Category: Recruitment and Enrollment
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30+ Unique School Event Ideas to Bring Your Community Together
Creating memorable and engaging events is key to building a vibrant school community. Whether you want to strengthen parent involvement, boost student morale, or showcase your school’s achievements, these event ideas can help you accomplish your goals. Here are 30+ event ideas with some helpful tips and tricks to make sure event succeeds. 1. Back-to-School Bash…
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5 Summer Recruitment Tips to Boost Enrollment Before Fall
Summer break is a time for relaxation, but for many school leaders, it’s a crucial period to ensure that your student roster is full and ready for the new academic year. With the right strategies in place, you can make the most of this time to boost your enrollment numbers and set your school up…
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Effective Follow-Up Strategies for Schools Offering Open Enrollment
As the bell is about to ring in the new semester, school leaders can find themselves faced with the task of reaching out to interested parents and ensuring that no seats go unfilled while also managing all the duties and responsibilities that the start of a new school year entails. With open enrollment still available,…
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Updating Your School’s Website & Schola Profile for the New School Year
As the new school year approaches, there’s no better time to ensure your school’s website and Schola school profile are up to par. These digital platforms serve as windows to your institution, offering vital information to parents who are eager to be well-informed and confident about their children’s educational journey. To help you in this…
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Strategies to Reassure Parents About Your School Safety Measures
We know that as a school leader, your top priority is ensuring the safety and well-being of your students. With the start of a new academic year approaching, it is crucial to address parents’ genuine concerns regarding their children’s security while attending school and demonstrate your commitment to prioritizing their child’s well-being above all else.…
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Summer Tactics to Ensure New Students Show Up Ready on the First Day
The new school year is just around the corner, and it comes with exciting possibilities and endless opportunities for growth! The period leading up to the first day of school presents a unique opportunity for school leaders like yourself to engage with new students and their families to create a seamless transition, setting the stage…
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Strategies for Obtaining Effective End-of-the-Year Parent Feedback
The end of the school year is always a busy time for everyone involved in education. However, it’s also a crucial time to hear from parents to gain insight into how your school can improve. Collecting parent feedback is essential to retaining your students, and it’s a way to make parents know they active participants…
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What Parents Want From Their Child’s School: Insights From Recent Surveys
Parents start searching for a new school for their children, wanting to provide the best opportunities for a successful future, but it often becomes overwhelming trying to pick the one that will help their kids achieve holistic development. Parents want their children’s PK-12 education to go beyond just academic excellence. They are looking for schools…
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5 Tips to Make Your PK-12 Open House the Talk of the Town
As a school leader, you know that the power of an open house and recruitment events cannot be underestimated. These events offer a window into your school’s community, culture, and values, and can be the deciding factor for prospective families looking for a school that aligns with their needs and goals. To help you make…
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4 Ways To Promote School Events Families Won’t Want To Miss
As a school leader, you already know that students enjoy fun events at school, from fall festivities to Christmas shows; they are excited to mix up their daily routines, show what they’ve learned, and enjoy exciting experiences with their peers. But how can you use your school events to bring in new families and show…
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4 Homework Assignments to Ramp Up Student Recruitment
New school year, new enrollment goals! As the semester is already in full swing, school leaders all across the country are implementing new strategies and tactics to meet and even exceed their enrollment goals. So what steps are you going to take to ensure your school knocks recruitment out of the park this year? At…
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How To Highlight Your After-School Activities
What makes your school special? For many schools, it’s not just the academics that make their education so great, but the wide array of after-school programs and electives that are offered. At Schola, we know how important it is to highlight what makes each school unique to reach its enrollment goals. Every day more parents…
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3 Tips To Showcase Your Outstanding Staff
Every school has many different characteristics that make it unique, but one thing they should all have in common is a passionate and dedicated staff. Educators are the backbone of every school, and the way they engage with students and their families is crucial for schools’ success. Do you remember a teacher that made a…
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11 Expert Text and Email Examples To Prospective Parents
We know that it can be challenging to expertly craft a follow-up email to parents. Making your email sound enticing and calling parents to action without sounding too pushy is not always easy. Or maybe you’re trying to leverage SMS and trying to decide what to text parents with the limited space. Whatever the case…
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How Can Student-Centered Learning Benefit Your School?
Have you ever wondered how a student-centered learning approach can benefit your school’s objectives? Student-centered learning is all about personalization, one of the top characteristics parents across the country are looking for when choosing their ideal school. It focuses on the student’s needs and interests to provide hands-on group learning experiences that will teach students…