New School Development Resources

Community & Parent Engagement

Telling Your Charter School Story - This toolkit is designed to help you think about how to tell your story, both within your own community and the broader education community statewide.

Stand Out: A Guide To School Marketing - A comprehensive guide designed to help you maximize your marketing efforts.
Free Digital Ads & Digital Video - Download free digital and video ads as well a style guide to aid you in your marketing efforts.

Stakeholder Engagement Worksheet - Start building a plan to communicate to your community to build support for your charter school proposal.

Core Design Team Skills inventory - Designed to help founding groups assess the skills within their team and identify any gaps.

Fighting Fraud: How To Avoid and Manage Financial Crises - This presentation helps identify and discuss solutions to major financial issues charter schools face.
Steps to Calculate Per Pupil Allocations for Charter Schools

Financial Health, Compliance, and Transparency - This presentation highlights the basics of charter school financial health, internal controls, and preparing for audits.
Vendor Analysis Toolkit - Vendor analysis is an organized and focused way to document and evaluate vendor options. It aids decision-making by establishing a clear and organized basis for comparison. This suite of documents will be particularly helpful to procurement staff.

Facilities Checklist - Tools to help you estimate how many square feet you need, as well as a checklist to walk you through some of the main steps.
Facilities Space Requirements Calculator Worksheet - A worksheet to help you calculate the physical space needs of your facility.
Understanding the Facilities Acquisition - A slide deck discussing everything you need to know about your facilities.
Life Cycle Facilities Planning - From start-up to community institution, facilities solutions for every stage of your school’s growth.

Students with disabilities resources - This compilation of resources provides the charter school community with access to useful information (such as research, case studies, and toolkits) in support of their work to effectively serve students with disabilities.
Serving Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools - This webinar covers several research reports that examine issues around students with disabilities and charter schools.

Charter School Discipline Toolkit - This toolkit discusses ways that school leaders can rethink student discipline and school climate.

Webinar: Intentionally Diverse Charter Schools - The purpose of this webinar is to share effective, evidence-based practices and school-based examples of how to foster diversity within a charter school.