Outsourcing Your Travel
As schools embrace global programs, travel related costs are skyrocketing as is the staff time devoted to travel arrangements.The time may be right for your school to consider outsourcing travel...
View ArticleA Model School Travel Policy
My previous post was about the benefits that may accrue form using an online service to manage the travel arrangements for your school employees and visitors. This follow-up post contains language that...
View ArticleAbout Face
Thomas Paine famously quipped "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." What will your school do when Facebook knocks on the door with groups for high schools?
View ArticleWho Should Pay When Employees Break Stuff?
Schools fret over who should pay-up when employees breaks tech equipment.
View ArticleK-12 IT Management: Making the Hiring Decision
Your interview team has seen several candidates, you have gathered feedback from them, and you're ready for the next step: making an offer.
View ArticleSecrets and Salaries
One of the most damaging practices in independent schools is the secrecy about employee salaries
View ArticleScalability
An unspoken assumption regarding scalability is that it almost always means scaling up: more storage, faster CPUs, more services, more users, more devices ad nauseam. But in truth scalability includes...
View ArticleSchool Provided Mobile Devices
… as schools rely more and more on contacting to employees via their mobile device, questions arise as to who should bear the cost of such connectivity.
View ArticleValues Clarification and Digital Citizenship
his post is adapted from an article I originally wrote in 1985 entitled "Computers, Kids and Values" for The Computing Teacher (Volume 12, Number 1), the predecessor of ISTE's Learning and Leading with...
View ArticleOpen Trustee Meetings
Independent schools often choose trustees based on their financial assets, hoping that those with money will contribute more to the school as a result of their board seat. A couple of board slots may...
View ArticleData Retention
What records should a school (and its individual employees) retain? For how long? What should you toss out? How do you decide? How do balance risk and convenience?
View ArticleService Dogs in the Classroom
Dogs in classrooms are no longer simply the product of childhood fantasies. Increasingly, they are playing a role as service animals, providing a variety of services to adults and children alike while...
View ArticleAlcohol at School Functions
Independent schools often host fundraising and alumni functions at which alcohol may be served. What's your liability?
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