- Becoming a Leader
Looking at yourself as a leader with an impulse and vision is the first of many important steps to examine. Why are you drawn to begin such a project? Who are you serving? What will you offer? Once we explore these questions, you can truly begin your journey. - Building your Leadership Team
For true success on a project that will meet many diverse needs, it is important to know who you can count on to carry some of the load. Through a series of processes, we help you identify the people forming the nucleus of your initiative. - Governance Structures
To become a stable working entity led by your impulse and vision, examining governance structures, leadership styles, and finding a common philosophy to follow, allows a harmonious balance between your leadership team and community to emerge. An essential step in attracting the right group of parents and students to your program. - Handbook Creation
Creating your handbook is a labour-intensive project. We have compiled many different templates for you to review and use, ensuring that your main governing document leaves nothing missed. As an organization, this document is essential to have as a resource for parents, as well as staff. It outlines the legal responsibilities, agreements, and obligations of all members and participants that form your faculty, administration and parent body. - Financial Strategy
Financial planning, making an outline, budget, and forecast can be overwhelming. We provide examples of tracking and design systems to help you manage the flow of your financial plan, along with how to approach fundraising, grant writing, setting tuition fees, and planning for expenses. - Compiling your Business Plan
Where the hard work designing internal operating systems meets the external world of gathering your students and staff, a business plan is a critical review of all the information and research that has been gathered so far, and presents it in a manner that enables your organization to seek funding, loans and benefactors. - Location Survey & Development
Having a great location is instrumental to sustaining and growing your initiative. When assessing site options, it is important to consider growth, overhead costs, and unique needs. These considerations, and more, will be approached using several different tools and methods. - Curriculum Planning
Designing a curriculum plan that reflects your chosen philosophy, governance style, and educational remedies while determining the boundaries and limitations of your program, is vital for success. With this document, flow plans for the day, week, months and year can be implemented. Samples of teacher resources and outlines are offered to compare and study as you build your ideal curriculum. - Intake Process Design
Intake processes for staff and families is often overlooked which can result in unnecessary challenges. In this step, we look at ways to screen potential applicants, meet our target audience, and fulfill your education goals, by onboarding the right profile of educators and families. Sample documents for hiring and interview questions are provided. - Delegation
Delegating tasks according to the skills, strengths and experience of your team and community is essential. The leadership team works directly with parents, building community relations, sourcing off-site resources, and setting a precedent of mandatory participation to ensure sustainable parent/staff relations. - Supplies & Infrastructure
Gathering supplies and infrastructure can be the most satisfying part of setting your vision in motion. It can feel like setting the stage for a wonderful performance with a cast, director, script, stage, and set, ready to go - then it’s show time! We provide outlines for classroom supplies, furniture that you may need for permanent and moveable classrooms, and links to getting suppliers. - Launch Day & Beyond!
Finally, all the hard work has paid off and your program has launched! This step is for tracking the progress, challenges, and successes that will unfold to inform you of needed changes and refinements for the following year. This is the most important step for the continuance of your initiative. Generally, a program needs three years of results to see what its unique qualities are. In five years, even more will be known. Remember, every initiative or impulse carries with it its own unique biography, and if well tended, will yield wonderful results.
