Leaders today struggle to strike the right balance between using data, intuition and judgment when making decisions.
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Multi-use learning spaces pay off for schools that think flexibly about their programs and resources. “A building doesn’t necessarily have to be cutting-edge architecturally to be cutting-edge pedagogically.”
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Technical staff at many independent schools are working hard to meet the May 26 deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European Union law that regulates the way organizations handle
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Human Resources
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Performance Management
Staff quality “goes up in years and down in minutes.” Don’t risk even one poor hiring decision.
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Gift
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Investments
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Planning
From the archives: Unexpected donations present schools with wonderful opportunities, and sometimes challenges. “It’s really hard to turn down big money.”
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After School
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Culture
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Human Resources
This business officer provides financial literacy training to students after school hours. Parents want even more.
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Counterproductive leadership behaviors include distancing, overpowering, conforming — and failing to engage.
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By aligning around a compelling vision of its “mission-appropriate customer,” this small school clarified its message, focused its outreach and grew enrollment by 82 percent.
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Little-known rule lets qualifying schools limit donor reporting to contributions larger than the standard $5,000 threshold.
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Why should business officers take the time to enter data into BIIS (Business Intelligence for Independent Schools), NBOA’s new data collection and reporting platform? Besides the fact that it was built for business offic
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Healthy organizations are designed to sustain a variety of changes. Bring them!
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Nonprofit independent schools must address two accounting standard updates, one before the start of the new fiscal year and the other the year after, in most cases.
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Strategies
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
The case for extending education and professional development to our schools’ security officers.
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Schools should closely examine their bank-based tax-exempt financing to determine if tax changes triggered a reissuance.
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Neighbors have the power to make or break schools’ expansion plans. “It’s mission-critical to be active with the town.”
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Leadership
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Safety and Security
Growing list of independent school associations urge officials to take action against guns.
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This outspoken change agent says independent schools can do better for their students, themselves and the industry collectively. That means ditching traditional transcripts, merging in oversaturated markets and “pooling
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