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Protecting Data at Independent Schools

(from Venable) Independent schools hold a significant amount of data. Information regularly collected by schools includes Social Security numbers, financial aid information, student medical information, and donor informa

CFO Key To Bolstering Cleveland District Schools

(from EdWeek) In the early days of the pandemic, Derek Richey, the chief financial officer of the Cleveland School District, created a doomsday plan in case a financial levy failed, to cut nearly 12% of the district’s $1

Video Increases Donor Engagement, Studies Show

(from the Chronicle of Philanthropy) Two new studies from the Lilly School at Indiana University make the case for nonprofits to boost investments technology, including video and social media, to attract and retain donor

Administration's Response to Racist Texts Sparks Campus Uproar

(from Inside Higher Ed) Racist text messages from one Occidental College student to another — including one declaring, “all Asian people need to die” — have created a firestorm at the private liberal arts college, with m

FDA Review of COVID Vaccine for Children Under 5 Paused

(from EdWeek) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has canceled a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee, which was scheduled for this week. The panel of independent experts was going to consider whether to recommend

Tips for Responding to Anger, Frustration Among Staff

(From Harvard Business Review) Handling incidences of employee frustration in a team is a normal part of any manager’s job. Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed schools across the country online, leaders are faci

Workers Care More About Flexible Hours Than Remote Work, Study Finds

(From The Wall Street Journal) In a sign of just how popular hybrid arrangements have become in the second year of the pandemic, 95% percent of people surveyed want flexible hours, compared with 78% of workers who want l

Fewer Students Pursuing Careers in Education

(From CNN) As schools scramble to find enough substitute teachers to keep classrooms running through the latest surge of the coronavirus, some experts warn there are longer-term problems with the teacher pipeline. For on

States Loosen Masking, Contact Tracing Requirements

(From Edweek) The wide availability of vaccines and the apparent cresting of a steep wave of new virus cases has led leaders in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon to call for ending universal school mask requir

How are Schools Spending COVID Funds?

(From Chalkbeat) While some districts have laid out detailed plans for how they intend to use federal COVID relief funds, others are much more vague, according to Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab, a school

U.S. Employee Engagement Drops for First Time in a Decade

(From SHRM) For the first year in more than a decade, the percentage of engaged workers in the U.S. declined in 2021. According to Gallup, only 34% of the 57,022 full- and part-time employees surveyed by the analytics an

Tips for Building a Better Communications Strategy

(From Inside Higher Ed) The way schools are managing their organization's social media strategy has changed over the course of the pandemic, opening the door for new approaches to video content that can take prospective

New Podcast: Learning from Pandemic Innovations

(from Teibel Educational Consulting) NBOA President and CEO Jeff Shields spoke with educational consultant Howard Teibel on the "Navigating Change" podcast about what independent schools have learned in the past two year

Pfizer-BioNTech To Seek Emergency Authorization of COVID-19 Vaccine for Children under 5

(from the Washington Post) Coronavirus vaccines for children younger than 5 could be available far sooner than expected — perhaps by the end of February — under a plan that would lead to the potential authorization of a

AICPA Issues New Guidance for Cryptocurrency Accounting

(From Accounting Today) The question of how to account for digital assets has emerged as a challenging one for accountants as use of cryptocurrencies becomes increasingly common. To help accountants and auditors in this

Schools Form Hydroelectric Power Consortium

(from Gravity Renewables) A consortium of seven independent Rhode Island schools and one industrial arts education center has partnered a national owner, operator, and developer of small hydroelectric power plants, Gravi

Alternative Employer Benefits to Attract and Retain Talent

(From PRSA) As employers prepare for another year impacted by the “Great Resignation,” it’s important to prioritize the employee experience as a way to attract and retain workers. Molly Eyerman, founder and CEO of VIVO G

OSHA Vaccine Mandate Withdrawn — What's Next?

(from Society of Human Resources Management) OSHA has withdrawn its emergency temporary standard that would require employees of large employers to either get vaccinated against COVID-19 or regularly test. Because the Su

The SAT Will Go Entirely Digital by 2024

(From NPR) On Tuesday, the College Board announced that the SAT will be taken digitally beginning in 2023 for international students and beginning in 2024 for U.S.-based students. Organizers say this will give test-taker

Ransomware Hackers Call Students Demanding Payment

(from NBC News) Ransomware hackers have taken to threatening not just schools but students enrolled at them if schools do not pay ransoms for school data that they "hold hostage." Ransomware hackers have littered the dar

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