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  • Compensation Strategies
  • | Employment
  • | Salary

Independent Schools’ Next Top Model: Changing Perspectives on Faculty Compensation

From the archives: Administrators are working with faculty to develop new compensation structures that clarify where teachers stand and what benchmarks they need to achieve to move up.
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It was a Great Day (and Year) for NBOA

NBOA has achieved a number of milestones over the past year--and we're starting off 2017 with a bang. 
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  • Enrollment
  • | Trips

Save Me a Seat: Tuition Remission Policies for Student Leave

How to balance requests for temporary leave with your school’s financial needs.
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  • Culture
  • | Leadership

The New Guard: Profiles of 12 New Independent School Leaders

Who will suit up for the next generation of leadership? What challenges will they inherit? What skills and attributes will they need to ride the wave successfully?
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  • Job Description
  • | Leadership

The Next Generation of Leadership: Masters of Reinvention This item is protected.

As longtime independent school leaders retire, their successors will step into dramatically different circumstances. What will they (or you) need to be successful?
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  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Filling the Leadership Pipeline

What if there are no obvious candidates on tap to take over the senior finance/operational reins? How to identify and attract your next generation leaders? Cast your net wide, and prepare for competition. 
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  • Leadership
  • | Salary

Money Matters for Next-Generation Leaders This item is protected.

Money Matters. But so do mission and quality of life. “Feeling good about your work is a driving force.”
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CEO Notebook  

  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Your Strengths Are Your Best Investment

Consider making your New Year's resolution to develop more of who you already are — in other words, to play to your strengths.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Compliance
  • | Enrollment

President Trump’s Potential Impact on the Business of Independent Schools

Whatever our personal feelings about the presidential election, we in the independent school community can unite in a shared understanding of the potential impact on independent schools.
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After School  

  • Culture
  • | Leadership

After School: Along for the Ride

Riding motorcycles and collecting them has been a way of life for this business officer.
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  • Key Technology
  • | Risk Management
  • | Technology

To Text or Not to Text? Recommended Practices for Staff-Student Communications

Texting is where students live. For staff-student communications, schools must develop policies that balance safety with reality.
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  • Admission
  • | Enrollment

Q&A with Heather Hoerle

Independent schools must innovate, organize and embrace a more holistic — and rigorous — approach to enrollment management, says this leader in the profession.
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Projections  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Enrollment
  • | Financial Aid

The Grinnell Effect

A small college’s strategic pivot illuminates a brighter path forward for struggling K-12 schools.
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  • Communication
  • | Enrollment

Getting in on the Act

Engaging the broader school community — notably faculty and parents — to strengthen enrollment.
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  • Communication
  • | Contract

Let’s Not Make a Deal This item is protected.

How to remain firm when (some) parents think they get to call the shots.
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  • Admission
  • | Communication

Getting Personal with Prospects This item is protected.

How to ensure the best-fitting students make it through your admissions funnel.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Admission
  • | Financial Aid

Four New Rules for Access and Affordability

Where are independent schools with regard to access and affordability? At the SSS Financial Aid Conference in Philadelphia last week, a panel of four other independent school leaders joined me in discussing this dif
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  • Admission
  • | Financial Aid

The Art and Science of Assessing Financial Need This item is protected.

Financial aid season is around the corner. The case for providing more transparency, requiring more documentation and finding the backbone to just say no as appropriate.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Admission
  • | Facilities

Five Critical Factors for Your School's Future

Independent school leaders often ask me for advice regarding what they should be thinking about to help ensure a financially healthy future. It's a tough and important question, with an answer that's difficult to distill
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CEO Notebook  

  • Communication
  • | Financial Aid

Who's Not Open to Your Open House?

Recently, an NBOA staff member heard about an independent school that noted many visitors to its website, particularly the tuition page, clicked away and never returned. The school took steps to raise the profile of its
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