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Access Points: Spring 2025

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TLIS Domains and Objectives
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Article

A Shifting State of Pay

ATLIS’s annual benchmarking report reveals insights into evolving independent school technology roles

Mar 25, 2025

To help technology leaders understand where they fit in the broad and ever-evolving independent school landscape, it remains essential that tech leaders have what they need to start the necessary conversations surrounding compensation and growth.

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Article

Building Connections and Expanding Your Growth Potential

Mar 25, 2025

In independent schools, leaders face the critical challenge of navigating constant change while shaping how technology serves students, faculty, and the broader community.

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Article

Designing Tech-Ready Spaces for Tomorrow’s Learning

Updating your infrastructure now means thinking long term – and further than you might think

Mar 25, 2025

In a previous job, Afandie Winter, TLIS, once learned that planning was underway for a construction project. He started asking simple questions: Where will phones plug in? How will Wi-Fi be delivered? Where will the printers go? Will the spaces have displays or projectors? How about audio?

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Article

Doing Your Homework

When vetting potential vendors, community building has ascended the list of considerations for independent schools

Oct 2, 2024
by M Diane McCormick

The vendor-vetting checklist for tech leaders of independent schools is well established: cybersecurity, interoperability, educational impact, and home connectivity.

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Article

Fostering Wellness Through Digital Citizenship

Mar 25, 2025

It has been more than a decade since digital citizenship curriculums started making their way into our schools, the broader educational technology spaces, and conversations.

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Article

Help Desk Harmony: Balancing Productivity and Autonomy in Schools

Mar 25, 2025

Managing a help desk team in an independent school is like orchestrating a symphony. Each player has a critical role, but the magic happens when everyone works together.

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Article

Leader Profile: David Boxer, TLIS

Chief Information Officer | The Blake School | Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mar 25, 2025

David Boxer, TLIS, knows that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, so to fill the gaps, he leans on his dynamic team at The Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Article

Navigating Transitions

Technology leaders offer thoughts on what makes succession planning successful

Mar 25, 2025

As seasoned technology leaders approach retirement and the industry continues its rapid evolution, succession planning in independent schools has emerged as a critical priority.

Latest Podcasts

Podcast

Shoulder to Shoulder: Dr. Alison Lee on Partnering with Youth in the AI Age

Season
4
Episode
90
Oct 7, 2025

Presented by Blackbaud

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Access Points

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Article

A Shifting State of Pay

ATLIS’s annual benchmarking report reveals insights into evolving independent school technology roles

Mar 25, 2025

To help technology leaders understand where they fit in the broad and ever-evolving independent school landscape, it remains essential that tech leaders have what they need to start the necessary conversations surrounding compensation and growth.

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Downloadable Resources

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AI for Primary Grades

This resource, created by the ATLIS AI Summer Workshop Lower School Cohort, provides practical ideas, activities, and examples for introducing AI in K–4 classrooms.

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About ATLIS

The Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (ATLIS) is a growing association dedicated to empowering schools to thrive through technology leadership. Founded in 2014 to address the unique challenges of independent school technology directors, the organization has now expanded to support all aspects of technology at schools, ensuring that they are equipped for the future. Across all dimensions of its practice, ATLIS is also dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive association.

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