Risk & Compliance
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Hiring
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Risk Management
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Summer Camp
What schools need to know as they enter the summer camp hiring season.
6 min read
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Misconduct
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Risk Management
Boarding, camp and auxiliary programs are in a unique position to mitigate this danger.
3 min read
Our collective, never-ending recognition of the past year as the most challenging, exhausting and memorable of our entire professional careers may soon be in for a reversal of fortune.
4 min read
Projections
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Change Management
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Leadership
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Pandemic
As light from the tunnel’s end comes into focus, our charge is to maintain the spirit of innovation through the pandemic’s final stages and beyond.
6 min read
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Change Management
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Pandemic
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Technology
Moving to cloud-based processes — and the holy grail of systems integration — is not a matter of if but when. “We’re no longer moving incrementally.”
17 min read
CEO Notebook
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Change Management
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Pandemic
These schools have capitalized on their strengths to serve essential community needs and build a stronger financial future.
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Financial Aid
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Pandemic
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Planning
Review the criteria that determines if your independent school is eligible for the new round of federal support and how much it may receive, be it your school’s first or second draw.
3 min read
Safety & Security
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Options-based active-shooter response training programs have resulted in more casualties than other methods. So why are many schools still using them?
7 min read
What is still missing from our new modes of program delivery and how can we leverage the changes we’ve made thus far?
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As the COVID-19 pandemic promises to dissipate somewhat but not yet disappear, this summer will be yet another novel experience for independent schools, different from all the summers before. Consider these best practice
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Financial Aid
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Pandemic
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Risk Management
These eight strategies can help you lower what are likely to be larger than usual premium increases in the coming year.
10 min read
Projections
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Human Resources
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Leadership
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Pandemic
While we have reason for optimism in the coming year, we must continue to adapt our human resources strategy to nurture our school communities.
4 min read
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Culture
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Pandemic
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Technology
As Western Academy of Beijing has returned to mostly normal on-campus learning, everyone in the community has a renewed appreciation for both the core mission and special add-ons that make independent education exception
5 min read
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Human Resources
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Labor Law
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Pandemic
On Thursday, December 17, NBOA hosted a webinar to discuss independent schools' potential liabilities as more faculty and staff contract COVID-19 and the probability rises that contract tracing will link those cases to c
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On Tuesday, December 13, NBOA hosted a webinar on “Navigating PPP Complexities for Independent School Loan Recipients.” Leaders from Truist Bank (formerly BB&T and SunTrust banks), the accounting firm blumshapiro, la
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Strategies
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Change Management
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Risk Management
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Technology
An incremental approach to systems upgrades helped this school meet evolving technological needs while maintaining a secure and reliable network.
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Risk & Compliance
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Employment
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Risk Management
ADA and workers’ compensation accommodations apply in remote environments when employees are asked to telework.
6 min read
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Pandemic
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Risk Management
How to physically distance while conducting safety drills today — without creating harmful habits that last beyond the pandemic.
5 min read
Do your school’s governance structures support the kind of strategic work boards of trustees need to undertake now, when independent schools are at a crossroads?
5 min read
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Employment
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Human Resources
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Pandemic
Independent schools have faced an onslaught of new personnel questions since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, and these have grown all the more challenging as schools have reopened this fall. Attorneys Matthew D. Batasti
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