Business Operations

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Risk & Compliance  

  • Risk Management
  • | Technology

Risk & Compliance: Cybersecurity and Master Planning

One of the best times to address cybersecurity risks is before building or remodeling. Do not rely solely on your IT team.
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  • Facilities
  • | Human Resources

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Proactive succession planning helps schools staff increasingly complex facilities leadership positions.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Change Management
  • | Culture
  • | Facilities

The End of the Faculty-Owned Classroom: a Win-Win for Teachers and Schools?

There's lots to like in shared classrooms and faculty co-working spaces.
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  • Accounting
  • | Facilities

Fixed Assets, Unpredictable Accounting This item is protected.

Don't be caught off-guard when it comes to your campus's valuable fixed assets, whatever their condition and stage of life.
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  • Facilities

Operation Farm-to-Table

Schools that blur the line between food service operations and student learning bring campus communities closer — and hone their value proposition.
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Projections  

  • Facilities
  • | Leadership

We’re in This Together. Now, Where Are We Going?

The business officer and facilities director must work as a team in tackling challenges and envisioning possibilities. 
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  • Facilities
  • | Maintenance

Building into the Future: Modernizing School Facilities This item is protected.

Critical decisions about technology interfaces, not gears and machines, drive successful modernization projects. "Whatever big system we're integrating these days involves our IT department."
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  • Culture
  • | Facilities

Designing School Facilities That Enhance Mission

A flexible approach to school space enables students to grow within and outside the classroom.
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  • Facilities
  • | Human Resources

Who’s Going to Maintain the Campus?

From the archives: Trade shortages and cost concerns prompt more schools to evaluate pros and cons of outsourcing facilities and operations maintenance.
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  • Technology

Tech Insider: Google Keep and FitDesk

Tech to get organized and fit in the business office.
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  • Facilities
  • | Human Resources

Anticipating Retirements, Gleaning Institutional Knowledge: One School’s Approach

When key financial officers and facilities personnel retire at the same time, how do you prepare the school for the transition? 
2 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Facilities

Bricks and Mortar in the New World Order of PreK-12 Education

Our schools’ physical plants must support our value propositions in demonstrable ways that align with the investments we ask families to make.
2 min read
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  • Facilities
  • | Software

Tech Insider: PlanGrid

A construction-management app captures key details.
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Strategies  

  • Technology

Strategies: Antidotes to Email Malaise

Too many emails. Too much time checking them. One school's app-based method for stemming the tide. 
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  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Facilities
  • | Policy

Beyond Bathroom Bills: More Schools Go Gender-Neutral on Restrooms, Policies

Independent schools have always had students and staff whose gender identities do not correspond to their genders at birth, but only recently — spurred partly by national debates over “bathroom bills” defining access to
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5 Minutes with  

  • Leadership
  • | Technology

5 Minutes with Heidi Vanderbilt-Brown and Sara Kauffman: Data Agnostic

Going where few independent schools have gone (so far), Milton Academy brings on a full-time data analyst to ensure the consistent application of data — trends, assumptions, outcomes — in financial decision-making.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Risk Management
  • | Safety and Security

Risk & Compliance: Independent Schools’ Overlooked Risks: Cherished Traditions

They're a part of every school's culture and legacy. They're also fraught with risk.
4 min read
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  • Endowment
  • | Enrollment
  • | Facilities
  • | Financial Aid
  • | Leadership

Solutions, Collegiality Light up 2017 NBOA Annual Meeting

More than 1,300 attendees made the Washington gathering the biggest-ever of independent school financial and operational leaders. A recap in tweets.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Key Technology
  • | Technology

Building a Better Technology Team

From the archives: Education technology is on a fast-moving trajectory. Here’s how schools’ technology department staffing structures can keep pace.
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  • Facilities
  • | Investments

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From the archives: Economic recovery drives "a perfect storm" of financing for major construction at independent schools. But there’s a new sense of caution this time.
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