SchoolOps

Calling all Missouri school operations leaders! 📣 The Missouri Charter Public School Association and The Opportunity Trust are launching the SchoolOps Community of Practice (CoP), a FREE, year-long program designed to help you build your skills, solve operational challenges, and connect with other leaders in your field. Whether you're managing day-to-day tasks or planning the big picture, this will be a great chance to hone your skills. Sign up for our webinar on Friday, November 1, from 10:30 - 11:30 AM to get the inside scoop and see how the CoP can benefit you and your school: https://lnkd.in/gVxz6zC5 #SchoolOperations #CommunityOfPractice #MissouriSchools #ProfessionalDevelopment

Calling all Missouri school operations leaders! 📣 The Missouri Charter Public School Association and The Opportunity Trust are launching the SchoolOps Community of Practice (CoP), a FREE, year-long program designed to help you build your skills, solve operational challenges, and connect with other leaders in your field. Whether you're managing day-to-day tasks or planning the big picture, this will be a great chance to hone your skills. Sign up for our webinar on Friday, November 1, from 10:30 - 11:30 AM to get the inside scoop and see how the CoP can benefit you and your school: https://lnkd.in/gVxz6zC5 #SchoolOperations #CommunityOfPractice #MissouriSchools #ProfessionalDevelopment

Calling all Missouri school operations leaders! 📣 The Missouri Charter Public School Association and The Opportunity Trust are launching the SchoolOps Community of Practice (CoP), a FREE, year-long program designed to help you build your skills, solve operational challenges, and connect with other leaders in your field. Whether you're managing day-to-day tasks or planning the big picture, we've got you covered. Want to learn more? Sign up for our webinar tomorrow, Tuesday, October 22, from 10:30 - 11:30 AM to get the inside scoop and see how the CoP can benefit you and your school: https://lnkd.in/gmpDMwkg #SchoolOperations #CommunityOfPractice #MissouriSchools #ProfessionalDevelopment

"This is about 50% of my job and nobody has ever asked me if I needed help learning how to do it..." Yesterday, I led an operations leadership session for the Rural Alliance, a group of superintendents who lead the 30 smallest, most rural districts in Washington State. (And I got in a pretty great trail run in Washington's sand dunes on the way there!) After we defined what "Operations" encompassed, I asked folks to raise their hands if they spent more than 10% of their time on Ops. Then, more than 25% Then, more than 50% Most of the Superintendents in the room spent more than 50% of their time on Operations work. And yet, none of them had received any operations professional learning in their career. They'd been to many professional learning opportunities over the years focused on instructional practices, new edtech products, behavior management... the works! But never anything that focused on where they spent the most time in their roles. These days, Superintendents are asked to manage increasingly complicated facilities and IT projects, ensure that their schools serve NSLP compliant and delicious meals, find a way to get every kid to school despite bus driver shortages, and it goes without saying that they better get payroll right every week! But Supe after supe has expressed that this is the stuff they're expected to "just figure out". Talk to the supe of the district down the road. Ask ChatGPT about it. Learn from your mistakes. It's a privilege to get to build SchoolOps, and create Communities of Practice so that the people holding up our educational infrastructure can get trained on the job they're actually asked to do. What the Supes in that room have accomplished is superhuman, and I'm excited to keep getting them what they need!

EDIT: These roles are now closed for applications. Thanks to all who applied, and we look forward to communicating with you shortly! ------------------------------------ SchoolOps has two roles open for school operations leaders who are ready to begin a season of their career focused on developing the next generation of ops folks. One is full time, and one is project-based hourly contract work. Both are remote with some travel. 💡Managing Director of Operations Training - FT Role. $140k-$160k base + benefits/401k and supported by PT virtual assistant. Lead SchoolOps’ vision for training ops folks nationwide! -> https://lnkd.in/gtVk7C-M 🤲 Operations Leader Coach - 1099 role. 5-10 Hours/Week thru June, 2025. $110-125/hour. Coach a cohort of 10-15 aspiring ops leaders! -> https://lnkd.in/gDKK2SxT Both speak to SchoolOps’ core vision: bringing high quality professional learning into the operations space. This is our opportunity to ensure that school operations professionals are poured into, invested in, and prepared to lead high performing schools.

Love training operations teams? I'm so excited to hire somebody who will lead SchoolOps' growth as we build high quality professional learning to train operations teams in charters and districts across the country. We're expanding quickly and looking for somebody with an entrepreneurial spirit who loves to build something new. This person will set a vision for excellence and refine what the "SchoolOps Way" of delivering amazing trainings looks like. They'll get access to some of the top experts in the country on nitty gritty topics like Enrollment, Facilities, SISs, Attendance, etc. and they'll get to lead put them together into teams of high-performing content developers, and set the standard for our final products. If you're an experienced ops leader who loves building professional learning and bringing out the best in ops people, this job is for you.

As somebody who came into the School Operations world building the plane as I flew it, I always felt that I would have served my students better if there had been a program to train and coach me towards success. Now, SchoolOps gets to build this program, and I need my network to help me find the perfect candidates. The Washington State School Operations Leader Fellowship will train a cohort of Fellows through a year-long apprenticeship with an experienced Operations Leader at a high performing school. By shadowing this leader and participating in an intensive year's worth of SchoolOps professional learning and coaching, candidates will end the year prepared for an Operational Leadership role in a school. We'll continue to support our Fellows in their first year of being an Operational Leader, coaching them through how to be successful in this difficult role. This is a full circle moment for me, building the Fellowship I wish I'd had when I entered the School Operations world. There is no job more difficult and more fulfilling than making school excellent for students every single day. If you know anybody who would be great, please send them this posting! A systems-oriented teacher who is ready to improve the behind-the-scenes work that makes their school run? Perfect. A gets-stuff-done professional outside of education, ready to change tracks and want to explore bringing their skillset to a school community? Perfect. A school staff member working in an office, cafeteria, transportation, facilities, finance, or other operations role, who is ready to be developed and make the leap into leadership? Perfect. There are so many ways to be an amazing School Operations Leader, and we're excited to select a cohort of Fellows, give them the core skills they need, and them grow into a powerful and authentic leader. Thanks so much to Washington State Charter Schools Association (WA Charters) and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for all you've done to make this a reality. https://lnkd.in/gnZXKB3b

Washington friends - come join SchoolOps and our fellow Host Organizations on Friday, May 3 at the Airport Hilton to kick off this year's Washington State Charter Schools Association (WA Charters) conference with a Happy Hour! Link to register in the comments if you haven't already.