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Other Duties As Assigned  

  • Leadership

Unreasonable Hospitality in Coaching and Community

A series of unexpected opportunities — each building on the last — has helped this assistant head connect with community.
4 min read
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Projections  

  • Enrollment
  • | Governance
  • | Planning

To Close or Not to Close: Is That the Question?

It need not be if leaders face their school’s financial reality with open eyes and engage in frank conversation.
7 min read
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  • Governance
  • | Leadership

The Key Ingredient to the Head-CFOO Relationship Is Trust This item is protected.

A survey and interviews revealed how heads and business leaders most effectively align and where perspectives diverge.
7 min read
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Feature  

  • Budget
  • | Change Management
  • | Planning

Mergers and Acquisitions: For Schools Considering Expansion This item is protected.

Combining with another school can strengthen finances and sustain mission. But where do school leaders even start their considerations?
7 min read
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  • Boards and Trustees
  • | Leadership
  • | Planning

Mergers and Acquisitions: For Schools Facing Closure This item is protected.

Combining with another school can strengthen finances and sustain mission. But where do school leaders even start their considerations?
7 min read
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Strategies  

  • Enrollment
  • | Technology

How Tapping a Mobile App Reinvented Reenrollment This item is protected.

By meeting their families where they are — on WhatsApp — one school has dramatically improved operational processes.
6 min read
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Feature  

  • Cybersecurity
  • | Risk Management

The New Rules of Cyber Risk: A Case Study and Checklist This item is protected.

Lessons from a recent attack and recovery, and 10 things your school needs to be doing to be equally prepared.
3 min read
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Feature  

  • Cybersecurity
  • | Risk Management

The New Rules of Cyber Risk: Prevention and Resilience This item is protected.

Cybercrime is now highly organized crime, which means school cyber security requires enterprise level attention.
10 min read
slip and fall
  • Facilities
  • | Risk Management

How To Keep Slips and Falls from Becoming Major Disruptions

Among the most common claims on independent school campuses, slips and falls are now becoming more costly as well.
6 min read
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  • Accounting
  • | Cash Management
  • | Research

Declining Days of Cash on Hand This item is protected.

Fewer schools meet the 90-day benchmark as expenses rise and cash shrinks.
5 min read
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  • Employee Benefits
  • | Human Resources

If You Want Employees To Use Their Benefits, Teach Them How This item is protected.

Tips and tricks from NBOA’s Human Resources Council can help your school make the most of its significant investment in benefits.
8 min read
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  • Communication
  • | Culture
  • | Leadership

Practical Steps for Rebuilding School Trust This item is protected.

Sudden leadership changes, faculty departures, and a unionization effort left one school community unsettled. This is how they recovered their equilibrium.
8 min read

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