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The vision of this magazine is to exult the extraordinary qualities that make you truly a renaissance professionals!
You embrace the excitement of living and are lifelong learners in all areas of personal interest. Furthermore, you are a new breed of admissions professional with a fearless, entrepreneurial approach to overcoming all challenges.
We also welcome parents, alumni, academics, excerpts, service-providers, authors, artists, in your fields to contribute to the ongoing discourse on the value of independent schooling anywhere.
Since the magazine is well-balanced in professional versus lifestyle pieces, feel free to contribute to either section under our various features and departments.
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Professional Features
Pandemic Feature - This feature focuses on how schools, school boards/districts, funding and recruitment programs, instructional strategies, cities, provinces, or countries at large have adapted to the new situations created by the continuing pandemic.
You can choose the level (e.g. your school, your board, or the country at which you want to write but the feature must be an in-depth analysis or reporting of the state of affairs within that level.
You are welcome to approach the feature as an admission professional, donor, committee member, parent, community member, representative, or otherwise expert, official, or stakeholder in the education sector.
You are welcome to get in touch with us in advance while preparing your draft as to the depth or breadth your feature needs to have.
Tech Feature - The TECH FEATURE is your space to reflect or report on the intersection of technology
and education.
What are the new and exciting avenues in instruction, student empowerment and creativity, management of schools, boards, and systems, creation of databases, research and surveys, teacher training, career counseling, and more?
What are the challenges and obstacles in terms of access, availability, affordability, user-friendliness, value, enhancement, inclusion, and equity?
Your feature can be specific to a single application, context, institution, provider, software, or program.
You can write a focused essay on leveraging the value of technology to inspire kids to greater performance, independence, and empowerment. Or you can give us a forecast on how AI will change the future of schooling in the coming decades.
As long as it’s a technology-focused piece touching on some are of schooling, we are happy to give you space.
Leadership Feature - Independent schools are unique, and so are the admission professionals who enroll the students… This content is a thoughtful reflection on why you chose this profession. Essentially, why do you love what you do? Maybe you wound up at a school somewhat accidentally or after a long career elsewhere—what was your a-ha moment? Or maybe you grew up in independent schools—why did you decide to stay on? Reflect on and share your journey.
What insights and wisdom can you impart to the independent schooling community as an expert, leader, or pioneer in your area of specialization in the education sector?
Lifestyle Features
Lifestyle Feature - Life is more than tackling challenges in personal, professional, or social life.
Write on cooking, dressing up, self-presentation, hobbies, fashion, beauty and self-care products, shopping, cars, digital toys, and interior decor.
Share your inspirations, strategies, go-to lists of products or services, places to shop, etc.
Bring us something new, fresh, nostalgic, traditional, innovative, trend-setting, ground-breaking, deep, or light-hearted!
Art Feature - Do you dabble in art in your free time, free of your school responsibilities?
Are you an artist by vocation expressing your creativity on canvas, the computer screen, in stone, or some other photographable medium?
Are you an art teacher inspiring your proteges to great artistic expression?
Are you a photographer, archivist, souvenir collector, architect, calligraphist, sand artist, collage creator, or cartoonist?
We are looking to feature work from unknown artists who are hiding their talents in the opaqueness of their personal lives.
Help us bring your art, or your recommended artist more deserved exposure by letting us feature your work on our pages.
If you’d rather interview/profile the artist of your choice as a writer, get in touch with us.
All artists featured must showcase at least five of their creations (HD images), their inspirations, the concept and process behind the pieces, and their bio.
Travel Feature - What are you planning for your next vacation?
What are your year’s discoveries in terms of sightseeing, camping trips, hiking trails, trek routes, long drive routes, surfing, swimming, or diving spots, lakes and hills, resorts, cruises, and vacation getaway havens?
Write us a memoir of your past travel adventures or your hopes and dreams for future travel.
Recommend to us hidden gems in your region’s geography, culture, and cuisine. Festivals, restaurants, museums, unexplored beaches, unfrequented mountains, and trails; we are looking forward to hearing about them all.
You are not required to submit images with your travel feature, but you can if you have them available.
Wellness & Climate Feature - Write on your favorite wellness strategies, tips, health regimes, helpful apps, or actionable programs. In this feature, we focus on mind, soul, psychology, and character.
Write about relationships, mental health, self-actualization, living in the moment, ethics, morality, child-rearing, spirituality, and brain plasticity.
As a field expert, or casual practitioner of meditation, yoga, relaxation, emotional intelligence, creativity enhancement, or other helpful gems from the field of psychology, share your experiences and wisdom.
What aspect of wellness is most important for you and what do you do to make sure it’s well-attended?
What is the intersection of environment and personal health in your life, attitudes, and philosophy?
What latest study or survey inspires or concerns you the most regarding physical health, general well-being, nutritional quality, or climate change?
What has your company done to ensure your business goals have intertwined smoothly with the personal and community wellness of your clients and their spaces?
What outstanding organization would you recommend as worthy of our time, effort, and donations, and why?
If you wish to interview or profile for us an expert in wellness, climate, or environment who is outside of the celebrity culture and is working on improving the world using their expertise and skills, get in touch with us.
ROR Culture - School professionals have always been big on the signposts of culture and history: museums, libraries, architecture, festivals, tribal artifacts, peoples of the world, local histories, obscure geographies, ancient discoveries,
and more.
What parts of the world’s cultures, histories, and
languages have been side swept in the maddening
fragmentation of information in our modern tech-heavy world?
What gems of local culture, history, and diversity you can enlighten us on?
What cultural tours and experiences can you recommend to your colleagues as worthy of personal education and pupil inspiration?
Your general thoughts on why literature and humanities are the key to the humanity of our future generations and understated solutions to the most urgent problems of our world...
THE ROR MAGAZINE COLLECTION
Small Departments
ROR Interview - Do you want to interview a currently active or alumnus personage known for their contributions to independent schooling in particular and the education sector in general, from anywhere in the world?
Get in touch with us with your idea, permission for the interview, your medium and strategy for interviewing, the focus of discussion, etc.
Topics can range from their professional contributions, their personal sacrifices and career choices, their thoughts and perspective on the current standing of the independent schooling sector, and the navigation through the pandemic.
ROR Profiles - Put yourself before your colleagues. Tell us who you are, where you work, and what are your experience and achievements in the independent schooling sector. What is your lifestyle, and how do you spend your free time?
ROR Introduction -
Public or private, the nature and demands of a general education center often make it difficult to accommodate the spectrum of sufferings, ailments, and other issues children and their families struggle with. Education offered in a general context is often ineffective or even counterproductive, as the learning experiences cannot be tailored to the special needs of these children beyond a certain extent.
If you are a school providing specialized services or catering to a specific subpopulation in order to provide a holistic educative & therapeutic approach, this page is for you.
If you have opened a charity, foundation, service, or any organization, which provides alternative options for such underserved children to graduate with their dignity intact and their skills and talents invested into their vision of the future, this page is for you.
ROR Music - Review for us a contemporary music success that is worthy of recommending to your colleagues.
Bring to our attention lost, neglected, or undiscovered forms and genres of music or output of artists representing generally ignored aspects of the human condition and culture.
Illuminate us with the sublime exhilaration of classic musicians for old.
ROR Story & ROR Poet -
Pens on Fire!
We need examples of the widest range of creative written expression… a science fiction essay, observations of the human condition, reflections on how Covid-19 changed your life, your new poem, or a humorous story.
ROR Bookshelf - Did you read a book recently that you want to tell your colleagues about? What is the book about? What is the major reason for recommending it? What did you like best about it? What made you want to read it? What was your biggest takeaway? Did you have a favorite line? Did you find any room for improvement in this book?
Review your recent reads for us!
ROR Buzz - Share with us your favorite go-to cocktails, IPA Beers, or wines. Also, share your favorite place to imbibe them, which gives you that sense of peace, joy, and happiness.
What other beverages have you buzzed? What are your favorite Starbucks coffee orders, your personal go-to type of tea, your beloved milkshake or froyo flavor?
ROR Cooking - Send us lines about your recipes, bring us your cuisine, and reveal your kitchen secrets. Thoughts of food can consume us, so you have an open pallet of inspiration: Your famous family recipe…the best steak you have ever had and where… scrumptious plant-based entrée… desserts you will kill for…your special, midnight snack revealed…you get the idea…
ROR Scoop -
How is the school year going?
How is your team grappling with the pandemic and the precautions?
What new software and systems are you taking up?
There is a story in numbers. What are the admissions numbers telling us? What numbers are going up and what are down?
What funding opportunities have you found for your students? What new admissions strategies have you instituted?
We are reporting on events, programs, and awards involving your school, so hit us.
Send us your press releases and official photos. Boast your achievements. Connect to your community by sharing what’s happening at your school!
If your school has been a big presence at a conference or awards ceremony; we would love to get a short event report from you. Boast away!
If someone in your team has done a survey or study or authored a book, send us a news brief!
If you are the institution that arranged or hosted the conference, this is your chance to get the details out before a larger audience of school heads and directors!
Send us all your education-in-the-new stories!
ROR Crossword - Coming Soon