What We're All About

Our Mission
CAL-ISBOA empowers a thriving community of Independent School Business and Operations professionals to gain the knowledge, skills and innovative practices they need to serve their schools with excellence.

Our Vision
Through engagement in Cal-ISBOA, independent school business and operations professionals ensure that their schools have the human capacity, facilities, and financial strength to sustain an environment in which all students can thrive.

Our Values

Inclusive: provide a welcoming forum for collaboration that reflects the diversity of our school communities, professional roles, perspectives, and lived experiences. 

Trusted: We are a trusted community in which all can freely ask for and give support, so that all advance in their ability to serve their schools

Collaborative: support each other as colleagues and partners to strengthen ourselves, our schools, and communities.

Strategic: partner with school leadership to ensure that decisions are based on timely, data-driven, and mission-centric professional development.

Accountable: facilitate the adoption of best practices, grounded in high ethical standards, as the essential foundation for our work.