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What are common principal interview questions and the best answers?
This guide will help you know what to expect at an interview to become a school principal. If you’re interviewing for a principal position, you can expect to be asked …
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Principal Appreciation Day
Principal Appreciation Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the hard work that goes into being a principal. A …
Using a Parent Information Folder for Your School
So, what makes a good parent information folder? A good parent information folder is both a record-keeping tool for schools …
How to Effectively Digitize Student Information
If you digitize student information you are able to keep track of student records in one system and view on-demand …
How Your Business Can Manage Child Care Payments Best in 2023
The Pandemic was the time that rocked us all. With this changing climate, child care providers receive more challenges than …
How to Boost Student Enrollment?
Schools across North America are adopting technological solutions to boost student enrollment. TUIO first developed as a tuition management system …
What is a Student Management System, and How To Spot The Good Ones?
A student management system can mean several different things. However, context clues give away that this software is for managing …
Using School Software to Improve your Child Care Service
With the 21st century, our reliance on technology is becoming more apparent. For child care providers, targetted software created to …
What is Online Tuition Management Software?
Online tuition management software provides schools a way to manage online payments from parents with a focused piece of software. …
What are Good Daycare Prices that Keep Me Competitive?
When trying to remain competitive, it can be frustrating trying to select reasonable daycare prices. Parents are easily frustrated when …
Why Recurring Payments for Child Care Centers are Important
If you are like most care providers, you don’t get into the business because you love collecting payments. You get …
How A Tuition Management System Allows You To Focus On More Important Aspects Of Your Childcare Business
Chasing after parents for payments and worrying about creating invoices can be frustrating. This area of your business can feel …
How to Collect School Tuition and Childcare Billing Without Any Effort
The best kind of payments are on time, on schedule, and done without worry. But with parent A deciding to …
Ten Tips On How To Run A Successful Daycare
Child care providers have increasing challenges with demands from both kids and parents. That doesn’t even get into the challenge …
How To Create and Lead Engaging Faculty Meetings
It is easy to feel like faculty meetings are a time suck. Why would you waste time on these meetings …
12 Tips for Schools and Daycares to Stay Connected with Families During COVID
One of the perks of small schools and daycares is the community. The small class sizes of private schools, preschools, …
7 Benefits of Accepting Credit Cards
In today’s pandemic world, people expect all businesses, including schools, to accept credit cards. Even before the events of the …
Cold and Flu Season Tips for Childcare Services and Schools
As we head into the coldest months of the school term, it’s time for preschool directors, daycare operators, and school …
12 Ways to Boost Enrollment This Year
It’s no secret that it can be hard for schools and childcare centers to increase child enrollment. However automating and …
Unique Daycare Ideas For Engaging Children And Adults
Creating and managing daycare can be a fulfilling learning experience. As a provider, you can also understand that it is …
Tuition Management Software Complaints: Avoiding The Pitfalls
It’s no secret that rolling out a Tuition Management solution at your organization will be a major boon to your …
3 Key Concepts for Leading In-Person and Virtual Faculty Meetings
Faculty meetings are among the most important activities that school administrators conduct and engage in. A productive faculty meeting lays …
COVID-19 and Early Childhood Education: Effects and Tips
The global pandemic known as COVID-19 has affected every area of life, with perhaps the most dramatic impact on education. …
How Administrators Can Support Teachers During COVID-19
In the best of times, teaching is a challenging profession. It requires immense creativity, flexibility, patience, and the ability to …
My Accountant or Bookkeeper handles my billing and payments, why should I use TUIO?
When reaching out to potential clients there are some common reservations they hold that inhibit adoption of TUIO. We have …
I’m invoicing on QuickBooks, why should I use TUIO?
There are two common refrains we hear when reaching out to potential clients – either they already have a bookkeeper, …
Making Summer Camp Work While Staying Safe
Summer is an exciting time of year for most of us. It’s a time to work on personal fitness, take …
A Review of Government Support Available for Schools and Daycares in Canada and the United States
[This post was originally published on 03/24/2020. Date of latest edit: 04/08/2020] Our previous articles on how to avoid a …
What Makes the Montessori Teaching Method So Successful?
The Montessori Teaching Method was developed by an Italian educator and physician. Maria Montessori lived from 1870 to 1952 and was way …
School Principal Turnover Increases
The job of school principal is such an important one and has historically been a coveted position. But new reports …
How Well Does The Montessori Method Educate Students?
Success Stories of 7 Famous Former Students Does it matter where you child goes to school? Does the learning method …
Self-Care for Teachers and Why It Matters: 7 Simple Tips
Teaching is an all-consuming career often characterized as emotional labor. It’s physically, mentally, and emotionally draining. It’s also a job …
Setting Achievable Goals with Staff: 4 Proven Strategies for School Leaders
As the new year begins, goal setting is a popular topic of conversation. Unfortunately, setting goals is not the same …
Making a Smooth Transition from Holiday Break: Top Tips for Teachers
Holiday break is an exciting and much-needed time for students and teachers alike. However, it’s also a lengthy interruption to …
6 Holiday Gratitude Activities for the Classroom
As the holiday season approaches, it’s the perfect time to actively practice gratitude in the classroom. Gratitude activities aren’t just …
6 Keys to Building Positive Student-Teacher Relationships
As schools and districts focus on state standards, scope and sequence, and test scores, they often neglect one of the …
Avoiding Principal Burnout: How to Love the Job Again
In education, there’s a lot of talk about preventing teacher burnout–and for good reason. But burnout isn’t a phenomenon that’s …
Using Data to Drive School Improvement: 5 Tips
School administrators juggle many tasks and strive to meet many objectives. Of course, the ultimate goal is ensuring the overall …
How to Move Into a School Administrator Position
America’s teachers have to work under some pretty difficult circumstances at times. So have you ever thought that perhaps, if …
How to Lead Meaningful Faculty Meetings: 6 Tips
Let’s be honest: Faculty meetings are often dreaded, and they sometimes feel like a waste of time. But it doesn’t …
How Administrators Can Motivate Teachers from Day 1
By now, it’s common knowledge that teachers are the key to a successful school. Great school leaders understand how to …
Pre-Planning Tasks for Principals: 5 Steps for Success
Can you believe it’s that time of year again? Soon, teachers everywhere will head back to school for the week …
Summer To-Do List for Great School Leaders
Summer is the perfect time for school leaders to relax and rejuvenate. However, the summer months also provide you with …
Effective Technology Use in Schools: Tips and Best Practices
Today, about 73 percent of teachers say students use laptops or tablets in their classrooms daily. The widespread use of …
8 Tips for Effective Teacher Professional Development
The goal of professional development (PD) for educators is improvement: Improved instructional strategies, improved teaching, and improved outcomes for students. …
Preventing Teacher Burnout: 7 Tips for School Leaders
Studies show that educators experience stress at a higher-than-average rate. With this stress comes a phenomenon known as teacher burnout. …
11 Essential Time Management Tips for School Leaders
In a survey administered to the National Panel of New Principals, 59% cited time management as the most challenging aspect …
Save even more time with TUIO’s new childcare tax receipt feature
Our new Reports feature can be used to prepare and email childcare tax receipts. Tax season is never fun, but …
Response to Intervention: The Complete Guide
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a proactive method of identifying and supporting students with behavior or learning needs. RTI begins …
Social-Emotional Learning Matters. Here’s How to Teach It
When it comes to educational buzzwords, “social-emotional learning” (SEL) was the hot topic of 2018. But SEL is far more …
Hiring Effective Teachers: 5 Essential Questions to Ask
Research indicates that effective teachers are the most important factor in student achievement. The success of your students and school …
Best Podcasts for School Administrators: 5 Must-Listen Podcasts
Education is a continuously evolving field, and it’s important for educational leaders to keep up. At the same time, school …
How To Attract Parents To Your Daycare: 4 Top Tips
For parents, choosing a daycare is a daunting decision. Many feel extremely nervous about leaving their baby or toddler in …
How Administrators Can Support Teachers: 5 Helpful Tips
Teaching is an ongoing learning process, and the most effective administrators know how to support teacher growth. In this article, we’ll …
Credit Cards: the Clear Case for Offering Them to your Families
Credit cards are not going anywhere. In America alone, Visa and MasterCard clocked in $4.7 trillion of purchases in 2017. …
Why You Definitely Need Tuition Billing Software to Handle Automated Bank Withdrawals
If you run a school or a daycare, you may already have replaced some or all of your check payments …
Save Time at Your Daycare: Trade Cheques for Daycare Billing Software
These days, the vast majority of businesses do their best to avoid cheque payments. After all, when was the last …
Should Schools And Daycares Accept Etransfers?
To collect payments efficiently, businesses such as schools and child care organizations require processes that are timely and frictionless, integrated …
Tuition Management Systems: 3 Reasons Why They Help Reduce Workload
Running a school is a challenging undertaking. You need to enroll new students every year to compensate for departing families, …