Explore a framework that empowers faculty growth and innovation, while still maintaining a straightforward evaluation process that communicates clear expectations. Join us for this one-day workshop to hear about a new approach that allows more time for coaching and mentoring teachers on individualized growth plans, yet also streamlines evaluation to make it simple enough to carry out every year with every teacher.

Discover how you, as Board President, can keep your school viable and sustainable through the good times and bad. This weekend workshop will help you survive now and thrive in the years to come by providing strategies, insight, and guidance specifically for private-school Trustees.

A proactive, organized approach to financial aid can reduce the headaches involved with awarding families, making the process strategic and stress-free. Discover how to develop a mission-appropriate financial aid program that serves as a tool to help you award appropriately, boost revenue, achieve your enrollment goals, and advance your mission.

Schools are driven by the ever-increasing demand for more funding, yet are also aware of return on investment. Therefore, many focus their fundraising efforts on major gifts. This workshop explores the latest methodology for creating a fundraising program that produces generous returns, now and in the future.

New to the Admission Office? This workshop is designed to introduce Admission Officers to the big-picture view of factors most impacting a school’s ability to recruit and re-recruit mission-appropriate students. Get a firsthand look at ISM’s admission funnel model; You’ll observe sound strategies, common pitfalls, and well-developed solutions to some of the issues most frequently arising in private-school enrollment.

Unveil the root causes for declining enrollment at your private-independent school. Join us and learn how to collect and use data to determine the nature of the decline—and to pinpoint specific strategies to address the contributing factors.

Discover how to create a student-centered culture that best serves your entire school community. Engage in meaningful conversations about hiring and induction, assessing and enhancing faculty and school culture, coaching and mentoring, growth-oriented and teacher-driven professional growth and renewal, and effective faculty evaluation.

The efforts of the Marketing Communications Office are integral to your private-independent school, providing a unified message to your faculty and staff, students, families, and the larger community. Discover how to excel in this position through proven strategies, in-depth knowledge, and hands-on activities to create a marketing communication action plan you can immediately implement in the new school year.

When your school offers a quality summer program, it generates various benefits: a valued service to current parents, new recruitment opportunities, supplemental employment for your school’s faculty, a chance to consider innovative academic programs, and so much more! Explore how to build the right program for your school's community. 

Seats for this intimate retreat, limited to 24 School Heads, are in high demand each year. Gather with fellow school leaders to examine the latest research to support your decision-making, engage in deep conversation, and network with other Heads to discover new perspectives.