While I had a fair bit of small business experience when my wife retired and “dumped” the family business in my lap, I had very little idea of how to run a preschool. It really is its own little animal. Finding and joining the Child Care Success Academy was my salvation.
Not only did the academy teach me what I needed to know, it also knocked my Director of 15 years out of her comfort zone by exposing her to what hundreds of other preschools are doing, and this has allowed her to see other viewpoints and grow. It allowed a successful working partnership to blossom between us. It also gave me a tribe: mentors, mentees and friends. That has done the most to pull me out of my comfort zone. I’m an engineer by trade, most at home in a small room in front of a computer screen. Now this group of owners is my family, and I love talking with everyone at the many in-person events...