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Featuring Tameenah Adams, SHRM-CP, Founder and CHRO of ChildcareHR Watch the full webinar replay here. AI is changing the way childcare businesses operate, helping leaders move faster on hiring, communication, and daily decision-making. But as Tameenah Adams, SHRM-CP, showed us in this session, that same speed can introduce serious risk without the right HR practices in place: privacy exposures, inconsistent hiring decisions, poor documentation, and choices that leave a cente

Nowadays, parents touring your center have likely done their homework, arriving with a mental checklist of red flags pulled not just from instinct or word of mouth, but from the countless online articles telling them exactly what to avoid. That means more formulated, direct questions, and an expectation of concrete answers in return. As a parent who's recently had the experience of touring childcare centers and summer camps myself, I've found that all of those concerns tend t

For childcare centers, August brings the most inquiries of any month. September converts more of them than any other month. Most of what separates a strong fall from a slow one happens between those two facts. IntelliKid Systems analyzed 51,825 childcare inquiries received in a single month, February 2026, and tracked them over the following five months, alongside 355,000 recorded family calls from January through June 2026. The goal was to find which parts of the enrollment

Featuring Kate Woodward Young, M.Ed, Co-Founder and Co-Host of Childcare Conversations Watch the full webinar replay here. Most childcare leaders treat break-even as a number that lives in a spreadsheet, something the bookkeeper tracks and everyone else checks in on once a year. But as Kate Woodward Young, M. Ed, showed us in this session, that number is really shaped by decisions made every single day: how classrooms are enrolled, how staff are scheduled, what tuition is set

Watch the full webinar replay here. Every childcare director knows the feeling: summer is winding down, and suddenly the phone won't stop ringing with new family inquiries, classrooms are shifting around room transitions, and paperwork starts piling up faster than anyone can file it. Back-to-school isn't just busy, it's the single window where a center's enrollment for the entire year can be won or lost. We built this session for exactly that moment, bringing in our own IKS P

Featuring Jennifer Conner, CEO of The Child Care Success Company Watch the full webinar replay here. As families face increasing financial pressures, conversations about tuition have become more sensitive than ever, and many childcare leaders struggle with how to communicate pricing in a way that's both empathetic and confident. We were honored to sit down with Jennifer Conner, CEO of The Child Care Success Company, for this practical, real-world session built for owners, dir

The destination the whole S.P.A.C.E. journey has been building toward. Welcome back, astronaut. We have traveled through Staff Management, Physical Environment, Administration, and Curriculum, and now we have reached our final destination on the S.P.A.C.E. journey: the Planet of Enrollment. This is the planet that started the conversation, and fittingly, it is the one we land on last. Because here is the truth: enrollment is not one planet among five. It is the destination th

When's the last time you sat down and actually read through the emails and texts going out to your prospective families? Not to check that they sent, but to really read them the way a parent would for the first time? Do they sound like your center? Or do they sound like they could have come from anyone? As Tiffany Torres pointed out in her recent IKS Academy webinar, The Psychology of Parent Decision-Making: "Every family who finds your center is moving through a series of de

Featuring Tiffany Torres, Co-founder of Preschool Marketing Group Watch the full webinar replay here. Most child care centers are marketing to one moment in a family's journey. But parents don't simply stumble into enrollment. They research, compare, hesitate, and decide based on far more than a tour or a flyer, and the leaders who understand that psychology are the ones consistently winning families. We were thrilled to welcome Tiffany Torres, co-founder of Preschool Marketi