Running a chess academy

Running a chess academy is a weekly cycle of small, repeatable jobs: forming batches, marking attendance, collecting fees, covering missed classes and keeping students past their first term. Each one is simple on its own. The trouble starts when they live in different places, so a missed class never becomes a make-up credit, or a fee change never reaches the families it affects.

These guides take the jobs one at a time. Start with the operating calendar, which sets out what happens each week, month and term. Then read the guides for the area that hurts most right now: fee structures and policy, batch scheduling around coach load, attendance as an early warning for drop-outs, make-up classes, or the retention fixes for students who quit. Owners who are still planning can begin with the business plan worksheet and the first 90 days, and those teaching remotely have a separate guide to online classes.