A privacy policy can help ensure students’ data is safe with your school — and build trust with parents.
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Risk Management
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Technology
Data stored at independent schools is at greater risk than ever, but rigorous training, relationship building and hard bargaining for better contracts help keep it safe.
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
How much time, energy and focus do independent schools place on the titanic risks that accompany athletic events?
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Food Service
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Risk Management
Students at private schools are particularly high-risk for these serious but treatable illnesses.
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation, widely known as GDPR, went into effect on May 25, 2018, amidst a flurry of activity — countless emails and website notices about privacy policy updates. Many organizations subje
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Projections
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Many of the costliest risks to independent schools involve people. By avoiding distractions and complacency, business officers can lead their communities to safety.
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Through major construction projects and leadership transitions, Botello has been a steady hand and strategic thinker. "Juan is always the first phone call I make when I am faced with an issue that needs a thoughtful and
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Extended Day
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Summer Camp
Evergreen School's auxiliary programs were strong, but the business processes were ad hoc. How careful teamwork grew a million dollar operation.
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Safety & Security
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Facilities
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Safety and Security
Consider everything from new construction to the fall return of faculty and students.
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Projections
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Culture
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Safety and Security
Independent schools aren’t “soft targets” that need to be hardened. We are learning communities that need to be safe for our students.
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Extended Day
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Summer Camp
Worries about rising tuition and changing demographics resulting in fewer potential students have led more independent schools to consider auxiliary programs as a viable way to boost revenue and admissions efforts. A fiv
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Safety & Security
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
Rising incidence of campus violence moves an uncomfortable discussion to the fore.
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Schools uncover new strategies for making dining a winner — nutritionally, reputationally and financially.
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Imaginative and strategic repurposing of underused spaces shows how modest budgets can strengthen enrollment, reinforce mission.
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Multi-use learning spaces pay off for schools that think flexibly about their programs and resources. “A building doesn’t necessarily have to be cutting-edge architecturally to be cutting-edge pedagogically.”
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Technical staff at many independent schools are working hard to meet the May 26 deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European Union law that regulates the way organizations handle
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Strategies
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
The case for extending education and professional development to our schools’ security officers.
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Neighbors have the power to make or break schools’ expansion plans. “It’s mission-critical to be active with the town.”
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Leadership
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Safety and Security
Growing list of independent school associations urge officials to take action against guns.
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University School of Nashville — one of five schools on tour — reminded 2018 Annual Meeting attendees that old buildings can be renewed again and again.
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