Back-to-School Without Burning Your Team Out
Back-to-school season is when teams get burned out before October even starts. Here’s how to pace it.
Back-to-school season is when teams get burned out before October even starts. Here’s how to pace it.
Hard parent conversations are part of the job. Done right, they make the relationship stronger, not weaker.
Tuition conversations in California are different than in other states. The cost of living is in every conversation.
The open house that converts isn’t the polished one. It’s the real one. Here’s how to run one.
Tracking subsidy payments doesn’t need software. It needs one consistent place, one consistent time, and a refusal to do it in panic.
Hiring bilingual childcare staff in California is hard. Hiring well is harder. Both are possible without lowering the bar.
Behavior conversations with parents go badly when they sound clinical. Here’s how to talk like a human.
Provider burnout is most often a staffing issue at heart. Treat the staffing and the burnout improves.
CCRC conversations are shifting in 2025. Here’s a provider’s honest read on what’s moving.
Most centers don’t know where their best leads come from. Here’s how to audit and invest accordingly.
Transitions are where parent trust is either built or broken. Here’s how to do them well.
Most childcare owners can’t quickly tell you if their center is actually profitable. Here’s a diagnostic.
After-school programs are absorbing the working-family schedule problem. Here’s what providers are seeing.
Mixed-age programs are powerful when they work. Here’s where they shine, and where they quietly don’t.
What I learned scaling from one childcare center to two — written for the owner thinking about it.
A 2025 read on California childcare licensing. What’s shifted, what’s the same, and what to verify with your analyst.