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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

3 Habits of Innovative K-12 Business Officers

Let’s reject once and for all the notion that innovation and fiscal responsibility are at odds.
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Mission & Motivation  

  • Leadership
  • | Technology

Mission & Motivation: A Place at the Leadership Table for School Technology Directors

Technology has become too integral to school operations for it to be compartmentalized.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Human Resources
  • | Legal
  • | Risk Management

Risk & Compliance: Avoid These Common Worker Misclassification Errors This item is protected.

Schools must remain vigilant about DOL classifications.
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  • Labor Law

"A Challenge for a School Mid-Year": Overtime Rule Responses

Joint response to DOL request for information on aborted overtime rule captures schools' best intentions, costly frustrations.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Procedures

Red Flags and Defined Boundaries: Preventing Campus Sexual Abuse

Understanding these eight organizational principles will help protect students and staff.
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  • Risk Management

Less Stability for Boarding Students’ Health Insurance

Independent school administrators seek answers as an imminent change in ACA regulations makes health insurance more difficult for boarding school students to get.
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  • Leadership

Rear View Reflections

As they leave the world of independent schools, veteran business officers share what they learned, loved and wish for their successors. “You can never close your eyes.”
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5 Minutes with  

  • Leadership
  • | Technology

5 Minutes with Richard Oliver: Taking Risks, Moving Forward

A pioneer in online learning discusses how his institution found its sweet spot, achieves 96 percent student satisfaction and embraces the automated advantages of true “digital” education.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Enrollment
  • | Facilities

Keeping Our Fingers on the Pulse

NBOA’s board members are thinking about facilities construction, capital campaigns, community relations and the impact of millennial parents on enrollment. What about your school?
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  • Employee Benefits
  • | Employment

Owning Their Health: the Brave New World of Health Care Benefits This item is protected.

In the brave new world of health care benefits, everyone — schools, the business office and, yes, employees and their dependents — must play an active role.
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  • Employee Benefits
  • | Human Resources

A Health Plan Primer for Independent Schools This item is protected.

The best insurance is a healthy employee population. A health care primer by a business officer, for business officers.
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  • Policy
  • | Technology

Twists and Turns in Technology Acceptable Use Policies

From the archives: Ten guidelines for crafting your school's technology policies 
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Projections  

  • Leadership

The Data-Driven Take the Driver’s Seat

A unified data collection platform changes everything. Its time has come.
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  • Budget
  • | Planning

A Better Way to Benchmark: Business Intelligence for Independent Schools

A breakthrough data collection platform built by business officers for business officers is coming soon.
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  • Software
  • | Technology

9 Tech Tools for the Business Office

From the archives: New technology products emerge every day, challenging even the geekiest edtech professionals to keep up. We reached out to the NBOA community to share some of the tools that help them most.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Compliance
  • | Safety and Security

The Right Thing to Do

The year has just begun, yet schools have already faced a flurry of storms. From weather disasters to the overtime rule, NBOA is here to support you.
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At Your IT Service This item is protected.

A service management framework can help a school’s IT department move faster and expand its services to the campus.
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  • Leadership
  • | Tuition

Unsung Hero: Janet Refior, Fountain Valley School of Colorado

The Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award is given to business officers who have made extraordinary contributions to their schools and exemplify exceptional integrity, knowledge and motivation. At the end of each school year
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Strategies  

  • Facilities
  • | Safety and Security

Strategies: Cool Heads, Safer Spaces: The Value of Security Training

It’s impossible to predict every threat to a school campus, but security training can help faculty and staff respond appropriately should an emergency arise.
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Turning the Page to Digital Textbooks

Open licensing could spur gradual adoption among K–12 schools.
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