Article Choosing the Right Accounting Software for Schools A Checklist for Decision Makers Aug 12, 2025 When numbers start clouding your missionIt often begins quietly.A department head emails an updated budget—only to realize their version doesn’t align with the master spreadsheet.
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?
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.
Article Members Only IT Asset Management Why do you need ITAM software? Here’s a list of reasons why leaders in the independent school community are implementing ITAM solutions in their IT Departments. Sep 9, 2024 Throughout the nation, independent schools are fixing their IT headaches with an IT Asset Management solution. Find out how you can also benefit from one below.
Article Managing Vendors and Vetting New Products May 30, 2024 by Ashley Cross CAE, CAE;Ed.D In the labyrinthine world of K–12 educational technology, independent school technologists face a unique challenge. Balancing the needs of a modern curriculum with the safety and privacy of student data requires a meticulous approach to IT vendor vetting.
Article Breaking the Code of Silence: How Web Accessibility Sparks Collaboration Between School IT & Marketing Dec 11, 2023 by Connor Gleason Web accessibility is critical to every school’s online presence, but achieving and maintaining ADA compliance is a team sport that requires the collaboration of multiple departments that often operate in isolation: School IT professionals and school marketers.
Article Members Only Minimally Invasive IT Dec 4, 2023 by Gary Stager My New Jersey public school district had terminals connected to timeshare mainframes in classrooms before the Beatles set foot in America. I learned to program in a required 7th grade class around 1975.
Article Members Only Telecom Optimization Audits: Understanding What Services You’re Really Paying For Nov 6, 2023 Understanding your organization’s internet and phone systems can be challenging, particularly when it comes to knowing what to pay for these services. Internet, landline, and phone systems can cost you thousands - or hundreds of thousands - of dollars each year.
Article Members Only Creating a Consistent Data Management Structure Is your school’s data being managed effectively? Or is it effectively running itself? Sep 16, 2023 by Adam Hotchkiss The proliferation of inexpensive (or expensive in some cases!) cloud-based solutions has allowed school data to roam freely across platforms, programs, and departments.