This Christian school handbook is meant for the faculty, staff, and administration of Christian schools to create a positive, healthy, and successful environment. The Christian school meets many unique obstacles, and the Christian School Management Association wants to help institutions of learning address them with proven strategies. Their mission is to help schools' teachers and boards of trustees encourage their students to find Jesus. They do this through partnership, leadership, and transformation. In the book they address Christian trusteeship and authority, accountability, strategic financial management, servant leadership, the role of the board of trustees, the Christian student, and the Christian teacher. The book provides guidance on building positive school culture, effective bylaws, productive administrative plans, gratifying goals, and developed education standards. Christian education, school handbook, school guidance, all-inclusive education handbook, mission-driven education.

A Call to Authentic Christian School Trusteeship

Simon Jeynes

Xulon Press

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

The ISM Strategic Planning Book takes a comprehensive approach to the critical topic of strategic planning/strategic financial planning in private-independent schools. Strategic planning is an essential role of the School Head and the Board. A well-executed plan enables Trustees to govern in the appropriate strategic context, which supports the school s mission and sustains its viability. Based on ISM's three decades of work with private schools of all types and sizes, this book covers it all what strategic planning means in your school's culture, why it is important, what to consider, what steps to take, and how to develop an effective plan. In this book, you will learn how to gain an essential understanding of private school finances, address the problem of time, recognize the difference-makers at your school, prepare for the strategic planning process, avoid strategies that often lead to failure, create a powerful strategic financial plan, and much more! Thirteen appendices are included to provide additional guidance.

The ISM Strategic Planning Book

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A Call to Authentic Christian School Trusteeship

The ISM Trustee Handbook

The ISM Strategic Planning Book