School Operations
Resources and guidance to help charter schools run smoothly and safely
What We Offer
Value of partnership
“The value of the partnership we’ve built with the Charter Support Unit team is immeasurable. They provided guidance and walk each school through the exhaustive foundation-building process to a successful first day of school. Through our partnership, we have developed tools and resources for new schools to utilize. We plan on exploring more opportunities to collaborate. I know they’re just a phone call away. “
– Nadia Luna, VP of Member Services
Texas Public Charter Schools Association
Resources & Templates
From checklists for new schools to sample policy manuals, employment contracts and
forms for parents, the CSU’s library contains invaluable resources to help you run your school. Topics for operations professionals include campus safety, student health, family engagement, nutrition program compliance, marketing, technology and cybersecurity — and much more.
Webinars
Aired live weekly, and archived for viewing anytime, the CSU’s webinar series brings expertise from all over the country to bear on common challenges for charter school operators.
Consultations
Have an operations issue that would benefit from an outside perspective, or would you simply like feedback on how you might move your school to the next level? CSU consultants are available to meet with school leaders and boards to work through your school’s particular challenges or to help you advance your mission in new ways.
Document Review
For schools in their first charter contract, we review operating documents at no cost to schools to provide feedback or suggestions. Whether you are developing an employee handbook, a parent guide, employment documents or forms for your staff, we’re here to help.
Budget Templates
Many schools and districts have long utilized the Budget Template tool available from the Charter Support Unit. We will continue to support and expand upon the existing tool. In addition, we will be creating additional templates and tools to help existing schools with developing future budgets, and to assist schools during their launch year with projecting actual expenses and budgets through the school opening. Watch for more later in the year.
Charters.Link (Florida)
For Florida charter schools and authorizers, this online monitoring tool helps ensure compliance with all of the documents and deliverables that schools are required to provide to their authorizing district throughout the year.
School Operations
Trainings, Webinars, Sample Documents, Resources, and more…
- Hard Copy Request Form
March 9, 2021
Some schools try to cut down on the amount of paper they print and send home. In an attempt to do this, schools are moving more towards electronic communication, however, not all families have access to the internet. The school may wish to keep a lis …
Read more - SOP: Building Key Assignment
March 9, 2021
Standard Operating Procedure for assigning and checking out keys to the building.
Read more - Sample School Behavior Program
March 9, 2021
This is a sample document to lay out a school’s behavioral program, the types of behavior incidents as well as possible consequences for them. Includes an acknowledgment for you could request parents to sign acknowledging that the program has been sha …
Read more - Threat Assessment Form
March 9, 2021
This form can be used to document an investigation when a student is causing issues or a threat may lead to police/law enforcement intervention with a student. This form should be tweaked to match the internal processes the school uses to deal with su …
Read more - Student Think It Over Forms
March 9, 2021
This is a form that was used by one school to give students when they needed to be prompted to think about their involvement in a particular situation. This was used when students received a detention and was required as an exit ticket before students …
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