Amidst an ongoing pandemic and constant business pressure, we must still pay attention to wellness for ourselves and our organizations.
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Can airtight debt management and a focus on student retention help us emerge in a better financial position than before the pandemic?
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Independent schools are always looking for — and finding — new innovations in their business operations. For the first time this year, NBOA recognized those schools with a new award, the Jeffrey Shields Award for Innovat
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Congratulations to the inaugural recipients of the NBOA Professional Achievement Award, which recognizes the invaluable contributions made by independent school business, finance and operations staff who are not business
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Misconduct
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Risk Management
Boarding, camp and auxiliary programs are in a unique position to mitigate this danger.
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Research on productivity shows that taking breaks is vital to sustaining your attention for long periods of time.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Leadership
How can school leaders continue creating change within their organizations?
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Our collective, never-ending recognition of the past year as the most challenging, exhausting and memorable of our entire professional careers may soon be in for a reversal of fortune.
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Providing volunteer leadership in sports and other pursuits has taught this business officer diverse lessons.
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Sharing real funds with students and mentoring their business and investment acumen has literally paid dividends, in the $100,000s.
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Successful leadership requires knowing your default style and strengthening other approaches to meet each moment most effectively.
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Business Intelligence
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Cash Management
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Financing
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Research
Initial findings from BIIS 2019-20 data collection reveal that for most schools, both revenue and expenses were up slightly as the school year concluded remotely.
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CEO Notebook
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Communication
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Leadership
When school leaders listen in focused and systematic ways, they can help their teams broaden their contributions and create conditions for creative confidence.
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Strategies
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Through concerted hiring efforts, senior leadership at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences is nearly half people of color.
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Projections
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Change Management
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Leadership
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Pandemic
As light from the tunnel’s end comes into focus, our charge is to maintain the spirit of innovation through the pandemic’s final stages and beyond.
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The trends and events of this past year reminds us that change is a constant in our profession and across the educational, social, economic, and political landscape.
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Enrollment
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Financial Aid
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Tuition
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted almost everything about independent schools this past year. Is tuition setting next?
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CEO Notebook
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Change Management
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Leadership
Opening ourselves to new ideas and creating the conditions for creative confidence among our teams can go a long way in advancing the future of independent schools.
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More than 2400 independent school professionals helped kick off the 2021 NBOA Annual Meeting: An All Virtual Experience.
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Extensive facilities monitoring has helped Friends Seminary not only limit the spread of COVID-19 but inspire new ideas about tracking wellness indicators far beyond the pandemic.
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