Turning Ideas into Action: How School Leaders Can Get the Most from Conferences, Workshops, and Professional Development Opportunities Jan 06, 2024

🚀 Let's face it – as school leaders, your schedules are packed tighter than a library on exam week. But amidst the chaos, one thing remains crucial: keeping up with your professional development. 🗓️

📈 The landscape of independent school marketing, development, and enrollment management is evolving ...

Continue Reading...
The Influence of Marketing, Admissions, and Development Presentations at Faculty In-Service Aug 12, 2023

📚 Faculty In-Service sessions offer an incredible platform for the marketing, development, and admissions teams to connect with the faculty and staff. When you present at Faculty In-Service, you get to showcase your roles, clarify expectations, emphasize the importance of everyone's involvement in t...

Continue Reading...
 
How to Shoot Inexpensive and Useful Videos in Small Schools Mar 04, 2023

In one of our recent Small School Solutions trainings we went through best practices for low-budget in-house videos, what to shoot and when, and also tools that can support these efforts.

In this blog, we are hitting a few of the key points from that training, and the first one is...

✅ Shoot, Shoo...

Continue Reading...
 
How to Get Teachers On Board with your Marketing, Retention and Development Efforts Feb 18, 2023

Do you often wonder how to get teachers to help out with marketing, retention, and development efforts?  As more and more responsibilities are being added to teachers' plates AND marketing/development/admissions efforts continue to evolve and need additional support, we need strategies to get teache...

Continue Reading...
 
5 Ways to Express Gratitude Around the Holidays 🎁 🎄 Nov 11, 2020

Hello today! 

With the holiday season quickly approaching, it's extremely important this winter more than ever to get creative with expressing gratitude to your families for sticking with you through an extremely difficult and unexpected year. 

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on your students' school e...

Continue Reading...
 
5 Ways to Avoid Burnout This School Year Oct 23, 2020

Hello today!

This is something we ALL need right now. I'm seeing this on a huge level, for heads of schools, teachers, and administrators. 

So, what I have for you today are 5 ways to avoid burnout this school year. And if you're already burnt out, then hopefully you can still you these to re-ener...

Continue Reading...
 
5 Mistakes That are Killing Your Enrollment & Retention Efforts! Oct 19, 2020

Hi there! 

Spring 2021 is right around the corner, and NOW, more than ever, we need to be focused on enrollment and retention. 

So, today I have for you the top 5 mistakes that are killing all your efforts right now: 

1. You think you can do it ALL and are not outsourcing 

2. You are not focused...

Continue Reading...
 
How To Get Faculty on Board With Retention Oct 09, 2020

Hey there, 

Today I'm here to give you one simple tip on how to get faculty and staff on board with retention. 

Here's what I'm seeing at small schools—when the topic of retention comes up, everyone avoids responsibility. 

Instead, if we reframe retention as "relationship building," it becomes a ...

Continue Reading...