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Why does this service matter?
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No institution has ever
succeeded without effective leadership. While many
of those institutions don’t matter, the classical
school does. In fact, every decision made in the
board room affects the nurturing of the souls of the
students in the classroom.
Without a strong, prudent,
insightful, and visionary board, your school risks
anxiety, division, low morale, student and teacher
attrition, and failure.
Worst of all, your school risks
graduating students who have not experienced the
steady, systematic, patient cultivation of wisdom
and virtue.
But with a strong, prudent,
insightful, and visionary board, your school has the
potential to go beyond mere success to fulfilling
your dreams for the students in your school and for
the school in your community.
When a board knows what
it needs to know, understands what it needs
to understand, and can do what it needs to
do, that board is capable of memorable feats as
extraordinary as governing a harmonious, united
community that graduates students well along the
path of wisdom and virtue! |
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How will my school
benefit from this service? |
CiRCE Institute board
development equips boards to lead with the
enthusiasm that arises from a unified vision
and the confidence that comes from
effective planning while sustaining the
stability that results from effective
teaching in a community sheltered by wise
leadership.
Imagine a school to whom other
schools look as a model for governance, where
parents and teachers trust the leadership, where the
budget is optimized, needed resources are available,
and where students are graduated who can stand
against worldly pressure and succeed within
the cultural context for which they are being
prepared.
That is the kind of school the CiRCE Institute can
help you grow. |
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Essentially, what are you
offering my school? |
CiRCE Institute board
development offers consulting to classical school
boards on
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Developing a vision and mission for
your school
(for start-ups or established schools)
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Board formation
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Strategic planning and decision making
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Assessment of the strategic plan
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Customized consulting to meet the
specific needs
of your specific school in your
specific context.
For more details about how CiRCE board development
consulting works, click here. |
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When do you recommend we use this service? |
CiRCE Institute board
development is available to your school when you
determine that we can help you more effectively
pursue your schools
vision.
Whether you turn to CiRCE
Institute for help or not, we would urge you to
develop a vision and mission for your school that
every board member and school leader thoroughly
understands and is bound to before cracks
develop in your foundation! Without a common
vision, a school is predestined, by its own hand, to
confusion, division, and frustration.
The Vision and Strategy
Retreats should occur within three months of each
other whenever possible. The Assessment retreat can
be held up to six months later.
Ideally, a school will have the
time to accomplish all three levels over the course
of a year before your school opens its doors.
However, we do not live in an ideal world.
If you are an established
school that wants to refine your governance, we
recommend a Vision Retreat in the fall, a Strategy
Retreat in the winter, and an assessment retreat in
the spring.
If you are a new school that
has recently opened your doors, we recommend a
Vision retreat in the Spring so you can spend more
time on the higher level thinking that is so
essential. The Strategy retreat should follow in the
fall and the Assessment during winter or spring.
All of these sequences are
adaptable.
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