Risk Management

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  • Risk Management
  • | Safety and Security

Big Game. Big Challenges.

How much time, energy and focus do independent schools place on the titanic risks that accompany athletic events?
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  • Risk Management
  • | Termination

Messy Separations and the Role of Performance Management in Avoiding Them

Excerpted and adapted from NBOA’s new book, Culture Meets Compliance: the NBOA Guide to Assessing Human Resources at Independent Schools.
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  • Employee Handbook
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Employee and Student/Family Handbooks

Employees and families increasingly use school handbook language to pursue legal claims against schools.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Reference Checks

States are enacting employee background check laws that apply as equally to independent schools as they do to public schools.
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  • International
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Exchange Programs & Host Families

Exchange programs and stays with host families are increasingly the norm. What risks do they bring?
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  • Food Service
  • | Risk Management

Creating a Healthy Environment to Reduce the Risk of Eating Disorders

Students at private schools are particularly high-risk for these serious but treatable illnesses.
4 min read

Projections  

  • Risk Management
  • | Safety and Security

Holding Vigil

Many of the costliest risks to independent schools involve people. By avoiding distractions and complacency, business officers can lead their communities to safety.
4 min read
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  • Leadership
  • | Risk Management

No Strangers to Danger: ERM for Every School This item is protected.

Launching a campus-wide risk management program may seem daunting, but with attention to leadership, resources and communication, any school can get started.
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  • Crisis Management
  • | Risk Management

Quantifying Risk: Conducting a Risk Audit This item is protected.

Why conduct a comprehensive risk audit? Because a school can never be too prepared. “I would rather do 10 false-alarm lockdowns than have somebody be afraid to call a lockdown.”
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Policy
  • | Risk Management

Risk & Compliance: Risk and Liability in the Era of Ride Sharing

With more parents sending their kids to and from school in ride-share vehicles, schools wonder what their liability might be if a child is harmed using such services.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Vaping

Vaping and drug use are increasing nationwide. Update your student handbook and develop an appropriate policy.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Service Animals

A visually impaired student requests to bring a service dog to school. Her teacher is severely allergic to animal hair. What do you do?
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  • Policy
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Anxious Parents

Managing relationships between schools and parents is becoming more, not less, difficult. 
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  • Crisis Management
  • | Governance

A Crisis Is Coming. Is Your Board on Board?

Don’t let powerful board dissenters, loose-lipped gossips or simply poor preparation hijack your school’s principles or plans when so much is on the line.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Transgender Students and Staff

Craft a policy that can be explained alongside your mission, and you’ll find it easier to convey that it will strengthen your school’s core values.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Pay Equity

Aggressive pay-equity laws are on the rise.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Criminal Background Checks and Sex Offender Registries

States are enacting employee background check laws that apply as equally to independent schools as they do to public schools.
2 min read
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

The More You Know: Medical Marijuana

Independent school attorneys lay out the basics on a growing list of issues that could challenge every school—if they aren’t already.
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5 Minutes with  

  • Accounting
  • | Risk Management

5 Minutes with Sarah Reichling and Jennifer Tingley: Under Control

When it comes to weaknesses in schools’ internal controls, these CPAs have seen it all. Here’s how to protect your school’s finances, reputation and future.
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  • Risk Management

Schools and Earthquake Insurance: Risk Exposure and Need

For independent schools at risk of an earthquake, the uncertainty is unsettling — and the risk potentially disastrous.
3 min read

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