Image above: Rhonda Durham, executive director of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest, received the Sarah Daignault Outstanding Support of Independent Schools Award. All images by Mael Pack.
More than 1,360 independent school business officers, heads of school, and leaders in operational areas from human resources to technology to facilities, along with corporate sponsors and 120 exhibitors whose products support NBOA members' work, converged on Nashville's Gaylord Opryland resort last week for NBOA's biggest-ever Annual Meeting.
Session handouts are available for attendees on the Annual Meeting website. Recordings of all sessions, along with executive summaries of select sessions and videos of keynote presentations, will be available to attendees in early April.
Rhonda Durham (photo at top), an independent school teacher, admissions director and head of school before becoming the ISAS executive director, summarized business officers' work aptly in her remarks at the Tuesday Awards Luncheon. “Your work is rewarding — and hard. Stay tight in your forged connections! Continue to count on each other for thoughtful advice, steadfast encouragement, motivating insights, and shared discoveries. YOU keep giving outstanding support to independent schools.”
More feedback from meeting attendees is shared below.
“Thank you to you and your awesome crew for such a great conference last week. I always come away from NBOA with ideas, renewed energy and a general overall feeling of satisfaction that comes with spending time with peers and friends. This year was no exception.”
“As a first-time attendee, I found the entire NBOA conference to be first class. Great content, outstanding keynotes and motivational speakers, superb venue.”
"I want to tell you how much I enjoyed the 2018 NBOA Annual Meeting in Nashville. I haven't stopped talking about it!"
"The Annual Meeting was fantastic, one of the best I can recall. I'm looking forward to Riding the Waves of Change in San Diego" [at the 2019 NBOA Annual Meeting].
"It was delightful and humbling all at the same time to have a couple minutes to speak with [Diana Nyad]. What an amazing story and what a pleasant and personable speaker."
“My entire team has returned energized and excited about all of the new ideas and information they were exposed to, and they loved having the opportunity to speak to so many other school business professionals.”
The May/June print edition of Net Assets will have more coverage of the 2018 NBOA Annual Meeting. The 2019 NBOA Annual Meeting will be March 3-6 at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, in San Diego, California. For details, stay tuned to nboa.org and nboaannualmeeting.org.
