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The Right-Fit Family® Workshop | Online Course

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$1,750

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$2,250

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Course Description

The Right-Fit Family® Workshop helps school leaders clarify who their school is for, develop a Right-Fit Family® Rubric, and define a Portrait of a Partnership® that strengthens enrollment health, improves alignment, and creates greater clarity for families and faculty alike.

Participants will learn how to move beyond intuition and assumptions by creating practical tools that help recruit, evaluate, enroll, and retain families who are most likely to thrive within the school’s mission, culture, and educational model.

Course Aims

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Prioritize healthy enrollment on the way to full enrollment.
  2. Clarify who their school is (and is not) for.
  3. Adopt a common language around family fit and partnership.
  4. Develop tools that reinforce clarity internally and externally.

Course Deliverables

By the end of the course, participants will have:

  • A completed Right-Fit Family® Rubric
  • A framework for evaluating prospective families
  • A Portrait of a Partnership®
  • Recommendations for admissions process integration
  • A rollout and communication plan
  • A shared language for discussing family fit and partnership

Module 1

Who Goes There? A Healthy Enrollment® Fable

Discover why healthy enrollment starts with clarity about who your school is—and isn’t—for. Through a fictional case study, you’ll explore the impact right-fit and wrong-fit families can have on school culture, retention, and long-term mission effectiveness.

Module 2

Foundational Thinking

Examine the school search process through the eyes of families. You’ll learn how prospective families navigate the Family Journey™, why healthy enrollment matters more than simply being full, and how assumptions can create friction throughout the admissions process.

Module 3

The Healthy Enrollment® Model

Explore the three pillars of healthy enrollment: Focused School Identity, Empowered Enrollment Teams, and Engaged Right-Fit Families™. You’ll also see how defining your ideal family strengthens your school’s positioning strategy and supports long-term mission fulfillment.

Module 4

Developing Your Right-Fit Family® Rubric

Learn a practical, team-based process for creating a Right-Fit Family® Rubric. This module covers attributes, definitions, markers, questions, inputs, scoring systems, team collaboration, and AI-assisted workflows to help your school evaluate family alignment with greater consistency and confidence.

Module 5

Developing Your Portrait of a Partnership®

Transform your internal rubric into a public-facing statement of expectations and commitments. You’ll learn how to define partnership, communicate mutual responsibilities, and create a Portrait of a Partnership® that attracts aligned families while setting clear expectations from the start.

Module 6

Communication & Closing Thoughts

Develop a rollout plan for implementing your Right-Fit Family® Rubric and Portrait of a Partnership®. This module covers communication strategies, staff training, reinforcement practices, and key principles for sustaining a long-term commitment to healthy enrollment.