Downsizing So You Can Grow WELCOME! THANK YOU FOR BEING A FORWARD THINKER WHO WANTS TO CREATE THE EFFECT AND NOT BE AT THE AFFECT. YOUR SCHOOL WILL BE.

Downsizing So You Can Grow

WELCOME!

THANK YOU FOR BEING A FORWARD THINKERWHO WANTS TO CREATE THE EFFECT

AND NOT BE AT THE AFFECT.

YOUR SCHOOL WILL BE OF THE ONES THAT THRIVE IN 2020

Rich Odell (231) 313-1100 [email protected]

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school can maintain or increase enrollment over the next 5 years?

What is the size of your school and grades served?

How many of you have seen your enrollment drop in the last 5 years?

How many adjusted their budget down once the school year started?

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What if I told you….

To be financially viable in 2020 you must downsize your operation by 20-30%

Designing and managing a new normal

Being Proactive not Reactive

What does this title mean?

Downsizing So You Can Grow

• Birth Rate in US: Down from 2.4 to 1.6

• Education gap has narrowed: public, private, online, home school, charter, for profits.

We are no longer 30% ahead of other options

Why should you be thinking about it?

• The have and have-nots: Middle class cannot afford us anymore

• Must make $100,000 per year to afford us and even those now get significant financial aid

• I-Phone

• Do kids need schools as we have known them?

Why should you be thinking about it?

• Parental expectations “If you don’t get straight A’s you are a failure”

Now the “you” is us not the child & only 250 universities are acceptable

• Percent of kids who have been diagnosed with a learning difference is up

Why should you be thinking about it?

A 21st century library is called a Starbucks

and don’t for one minute think Starbucks isn’t considering how to be a school of the future

Why should you be thinking about it?

Where Do You Start?

Where Do You Start?

• Discussion with Board Chair

• Discussion with Executive Committee

• Discussion with Senior Administrative Team

• Select task force comprised of a group from:Executive Board & Senior Administrative

Team

• Decide scope of task

Where Do You Start?

Create a List of Functions(you could/should consider outsourcing)

Housekeeping Substitute TeachersMaintenance Some Online CoursesFood Service TransportationHealth Services PurchasingCollege Placement Snow PlowingBusiness Office MarketingGrounds Keeping Fundraising & Alumni Mgmt.IT Data Management

Where Do You Start?

• Create a List of Critical Questions to ask when considering each opportunity

• Create a matrix-spreadsheet for purposes of prioritizing outcomes

• Consider each outsourcing opportunity

• Prioritize the opportunities

• Develop a plan and timeline for implementation

Internal Cost Cutting Opportunities

• Better use of space

• Better use of staff time-consolidation of staff functions

• Less faculty &/or administration

• Better use of available class hours

• Less textbooks

• Benefit plans

• Housing options if a boarding school

Internal Cost Cutting Opportunities

• 4 Days per week

• Administrative perks

• Professional development shift

• Reduce curriculum options

• End traditional academic school at 10th grade

• Sell or lease some of school’s property

Growth Considerations

• Late afternoon, evening, & weekend classes for enrollees & public

• Offer a choice: morning or afternoon school

• Create partnerships with businesses, other schools, and colleges

• Create professional learning pathways

• Have multiple school Admissions packages

Growth Considerations

• Offer multiple diplomas

• Create new “short” professional programs

• Become “think” centers

• Become “whole person” development centers

• Have “specialization” that you are known for

Looking Beyond 2020

Looking Beyond 2020

• Places to learn won’t be called schools as they will be out of vogue

• Teacher training & college education programs will not look like they do today

• Growth of the mind will not involve taking tests to see what you remember

• Plagiarism will go the way of liquor & pot

Looking Beyond 2020

• Apprenticeships will be required in non-vocational professions

• Youth experential growth center will not need many administrators

• Private schools will in large part be owned by Universities and businesses

• Growth incubators will be where kids who know what they want to do for the next 3-5 years hang out

Looking Beyond 2020

• Cell phones, computers, T.V.’s, and radios will be gone

• Dinner will be prepared by a communication prompt and ready when you arrive

• Newspapers, magazines, and most books will not exist

• Cursive writing will be gone

• Sports and Arts will be at the center of youth development

• GPA’s will not exist

Those Who Daly Die…Those Who Energize

Thrive

Contact InformationRich Odell

(231) [email protected]

Heads Up Educational Consultin

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