Projections
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Compensation Strategies
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Research
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Salary
When it’s challenging for independent schools to raise salaries in line with inflation, leaders must find other ways to incentivize faculty and staff to stay.
6 min read
Feature
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Employee Benefits
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Human Resources
PEOs can offer more options for employees and reduced workload for the business office, but schools must know what they need to make the structure work.
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Voices from the Field
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Leadership
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Professional Development
Business officers who are their school’s sole employee in finance share the highlights, challenges and opportunities they see.
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CEO Notebook
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Culture
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Four insights can help us meet the calls for leadership that have only been growing louder in recent years.
5 min read
Strategies
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Athletics
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Hiring
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Salary
Coaching stipends are notoriously difficult to standardize. This points-based system can help assure fair and well-reasoned compensation.
6 min read
Increasing compensation is only one factor in teacher and staff retention. Consider how your school articulates value proposition to faculty members and listens to their concerns.
7 min read
Feature
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Employment
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Risk Management
The risks and rewards of putting parents and pupils on the payroll.
7 min read
Feature
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Employment
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Risk Management
The risks and rewards of putting parents and pupils on the payroll.
13 min read
Lakeside School opened a no-frills micro-school that offers competitive teacher salaries and a tuition that is about half of neighboring independent schools. Lakeside School is one of three schools to receive this year's Innovation Excellence Award.
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A grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation will enable data collection and resource development to help independent schools reshape their compensation structures.
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Compensation Strategies
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Employee Benefits
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Tax
Fringe benefits included in head-of-school packages may help attract strong candidates, but be aware of compliance issues.
6 min read
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Compliance
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Hiring
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Labor Law
How Do Antitrust Laws Affect Independent Schools?
3 min read
CEO Notebook
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Human Resources
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Leadership
A deep understanding of your school’s talent pool is a competitive advantage.
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Change Management
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Human Resources
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Leadership
When polarizing issues come to campus, the business office can be a strong force in connecting the community.
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Following the stress of the 2020–21 school year, one school experimented with a coordinated, school–wide break.
4 min read
Business Intelligence
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Enrollment
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Financing
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Salary
While enrollment has declined slightly over the past few years, staffing has increased. How can schools offset increased costs?
4 min read
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Hiring
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Human Resources
Despite significant changes in hiring processes over the past year, implicit bias remains. It can be mitigated.
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Risk & Compliance
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Hiring
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Human Resources
Make sure your school’s best efforts don’t run afoul of anti-discrimination laws.
6 min read
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Human Resources
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Pandemic
Schools are rethinking wellness programs to drive tangible improvements in staff and faculty wellbeing.
13 min read
Strategies
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Human Resources
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Technology
Encourage acceptance of — and minimize resistance to — remote hires or cloud-based processes by engaging in these distinct steps.
8 min read
