Charge your Committee on Trustees with the review and revision of this Due Diligence Checklist for approval by the full Board. The checklist, as amended to suit your Board, can become a living document to help maintain your Board’s strategic function and achievement of strategic goals.

Regardless of the reasons why a family falls behind on payments, tuition discussion can be uncomfortable for all parties. Fortunately, there are ways that your school can navigate these topics while protecting its interests.

A well-thought out and data-driven annual giving program is the foundation for your school’s culture of giving. Building an exciting and inspiring annual giving program can be overwhelming. Where do you start?

In the five years that ISM has seen schools implement continuous enrollment, there has been only positive feedback and not a single negative outcome. Schools report positive results on enrollment and retention.

No matter how conscientious and well-intentioned, Trustees (and the Board as a whole) must continually guard against involvement in day-to-day school management. When the Board allows its responsibilities to cross over into the school’s operating plane, it creates a major obstacle to building and upholding a healthy, harmonious Board-Head relationship.

See how Stratford Hall created a unified plan for success to improve recruitment, retention, and fundraising efforts.

When you call a meeting, everyone in the room spends time they could use to work on other responsibilities. How do you ensure that time is well-spent?

A concerning trend observed over the last few years shows students and faculty both reporting high stress levels. What can school leaders do to help reduce student stress?

Leslie Yoder, The Cambridge School’s Director of Enrollment Management, is passionate about her school’s mission. But in her second year on the job, she noticed that the school had experienced a one-year enrollment dip.

The research has been completed and your school’s new schedule has been designed. Now the chance announcement is on the horizon. How you announce it could make or break your community’s reception. We have broken down three key errors to avoid when making such an announcement.