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The Magic Third: A Tutoring Culture
From the November 2024 Community and Belonging Survey If curiosity kills, I’m on my deathbed as I review the results of our Community and...

Kevin Graham
Dec 11, 20247 min read
Male/female social-emotional ratings crossed by LGBTQ2S+ status
Does the disproportion of LGBTQ2S+ community members among the female sample (3:1 over males) help to explain disparity in...
Alana Graham
Sep 2, 20247 min read
Community and Belonging Survey of Students – November 2024
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 4th Click here to register your school Dear Friends, In November 2022, we administered a Community and...

Kevin Graham
Apr 19, 20243 min read
State of the (pickleball) world
As I write this, I'm supposed to be playing pickleball, but I skipped out today, uncertain of my rightful place. Last time out, I was...

Kevin Graham
Feb 29, 20244 min read
Societal collapse and the role of education
Is it a duty to scratch our way through seemingly impenetrable walls in search of true understanding? Today’s entry is about our system...

Kevin Graham
Mar 2, 20239 min read
Racial Diversity in Independent Schools
This is the fourth in a series of short pieces stemming from our November 2022 Community and Belonging Survey of Students, involving 96...

Kevin Graham
Feb 28, 20236 min read


The evils of social media… quantified
It’s fair to say that we’re all well aware of the negative associations with too much time spent on social media. We can talk to...

Kevin Graham
Jan 24, 20231 min read
If I’m a teenager who identifies with the LGBTQ2S+ community…
So much to say… so little time. There’s a dissertation’s worth of data on this topic coming out of our Community and Belonging Survey…...

Kevin Graham
Jan 19, 20233 min read
Collateral Damage
A hammer is good for hammering nails. It doesn’t contribute much to changing a bicycle tire. I’ve just re-read ‘The Conversation’ between...

Kevin Graham
Jan 13, 20237 min read
Words matter...
“Well, punk…” “the best of times…” “… on the beaches…” “Toto, I’ve got a feeling…” “Ask not…” “Parting is…” “I’ll be right here” “Just...

Kevin Graham
Jul 14, 20223 min read
Teach your children well…
Perhaps at the age of eight, our youngest called up a friend from her Montessori program, introduced herself, and asked, “How are you?”...

Kevin Graham
Jan 11, 20224 min read
Change is the greatest change!
For as long as I’ve been conducting surveys for independent schools (25 years), we’ve been asking parents to rate a school’s success in...

Kevin Graham
Aug 27, 20214 min read
Grateful for the challenge
With each new school I work with, someone asks me how I fell into conducting surveys for independent schools. My answer is the challenge...

Kevin Graham
Feb 18, 20214 min read


Remote Learning Surveys – Spring of 2020 – Summary of findings
In March, I was asked by two Heads of School (one Canadian and one American) to work with their senior teams in the development of short...

Kevin Graham
Aug 11, 20206 min read
Yes, Virginia, there is a Coronavirus!
DEAR EDITOR: I have the intellectual capacity of an 8 year old. Some of my little Facebook friends say there is no Coronavirus. Papa...

Kevin Graham
Jun 22, 20202 min read
Know your place!
Our world is littered with success stories of people who refused to know their places. Athletes, artists, scientists, business leaders,...

Kevin Graham
Jun 19, 20204 min read
Sparring through music
Reg is a fellow with whom I spar regularly on Facebook. It’s been suggested by observers that Reg and I should have our own TV show...

Kevin Graham
Jun 1, 20202 min read
But, Dad, the lawn mower was still running!
Every once in a while, at a family gathering, one of my siblings reminds me of an old story. My late father was obsessive on safety....

Kevin Graham
May 28, 20202 min read
Give me your heart, make it real
… or let’s forget about it. Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas aside, I’m two parts through Yuval Noah Harari’s trilogy, awaiting my wife’s...

Kevin Graham
Feb 10, 20203 min read
Articulate, insightful, beautiful!
Our youngest shared a friend’s Facebook post with us yesterday. It stands well enough on its own without any commentary from me… other...
Yasmin Khan
Dec 24, 20182 min read
Informing the “sleep” conversation
There is no shortage of research detailing the perils of inadequate sleep. You don’t need me to add to that reading list. You also don’t...

Kevin Graham
Nov 28, 20187 min read
Catch Jack!
“Compared to what?” are among the most frequent words I hear when presenting results to my surveys, and rightly so. In so many aspects of...

Kevin Graham
Apr 18, 20164 min read


Insurgency in Education?
I’ve just finished reading “Knife Fights” (2014) by Lt. Col. John A. Nagl (retired). I’ll explain why I read this book, well outside my...

Kevin Graham
Oct 28, 20159 min read
Winter of discontent
The origins of do-it-yourself are the in origins of our species. No yellow pages, no fast food drive-thru, no accountants or doctors or...

Kevin Graham
Feb 27, 20157 min read
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