Keeping In Touch With Your Graduates

• Why Would Anybody Want to Establish a Private School?
  Why would anybody want to found a private school? Through the years civic-minded people and parents with a vision have done just that. In most cases done it successfully too.

Fund-raising

Help and guidance with raising money for your school.

• Raising Money for Your School
  Raising money for the newer, small private school is a job for professionals. We examine the three major components of private school fund-raising.
• 5 Ways to Support Your School
  Supporting your school is more important now than ever. Here are five ways to lend a financial hand.
• Major Gifts to Private Schools
  The only way private schools can build their financial security is through gifts. Major gifts offer proof of how deeply many donors feel about their private schools. Their munificence is a wonderful example to others.
• Keeping In Touch With Your Graduates
  Keeping in touch with your graduates is not easy these days. You must communicate via snail mail, web portals and social networks.

• Administrative (11)
• State Regulation of Private Schools
  State Regulation of Private Schools provides a brief description, by state, of the legal requirements that apply to private schools.
• Starting a Private School
  Thinking about starting your own school? Here's an outline of what's involved.
• School Strategic Planning - How To Ensure Success
  Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future.
• Hiring A Headmaster
  Hiring a headmaster is one of a board of trustee's most important jobs. Here's how one search firm handles the hiring process.
• Developing A Strategic Plan
  Developing a strategic plan is an exercise your school will probably undergo once a decade or so. Read what Alan Kennedy has to say on the subject.
• Dealing with Bad Press
  Nobody likes bad press. Not the head of school. Not the parents. Not the teachers and staff.
• Taking over the Struggling School: Before You Sign On
  First of a series of articles on managing struggling schools. In this article we discuss what you need to do before you sign on.
• Preventing Cyberbullying
  Bullying has gone electronic. It's called cyberbullying and it is rampant.
• Are Employees Stealing From You?
  Part of a trustee's job is to ensure that sound business practices are in place. Employee fraud occurs all the time. Here's how to prevent it.
• Safe Schools
  A safe school does not happen. A safe school is the result of a concerted effort on the part of your school community to have a safe school.
• Does Your School Avoid Politics?
  Does your school avoid politics? You might want to make sure it does if you are set up as a non-profit corporation.
• Marketing and Technology (8)
• Using Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest to Promote Your School
  Social media is an effective marketing tool for your school. Here are some suggestion for using Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest.
• Making Social Media Work for Your School
  An introduction to using Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest to promote your school.
• SEO for Private Schools - Part I: Basics
  If you are responsible for marketing your school, you probably have encountered the term SEO. If you are unfamiliar with SEO, this article will introduce you to the basic concepts.
• SEO for Private Schools - Part 3: Using Social Media
  Social media for private K-12 schools is a bit different from social media for businesses. Some tips and strategies here.
• SEO for Private Schools - Part 2: Content
  SEO is an important consideration for any private school. Getting it right will make your school easier to find.
• SCVNGR: The Newest Social Media Tool
  SCVNGR adds a new layer to the social media world. Jeff Kirchik explains what SCVNGR is and how it works.
• Technology Products for Schools
  Your community expects the best technology to be in place in your classrooms. Take advantage of the fast moving market which is always coming out with new products at ever lower prices.
• Marketing the Small Private School
  Some marketing resources and tips for small private schools with limited marketing budgets.

• Private School Jobs
  Teaching in a private school is different from teaching in a public school. Find out more here including information on duties, compensation and where to find jobs.
• Top Roman Catholic Boarding Schools
  These Roman Catholic boarding schools offer good value, great educations and a faith-based community experience.
• Boarding or Day School?
  Many parents agonize over sending their child to boarding school or keeping them at home and sending them to day school. A look at the pros and cons here.
• For Profit vs Not for Profit Schools
  What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of a for profit versus a not for profit school? Is one kind of school better than the other?
• Private School May Be Free If You Make Less Than $75,000
  Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth set the pace. Now several top private schools are offering free or greatly reduced tuition for children from families making less than $75,000.
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