Schedule with us an assessment, design, and leadership facilitation of retreats and in-service for Faculty, Administrative Teams, Trustees, and Parents that reflects our learning with cohorts from the Santa Fe Leadership Seminars and consultations with independent and like-kind schools.
Faculty – Understanding the Context for Leadership that enhances learning and teaching, identifies responsibilities and resources, and empowers confidence in supporting the mission of the school. Highly participatory and motivational, professional staff are attuned with the purposes and values of the school, aligned with best practices, and invested in delivering the school’s mission within the culture of the school.
Administrative Leaders – Clear understanding of leadership roles including management responsibilities, authority, working with “knowledge workers,” administrative leaders will learn skills in team building, understanding and developing complementary strengths, foresight, communication planning, prioritizing, establishing and building “right relationship” with the head of school, and articulating success.
Board – Developing trustees individually and as a board to assure that the History, Mission, Relationships, Vision, and Performance of the school are comprehensively understood and advanced. Board members will learn how a board functions corporately, how each member does some of the work of the board but does not have to do all of it, how expectations can be articulated, planned, and achieved, and how proactive work can determine the success of tomorrow for a school. Trustees come to fully understand the nature of their roles, the significance of their responsibility, and the joy that comes from volunteering to advance the good fortunes of your school.
Parent Volunteers – In whatever configuration parents volunteer at you school, they are hungry for support and training to better understand roles and leadership that serve the best interests of the school and prevents entirely unnecessary and non-productive conflicts. Specific topics often include:
- Building or repairing the organization of the Parent Association;
- Special events and fundraising;
- Differences among grade level support at lower elementary, elementary, and secondary levels;
- Parent Education Programs;
- Collaboration with other parent associations – public and private – locally and nationally;
- Honor Codes and Councils;
- Uses and abuses of technology;
- Healthy living, moral development, and spirituality;
- Orienting families new to the school;
- What lies ahead.
