This tool provides NAES-member Episcopal school exploratory and start-up committees with a detailed five-phase timeline and lists of start-up and operating budget items for starting a viable and sustainable Episcopal school or Early Childhood Education program.
This tool is designed to help NAES-member Episcopal school exploratory and start-up committees undertake a systematic assessment of their readiness to start a viable and sustainable Episcopal school or Early Childhood Education program.
Are you exploring the establishment of an Episcopal school or Early Childhood Education program? The decision to establish a new Episcopal school requires discernment, education, planning, and time. Before you being your discernment process, read this article!
The calling and welcoming of a new rector is a time of deep reflection that ushers in a period of change for both the church and school. These eight key considerations can help church and school leaders navigate a smooth transition.
This article offers some key considerations to keep in mind when reviewing or evaluating your school board's composition.
Here is a sample agenda for a weekly standing meeting between a Head of School and a Rector.
The goal of any board orientation is to provide new board members with baseline information about the school. Here is a sample agenda for the content of such an orientation.
Schools sponsored by a parish or cathedral live in relationship to their sponsoring organization and to the vestry, the parish's governing body. Incorporating the school into new vestry orientation can get church-school relations off to a good start. Here are some suggestions.
Episcopal early childhood and elementary programs can nurture the spiritual lives of children first by recognizing that young children are spiritual beings and then by giving their spiritual development the same attention and care as language development, motor skills, or social-emotional growth. How might we do this?
A sample list of typical standing commitments and tasks of the rector in a parish day school. This document reflects recommended best practices. It is intended as a draft document for discussion and for the creation of a list unique in each church and school.
