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Ensure that your school’s governance and operations support your mission.

We work together with your leaders, teachers, staff members, and students to understand your school’s unique needs, strengths, and challenges. We help you create a plan to help you meet your goals.

Your team can then put these mission-appropriate recommendations into action to achieve increased cash reserves, higher enrollment levels, and long-term stability. At the end of the day, we all have a singular purpose—advance school leadership to enrich the student experience.

We offer personalized consultations for many leadership divisions of a private school—the Board of Trustees, School Heads, the Business Office, the Development Office, Enrollment Management professionals, Marketing professionals, and Academic leaders. Select the area of school leadership you’d like to further explore.

 

Our Consulting Services

School Head

Whether you want to ensure that all school functions run at peak efficiency or are considering implementing new strategies and initiatives, lean on a trusted source of knowledge to increase the likelihood of long-term success.

Business & Operations

Take advantage of a full range of planning, facilities, and operations consulting services that give your school a solid footing for the future. Examine where your key operations work well, and where they can use improvement.

Academic Leadership

Your programs set your school apart. Explore how to create and build programs that pull families in and give them an experience they couldn’t have at another private-independent school.

Admission & Enrollment Management

ISM’s data-informed approach pinpoints what attracts families to your school and inspires them to stay. Receive customized solutions based on your school’s unique marketplace stance, challenges, and opportunities.

Fundraising & Development

Learn how to develop successful strategies to engage and bring donors closer to your institution. No matter your school size, history, or pedagogy, explore how to plan, implement, and evaluate your fundraising strategies to realize your full potential.

Marketing Communications

Explore how to share exceptional stories of student learning, engagement, and outcomes, and illustrate how these can become differentiators that distinguish your school from your competitors.

Board of Trustees

The Board must focus its efforts on governing, planning, and financing your school's future, while leaving everyday decisions to competent administrators. To do that successfully, your Board must think, plan, and act strategically.

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Summer is coming fast. The last few weeks of school were jam packed with testing, ceremonies, celebrations, trips … and it likely was exhausting.

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The Measuring Success Summer Value Proposition Tune Up

Marketing Communications // June 5, 2022

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A Note From ISM on the Robb Elementary School Shooting

ISM Announcements // May 27, 2022

Our team has spent the past few days reflecting and grieving for the latest victims of gun violence here in U.S. This time, 19 fourth graders and two teachers lost their lives when an 18-year-old entered a school and began shooting. It’s heartbreaking. It’s frustrating beyond measure. It’s senseless. It needs to stop. But we can’t become numb in the face of these tragedies.

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How to Hire and Retain BIPOC Employees

School Leadership // May 20, 2022

Not all private schools are on the same page with the diversity issues. Some schools have just begun the conversation about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) initiatives, while others are implementing significant shifts in both policy and practice.

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Use Your Website to Boost Inquiries Now

Marketing Communications // May 6, 2022

Congratulations—you made it through the busiest part of the admission cycle! Acceptances (and denials) have been delivered; the phone calls from prospective parents have slowed (hopefully); the sun is shining brighter and summer is just around the corner. It’s officially spring and you can take a breather—right?

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