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Accounting
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Cash Management
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Research
Fewer schools meet the 90-day benchmark as expenses rise and cash shrinks.
5 min read
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Employee Benefits
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Human Resources
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
As the school year comes to a close, it’s good to know that laughter can be great medicine for leaders.
4 min read
Leaders from ATLIS share how schools are beginning to explore agentic AI — and why it’s okay to still be at square one.
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Communication
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Culture
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Leadership
Sudden leadership changes, faculty departures, and a unionization effort left one school community unsettled. This is how they recovered their equilibrium.
8 min read
The NBOA Leadership Academy conducted research and developed practical tools to support stronger decision-making in school business
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Projections
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Your school may be doing everything right to ensure campus is safe, but feeling safe on campus is another matter.
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CEO Notebook
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Culture
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Leadership
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Planning
Longtime independent school leader Frank Aloise reflects on the pressures, decisions and outcomes that defined a landmark school merger.
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Feature
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Communication
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Endowment
Four schools share how they launched and stewarded their endowment to bolster financial sustainability.
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Risk & Compliance
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Legal
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Risk Management
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Technology
Be aware of the risks when school employees use AI in the academic program, admissions, enrollment, finance, operations, HR and governance.
8 min read
Four schools share how they launched and stewarded their endowment to bolster financial sustainability.
7 min read
The answer depends on an endowment’s goals, which may be based on tuitions covered, coverage of financial aid or the gap, emergency funding or other goals.
4 min read
CEO Notebook
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Planning
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Research
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Tuition
Key financial indicators analyzed in the latest “Financial State of the Industry” report show some gains for the sector and also areas to train our attention.
4 min read
An AI job opportunity heatmap compares job descriptions and AI and human capabilities to offer independent school leaders a practical framework for workforce planning.
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A structured inventory and heat map can help school leaders see where AI is creating value, raising risks and needs clearer guidance.
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Budget
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Professional Development
A systems-level approach and practical rubric will help ensure spending on professional development aligns with institutional priorities and outcomes.
4 min read
This six-pillar framework, developed by a cohort of the NBOA Leadership Academy, helps independent schools shift from reactive decision-making to intentional, long-term sustainability.
3 min read
CEO Notebook
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Change Management
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Technology
Distinguished business officer and long-time innovator Nancy Greene explains how to turn curiosity about AI into real operational gains.
6 min read
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Accounting
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Leadership
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Technology
Studying accounts payable and student attendance tracking revealed opportunities for larger systems integrations and efficiencies, using AI workflows.
4 min read
Which of the three most common methodologies most closely align with your school’s goals?
5 min read
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