Upcoming Trainings
Plan Ahead to Stay Ahead: Backwards Mapping Your School Operations Year
📅 Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026
⏰ Time: 2:00-4:00pm Pacific Time
📍 Location: Virtual (Zoom Events)
In this session, participants will strengthen their long-term planning systems to better anticipate upcoming work and foster more effective collaboration with teammates. Using a case study and a new resource, the SchoolOps Operations Annual Scope, participants will work through two core elements of long-term planning: the tool and the process. Participants will set up a strong long-term planning tool that captures all major operations work at their school and consider how to integrate that tool into their existing organization systems and implement it with their teams.
*All sessions are open to participants in all roles, but this session will be geared towards operations coordinator-level roles.*
Plan Ahead to Stay Ahead: Backwards Mapping Your School Operations Year
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026
Time: 1:00-3:00pm Pacific Time
Location: Virtual (Zoom Events)
In this session, participants will strengthen their long-term planning systems to better anticipate upcoming work and foster more effective collaboration with teammates. Using a case study and a new resource, the SchoolOps Operations Annual Scope, participants will work through two core elements of long-term planning: the tool and the process. Participants will set up a strong long-term planning tool that captures all major operations work at their school and consider how to integrate that tool into their existing organization systems and implement it with their teams.
*All sessions are open to participants in all roles, but this session will be geared towards director of operations-level roles.*
People Leadership: Tools to Manage Direct Reports, Peers, & Vendors
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026 Time: 1:00-3:00pm Pacific Time Location: Virtual (Zoom Events)
In this session, participants explore practical management tools such as MOCHA charts, communication matrices, and stoplight meetings to help them manage direct reports, peers, and vendors in completing work effectively and reliably. Using a case study, participants analyze common management challenges and practice applying tools that clarify roles, strengthen accountability, and improve follow-through. This session is designed for anyone responsible for managing work through others-whether that’s leading a team, delegating tasks to colleagues, or overseeing external vendors such as food service or custodial staff.
Hiring for Operational Excellence
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2026 Time: 9:00-12:00pm Pacific Time Location: Virtual (Zoom Events)
Participants will examine what makes an operations hiring process both effective for hiring managers and fair, transparent, and equitable for candidates. Using the SchoolOps Operations Hiring Toolkit, participants will work through the core components of a strong operations hiring process: clearly scoping the role, identifying a small set of top-priority competencies, choosing strong interview questions and tasks, and evaluating candidate work products to surface objective evidence of candidates’ strengths and growth areas. Participants also get access to SchoolOps’ Operations Hiring Toolkit to use in building their own interview processes.