If you’ve spent your career working in education, hearing the words “business model” might make you want to pull out a lesson plan and sigh. Phraseology like “business models” and “customer-base” can sound corporate. Educators are used to rubrics, curriculums, pupils and parents – not always talking about "value propositions" or "key resources".
If you are in education, chances are you did not enter this field thinking you would ever need to know how to run a business. After all, a teacher’s primary mission is shaping minds, not increasing income.
But schools do need leadership and they need to adapt. Educational establishments have budgets, stakeholders, and a rapidly changing world to contend with. Moreover, when it comes to “persistent problems” like educational inequality, the challenge extends far beyond what schools can tackle in isolation. Schools are increasingly expected to address issues such as poverty, trauma, and mental health, all while continuing to focus on education in the orthodox definition of the term.
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