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  • Risk Management
  • | Technology

Greetings from Kazakhstan: Hackers Target Independent Schools This item is protected.

From the archives: A sinister email, a twisted digital trail and an eye-opening journey into the realm of cybersecurity. One school's story. 
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership
  • | Technology

Heads of School, Financial Chops and Summer Learning

As business officers know too well, there really is no such thing as downtime anymore in independent schools. The summer is busy with wrapping up the prior school year and preparing for the one ahead. NBOA is no differen
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  • Facilities
  • | Technology

The AltSchool Promise of Every Independent School

It's been a spring of heavy travel, and at each independent school I visit the topic of technology invariably arises. The questions go something like this: What role should technology play in our delivery of preK–1
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  • Athletics
  • | Facilities

Exercising Their Options

With students getting less unstructured playtime at home, independent schools are making high-tech and low-tech investments alike in exercise facilities, equipment and philosophies.
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  • Leadership
  • | Technology

A Call for Digital Leadership

Here's a litmus test on online and blended learning in independent schools: Do you consider technology a tool that brings individuals together or keeps them apart?
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  • Communication
  • | Technology

Have You Disrupted Your Classes?

At the 2011 NBOA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Michael Horn wowed hundreds of business officers with provocative predictions about technology's imminent impact on the delivery of education at independent schools. Y
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  • Technology

There's No Escaping This New Reality

I admit it. I've become a "tweeter." In fact, the other day an NBOA member commented, "You tweet A LOT." I took it as a compliment. Here's why.
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  • Technology

NBOA.org: Actually, It Is Different

NBOA recently launched a brand new website to better serve members and the independent school business officer community. Since NBOA’s inception in 1998, our website has been the most highly valued resource among o
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