Developing a Private or Charter School: the A to Z planning of a successful school

Themes
Conceptualization
Initial Planning
Programming
Financing and Budgeting
Site Selection
Building Decisions
Marketing
Student Achievement
Staffing
Governance

This CD-ROM is both a case study of an actual school (The Sagemont School) and specific suggestions about designing, financing, building,planning the program, and managing a school. The case study presents all the major steps taken from the initial conceptualization, of The Sagemont School through its first two years of operation.

Suggestions lead you through the development of your vision, financing, site selection, and building. They also provide guidance in marketing, staffing, evaluation, curriculum, and professional development.

Audience for the Program
1.Planning and design teams for any private or public school.
2.Administrators who wish to learn these skills in a practice situation without having to make costly mistakes with real money, staff and school students.
3.Investors and potential owners who wish to make decisions about a specific plan or school organization.
4.University students in public policy, education, business, and architecture.
5.Parents who are considering enrolling their children in an independent or charter school.

Organization of the Program

This Program is organized around ten major themes. Each theme is related to planning designing, building, and operating a school. At the end of each of the theme discussions and documents from The Sagemont School, a link will lead you to a checklist of decisions you will face in this area as you design your own school.The program includes a form you can use to record your own decisions related to each theme. Each of the theme discussions includes documents, pictures, audio interviews, and artifacts from The Sagemont School.