The Quickest and Easiest Way to Understand Your School Faculty’s Perceptions

Your faculty are among your most important brand ambassadors and word-of-mouth marketers. It’s vital that you have a pulse on their satisfaction levels so you understand the overall health of your school culture.

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey helps you understand whether your teachers would recommend your school to others—both as a place for students and as a place of employment.

Addressing Student Mental Health Through Positive Psychology

Many private school students are showing increasing levels of stress, substance use, risky behavior, and anxiety. What should private school leaders do right now to address student mental health to cultivate a healthy culture and improve student well-being?

Discuss the impact of a healthy daily schedule and yearly calendar, a predictable and supportive faculty culture, and effective advisory and counseling programs. Leave with tangible ideas to incorporate into your approach to help keep students healthy, happy, and balanced during their time at your school.

Student Self-Efficacy: A Critical Outcome Variable for Your School

While every private school has a distinctive mission, all schools focus on student development and preparation. On graduation or completion of a school’s top grade, parents expect their children to be prepared for the next academic level and next social environment. What is the best evidence schools are providing the preparation parents expect and students need?

Enhance Word-of-Mouth Marketing With a Parent Ambassador Program

Parents who believe in your school’s mission and are vocal advocates for your program, faculty, and outcomes can generate excitement among other parents and in the broader community. As Admission Director, you likely know that word-of-mouth referrals are the major way new families first learn about private schools, including your own.

Discount Modeling: Understanding Need-Based and Sliding-Scale Tuition Awards

Discounting, whether your school uses a need-based financial aid approach or a sliding-scale approach, is a complex task. Determining to whom and for how much to reduce tuition can be less complex if you build a discount model to more thoroughly understand and assess applications, giving your award team confidence in their decisions. As the first step, the School Head should appoint a modeling task force and ask the Business Officer to lead this endeavor.

Avoid Hiring Mistakes: Interview Questions Done Right!

Your employees are your school's lifeblood—they deliver your mission with excellence and are integral to your collective success. With many discussing an impending teacher and leader shortage, now is the time to put your best foot forward and hire the right talent for your school.

Join us to explore what to ask and what to avoid, along with suggested interview structures to ensure you get the information you need and make the right hire every time. After this webinar, you’ll know how to create the right hiring questions and performance tasks. Hire with confidence!

The Responsibilities of Gift Documentation

Knowing that careful recognition and stewardship of their donor’s gifts lies at the heart of building strong relationships with donors, the Development Office must take care to maintain complete, accurate documentation—electronically and on paper—of all gifts received by the school, whether a gift to a fundraising campaign, a planned gift, or a gift of tangible personal property.

How to Identify, Train, and Support an Effective Faculty Growth Plan Coach

One hallmark of ISM’s Faculty Growth and Evaluation framework is that, with evaluation separated from growth, many can share the growth coaching role. This makes it more likely the growth coaching role will be carried out well and consistently than when this crucial and time-consuming responsibility lies exclusively with you, the supervising academic administrator. However, training and supporting your growth plan coaches are critical in this model’s success.
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