Awarded 2023 Jeffrey Shields Innovation in School Business Operations!

Saint Mark’s Episcopal School Receives NBOA Jeffrey Shields Innovation in School Business Operations Award

Fort Lauderdale, FL – Saint Mark’s Episcopal School is the recipient of the 2023 Jeffrey Shields Innovation in School Business Operations Award from the National Business Officers Association (NBOA).

The National Business Officers Association is the only national nonprofit membership association focused exclusively on supporting finance and operations professionals in independent PK-12 schools, with chief business officers being the leading senior staff member in a school charged with advancing school business.

The award honors a few select schools that have “shaken up” the industry through new approaches, programs, and practices in strategic finance, long-term sustainability, tuition modeling, fundraising, information technology, human resources, facilities, operational efficiency, and expense reductions. Saint Mark’s Episcopal School was honored for its development of SeaLab.

“Our Goal with SeaLab was to be creative in our approach to education by taking a simple seawall replacement project and elevating it to an experiential learning lab that sought to solve community problems around Sea Level Rise Microplastics, PFAS and water quality in our waterways.” Said Dr. Spencer Taintor, Head of School, Saint Mark’s Episcopal School. The award will be presented at the 2023 NBOA Annual Meeting in February in Los Angeles. Annually the award is given nationally to two schools. Saint Mark’s is one of the schools chosen to receive this recognition. For more information about the award, visit https://www.nboa.org/about-nboa/awards/innovation-award.

About NBOA: The National Business Officers Association (NBOA) is the only national nonprofit membership association dedicated to developing, delivering, and promoting best business practices to advance independent schools. The association has over 1,500 member organizations, including over 1,300 independent schools from the United States and 26 other countries around the globe. NBOA offers national conferences, online professional development, original research, and an award-winning magazine.