Accommodating transgender staff and students, staffing on school-related overnights and travel, and employer joint liability in the context of independent contractors.
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Risk Management
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Termination
Whether voluntary or not, faculty and staff departures are both inevitable and potentially fraught. Here’s how to get them right.
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The financial lens of independent school leaders is about to get a lot sharper. As you begin 2016 at your school, I'm very pleased to share that NBOA is also beginning an exciting new endeavor—one that promises to
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A business officer's 40-year love affair with sailing.
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Admission
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Human Resources
Ian Symmonds wants independent schools to showcase their contributions to the world.
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Sal Khan encourages independent schools to liberate their classrooms from the lecture model and embrace peer-to-peer interaction and learning.
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Your job won’t get any easier this year. Find opportunities to energize, support and manage yourself.
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With today's unseasonably warm weather in Washington, D.C., I recall that freezing morning in Boston like it was yesterday. The 2015 Annual Meeting Fun Run, in fact, is one of my favorite memories from NBOA's last 12 mon
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CEO Notebook
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Boards and Trustees
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Governance
A dynamic group of volunteers, a hard-working staff and a well-defined mission to which both groups are committed: This is the unique ideal of nonprofit governance, but it is not easily achieved. In fact, nonprofit leade
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An interview with education attorney Judith Islas.
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It has been a week of tremendous loss for the independent school community and the world. Like all of you, I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of NAIS President John Chubb on November 12. He was a friend a
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Last week I was honored to be featured in an online Q&A about school leadership with Rob DiMartino of Finalsite , which provides web solutions to schools. This week I have invited Rob to respond to some of the mos
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A challenging enrollment environment underscores the call for stepped-up market research and more rigorous collaboration between schools’ business and admissions functions.
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Facility Rental
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Summer Camp
Beyond summer camps and after-school programs, independent schools are taking second looks at auxiliary programs and their promise of net non-tuition revenue.
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It's widely accepted as best practice for independent schools to maintain three percent of the total cost of replacing the physical plant in a separate budget called PPRRSM (provision for plant replacement, renewal and s
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CEO Notebook
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Boards and Trustees
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Governance
One of the greatest challenges of any nonprofit board is to ensure that its conversations are both generative and strategic. Frustratingly, boards too often get mired in committee work. As a consequence, the full board s
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A former chief financial officer connected with the students at her school by chaperoning overnight trips.
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"The bean counters are taking over the world!" A school faculty member posted this on Twitter, the implication being that the "numbers people" were influencing too many decisions at his school. I don't know a single busi
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What’s in the FASB’s proposed changes to nonprofit financial statements? A look ahead.
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CEO Notebook
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Boards and Trustees
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Compliance
It's often been said that the only constant is change. As we enter another school year, this cliché is spot-on.
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