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Too little too late
Given the unknown hierarchy of the technology position in our school, there were a lot of collisions. It was not always certain who I reported to, what I had control over, and who needed to keep me in the loop. The maintenance people often just did projects that related to my work, but only showed →
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Going Regional and National
With the success of the CAIS CTP model, our technology group in CT was being invited to talk with other like groups. The independent school market has a dozen or more groups, and they then planned a meeting of all the association leaders—in Hawaii! It was the summer of 1996 and Peter Tacy, the ED →
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Early Consulting Concepts – The 4 Questions
As news of the Loomis technology progress spread, more and more schools in New England started contacting me to “consult”. By 1993, I was soon advising emerging tech committees at Noble and Greenough, Concord Academy, Deerfield Academy, Tabor Academy, The Winsor School, Miss Porter’s School, Hamden Hall, Milton Academy, Ethel Walker and several others. Given →
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FirstClass – a quantum leap
By the early 1990s most of the faculty were using a computer or had access to one somewhere on campus. The computer lab in the Science Center and a smaller one in the library provided access for students during the school day. With a student body of about 700, 100 faculty and 40 or so →
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Who’s in charge?
By early in the 1990s there was both a lot of change and a lot of confusion. We had wired our dorms, the faculty now were all typing their comments, we had a computer lab, and some of the teachers and staff were trying email. So the question was—who’s in charge? My quarter time position →
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Regional beginnings
The independent school market had always had regional and national organizations that served as thought leaders and promoters for the schools. NYAIS was the New York group, and there were similar ones in Connecticut, New England, the Midwest, New Jersey, California, the Northwest, Hawaii, the South and elsewhere. There were also national groups like NAIS, →
Tales from the Tech Trail 