Membership
For over 30 years of work in more than 250 private schools, ISPG associates provided over 150 years of collective experience in the formation, management, and operations to private schools of all types including schools of faiths of all types, university preparatory, single gender, preschools, secular, Montessori, Waldorf, neuro-diverse, Sudbury Valley, gifted and talented, and early childhood schools throughout North America. Our Associates are school specialists in the disciplines of starting new schools, strategic planning, school management, curriculum development, marketing, admissions, advancement/development, fundraising, property procurement/leasing, school financing, leadership search and assessment, and Board development/school governance.
We have now distilled our work developing best practices in all of these vital school functions into a library of knowledge and functional tools that are presented to you as a member in the following ways:
Over 30 Videos,
Easy to follow How To Guides,
Manuals,
Assessment tools,
Form letters,
Recruitment tools,
Surveys,
Tracking tools,
Frameworks
Members can choose to join the monthly Zoom sessions where you can ask the questions of an expert who has been there and done that, and get answers to the difficult questions faced by school administrators and educators.
Support materials are built downloadable in Word format or pdf for ease of use when copying or pasting into your school’s new program, process, or project.
In this extensive library, you will find numerous opportunities to advance either an existing or proposed school initiative well ahead of schedule because there is a best practices template to give you a head start, help you to avoid the errors that so many schools have made, and put you on the fastest path from A to B.
Summary of Member Benefits
These videos will give you a snapshot of what is available to members when you register for one of the modules.
School Marketing
Strategic Planning
Thinking About Starting A New School?
Board Governance
Admissions
Leadership Search
Starting Your Own School
Advancement
Leadership Assessment
Buying or Leasing a School
Capital Campaign
Choose the Modules to Join
Implementing these tools, you will convert more inquiries into enrollment! Over 100 schools have seen their Admissions performance skyrocket when using these strategies and tools. Now you can access the "How To" Videos, download the step-by-step best practices Admissions Manual, recommended Application and Assessment forms, Registration & Policy documents, Tuition contract, Acceptance letters, innovative Scholarship Program, the highly successful Indexed Tuition Program, and much more.
Information and knowledge that you will need to help you to understand when or if the time is right for you to start your school, is in this module. Get the answers before you dedicate hours and hours of time and thousands of dollars investigating and searching for answers as to how to move forward. Get the insider information from the private school experts who have done it all before.
In this module you will have access to the best practices of private school marketing. From understanding what it is that defines your school and sets you apart from your competitors, to providing a complete implementation strategy including videos that explains in simple terms and brings to life how to build the best student recruitment and retention process at your school. Get anytime access to our growing collection of videos, tried and time tested conversion and outreach strategies.
This module will help you to make your existing Advancement function far more effective, adding strategies and tactics to your school's toolkit, defining what should be done and when, provide a blueprint if your school is just starting up the Advancement process and equip your school with tools that will deliver almost immediate funds.
This is a step by step guide for how to start your own private school. From vision and mission development to finally opening your doors, this module will help you to achieve your goal and avoid the hugely costly mistakes that can disrupt or even halt the opening of your school.
Starting a new school or refreshing your current Board and its processes, this module contains explicit how to manuals, mandates and policies that can transform your Board experience.
Benefit from our experience specifically acquiring sites for private schools, navigating the minefield of zoning and occupancy, and avoid losing your new home. Lease expiring and you need to renegotiate or move and need help to secure a new lease? Need help in financing an expansion or property purchase? Real estate agents can't advocate for you, they don't know the specifics of locating a private school. We have been the lead managers for over 50 private school property leases and purchases.
If you are wanting to raise capital to purchase property, build new buildings, expand your school, or some other significant purchase, you will need to have a Capital Campaign to raise the funds. Included in this module are innovative financing strategies that have raised over $100M to date. All the tools and know how to setup and run a successful Campaign are in this module. Whether you are wanting to raise hundreds of thousands or millions, this module will equip you to achieve your goals.
Get anytime access to our growing collection of job descriptions for positions at private schools. Guides to hire or direct school leadership, from Directors, middle administrators, educational staff, and maintenance staff, over 35 positions are detailed in this module. Use in recruitment ads or in mandating the roles and responsibilities of school personnel once hired.