A flexible approach to school space enables students to grow within and outside the classroom.
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Facilities
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Human Resources
From the archives: Trade shortages and cost concerns prompt more schools to evaluate pros and cons of outsourcing facilities and operations maintenance.
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Tech to get organized and fit in the business office.
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Facilities
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Human Resources
When key financial officers and facilities personnel retire at the same time, how do you prepare the school for the transition?
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Our schools’ physical plants must support our value propositions in demonstrable ways that align with the investments we ask families to make.
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A construction-management app captures key details.
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Too many emails. Too much time checking them. One school's app-based method for stemming the tide.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Facilities
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Policy
Independent schools have always had students and staff whose gender identities do not correspond to their genders at birth, but only recently — spurred partly by national debates over “bathroom bills” defining access to
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Going where few independent schools have gone (so far), Milton Academy brings on a full-time data analyst to ensure the consistent application of data — trends, assumptions, outcomes — in financial decision-making.
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Risk & Compliance
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
They're a part of every school's culture and legacy. They're also fraught with risk.
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Endowment
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Enrollment
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Facilities
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Financial Aid
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Leadership
More than 1,300 attendees made the Washington gathering the biggest-ever of independent school financial and operational leaders. A recap in tweets.
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Human Resources
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Key Technology
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Technology
From the archives: Education technology is on a fast-moving trajectory. Here’s how schools’ technology department staffing structures can keep pace.
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From the archives: Economic recovery drives "a perfect storm" of financing for major construction at independent schools. But there’s a new sense of caution this time.
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Is your school making the most of its technology budget? How do you know if faculty, students and staff are fully utilizing new resources?
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From the archives: NBOA’s 2015–2016 Facilities Budgeting and Staffing Survey Report illustrates independent schools’ struggles to maintain their biggest assets.
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
A four-step strategy for preventing sexual abuse in independent schools.
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Key Technology
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Risk Management
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Technology
Texting is where students live. For staff-student communications, schools must develop policies that balance safety with reality.
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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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Risk Management
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Technology
Ransomware is one of the next big threats to school data. “The bad guys are smart but lazy. If I had a choice to go after a school or a bank, I’d go after schools that are woefully unprepared for the skills I bring.”
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The chair of NBOA’s Board of Directors reflects on the not-for-profit difference, the CFO-head of school partnership and the omnipresent topic of financial sustainability.
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