Evaluate each program according to impact on mission and finances
- Evaluate SEO programs & grow SEO scholars
- Evaluate each program according to impact on mission and finances
- Grow SEO scholars based on board, funding, and success rates
*Risks and trade-off w/ growth-as you grow in scale, you’re not able to maintain the ratio between teacher and student
-lower SAT/ACT scores
-less competitive with college acceptance
-may not be able to find enough teachers and mentors
-What would we do to mitigate the risks?
-Risk with maintaining capacity by increasing students, could increase costs and hinder desired program outcomes
Other recommendations:
-Outsourcing for mentoring help regarding college prep…
-Scale-up by reducing the number of years
-Changing the 8-year model to reduce the number of years (and cost of the program)
-building partnerships with other schools to build a pipeline that doubles the number of students served
-Assess the current pipeline of SEO scholars
- Governance & transparency
- Increase transparency of strategic plans related to growing revenue (Consider producing annual report)
- Reveal what the cost of each program is and how it affects their bottom line if the desire is to grow at scale, SEO should consider sharing more in-depth information to achieve growth
- Undergo compensation review to ensure equity across the organization (Assess staffing and compensation)
- Better promotion-Social media marketing, acceptance to top colleges (what colleges are students being accepted to?),