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Three Leadership Missteps to Avoid
All leaders have their own individual styles, and there is no single way to lead well. Your leadership style must be a unique blend of your personality and abilities servicing your school culture, values, and mission.
However, there are some mistakes that all private-independent school leaders should avoid.
How to Create a Flourishing Faculty Culture
A healthy faculty culture is central to the success of a private school, regardless of its location, pedagogy, or leadership style. Teachers spend their days with your students, and a culture where teachers feel empowered and supported is inextricably tied to student and school performance.
How to Create a Toxic Faculty Culture
ISM research has long demonstrated the strong correlation between a healthy faculty culture and student performance, satisfaction, and enthusiasm. We know that a healthy school culture is the result of:
students receiving the appropriate balance of predictability and support from their teachers;
teachers experiencing predictability and support from their school leaders; and
the Head receiving these from the Board.
Where to Start to Help Reduce Student Stress
As an academic administrator, you can’t expect to eliminate all the stress in your school. However, you can certainly take steps to ensure that your school structure causes as little stress as possible, and is set up to best support faculty, staff, and students.
Three Tactics to Make Your Monthly Faculty Meetings Successful
Your monthly faculty meetings can become a dreaded occurrence at your school. But a few tactics can help turn your meetings into an activity that your entire team enjoys (and may even come to look forward too).
Why You Should Rethink Your Parent Education Program
Your parent education program aims to engage your students’ families and help them feel like true members of your community. Your school puts hard work into holding events and creating materials, so it can be disappointing if only a small percentage of your families participate on a regular basis.
The Importance of a Strategic Scheduling Meeting
Your school’s daily schedule is an incredibly important aspect of how you deliver your mission to students. It defines how long students spend on each subject, with each teacher, and in each classroom. It can enhance academic performance or become a source of stress for students and faculty.
That’s why it’s important to hold an annual strategic scheduling meeting to assess what’s working and what isn’t within your school schedule.
Providing Support for the Summer Program Director
Operating an attractive, effective, and profitable summer program requires the year-round attention of the Summer Program Director. During the summer, the Director needs considerable administrative support as he or she works full-time, focusing on day-to-day administrative tasks—in short, reacting to the immediate. During the academic year, the need for administrative support becomes more intermittent as the Director works part time to plan and prepare for the coming summer’s programmatic excellence and financial success.