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Onsite Consulting

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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How Yoga, Movement, and Exercise Help Students Regulate Emotions

School Health and Wellness // February 26, 2023

Educators in lower school know one thing is true: The emotions of young children are unpredictable. This is because lower school students’ brains are not yet fully developed, meaning their tendency to act on impulse is much higher. Their inability to manage emotions has a great impact on learning...

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How Giving and Receiving Feedback Promotes a Healthy Faculty Culture

School Leadership // February 12, 2023

Giving and receiving feedback is a necessary and helpful tool in all professions, especially in education. Some might think giving and receiving feedback comes naturally. But humans are hardwired to seek acceptance and approval. So, when the time comes for evaluations and year-end reviews, it may feel a little uncomfortable—and that’s okay.

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Five Ways School Nurses Can Prevent Substance Abuse

School Health and Wellness // February 12, 2023

School nurses have a unique opportunity to be involved in programs that can prevent substance abuse within their school communities. They’re not only formally equipped to educate the community about the issue, but they also occupy a unique space (outside outside of classrooms) that carries less stigma.

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Future Proofing Your Strategic Financial Planning

School Heads // February 12, 2023

There is no denying the importance of strategic financial planning. To ensure your school meets its goals, you must have a clear plan. One method of doing this is through scenario planning, which can help businesses anticipate and prepare for potential changes in their environment.

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Four Ways to Enhance Stewardship for Your Donors and Prospects

Fundraising // January 29, 2023

Fundraising plans, strategies, and expectations have been significantly impacted over the past few years. Beyond the vast implications of the global pandemic, independent schools navigate additional circumstances, such as political unrest, unpredictable economic times, international tensions, reevaluation of personal growth, and more.

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Telehealth Is Bridging the Mental Health Care Gap

School Health and Wellness // January 29, 2023

Today’s teens need mental health care support more than ever before. Statistics concerning the mental health challenges adolescents experience are alarming—and seem to be increasing in severity.

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Is Polio Coming Back? Here’s What Your School Should Know

School Health and Wellness // January 29, 2023

New York City recently declared a health emergency when polio paralyzed a woman. This was the first diagnosis in the United States in nearly a decade, and New York's first case in over 30 years. Now, schools (and the country at-large) are on alert. Questions about polio—and how it made its way in...

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