Strategic Planning for Classical Christian Schools: A Guide A classical Christian school can have a compelling mission, a dedicated board, excellent teachers, and a clear portrait of a graduate—and still struggle to decide what matters most next. Strategic planning...
The working relationship between a board and a head of school is the most consequential partnership in the building. When it is healthy, decisions move at a reasonable pace, the board spends its time on the future, and the head of school spends time leading instead of...
A leadership team can spend two full days building an impressive annual plan and still leave the room without a strategy. They may have a calendar, a budget, department goals, and enough sticky notes to cover a fellowship hall wall. But if they have not made the hard...
Ask a room of nonprofit executives and directors what separates governance from management and you will usually get a confident answer followed by an argument. Barry S. Bader, writing in Great Boards, called it the question executives and directors ask most often, and...
In woodworking, board alignment is a fairly literal idea. Two edges have to be straight across their full length to make a clean joint, and the work is normally done with a jointer. If one edge wanders even slightly, the gap shows. Governance has a similar geometry. A...
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