By centering wellbeing and core values, Re-Set School helps PreK-12 communities manage disruption, build resilience, and take advantage of the remarkable opportunities born of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Re-Set School was formed in April 2020, when schools across the country began closing their doors and sending students home because of Covid-19. That abrupt alteration shook Education to its core. Initially, my colleagues and I aspired to help administrators use the summer of 2020 and the lessons of Covid to return to “regular” school in the Fall. Like everyone else, we did not understand the long-term, disruptive impact of a full-blown pandemic. It’s clear now that the return to “normal” school is not a viable or even desirable option.
Team Finch Consultants shifted to Re-Set School and Re-Set School is now Jennifer Bryan.
With nearly 40 years in Education and Psychology, my work as a consultant currently centers on the belief that independent schools can use the disruption of this pandemic to re-set values, goals, and priorities for educating children and adolescents. The needs of PreK-12 students have been re-engineered by the pandemic and all its attendant losses. And the world for which we are preparing students is changing faster than anyone can fully fathom. It makes sense, then, for schools to adapt and innovate proportionally. We are in a BIG moment that demands intentional, creative, and operational transformation.
I believe the remaking of independent PreK-12 schools in the United States represents the astonishing opportunity we didn’t know we were waiting for.
The pandemic has made doing business-as-usual impossible for schools and educational consultants alike. My own professional re-set involves clearing away worthy endeavors and honing in on one or two. Oliver Burkman (Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals) made plain that the challenge of this moment is not achieving greater efficiency. To make time for things that matter, we have to give up other things that matter.
You, I, we have too many big rocks. There are difficult, critical choices to be made about how we spend our time.