Budgeting for your School in a Time of Rising Costs

Budgeting for your School in a Time of Rising Costs

Currently in the United States and in many places around the world costs are on the rise. This week, Tim and Marc Seldin will open a conversation on how schools can re-examine their projected budget for the coming school year and prepare for rising costs., With a tight job market, we can anticipate pressure on schools to increase salaries and benefits, even though tuition is probably already set for the coming school year. This will create new challenges in balancing our schools budget.
Webcast Using Budgets to Manage Cash Flow

Webcast: Strategic Tuition Pricing for Nonpublic Montessori Schools

On January 16, 2015, Marc Seldin spoke about Strategic Tuition Pricing for Nonpublic Montessori Schools

How to set your tuition is one of the hardest, and most important decisions you will make as a school head. Should you set your tuition to be in line with competitors? Should you charge a premium for the quality your school offers? Should you figure out your costs first?

Marc gave a great presentation and led a discussion of alternate pricing techniques.

Together we explored why a one-size-fits-all approach does not work and outline the factors that every school head should consider when setting tuition.

Montessori Training in the 21st Century the Challenges and Benefits of Training Models

Montessori Training in the 21st Century the Challenges and Benefits of Training Models

s the Center for Guided Montessori Studies (CGMS) prepares to launch the world’s first low-residency Montessori Infant/Toddler program, we thought it might be an opportune time to revisit the reasons we created our blended learning approach and what we believe may be the advantages of and shortcomings to alternate teacher training models. We all know […]