Our Approach
Our unique systems approach to Christian leadership and management always leaves you with newfound hope, tangible next steps, a stronger team, a more effective Board, and the most important thing of all – a school that is better able to meet the needs of its children. Why? Because effective management and leadership impacts the life of each child, teacher, and staff member in your school.
Key Benefits
- Fierce focus on holding you accountable to your mission.
- Unyielding pressure to move to full enrollment.
- Strategic wisdom that brings hope today and sustainability tomorrow.
- Fusion of faith and data to drive measurable results.
- A powerful synergy between mission, the child’s transformation, and the school’s Kingdom purpose, systems, processes, key metrics, and culture.
Consulting Services
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Enrollment Increase and Extending God’s Kingdom
Magnify your witness to God’s love in your neighborhoods and be a magnet for families filling your classes! Connect retention, recruitment, and mission excellence.
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Strategic Planning and Strategic Financial Management
Your Strategic Plan is your VISION in action. Everyone is committed to discipline and patience over time under prayer. Outcomes are drive and purpose connected to financial stewardship and vibrant growth.
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Strategic Academic Planning
Support your teachers in their faithful service to children. Move the goalposts and challenge the learning community to go to the next level. Drive both performance, outcomes, and satisfaction.
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School Board / Board of Trustees Retreat
Lead the Board forward in service to the Principal. See deep thinking develop, trusting relationships flower, and humble servant leadership have the spiritual depth to flourish. Meet the challenge of the moment and lead to longer term planning.
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Annual Fund
Move from secular transactional fund-raising to Biblical relationship and true philanthropy. It’s not about the gift. It’s about the inspired gift. Develop a culture of philanthropy and find your next generation of leadership donors.
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Scheduling and the Whole Child
Time is sacred. Each minute is given to us for a purpose. Leading and serving our children is done sacred minute by sacred minute. Change culture! Take practice to the next level! Maximize each child’s God-given potential! Changing your schedule should lead to a brand new day.
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Create Your Own
Your school is genuinely unique. We are here to serve you and will partner with you in the way that is most useful to you. Tell us your custom requirements and we will work together to develop a custom consult meeting your very specific needs.
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Teacher Compensation: Moving from Grid to Impact
How do you move to the next level in every child success? By moving the faculty culture to the next level. Connect teacher capacity with impact on the child’s learning with compensation. Get rid of the grid. Move to a 21st century model that honors effectiveness on behalf of the child.
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Management Structure Analysis
You are the Principal / Head of School. Who reports to you? Who reports to them? What do you pay them? Too many? Too much? That’s management structure! This is an in depth school/consultant conversation with long-lasting results for leadership effectiveness and fiscal stewardship.
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Vocation, College, and Careers Counseling
If you lead a high school with 180 or fewer students, this is designed for you. We come alongside to train your counselor, work with your teenagers and their parents, and make the future a strength for your school. This is a powerful mechanism to support your families and help each teen find a path forward to be enthused about.
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Strategic Health Check
The CSM Strategic Health Check considers your Christian school from top to bottom through the lens of Scripture, research, and experience. We provide you with recommendations in every area of the school. This is the best preparation for Strategic Planning and Strategic Financial Management that you can engage in. You will refer to the report for at least seven years.
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Executive Coaching
Do you have a new administrator? Are you 30 years in and know how helpful it is to have an expert coach to guide you? Our children, our families, our culture continues to evolve and change. Invest in yourself and your team and use an Executive Coach to drive performance.
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Campaign Preparation and Feasibility Studies
Take control of your own destiny. Learn the processes that empower you to do your own campaigns and feasibility studies. Move your leadership giving to INSPIRED giving! Nothing is so much fun as teaching people how to respect, honor, and steward their donors so that they invest even more in the education of children every year.
