Creating the perfect admission packet for your school requires careful thought. After all, what works for the school down the street may not work for yours—your school’s admission packet must reflect your school’s unique culture, beliefs, and mission.

You should periodically check your school’s group long term disability (LTD) policy to ensure it’s best suited to serve your school’s employees. It can be overwhelming, so here are there places to start when checking your school’s LTD policy.

Many schools put tremendous effort into maintaining student records. However, there is sometimes less emphasis on maintaining and organizing proper employee records. It’s important to store your employee records appropriately for both organizational and audit purposes. Enstating a system that can be easily followed ensures current and future administrators can find the information he or she needs quickly, and helps protect your school from risk.

You’ve probably run into parents who consistently refuse to follow the guidelines your Leadership Team has set. So how do you handle this situation? You don’t want to penalize a student for a parent’s behavior. But ultimately it’s your role to protect the school's long-term viability —and that includes ensuring you support a mission-appropriate culture.

It’s your responsibility as School Head to lead by example, and help adopt trends to move your school forward. One area where you can have a tremendous impact is social media. Social media may feel like the elephant in the room for some leaders. You know people use it, many say it can have an impact, but you’re just not sure whether it’s useful (or how to get started). But social media isn’t going away.

As 2018 quickly comes to a close, now is the perfect time to set goals for 2019. Goal setting is immensely important for overall success—both personally and professionally. After all, if you’re not setting goals, how will you know what to reach for?

It’s estimated that 25 million student athletes participate in sports between the ages of five and 20. With statistics like this, it’s safe to say that sports are a huge part of the student experience. But burnout is becoming more common among student athletes. Here are signs and how to help students cope.

International students can add so much to your school. They can help expand your school’s cultural footprint, bring together students of different backgrounds, and support your goal of fostering a well-rounded community of like-minded learners. But how do you help mission-appropriate international students learn about your school, and recruit them to join your institution?

Maintaining appropriate communication with parents, faculty, and the Leadership Team can help ease the pressure on Trustees to share what has occurred during a meeting. When constituents know that they will be provided with reliable, relevant information on a consistent basis, they are less likely to probe the Trustees one-on-one.

The intangible, indirect “costs” of a Head search may be the most difficult to estimate because they do not fall into personnel costs or time. They may involve many people’s responses to the need for and the process of a search.