Admission and enrollment managers are often tasked with recruiting new students AND re-recruiting current families. This second task, however, is largely influenced by their school’s teachers, advisors, coaches, and academic leaders—individuals who work with students and can have a strong influence over student’s choices to stay or go.

Giving and receiving feedback to promote growth is a necessary and helpful tool in all professions—especially in education. However, offering honest feedback—as well as receiving it— can often be an uncomfortable and difficult process.

In this webinar, Dr. Polly Parker (ISM Consultant and Executive Coach) will discuss the ways in which feedback can be used to strengthen your school community. Explore ways that school leaders can reflect on what their teams are saying to them from various lenses of listening and care.

Teachers don’t like meetings that feel like a long, dull list of announcements. And leaders dread meetings where teachers have their heads in their grade books and do not engage. As a result, these gatherings often earn a negative reputation and become a missed opportunity for professional learning and faculty collaboration.

School leaders, including CFOs and development officers, all want the same thing: to create long-term financial sustainability for their schools. Despite this common goal, business and development offices often work at cross purposes, resulting in missed opportunities and problematic staff relationships.

This webinar will explore the ways in which the business and development staff can pool their skills and resources to collaborate with the Board and School Head to maximize gift revenue for your school.

Now more than ever, navigating difficult conversations is a critical skill for school leaders, given the deeply personal nature of working with families and teachers. Often, school leaders avoid challenging conversations or feel they are not equipped to handle them effectively.

Whether you feel confident conducting difficult conversations or not, join this informative webinar to learn how to manage these situations. Examine the research that explains why these discussions matter to your entire school community, and discover how to use actionable strategies.

Your schedule and the daily and weekly deployment of time, people, space, and program are probably “just fine.” They do the job …. mostly. However, in the back of your mind, perhaps you feel there must be a way to make your schedule better for students and teachers alike.

This webinar is designed to help you give voice to those thoughts by establishing the three major priorities for schedule change. We’ll explore difficulties with modern schedules and discuss approaches that will ensure your schedule suits your mission and students.

It’s that time of year—time to muster all of your courage and tell families how much tuition will increase for the 2024–25 school year. School tuition-setting is a complicated process. Parents are often perplexed—even upset—over tuition increases that outpace marketplace inflation.

In this webinar, Terry Moore will review the necessary cost variables to consider and provide strategies that will help you evaluate your options. You’ll leave equipped and confident to move forward with setting tuition for next year.

Many schools strongly emphasize faculty evaluation and growth and with good reason—teachers deliver your school’s mission directly to students. But what about your evaluation and growth processes for the School Head, administrators, and non-teaching staff? Are these providing a predictable and supportive environment?

In this webinar, ISM Consultant Barbara Beachley will explore how to amplify your efforts to foster a growth-focused culture with an aligned evaluation and growth process that invites all employees to take healthy risks, grow, and thrive.

Productive collaboration between your Leadership Team, teaching teams, and staff members is a key component to success and growth. On an intergenerational team, however, obstacles such as differing communication styles, preconceived notions, and varying work values and expectations can get in the way of efficiency and productivity.

Most schools often assume that individual teachers and academic departments will keep curriculum up-to-date and relevant. However, for many schools (and reasons), other responsibilities take priority and suddenly the school discovers their curriculum is in need of complete revision.