ISC
Joins Edevate!
Indpendent School Counsel (ISC) is one of the leading education consulting firms in the United States. Offering a broad range of services related to planning, funding and governance, ISC can claim credit for the success (and in some cases the existence) of numerous prominent independent schools.
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ONLINE COURSES
FLIPPED CLASSROOMS
BLENDED LEARNING
HYBRID COURSES
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
VIRTUAL CAMPUS
ISC has always shown a deep respect for the Mission of its client schools while encouraging Boards and Heads to treat the Mission Statement as a living document to be interpreted (and if necessary, adapted) in the light of changing social and economic circumstances. Now, perhaps for the first time in their existence, many of ISC's client schools need to reconsider the fundamental model of an independent school in terms of facility, program, pedagogy and financial model.
Recognizing this remarkable catalyst for change the ISC team has joined forces with Edevate to create a comprehensive resource for Boardsand Adminsitrations seeking to take a proactive approach to the educational revolution.
SENIOR ISC CONSULTANTS
Julie C. Robinson: Julie focuses her consulting work with ISC in the areas of fundraising, planning, and governance, and brings to ISC university classroom teaching experience, as well as experience in marketing and communications.
As a graduate student at Georgia State University, Julie specialized in education leadership, education reform, and student achievement.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a South Carolina Honors College graduate, Julie earned her B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina, and she has completed all required coursework toward earning her M.S. from the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
David R. Skillen: ISC has its origins in the early work of Dave among independent schools in the Southeast, beginning in the mid-1980s. As ISC’s Senior Consultant, Dave’s work has focused on planning, fundraising management and school governance.
He has served as a director of development at both the secondary and collegiate levels and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Wheaton College (IL) and is a graduate of The Stony Brook School (NY).
Dave serves as ISC's lead counsel to the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) and has worked directly with over seventy independent schools.
The work of ISC finds its origins in the Education Consulting practice established by Dave Skillen in the 1980's. ISC was formally incorporated as Intependent School Counsel Inc. in 1996 and since that time the company has served over 200 schools.
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MOOC OF THE MON TH
Stanford University - Organizational Analysis - Daniel A. McFarland
It is hard to imagine living in modern society without participating in or interacting with organizations. The ubiquity and variability of organizations means there is ample room for complexity and confusion in the organizational challenges we regularly face. Through this course, students will consider cases describing various organizational struggles: school systems and politicians attempting to implement education reforms; government administrators dealing with an international crisis; technology firms trying to create a company ethos that sustains worker commitment; and even two universities trying to gain international standing by performing a merger. Each case is full of details and complexity. So how do we make sense of organizations and the challenges they face, let alone develop means of managing them in desired directions? While every detail can matter, some matter more than others. This is why we rely on organizational theories -- to focus our attention and draw out relevant features in a sensible way.
Through this course you will come to see that there is nothing more practical than a good theory. Every week, you’ll learn a different organizational theory, and it will become a lens through which you can interpret concrete organizational situations. Armed with a toolset of theories, you will then be able to systematically identify important features of an organization and the events transforming it – and use the theories to predict which actions will best redirect the organization in a desired direction. www.coursera.org/course/organalysis