Feature
-
Diversity and Inclusion
-
|
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.
8 min read
Projections
-
Compensation Strategies
-
|
Research
-
|
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.
6 min read
Feature
-
Employee Benefits
-
|
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.
9 min read
Voices from the Field
-
Leadership
-
|
Professional Development
Business officers who are their school’s sole employee in finance share the highlights, challenges and opportunities they see.
7 min read
CEO Notebook
-
Culture
-
|
Human Resources
-
|
Leadership
Four insights can help us meet the calls for leadership that have only been growing louder in recent years.
5 min read
Strategies
-
Athletics
-
|
Hiring
-
|
Salary
Coaching stipends are notoriously difficult to standardize. This points-based system can help assure fair and well-reasoned compensation.
6 min read
Increasing compensation is only one factor in teacher and staff retention. Consider how your school articulates value proposition to faculty members and listens to their concerns.
7 min read
Feature
-
Employment
-
|
Risk Management
The risks and rewards of putting parents and pupils on the payroll.
7 min read
Feature
-
Employment
-
|
Risk Management
The risks and rewards of putting parents and pupils on the payroll.
13 min read
Lakeside School opened a no-frills micro-school that offers competitive teacher salaries and a tuition that is about half of neighboring independent schools. Lakeside School is one of three schools to receive this year's Innovation Excellence Award.
4 min read
A grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation will enable data collection and resource development to help independent schools reshape their compensation structures.
3 min read
-
Compensation Strategies
-
|
Employee Benefits
-
|
Tax
Fringe benefits included in head-of-school packages may help attract strong candidates, but be aware of compliance issues.
6 min read
-
Compliance
-
|
Hiring
-
|
Labor Law
How Do Antitrust Laws Affect Independent Schools?
3 min read
CEO Notebook
-
Human Resources
-
|
Leadership
A deep understanding of your school’s talent pool is a competitive advantage.
5 min read
-
Change Management
-
|
Human Resources
-
|
Leadership
When polarizing issues come to campus, the business office can be a strong force in connecting the community.
18 min read
-
Human Resources
-
|
Leadership
Following the stress of the 2020–21 school year, one school experimented with a coordinated, school–wide break.
4 min read
Business Intelligence
-
Enrollment
-
|
Financing
-
|
Salary
While enrollment has declined slightly over the past few years, staffing has increased. How can schools offset increased costs?
4 min read
-
Diversity and Inclusion
-
|
Hiring
-
|
Human Resources
Despite significant changes in hiring processes over the past year, implicit bias remains. It can be mitigated.
14 min read
Risk & Compliance
-
Diversity and Inclusion
-
|
Hiring
-
|
Human Resources
Make sure your school’s best efforts don’t run afoul of anti-discrimination laws.
6 min read
-
Human Resources
-
|
Pandemic
Schools are rethinking wellness programs to drive tangible improvements in staff and faculty wellbeing.
13 min read
