Audit Season: Maximizing Summer to Enhance School Leadership

When I lived in New York, I spent a lot of time inside during the winter because I didn’t want to freeze my face.

But here in Florida, it’s the exact opposite.

I find myself indoors all summer because I don’t want to melt.

My older kids are away at camp, and Mayer’s and my work schedules both have a little bit more flexibility.

We’ve started a family tradition of using the summer to assess our household.

Is there maintenance we need to do on the house?

Do we want to cancel some streaming subscriptions?

How will we give back to our community in the next 12 months?

It will always inconvenience someone for us to pause and go through our household assessments. 

Maybe we’ll be without a washer for a few days as a new one gets put in, or maybe we’ll take the morning off work to guide a handyman through the house.

But summer is the least inconvenient time to go through these upgrades and tweaks.

Schools follow a similar pattern.

Even if you run summer programs, there are usually fewer people in the building this time of year.

Families go on vacation. Teachers might take off time to travel. Kids are at Disney World or at their grandparents’ house out of state.

Plus, you’re in the perfect position to reflect on what went well last school year, and what didn’t.

That makes right now the ideal moment to enhance your school leadership through audits, assessments, and evaluations.

In this week's podcast episode, I discuss the types of school audits that might be right for you and why summer is the perfect time to take on this project.

Join me for a conversation about:

• Qualities of summertime that make it ideal for reflection and strategic planning
• Types of audits you may wish to consider for your school this summer
• Astute questions to ask yourself as you evaluate what’s working and what’s not
• A shortcut to prevent you from reinventing the wheel when it comes to school audits

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If your audit finds a big hole in your processes or a massive opportunity to shift your systems, I’d love to support your next steps. During a Schools of Excellence Leadership Day Intensive, you'll get a full day of on-demand, in-school training with me, plus various accountability check-ins, to help you and your team work through obstacles and build a stronger, healthier center that values self-care. https://schoolsofexcellence.com/leadership/

More about the show:

If you are an Early Childhood director or owner, prepare to transform your school and life with the Schools of Excellence podcast. Tune in each week to learn from Chanie Wilschanski, the founder and host of the Schools of Excellence Podcast and a mom of 4 little kids. Each episode will be packed with tools and strategies – equipping you to build schools with higher staff retention, teacher motivation, parent partnership, collaborative culture, and beautiful quality of life. 

Every week, Chanie shares the truth about the journey to excellence, the strategies that are working TODAY, and the mindset about the critical decisions and choices that you make every day which impact yourself, your teachers, parents, family, and children who you serve every day.