The Microschool Blog

Weekly writing from the workshop.

One short piece a week from Dr. Johnathan G. Harris — a working school founder using AI to help other founders build faster, cleaner, and more professionally. The blog is where Dr. Harris works out the day-to-day thinking — the part that doesn’t fit into a service page.

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What you can expect

Five threads the blog keeps returning to.

No listicles, no news roundups. Practical writing on the parts of a launch founders most often get wrong.

  1. Thread 01

    Tuition and the financial model

    Where the pricing math breaks, what parents actually compare you to, and why almost every first-year budget under-plans for enrollment ramp.

  2. Thread 02

    Admissions as a real funnel

    How to think about tours, deposits, and the first week of school as one system — not four disconnected inboxes.

  3. Thread 03

    Parent-facing credibility

    What a website, handbook, and welcome sequence signal to a family reading you at 10 p.m. after a bad day at the district school.

  4. Thread 04

    Founder capacity

    The unglamorous operations work — insurance, compliance calendars, payroll — that quietly decides whether a school makes it to year two.

  5. Thread 05

    AI in a small school

    Where AI accelerates the work under expert human judgment, and where it should not touch the family relationship at all.

Next step

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