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  • Debt
  • | Leadership

Unsung Hero: Nancy Greene, The Bolles School/Pine Crest School

Greene's forward-thinking financial leadership boosted reserves and decreased debt, while improving facilities and expanding risk management.
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  • Budget
  • | Leadership

Strategic Budgeting Basics for Best-in-Class Business Officers

How can business officers develop an optimal working relationship with their heads of school in order to better support their schools? Peter Christian, director of finance at Windward School, and Dean Quiambao, partner a
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  • Software
  • | Technology

Stand by Your Plan

A single-platform school information system can make a school operate more effectively. But there’s nothing turnkey about it.
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Projections  

  • Employment
  • | Technology

The Frustration, Fever and Fear of Ed Tech

Let’s take a collective breath and identify technology tools that will work for our schools.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Gift
  • | Tuition

Is Philanthropy-Based Financing Our Future?

Could a mammoth fundraising push enable independent schools to lower tuition?
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  • Employment
  • | Technology

The Right Stuff: Attracting and Retaining Tech Talent This item is protected.

To meet evolving technology needs, independent schools use a variety of staffing options, some outsourcing and others fostering tech talent from within.
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Strategies  

  • Planning
  • | Technology

Strategies: Time for an IT Revamp?

A management framework can help schools prioritize which parts of your technology program need a revamp and where to deploy resources.
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  • Facilities
  • | Leadership

Unsung Hero: Mike Goto, Island School

A master manager and strategic thinker, Goto also makes time to mentor his colleagues and other business officers.
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  • Key Technology
  • | Professional Development
  • | Technology

Ed Tech’s Classroom Payoff This item is protected.

How can your school encourage even reluctant teachers to engage in classroom technologies? Tech directors are showing the way.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Policy
  • | Technology

Risk & Compliance: Responsible Student Data Collection

A privacy policy can help ensure students’ data is safe with your school — and build trust with parents.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Enrollment
  • | Financial Aid

NBOA Partners with EMA toward Financial Aid’s Future

Two national associations embark on a year-long effort to help schools maintain and grow enrollment of mission-aligned students and thrive in perpetuity.
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  • Risk Management
  • | Technology

The General and the Diplomat: Protecting Data at Independent Schools This item is protected.

Data stored at independent schools is at greater risk than ever, but rigorous training, relationship building and hard bargaining for better contracts help keep it safe. 
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  • Budget
  • | Leadership

Unsung Hero: Sean Furlong, Gilman School

Furlong's negotiating skills have helped Gilman remain affordable for local families.
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  • Risk Management
  • | Safety and Security

Big Game. Big Challenges.

How much time, energy and focus do independent schools place on the titanic risks that accompany athletic events?
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  • Risk Management
  • | Termination

Messy Separations and the Role of Performance Management in Avoiding Them

Excerpted and adapted from NBOA’s new book, Culture Meets Compliance: the NBOA Guide to Assessing Human Resources at Independent Schools.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Legal

Will This Be the Year for Internal Investigations?

Growing numbers of independent schools are finding themselves conducting or considering internal investigations, whether for alleged staff or faculty misconduct, noncompliance with school policies, or some other reason.
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  • Employee Handbook
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Employee and Student/Family Handbooks

Employees and families increasingly use school handbook language to pursue legal claims against schools.
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  • Labor Law
  • | Salary

The More You Know: Wage/Hour Misclassification

Wage-and-hour claims are booming.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Reference Checks

States are enacting employee background check laws that apply as equally to independent schools as they do to public schools.
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  • International
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Exchange Programs & Host Families

Exchange programs and stays with host families are increasingly the norm. What risks do they bring?
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