The ISM Trustee Handbook lays out systematically the best practices to support your private school's mission and to act strategically to protect the long-term best interests of the school and its students. Each Trustee who uses this handbook in a proactive way will be an effective Board member, enabling the Board to dynamically support, strategically lead, and wisely steward the school in its care. 
This book explains the Trustee's proper role on the Board, how to develop a strategic financial plan, the importance of faculty culture in a private school, how to hold effective Board meetings, how to develop strong Board committees, how to prepare parents for tuition increases, and much more advice for private school Trustees. Also included are samples of a Committee Charge Form, Conflict of Interest Policy, Board and Committee Calendar, Strategic Board Bylaws, and a "Trustee Workbook" section. 
The book also includes a CD-ROM that contains articles ISM has published relative to effective Board structure and function in its two advisory publications, Ideas &amp; Perspectives and To The Point. 
Chapters include: The Trustee as a Parent * The Trustee's Role * ISM Stability Markers (Third Iteration) * What is Strategic Planning/Strategic Financial Planning? * Strategic Financial Plan * The Board's Mission * Tuition Setting * Faculty Culture * Development * Head Support and Evaluation Committee * Other Board-Level Committees * The Trustee's Commitment to Growth * Change * Appendix 1: Sample Committee Charge Sheet * Appendix 2: Samples of Conflict-of-Interest Policies * Appendix 3: Sample Board and Committee Calendar * Appendix 4: Sample Strategic Board Bylaws * Trustee Workbook

The ISM Trustee Handbook

Independent School Management

Simon Jeynes

This workbook charts a clear course for your faculty. New teachers learn how to build their careers on a solid foundation, while experienced faculty members renew the excitement and commitment that led them to teaching in the first place. The book is written in a step-by-step, hands-on workbook format from a teacher-oriented perspective. It proposes a self-evaluation approach directed by (not at) the teacher. The ultimate goal is focused, effective teachers who understand how they can best help their students succeed, and who can "keep their edge" year after year.

Twenty Principles for Teaching Excellence: The Teacher's Workbook

M. Walker Buckalew

Tuition is not about money; tuition is about mission. This book introduces important management/leadership theory and ISM research that enables private-independent schools to support and sustain their missions, while maintaining competitiveness in the marketplace. The book provides the theory behind appropriate tuition setting and implementation, and the role of financial aid in the process. The Tuition Book does not and cannot tell you what your tuition rates should be. Nor does it tell you that a particular tuition rate is too "high" or too "low." It does, however, help you ask the right questions. Learn how to: 
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<li>Define your school (price, product, or process)</li> <li>Set the three "levers" of your school's financial equilibrium</li> <li>Keep your school "accessible"</li> <li>Avoid erroneous premises employed in tuition setting</li> <li>Deal with hidden inflation</li> <li>Prepare parents for tuition increases</li> <li>Budget for financial aid</li> <li>Make tuition loans part of your financial aid package</li> </ul>
Also included are samples and forms, ISM's Student Culture Profile, and many other practical items that can be used immediately.

The ISM Strategic Board Series: The Tuition Book: Theory, Planning & Financial Aid

In private-independent schools, the advisory program provides a mission-based plan for student learning and development that is the cornerstone of effective schools. This research-driven, practical, and strategic approach to advisory significantly enhances the individual student experience and thus your school's ability to retain and recruit your students. This manual provides a comprehensive, "how-to" perspective on the professional development of advisers and the strengthening of advisory programs, particularly in private schools. You will learn the underlying principles of advisory, the best practices for your advisory program, how to design your student counseling program, how to better support your students, how to develop your faculty's skills in student counseling, how to increase buy-in among your teachers for your advisory program, the difference between group and individual advisory, yellow- and red-light issues, the marketing implications of your advisory program, and much more. Also included are forms and tools that can be photocopied, ISM's Student Culture Profile, and many other practical items that can be used immediately.

Mission-Based Advisory: A Professional Development Manual (Second Edition)

Education & Teaching

Roger Dillow

Schools & Teaching

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The ISM Trustee Handbook

Twenty Principles for Teaching Excellence: The Teacher's Workbook

The ISM Strategic Board Series: The Tuition Book: Theory, Planning & Financial Aid

Mission-Based Advisory: A Professional Development Manual (Second Edition)