This document provides guidance on starting and managing an ideal Islamic school. It discusses categorizing schools by quality, determining the vision and objectives, planning effectively, investing in teachers and facilities, implementing curriculum qualitatively, and celebrating successes. Continuous improvement is emphasized through collaboration between schools, professional development, monitoring quality, and controlling expenditures. Working as a team and moving together towards common goals is said to lead to the greatest success.

1. YUSUF ADAM
(MCSE, CISE, CEH, ECSA, LPT, CHFI, PMP,MNIM,MCPN)
Knowledgebased Services Ltd
Abuja

2. INTRODUCTION
 Name
 Brief about your person
 Favourite food and drink
 Expectation
 1 things that put you off
“There is nothing so useless as
doing efficiently that which should
not be done at all.” – Peter F. Drucker

3. BRAIN TEASER
What do you understand by the phrase
“Qualitative Education?”
 Write your opinion in not more than one paragraph
 NO ANSWER IS WRONG!

5. Agenda
• Reason for starting a
school
• Category of schools
• Ideal Islamic School
• How to achieve the
standard
• Working together
• Celebrating Success

6. Reason for starting a school
 Business Opportunities
 Passion for training next generation
 Solve a perceived societal problem
 Just to please your creator
 As a legacy to leave behind
The reason determine your vision & mission

7. SAMPLE SCHOOL OBJECTIVES

8. Category of schools
 High Quality School
 Average Quality School
 Low Quality School
 Quality of Schools are determined by:
 Quality of Teachers
 Quality of Educational Facilities
 Quality educational materials (books, TA, equipment)
 Qualitative Implementation of curriculum
(supervision, monitoring & control)

9. Category of Schools
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2
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10. Ideal Islamic School
 Established as an act of worship & a form of da’awah
 Training Muslim children to compete with their
counterpart
 Preparing children for yet unknown technologies
 Preparing children for leadership
 Nurturing future Muslim Scholars
 Preparing them to fix the world
 Preparing them for Excellence
 Setting the pace for others to emulate

11. GoodManagementSkills

12. Plan, Implement, Evaluate &
Re-plan
 Proper Planning (structural, administrative, staffing,
finance, stakeholders)
 Separate yourself from school, all affairs of the school
should be business & official
 Budgeting & forecasting
 Control your expenditure because you income is
limited
 Use activity Quadrant to prioritize
 The School growth first before owners.
 Read, Learn continuously...
Be a Leader not a Boss

13.  A leader is best when people barely know that
he exists; not so good when people obey and
acclaim him, worst when they despise him.
 Fail to honour people, they fail to honour you.
But of a good leader who talks little, when his
work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say,
'We did this ourselves'.
 (Lao-Tzu 6th Century BC)
Quotes On Leadership

14. Quotes On knowledge
 "The more that you read, the more things you will
know. The more you learn, the more places you'll
go."
------- Dr. Seuss,
 "The man who does not read good books is no
better than the man who can't."
— Mark Twain
 The beautiful thing about learning is that no one
can take it away from you.
-- B.B. King
 Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
 ---Norman Vincent Peale

15. Quality of Teachers
 Selection of new teachers
 Improving the existing teachers
 Investing in capacity building
 Read books and attend workshop on school
management
 Managing poor performing Staff
 Find out his/her challenges
 Help solve the challenges
 Where the staff cannot improve,
 Or replace him/her

16. Qualitative Implementation of
curriculum
 Children were entrusted to you by parent to impact
knowledge on them according to the curriculum
 Provide necessary environment for the student to learn
 Provide competent representative that will help you
fulfil the trust
 Ensure proper supervision, monitoring & control
 Let your pupils attend quiz with other schools to
evaluate
 Counselling the teachers on classroom challenges
 Train teachers on how to improvise Teaching Aids
 Make them share your corporate vision
 Work with your staff as a team

17. Keeping Quality Staff
 Incentives
 Share his/her success and challenges
 Lead them, build them, grow with them
 Collaboration allows teachers to capture
each other's fund of collective
intelligence." –
 -Mike Schmoker
 Charge appropriate school fees
 Pay appropriate salary and timely
 Show them trust and assign responsibilities
If you treat your staff like spanners, they act like spanners.

18. Continuous Improvement
 Continuous improvement of Educational Facilities
 Invest in technology
 Invest in modern educational materials
 (books, Teaching Aids, equipment)
 Extra Curriculum training material
 (skill acquisition, games)
 Innovative ideas.. Making learning interesting to pupils &
parents
 Constantly have a controlled one-on-one relationship with
your pupils’ parents.
 Let them see the efforts your are making to give his/her ward
the best
 Encourage them to assist the school... Functional PTA

20. Working Together as AMIS
 AMIS member school should work as a team
 Do not compete but be partners
 Organised joint workshop for teachers to cut cost
 Share ideas
 Seek government intervention as an organization
 Organize quiz competition to control quality
 Allah instruct us to Stand up for the cause of Allah in
group or singly then ponder..

21. Teamwork
 Teamwork is the ability to direct individual
accomplishments toward organizational objectives or
common vision. It is the fuel that allows common
people to attain uncommon results.
 --Andrew Carnegie
 "If everyone is moving forward together, then success
takes care of itself." --Henry Ford
 “None of us is as smart as all of us."
 --Ken Blanchard

22. “
The best teamwork comes from men
who are working independently
toward one goal in unison.
--James Cash Penney

23. Celebrating Success
 When success is achieved
 Celebrate success together
 Attend each others activities
 Disconnect yourselves and your schools from
cultural backwardness of rivalry and unhealthy
competition
 A member’s growth is a benefit to the Ummah
and a pride for the Team

24. Thank you for listening.

25. Further research
1. School Management
 by M. Dash & Neena Dash
2. Effective School Management 4th Edition
 by K.B. Everard Geoff Morris (Author), Ian Wilson (Author)
3. Management Skills in Schools: A Resource for
School Leaders 1st Edition
 by Jeff Jones
4. http://www.educationalleaders.govt.nz/Managing-
your-school
All online materials used in the presentation are hereby
acknowledged