ISM has long stressed the fundamental importance of Board-level strategic planning, coupled with annual Board (and administration) agenda-setting, as being critical for a school to sustain long-term programmatic excellence. This set of core ideas collectively forms ISM’s Stability Marker No. 2: “Stable schools will have ‘strategic’ Boards.” These tenets must be linked explicitly to such organizational practices as Board profiling (itself on the second-tier of the ISM Stability Markers®), new-Trustee orientation, bylaw revision, formation of a strong Committee on Trustees, and Board self-evaluation.