This year’s awards recognize selfless and transformative leadership, and innovation in financial and facilities management.
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Boards and Trustees
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Budget
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Leadership
The financial sustainability heat map has helped schools in areas from board communication to strategic planning. Here are four school’s stories.
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When this South Florida school needed to replace an aging sea wall, it became an opportunity for enhanced student learning and community impact.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Human Resources
Reviewing practices in four key areas of operations can help staff and students with disabilities feel more at home in your school and increase the richness of the school community.
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It’s been an incredible journey — with exciting collective work for the community to come.
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Projections
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Compensation Strategies
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Research
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Salary
When it’s challenging for independent schools to raise salaries in line with inflation, leaders must find other ways to incentivize faculty and staff to stay.
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Budget
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Leadership
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Planning
A balanced budget is nice, but it is not enough.
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Employee Benefits
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Human Resources
PEOs can offer more options for employees and reduced workload for the business office, but schools must know what they need to make the structure work.
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NBOA Breakfast speaker Erin Gruwell shares what she sees changing in classrooms today and how school operations are vital to programmatic goals.
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We accomplished much this past year that we can be proud of, from signature programs to robust data collection to timely guidance.
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You can sharpen finance committee discussion using sensitivity analysis and improve your presentation to the board of trustees with a waterfall chart.
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To address the challenges of 2022 and beyond, independent school leaders looked inward to redefine their values and priorities.
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NBOA Luncheon speaker Nyle DiMarco inspires school leaders to strive for their most ambitious goals.
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When the school ski team needed a coach fast, this business officer and former pro skier stepped up.
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As NBOA plans to celebrate its first 25 years, we are asking all members to envision what the next 25 years could hold.
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Crisis Management
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Safety and Security
With school shootings at record high, it’s important to identify common safety and security myths and the truths that make a difference in school decision-making.
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Opening keynote speaker Suneel Gupta shares insights on instilling wellness into organizational culture and winning internal buy-in for new ideas.
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Voices from the Field
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Leadership
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Professional Development
Business officers who are their school’s sole employee in finance share the highlights, challenges and opportunities they see.
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Resist letting fears of escalating inflation hijack your tuition-setting and budget-setting conversations this school year.
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Schools weigh in on the challenges and opportunities of returning to off-campus travel this school year.
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