Board and Administrative Consulting

Search Associates offers a wide variety of specialized services to international schools:

Educational Programs and Services

• Educational Technology: Provides support, advice, and leadership in reference to implementing and integrating technol­ogy. Contact: Peter Coyle

• Guidance Services: Includes student advising, development and leadership in areas re­lated to secondary guidance, life-skills and col­lege counseling programs. Contact: Barry Drake

• Curriculum Development: Includes introduction of IB, bi-lingual, experiential and service learning programs. Contact: Gez Hayden, Barry Drake

• Host Culture and Cross-Cultural Studies: Integrate your host country into your regular curriculum. Contact: John Ritter; Gez Hayden, Barry Drake
  
  

Governance

• Developing Good Governance: Includes roles and responsibilities, effective practices, and implementation methods. Contact: Jim Ambrose, John Ritter, Ralph Jahr, Georgeann Taylor

• Board Structure and Composition: Moving to a more "hybrid" or self-perpetuating board by reviewing and revising constitutions and by-laws. Contact: John Ritter, Georgeann Taylor

• Policy and Procedure Reviews: Includes “slimming” policy manuals to shift procedures to operational handbooks. Also includes aligning policies and practices, evaluating and recommending policies. Contact: John Ritter, Georgeann Taylor
  

• Board and Head Evaluation Methods: Contact: Jim Ambrose, John Ritter, Ralph Jahr, Barry Drake

• Transition Planning: Designed for Heads, Boards, and Board Chairs. Contact: Jim Ambrose, John Ritter

Planning

• Strategic Planning: Includes school mission and vision, strategic goal-setting, action-planning, evaluating, and updating. Contact: John Ritter, David Cope, Gez Hayden, Barry Drake, Georgeann Taylor
  

• Long-term Financial Planning: Contact: Jim Ambrose ,Gez Hayden

• Start-up School Planning and Assistance: Contact: John Ritter, Gez Hayden, Barry Drake

• Feasibility Studies: Includes school expansion, additional programs (such as a high school program), etc. Contact: John Ritter, David Cope, Gez Hayden, Barry Drake,Georgeann Taylor

Administration / Personnel

• School Institutional Assessments: Ideas from an external, objective, and professional perspective. Contact: David Cope, Gez Hayden, JIm Ambrose, Ralph Jahr, John Magagna
  

• Staff Communication, Decision-Making, and Team-Building: Includes cross-cultural methods, effective and efficient meetings, etc. Contact: John Ritter, David Cope,Georgeann Taylor

• Community Involvement Strategies: Contact: John Ritter, Barry Drake

• Compensation Reviews: Contact: John Ritter, Ralph Jahr, Georgeann Taylor

• Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategies: Contact: John Ritter, David Cope, Ralph Jahr, Gez Hayden, Barry Drake
  
  

For more information about our comprehensive Board Administrative and Consulting services, you can directly contact the Associates listed above or our Executive Administrative Assistant, Melinda Williams.