly busy you have been in adapting to a fluid situation during this pandemic.
Whilst I miss the now rare in-person interactions with our clients, I am immensely uplifted by the many new solutions we have been exploring, developing and implementing together.
From various digital/online forms to help avoid touch-points, touch-less online lunch pre-orders and payment solutions, an expanding range of app features to accommodate eliminating many more paper processes, video productions, virtual open-nights, all the way to digital marketing campaigns and completely digitalised online enrolment processes.
I have never learnt more new skills in such a short time, driven to find new ways of thinking and approaching an issue, trialling solutions, failing and trying again a different way. I have also learnt that my mission is not to develop digital solutions, but rather to listen, observe, learn and contribute solutions to challenges that educators face.
As a parent and as a partner to schools professionally, I have been humbled by how amazingly quickly school leaders and teachers have found and experimented with new ways to keep learning going, undeterred by simultaneously juggling with having kids at home and teaching remotely.
I am sure there is much more to be done and this may be more of a marathon than a sprint. Whilst I very much would love to see the back of this pandemic, finally visit my Mum in Switzerland and be able to interact with more people face to face, I feel privileged to work with our amazing clients who are fulfilling such an important mission: To keep our children, and with that the future solvers of the world’s great challenges learning - whatever the obstacles.
Whatever your current challenge, I invite you to reach out to me and allow me to learn from your key problems. Perhaps together, we find a solution for that too.
If we don’t speak in the coming week, I wish you all a happy (and restful…) Christmas!
Warmest Regards,
Michel