• Guiding Independent School Growth

  • Guiding Independent School Growth

  • Guiding Independent School Growth

  • Guiding Independent School Growth

What We Do

We partner with schools to facilitate the sustainable growth of their environments and those who work and learn there. We guide school leadership to develop a vision and mission to cultivate inspiring and caring environments where educational communities flourish.

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Retreat meeting between KSC and CRA leadership

Our Mission

KSC’s mission is to support schools in their quest for stability, sustainability, and maturity.

Our Services

Schools are very busy places. KSC provides a web of individualized and integrated services that facilitate transformative growth toward Stability, Sustainability, and Maturity. Schools can then focus squarely on the mission-driven business at hand: deepening practice, nurturing students, and building community.

Getting to know a school through observation, conversation, and close study, KSC identifies the tensions, capacities, and opportunities that inhibit, promote, and define growth. 

Positioning itself at the hub of the project wheel, KSC coordinates the entire facilities or master planned development process, from feasibility studies to ribbon cutting.

Advancing a school’s fundraising capacities, KSC stewards the study, formation, and execution of a campaign of giving toward its goals and nurturing a culture of philanthropy.

Working directly with school leadership to develop an institutional vision, KSC builds a structural and strategic action plan that leads to a desired and attainable reality.

Guiding leadership searches, mentoring new and maturing heads of school, and promoting active and effective boards, KSC champions the development of dynamic partnerships and leadership teams.

Cultivating deep and trusting relationships within a school community, KSC works intensely with leaders and administrative teams to chart, activate, and monitor a course to growth.

 

What We Have Accomplished

$17.5
million

Capital Campaigns in progress and completed

$25
million

Construction and
permanent financing secured

$42
million

Construction costs of Capital Projects completed

80
Acres

Master Planned campus area

60
Acres

Developable land
acquired and permitted

117,000
Sq Ft

Campus improvements
in progress or completed

KSC has the ability to look in and see the issues, identify where growth and strength are needed, and offer the tools to help schools, large and small, to reach and sustain their full potential.

— Tamara Sheesley-Balis, Head of School, Greenspring Montessori School, Lutherville, MD

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Growth can be
simple and lasting

Growth, in its many forms, is an intrinsic part of a school’s nature. Properly facilitated, it's a timely, dynamic, and welcome endeavor. Let us guide your school towards stability, sustainability, and maturity.