zepedawingchun
Black Belt
I run a small martial arts school out of my garage and thinking of expanding into a full time martial arts studio, in a public building, teaching both adults and kids. I'm looking into offering a full time Kids After School program during the week. So, in trying to determine how successful it may be and what to expect as far as initiating, running, and maintaining such a program, I have a few questions to those schools on the forum who actually run such programs. I know there is a lot of work in running such a program, do's, don't, and pitfalls, but would like to know how successful/unsuccessful other schools are with such an endeaver. You can PM me with your responses if in case you don't want to make the information public. All responses will be kept confidential, so any insight would be greatly appreciated. So here goes:
1) how old is your after school program and how many students do you have?
what month did you start? what was your initial response?
2) how did you select your location? (note: we will have the address of the
school on the website, so it will be a relatively easy job to identify
surrounding schools, distances, and populations) one thing that i didn't
think of b4 is what about the parents' community? how far do the typical
parents have to drive to pick the kids up? do they come from work? etc.
3) what educational grades/ages do you serve? how do you split the class?
what does a typical day look like? (i.e. play time, training time, study time, snacks,
etc.)
4) how many square feet do you have? how much is rent? have you made any
significant leasehold improvements?
5) how do you advertise? what is your budget?
6) how do you use the internet to contribute to your success?
7) do you have a relationship with local school officials? if so, how did
you get it? how does it work for you?
8) what have been your biggest problems? can you share your future plans?
how does the after school program feed into other programs (adult, womens'
self defense, competition, etc.)
9) what would you do differently if you could? is there any specific advise
you can give us?
Any advice or information would truely be appreciated.
1) how old is your after school program and how many students do you have?
what month did you start? what was your initial response?
2) how did you select your location? (note: we will have the address of the
school on the website, so it will be a relatively easy job to identify
surrounding schools, distances, and populations) one thing that i didn't
think of b4 is what about the parents' community? how far do the typical
parents have to drive to pick the kids up? do they come from work? etc.
3) what educational grades/ages do you serve? how do you split the class?
what does a typical day look like? (i.e. play time, training time, study time, snacks,
etc.)
4) how many square feet do you have? how much is rent? have you made any
significant leasehold improvements?
5) how do you advertise? what is your budget?
6) how do you use the internet to contribute to your success?
7) do you have a relationship with local school officials? if so, how did
you get it? how does it work for you?
8) what have been your biggest problems? can you share your future plans?
how does the after school program feed into other programs (adult, womens'
self defense, competition, etc.)
9) what would you do differently if you could? is there any specific advise
you can give us?
Any advice or information would truely be appreciated.