As School Head, you must do your best to assure the safety of all the constituents on your campus—students, faculty and staff, volunteers, etc. This is not an easy task, and becomes more difficult without an intentional, proactive process—one that helps you and your Management Team identify, analyze, and mitigate risk. The idea of a formal risk management protocol, separate from your daily “putting out fires,” may be new to you. But performing a risk management assessment can lead to many positive outcomes. A number of these outcomes speak directly to the ISM Stability Markers® and Success Predictors, reflective of a given school’s ability to deliver on its mission, long-term. A risk assessment (and its outcomes) can help to: