2012 NAIS Annual Conference February 29 – march 2 Seattle

Program Program at a Glance...... 2 Speakers...... 4 Floor Plans...... 8 Conference Highlights...... 10 The NAIS Annual Conference is the yearly gathering and Conference Planning Worksheet celebration for the independent and Workshop Tracks...... 12 school community and is Detailed Program geared toward school leaders Wednesday...... 14 in the broadest sense. Heads, administrators, teachers, and Thursday...... 20 trustees are welcome participants Friday...... 36 in the exhibit hall, general Exhibit Hall and Member sessions, and workshops focused Resource Center...... 50 on important topics of today. Teacher and Administrative Placement Firms...... 71 Acknowledgments...... 74

New to the Conference? Is this your first time attending the NAIS Annual Conference? Welcome! Please stop by the NAIS Member Resource Center in the exhibit hall to learn more about NAIS or contact us at [email protected]. WWelcome!Welcome!elcome! Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference in Seattle. For five decades NAIS has engaged leaders in inspirational, focused dialogue that leads to purposeful action. Together in 2012 we’ll tap into the innovative spirit of the Pacific Northwest to imagine bold new ideas to lead our school communities into the future. Long a hotbed of creativity, Seattle will inspire us to invent new programs, implement imaginative initiatives, and revitalize current thinking to bring back to our schools.

Ground-breaking leaders in education and society will motivate us as we explore the theme INNOVATION: Imagine, Invent, Inspire, Dream. During the opening general session, inventor, philanthropist, and independent school alum Bill Gates will inspire and challenge us as he models how cutting-edge innovation and philanthropic “public purpose” go hand in hand — opening our minds to possibilities we’ve only dreamt of. During our Independent All are welcome to attend. Matters general session, Native American leader and college president Cheryl Crazy Bull, NAIS has an institutional notable intellectual, Yale professor, and bestselling novelist Stephen Carter, and spoken commitment to the word poet Sarah Kay will share their pioneering paths to discovery. World Peace Game principles of diversity. In that spirit, NAIS does not creator and inspirational teacher John Hunter will illustrate how imagination can translate discriminate in violation to meaningful action in our classrooms. Our closing general session speaker Amy Chua of the law on the basis of (aka, the “Tiger Mom”) will offer insight and raise important questions about successfully race, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, age, educating our students — and engender debate along the way. physical challenge, nation of origin, gender, or any More creative thought leaders like social media maven Soraya Darabi; educational other characteristic. game developer Raymond Yan; Brain Rules author John Medina; diversity trailblazer TJ Vassar; and It Gets Better pioneer Dan Savage will set our imaginations aglow, dreaming about a new future for education. Between these headliners, you’ll find specific workshops (more than 135!) to advise your day-to-day work. Together we’ll entertain new ways to cultivate leadership within our schools — for administrators, faculty, and our students, who are the global leaders of tomorrow.

Thank you to the 2012 Think Tank for imagining and creating this dynamic conference bursting with innovation and inspiration — NAIS is deeply indebted to them (see page 72). We’d also like to thank our West Coast member schools and associations (PNAIS and CAIS-CA), who have contributed exceptional ideas for this exciting conference.

On behalf of the NAIS board and staff, we express our gratitude to all who have made the journey to Seattle. It’s time to “reinvent the wheel” of education. Let’s dream together.

Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS President

AND THE NAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE TEAM 1 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Registration Hours wednesday FEBRUARY 29 Wednesday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Thursday, 6:30 am – 6:00 pm Friday, 6:30 am – 3:00 pm 7:00 AM

Information Booth Hours 7:30 AM Wednesday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Thursday, 6:30 am – 6:00 pm 8:00 AM Friday, 6:30 am – 5:00 pm Program-at-a-Glance Key 8:30 AM Book signings take place immediately EXHIBIT HALL AND following speakers’ presentations. NAIS BOOKSTORE HOURS Thursday, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm; 4:30 – 6:00 pm 9:00 AM These events or programs require Friday, 8:00 – 9:30 am; 11:00 am – 2:00 pm registration and/or tickets. 9:30 AM General Session Events Featured Workshops, One-Hour 10:00 AM Workshops, Optional Three-Hour Workshops, and Special Events 10:30 AM Exhibit Hall activities Remember to wear Breaks your conference 11:00 AM badge at all times. 11:30 AM

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1:00 PM 1:00 – 3:30 PM 1:00 – 4:00 PM Families First Optional Three-Hour 1:30 PM Workshop and Tour Workshops Pat Patrick F. Bassett 1:00 – 4:00 PM NAIS 2:00 PM Washington, DC NAIS / NBOA National Town Hall 2:30 PM Meeting

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3:30 PM Media RELEASE By attending the NAIS Annual Conference, attendees grant permission to the National 4:00 PM Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and its agents to utilize the attendee’s image or likeness in an effort to promote NAIS. 4:30 PM Attendees waive any right to inspect or approve the finished product or products 5:00 PM and the advertising copy or other matter that may be used in connection therewith or the use to which it may be applied. 5:30 PM

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6:45 – 7:45 AM 6:45 – 7:45 AM Coffee and Tea Coffee and Tea

7:30 – 9:00 AM President’s Breakfast and Annual Meeting Program-at-a-Glance Key 8:00 – 9:30 AM 8:00 – 9:00 AM Opening General Session with Bill Gates One-Hour Workshop Block 4 Book signings take place immediately following speakers’ presentations. These events or programs require 9:00 – 9:30 AM registration and/or tickets. Break General Session Events 9:30 – 10:00 AM 9:30 – 11:00 AM Featured Workshops, One-Hour Break General Session with John Hunter Workshops, Optional Three-Hour 10:00 – 11:00 AM Workshops, and Special Events One-Hour Workshop Block 1 Exhibit Hall activities Featured Workshop with Soraya Darabi

Breaks 11:00 AM – 12:00 noon 11:00 – 11:30 AM Exhibit Hall Grand Opening and Break Complimentary Lunch in the Exhibit Hall 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM One-Hour Workshop Block 5 NAIS Diversity Leadership Award and 12:00 – 1:00 PM Workshop Honoring TJ Vassar One-Hour Workshop Block 2 Featured Workshop with Raymond Yan 12:30 – 1:30 PM Complimentary Lunch in the Exhibit Hall 1:00 – 1:30 PM Break 1:30 – 2:30 PM 1:30 – 2:30 PM 1:30 – 2:30 PM One-Hour Workshop Block 3 Speed Innovating One-Hour Workshop Block 6 Featured Workshop Featured Workshop with Dan Savage with John Medina

2:30 – 3:00 PM 2:30 – 3:00 PM Break and Book Signing with John Medina Break and Book Signing with Dan Savage 3:00 – 4:30 PM 3:00 – 4:30 PM INDEPENDENT MATTERS with Stephen Carter, Closing General Session with Amy Chua Cheryl Crazy Bull, and Sarah Kay Book Signing with Stephen Carter

4:30 – 6:00 PM 4:30 – 5:00 PM Super Seattle Celebration! Book Signing with Amy Chua Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall

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Thursday, March 1 3:00 – 4:30 PM

Thursday, March 1 8:00 – 9:30 AM Independent Matters

Bill Gates stephen Carter CHERYL CRAZY BULL Klingenstein Leadership Award Recipient Want to lead innovation Recognized by Time magazine Cheryl Crazy Bull, Sicangu Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda at your school, but don’t as one of the 50 leaders of Lakota from the Rosebud Gates Foundation. Along with co-chair know where to start? Look the next century, Stephen Reservation in South Dakota, Melinda, he shapes and approves grant- no further. This trio of Carter is one of America’s is the first woman president making strategies, advocates for the dreamers will each deliver leading public intellectuals. of Northwest Indian College, foundation’s issues, and helps set the overall a 20-minute keynote The author of four novels and a regional tribally chartered direction of the organization. Their primary address that will inspire seven critically acclaimed institution serving tribes in goal: Expand opportunity to the world’s you to invent a better nonfiction books on law, ethics, the Pacific Northwest. After most disadvantaged people. Gates began tomorrow for your entire and politics, he continues to serving four years as its his major philanthropic efforts in 1994, when school community. Join shape the national debate on chair, Crazy Bull currently he created the William H. Gates Foundation, this innovative session to issues ranging from the role serves as member-at-large which focused on global health. Three years spark your imagination. of religion in our politics and of the executive committee later, he and Melinda created the Gates Together we can create a culture, to the role of integrity of the board of directors for Library Foundation, which worked to bring better future for education and civility in our daily lives. the American Indian Higher public access computers with Internet around the globe — one Carter’s most recent book is The Education Consortium, a connections to libraries in the U.S. Its name idea at a time. Violence of Peace: America’s nonprofit organization of changed to the Gates Learning Foundation Wars in the Age of Obama. It tribal colleges in the United in 1999 to reflect its focus on ensuring that examines the implications of the States and . Crazy Bull low-income minority students are prepared military philosophy President speaks and writes on behalf for college and have the means to attend. Barack Obama has adopted of tribal education, cultural In 2000, the two groups merged into the through his first two years in knowledge preservation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1975, office and what his views on and revitalization, Gates left to focus on war mean for America. Carter’s community development, Microsoft, the company he founded with extraordinary fiction debut, and community-based childhood friend Paul Allen. Gates led the The Emperor of Ocean Park, participatory research. Her company to become the worldwide leader spent three months on The New public service includes arts in business and personal software, services, York Times bestseller list and and economic development and solutions. Gates also founded Corbis, made bestseller lists in several committees and boards. She which is developing a comprehensive digital European countries. Currently currently serves on the boards archive of art and photography from public professor of law at Yale of the National Museum of the and private collections around the globe. University, Carter has clerked American Indian, Northwest He is a member of the board of directors of for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Indian College Foundation, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Thurgood Marshall. and American Indian College Sponsored by The Klingenstein Fund, Inc. Fund. Her outstanding achievements have been 4 honored by the Rosebud Sponsored by ERB Sioux Tribe. These engaging speakers will present Book signing events at the general sessions in room 4A. All book signings will take place on the fourth floor outside General Session Room 4A immediately following the presentations. Save time when you buy your book at the signing.

Friday, March 2 Friday, March 2 9:30 – 11:00 AM 3:00 – 4:30 PM

SARAH KAY John Hunter AMY CHUA Spoken word poet Sarah Kay World Peace Game Education and Success holds many titles: poetry teacher, Award-winning teacher, notable TEDTalk Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua made founder and co-director of speaker, and educational consultant, John headlines with her latest book, Battle Project V.O.I.C.E., documentary Hunter has dedicated his life to helping Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a parenting filmmaker, playwright, singer, children realize their full potential. Employing memoir on raising her children for success songwriter, photographer, his background as a musician, composer, in a traditional Chinese way. The bestseller and editor for Write Bloody and filmmaker during a three-decade relates how Chua did not permit sleepovers, Publishing. Growing up in New career as a teacher, Hunter has combined play dates, or other staples of American York, Kay started performing his gifted teaching and artistic talents to youth culture. Time magazine named her her poetry when she was 14 develop unique teaching programs using to The 2011 Time 100, its list of the most years old, becoming a fixture multimedia software programs in creative influential people in the world. She has at the famous Bowery Poetry writing and film courses. As a student at the authored two other extraordinary books. Club. Today she is one of the Commonwealth University, Hunter Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to most sought-after spoken word traveled and studied comparative religions Global Dominance—and Why They Fall performers in North America. and philosophy throughout , , and examines history’s handful of dominant Kay has performed in venues . Inspired by Gandhi’s home country and world powers to reveal the reasons behind across the country, including intrigued by the principles of nonviolence, their success and the roots of their ultimate the United Nations, where she Hunter began imagining how teachers could demise. As the latest hyperpower, the U.S. was a featured performer for the contribute to peace in the world. Accepting has so far followed the historical pattern launch of the 2004 World Youth the reality of violence, he sought to inspire and is tilting toward decline. Chua offers Report. She teaches spoken word students to explore harmony in various history’s lessons as guidance for the most poetry to students of all ages situations, using a game — something important questions about America’s in classrooms and workshops that students would enjoy. As educator in future. In her bestseller World on Fire: How worldwide. In 2006, Kay joined residence at IDEO, a premiere design firm Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds the Bowery Poetry Club’s Poetry in Silicon Valley, Hunter explores numerous Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Chua Slam Team, NYC Urbana, and was options, including replication of the World shares a fundamentally new perspective the youngest poet to compete in Peace Game for sale, Internet-based on how to sustain globalization by finding the 2006 National Poetry Slam development, training seminars for teachers, ways to spread its benefits while curbing its in Austin, TX. She spoke at the and workshops on his methods. As a fellow most destructive aspects. The former Wall TED2011 conference. Literary at The Center for Global Initiatives of the Street lawyer has also taught law at Duke, publications such as Foundling Darden School of Business at the University Stanford, and universities. Review, Damselfly Press, and of Virginia, Hunter collaborates with faculty decomP publish Kay’s work. and students to leverage the success and relevance of his World Peace Game project. Sponsored by Sodexo 5 Featured workshop

Thursday, March 1 Thursday, March 1 Thursday, March 1 10:00 – 11:00 AM 12:00 – 1:00 PM 1:30 – 2:30 PM

SORAYA DARABI RAYMOND YAN JOHN MEDINA Creativity and Emerging Media Game Development Brain Rules for Education Soraya Darabi began her career as manager as a Teaching Tool Brain Rules author John J. Medina is of digital partnerships and social media at Raymond Yan, senior vice president of a developmental molecular biologist The New York Times, where she successfully DigiPen Institute of Technology, has focused on the genes involved in human led the drive to syndicate NYTimes.com worked in digital interactive technology brain development and the genetics of news and video across multiple social media development since 1990. After a period psychiatric disorders. He has spent most of platforms. In 2009, her New York Times of almost 10 years leading the artists and his professional life as a private research multimedia Inauguration Day campaign designers of Nintendo’s first game team consultant, working primarily in the on Facebook won first prize at the INMA located outside of Japan, Yan joined biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries Awards for excellence in marketing. Darabi DigiPen as the program director for its on research related to mental health. Medina was named one of AdAge magazine’s 25 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Art and holds joint affiliate faculty appointments People in Media to Follow on Twitter and Animation degree. With a family of six at the University of Washington School was on the Silicon Alley 100 list in 2009. In children, he naturally became focused on of Medicine, in its Department of June 2010, Fast Company featured Darabi the state of K-12 education and took on the Bioengineering, and at Seattle Pacific on the cover of its annual Most Creative responsibility to develop exploratory and University, where he is the director of the People in Business issue and in October preparatory STEM-based programs that Brain Center for Applied Learning Research. she appeared on the cover of Brandweek’s teach game programming, 3-D animation Medina was the founding director of the Hot Digital issue. She served as product production, and robotics technology. These Talaris Research Institute, a Seattle-based lead at drop.io, a real-time online sharing imaginative programs would eventually be research center originally focused on how and collaboration and presentation service offered in cooperation with the Washington infants encode and process information at based in New York recently acquired by state department of education, as well as the cognitive, cellular, and molecular levels. Facebook. Today Darabi dedicates her time other youth organizations that serve at-risk Winner of myriad awards, Medina has a to the location-based mobile application students in underserved communities. These lifelong fascination with how the mind reacts Foodspotting and to ABC News, where she include the Boys and Girls Club, YMCA, and to and organizes information. As the father reports on online communities as a social even the National Urban League, for which of two boys, he has an interest in how the media strategist. Darabi leverages her social Yan was recognized by the Congressional brain sciences might influence the way we media expertise to help important nonprofit Black Congress. With the success of the teach our children. Medina’s books include: causes, including Charity: Water, The programs, he now strives to provide Brain Rules, Brain Rules for Baby, The Genetic Robin Hood Foundation, and Goods4Good. opportunities to even more students by Inferno, The Clock of Ages, Depression, What org. In 2011, she became the first digital training middle and high school instructors You Need to Know About Alzheimer’s, The ambassador to the United Nation’s on how they can utilize game development Outer Limits of Life, Uncovering the Mystery technology group Global Pulse. as a learning vehicle in their classrooms. of AIDS, and Of Serotonin, Dopamine and Antipsychotic Medications.

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Book signing events Read more from our stellar speakers! Get the latest title of each featured speaker who will conduct a book signing. It’s easy. Just buy the book directly outside room 4A at the book Friday, March 2 Friday, March 2 signing table — just one line to 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM 1:30 – 2:30 PM purchase the book and get it signed personally by the author. TJ VASSAR DAN SAVAGE Or stock up in advance at the NAIS Diversity Leadership Award It Gets Better NAIS Bookstore, located in the For nearly 20 years, Seattle native TJ Originally known as a gay-sex columnist, exhibit hall. Happy reading! Vassar has served as director of diversity Dan Savage is now a household name for Lakeside School (Washington). thanks to his It Gets Better video project However his tenure at Lakeside started on YouTube. The September 2010 project decades beforehand. While in junior won instant acclaim asking people to high school, he was invited to attend the upload short, positive videos about their Lakeside Education Enrichment Program experience with the LGBT community. (LEEP), a six-week program that aims to Millions have viewed the popular videos, boost students to higher achievement including President Barack Obama and during the summer and later in their entertainer Janet Jackson. Advertising school life. The LEEP director recruited Age called It Gets Better one of the Vassar to attend Lakeside in 1965, which top social media campaigns of 2010. he eventually agreed to do despite the Savage’s book, It Gets Better: Coming fact that he was one of the few students Out, Overcoming Bullying and Creating of color — and all the students were boys! a Life Worth Living, released in March What began with the brave action of a 2011. His column, “Savage Love,” debuted teenager venturing into the unknown in 1991, in the first issue of Seattle Originally Kiran Sethi has culminated in a lifelong career newspaper The Stranger and is now was scheduled to speak dedicated to diversity and inclusion, syndicated nationwide. Readers of any on Friday morning. respect and dignity. Earning degrees sexual persuasion seek Savage’s pithy Unfortunately due to from Lakeside, Harvard University, and advice. In addition to writing his funny, unforeseen circumstances, University of Washington, Vassar then informative, outrageous column, Savage Ms. Sethi is unable to worked tirelessly in public policy for is now editor of The Stranger. Savage is join us in Seattle. the Seattle Public Schools and the state the author of The Commitment: Love, Sex, of Washington. Together with Bernie Marriage, and My Family; Skipping Towards Noe, head of school for Lakeside, Vassar Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the has intentionally altered the school’s Pursuit of Happiness in America; Savage demographics — doubling the number Love: Straight Answers from America’s of students of color to 48 percent of Most Popular Sex Columnist; and The Kid: total enrollment in the last 13 years What Happened After My Boyfriend and — and increasing financial aid. Never I Decided to Go Get Pregnant. “Dying is compromising the school’s academic easy,” says Savage. “Coming out is hard.” standards. Today LEEP proudly refers to Vassar as “The Godfather.” 7 Washington state convention CCCeeennntterterer

The Washington State Convention Center is Plus, the Seattle Visitor Center is conveniently located in the heart of Seattle, the jewel of located on level 1 of the convention center. the Pacific Northwest. Between the expansive Its helpful staff will find and book all kinds of picture windows and lush greenery, you’ll services, including attractions and sightseeing feel like you’re outside in Seattle’s natural tickets, restaurant reservations, and ground Coat Check Hours habitat. Numerous choices await — museums, transportation. Remember to ask these experts A coat check will be available trails, the aquarium, shopping, breweries, and about tips on the latest music scene, marvelous to conference participants more! Walk down to the waterfront or pop museums, and hip bookstores. Or catch up with on the fourth floor in the into Pike Place Market to catch a glimpse of friends old and new over a cup of coffee at one registration area. the fishmongers throwing their fish. Or get a of the many cafes in the neighborhood. bird’s eye view of the city from atop the Space Wednesday, February 29 Needle or aboard a ferry. It’s a lot of city in a 12:00 – 5:00 PM small space — just waiting for you to explore.

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Exhibit Hall and Bookstore Hours Room 4E Thursday, March 1 Speed 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM; 4:30 – 6:00 PM iNNovating Friday, March 2 Room 6E 8:00 – 9:30 AM; 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Thursday, March 1 Sold out See page 52 for a floor plan, list of exhibitors, 1:30 – 2:30 PM and highlights! Cut to the chase with NAIS Speed Innovating! Musical Performances It’s three mini-sessions in one devoted to NAIS / NBOA National Innovation in Schools. Read about the 20 town Hall Meeting topics (aka, “dates”) and complete details During the general sessions enjoy Room 6E on page 34. the wonderful performances of Wednesday, February 29 these local school groups: 1:00 – 4:00 PM SUPER SEATTLE Tickets: $50 CELEBRATION of The Northwest School Join us for an innovative town hall meeting 50 years of NAIS A Capella Choir with both NAIS Annual Conference and The Northwest School (Washington) National Business Officers Association room 4E Thursday, March 1, 8:00 AM (NBOA) Symposium attendees. This year Thursday, March 1 Dana Sewall, school choir director we’ll explore the theme Doing Well by Doing 4:30 – 6:00 PM Mike McGill, head of school Good: The Green Future. Read more about All conference participants welcome. this special event on page 18. Let’s party in the Pacific Northwest! Join Lakeside Middle School Pat Bassett and NAIS staff in a networking Jazz Band Club Sodexo event where you can meet and greet friends, Lakeside School (Washington) Room 401 experience live entertainment, enjoy beverages Thursday, March 1, 3:00 PM Thursday, March 1 and food, participate in live, interactive Paul Harshman, director of bands 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM demonstrations, and enter our prize drawing. Bernie Noe, head of school Friday, March 2 Together we’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM of the vote to found NAIS on March 1, 1962… St. Thomas School Singers Club Sodexo is an exclusive business-class and 50 years of innovation in our independent St. Thomas School (Washington) lounge for heads of school and other senior school community. Be a part of history! Friday, March 2, 9:30 AM administrators of educational institutions Share your thoughts on the most important Matt Turner, music teacher worldwide. The lounge offers a quiet, contribution of the NAIS community over the Kirk Wheeler, head of school comfortable setting equipped with a last 50 years. complimentary cyber café, refreshments, The Onions and massage stations designed to give PRESIDENT’S BREAKFAST Seattle Academy (Washington) you a private, relaxing conference experience and ANNUAL MEETING Friday, March 2, 3:00 PM when you need to take a short break from Room 6C Mark Hoover, director of vocal music the crowds. Friday, March 2 Joe Pugelli, head of school 7:30 – 9:00 AM Tickets: $25 Join head of school colleagues for breakfast and a presentation by NAIS President Patrick F. Bassett and the NAIS board of trustees. The Annual Meeting for members immediately These events or programs 1010 follows the breakfast. require registration or tickets. Families First Program

For partners and spouses of heads of school There is no additional fee for registered participants, but registration for the conference and pre-registration for this event are required.

NAIS Diversity tour of Pike Regional Trends Leadership Award: Place Fish and Insights Recognition for Outstanding Market and Workshop Room 4C–1 Achievement in Diversity on Transformational Thursday, March 1 Room 6E Listening Skills 12:00 – 1:00 PM Friday, March 2 Wednesday, February 29 Hear three regional association directors 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM 1:00 – 3:30 PM discuss current trends, the latest issues, This annual honor goes to outstanding leaders, Bus departs Convention place, Level 1, and successful strategies for schools connected to independent schools, who have 9th and Union Streets, at 1:00 PM. navigating the new “normal” of the performed extraordinary work to advance Join our tour into the extraordinary current economic situation. Learn from diversity and inclusivity on a national scale. environment of the Pike Place Fish Market, information gathered across varying This year we honor TJ Vassar, diversity director led by Jim Bergquist, the coach for the world school communities in these three of Lakeside School (Washington). Read his famous Pike Place fishmongers. Through geographic areas and find out about biography on page 7. working with Bergquist over the last 25 successful solutions to the prevailing years, Pike Place Fish Market has become dilemmas for today’s school leadership. 2012 Klingenstein an internationally recognized symbol of PRESENTERS: Barbara Hodges, Florida Leadership Award turning a job into a calling. After a visit to Council of Independent Schools (FL); Room 4A Pike Place Fish Market, heads of school and Douglas Cummings, Independent Thursday, March 1 their partners and spouses will engage in Schools Association of Northern New 8:00 – 9:30 AM a workshop led by Bergquist. He’ll touch England (ME); Meade Thayer, Pacific All conference participants welcome. upon the essential skills used to develop the Northwest Association of Independent Presented to Bill and Melinda Gates by Columbia fishmongers’ approach to communication. Schools (WA); Gail Suitor, Long Trail University’s Teachers College Professor Pearl Learning the power of different types of School (VT); Lisa Zeller, The Community Rock Kane. The Klingenstein Center for listening will transform your communication School of Naples (FL) Independent School Leadership presents with constituents. this award annually to individuals who have Gathering in influenced the field of education and positively Stress Reduction Club Sodexo impacted independent school teachers, Through Mindfulness Room 401 administrators, and students in enduring ways. Room 4C–1 Friday, March 2 Previous recipients include Oprah Winfrey, Jim Thursday, March 1 11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON Collins, Howard Gardner, Sugata Mitra, Malcolm 10:00 – 11:00 AM Meet in the Sodexo lounge to discuss Gladwell, Patrick Bassett, and Beverly Daniel Discover what mindfulness is and how you challenges you face as a member of the Tatum, among other distinguished awardees. can use it both personally and professionally First Family, network, and catch up with to reduce stress. Through discussion and old and new friends. Schools of the Future practical exercises, experience simple Innovate your teaching and learning with techniques for increasing mindfulness, six one-hour workshops, all in room 609. while exploring the physiological responses Learn how to teach design thinking and of the body to both stress and relaxation. implement the design studio model of PRESENTERS: Diane Hetrick, Swedish Medical hands-on problem solving; explore ways Center (WA); Gail Suitor, Long Trail School to facilitate innovation and inspire creative (VT); Lisa Zeller, The Community School mindsets in students; discover how to put of Naples (FL) imagination at the center of learning and increase your Imagination Quotient; uncover the similarities between engaging video games and effective teachers; and seize the Online Tools at the NAIS unique opportunity to reinvent “school.” Member Resource Center

Make room in your Annual Conference schedule to stop by the NAIS Member Resource Center. Pick up a copy of 5 in 5: Five NAIS Reports You Can Run in Less Than Five Minutes. While you’re there, learn from NAIS staff about StatsOnline Snapshots, the Demographic Center, Career Center, and Survey Center. Share your feedback 11 with us and enter a drawing to win an iPad! Conference planning worksheet

Use this worksheet to plan your time. List workshops you wish to attend during the conference on Thursday and Friday. Also note any optional three-hour workshops or events for which you have registered.

1:00 – 3:30 PM Families First Tour of Pike Place Fish Market wednesday and Workshop on Transformational Listening Skills February 29 1:00 – 4:00 PM Optional Three-Hour Workshops Choose one of two options for this timeslot. OR NAIS / NBOA National Town Hall Meeting thursday 6:45 – 7:45 AM Coffee and Tea 8:00 – 9:30 AM March 1 Opening General Session with Bill Gates 10:00 – 11:00 AM One-Hour Workshop Block 1 Choose one of two options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Soraya Darabi

11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON Exhibit Hall Grand Opening and Complimentary Lunch in the Exhibit Hall

12:00 – 1:00 PM One-Hour Workshop Block 2 Choose one of two options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Raymond Yan

1:30 – 2:30 PM One-Hour Workshop Block 3 Choose one of three options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with John Medina OR Speed Innovating

2:30 – 3:00 PM Book Signing with John Medina

3:00 – 4:30 PM General Session, INDEPENDENT MATTERS with Stephen Carter, Cheryl Crazy Bull, and Sarah Kay Book Signing with Stephen Carter

4:30 – 6:00 PM Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall friday 6:45 – 7:45 AM Coffee and Tea March 2 7:30 – 9:00 AM President’s Breakfast and Annual Meeting 8:00 – 9:00 AM One-Hour Workshop Block 4

9:30 – 11:00 AM General Session with John Hunter

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM One-Hour Workshop Block 5 Choose one of two options for this timeslot. OR NAIS Diversity Leadership Award and Workshop Honoring TJ Vassar

12:30 – 1:30 PM Complimentary Lunch in the Exhibit Hall

1:30 – 2:30 PM One-Hour Workshop Block 6 Choose one of two options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Dan Savage

2:30 – 3:00 PM Book Signing with Dan Savage

3:00 – 4:30 PM Closing General Session with Amy Chua

4:30 – 5:00 PM Book Signing with Amy Chua

These events require registration or tickets. Please make sure to register for these events on your registration form. 12 Workshop TTTrrackrackacksss The Annual Conference includes more than 135 one-hour conference workshops on Thursday and Friday, as well as optional three-hour workshops on Wednesday.

We provide attendees two ways to Sustainability for search for workshops in the conference 21st Century Schools program — by element of sustainability Each workshop is marked with and by track. All attendees are invited an icon representing its area(s) of to attend any workshop. school sustainability.

Track Demographic Sustainability All workshops are categorized by track. Become more inclusive and representative of the school-age population and less Communications unapproachable financially and socially. Management and Advancement Environmental Sustainability Become more “green” and less wasteful. Designed for heads and trustees as well Designed primarily for business officers, as communication and advancement financial aid directors, division heads, Financial Sustainability practitioners (working in the areas of deans, and heads, these workshops focus Become more efficient and less costly. public relations, government relations, on the day-to-day management of people, media relations, community relations, programs, and operations. The workshops Global Sustainability marketing, development, alumni relations, may cover issues such as recruitment and Become more networked internationally admission, and diversity), these workshops retention, supervision and evaluation, legal and less provincial in outlook. address what it takes to ensure effective issues, financial operations, and building and communication to — and relations with — campus management. Programmatic Sustainability all key constituencies. Become more focused on the skills and values the marketplace of the 21st century The classroom will seek and reward — and less narrowly Governance experience isolated in a traditional disciplines approach to teaching and learning.

Designed for boards of trustees and heads of Designed for all educators and academic Daily Work of School Leaders school in their role as liaisons with the board, leaders, these workshops focus on design While these workshops do not specifically these workshops focus on all aspects of and implementation of academic programs. address one of the five aspects of sustainability, board governance, including (but not They may cover new research, use of they cover the day-to-day operational work limited to) strategic thinking, financial technology to support learning, case studies, of independent schools, as well as individual responsibilities of the board, and effective model programs for inclusive and innovative development of leadership skills. board-head partnerships. curriculum, education for the “whole” student, best practices, and trends in Leadership education. These workshops may also cover development issues of school culture and climate, and the support for the overall well being of students.

Designed for heads and all academic and administrative leaders, these work- shops focus on effective school leadership. Workshops may cover leadership style Miss a Keynote Speaker? and skills, school policies and decision Let the Bloggers Fill You In. making, technology implementation, and Don’t be surprised if the person sitting next to you is one of our the enhancement of professional and Annual Conference bloggers, tapped to provide online insight in personal development opportunities for real time for both conference participants and those back at school. faculty and administrators. Visit www.nais.org/go/annualconference to link to the AC blogs. 13 three-hour workshops

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11:00 AM – 6:00 PM W1 Advancement Solutions: W3 Hit the Ground Running: Registration / Information Booth Open Strategic Programming for New Trustee Selection, Level 4, South Lobby Small Development Shops Orientation, and Training Room 618 Room 620 1:00 – 3:30 PM The challenge: Build and sustain a Do you have the right people (and enough Families First robust philanthropy program in a highly of the right people) at your board table? Do Tour of Pike Place Fish Market competitive “post-bubble” economy. See your new trustees hit the ground running? and Workshop on Transformational what it takes to run top-notch advancement We’ll explore best-practice methods for Listening Skills programs in even the smallest offices. identifying and cultivating new trustees, Bus departs Convention Place, Return to school ready to put practical structuring a power-packed orientation, Level 1, 9th and Union streets, ideas and strategic solutions to work and providing ongoing training geared to at 1:00 PM. confidently in your own shop. take your entire board to a new level PRESENTERS: Starr Snead, Advancement of effectiveness. 1:00 – 4:00 PM Connections (SC); Shelley Reese Cornish, PRESENTERS: Ginny Christensen, Strategy NAIS / NBOA National The Learning Center for the Deaf (MA) for Growth, LLC (PA); Nancy Donnelly, Town Hall Meeting United Friends School (PA) Room 4E W2 Redefining Target This special event requires a ticket. Marketing: Digital W4 Building a Solid Character Space permitting, you may sign up at the Techniques to Engage Program at Your School registration desk if you did not pre-register. Each of Your Audiences Room 603 Room 619 Discuss the absolute must elements of Would you like to speak meaningfully to great character education programs and 1:00 – 4:00 PM specific audience subsets, but time and develop a roadmap to take your school from Three-Hour Workshops budgets are tight? You still can — use an OK program to one showing measurable These optional three-hour workshops imagination and modern techniques to results. Review a checklist and leave with require a ticket. Space permitting, you overcome limitations while staying within expert-backed, precise ideas and tools may sign up at the registration desk if you your budget. specifically designed to improve your did not pre-register for a workshop. All PRESENTERS: Patti Crane, Crane MetaMarketing school’s character program. workshops take place in the Washington Ltd. (GA); Bernard Fertal and Barbara PRESENTERS: David Streight, Center for State Convention Center. Kennedy, Baylor School (TN); Angelo Spiritual & Ethical Education (OR); Otterbein, Silverpoint Inc. (MD) Adriana Murphy, Green Acres School (MD)

A Golden Opportunity: NAIS’s 50th Anniversary

At the Super Seattle Celebration networking reception, we’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of NAIS… and 50 years of growth and innovation in our independent These events or programs school community! 15 require registration or tickets. Explore a topic in greater depth when you attend an optional three-hour workshop on Wednesday. WWedneWedneednesssddaydayay

W5 Building a Truly Global W8 Move from “Why Innovate?” W10 Active Leadership: Mindset in Your Faculty to “How?” — Become an Innovation and Community and Students Entrepreneurial School Engagement Room 604 Room 303 Room 2a Enhance and expand global education Entrepreneurs know how to innovate. How does a school organize for continuous both on and off campus. Discover new Discuss how to innovate at your school by innovation — particularly in engaging with its assessments and strategies to meet the developing the entrepreneur’s mindset in broader community? Wingspan Partnerships needs of 21st century graduates. Hear how the board, head of school, administrators, and two school heads will offer in-depth we’re revamping Madeira’s award-winning teachers, and students. Cultivate case studies, lessons learned, and strategies Co-Curriculum Program to creatively understanding in the entrepreneur’s to innovate successfully in your school engage students locally and globally. innovation process, building capacity by and community. PRESENTERS: David Maher and Ross Wehner, moving through resistance, and developing PRESENTERS: Jacqueline Smethurst and David World Leadership School (CO); Andre organizational habits of innovation. Drinkwater, Wingspan Partnerships (CA); Withers, The Madeira School (VA) PRESENTERS: Jamie Baker, Martin Institute Janet Durgin, Sonoma Academy (CA); for Teaching Excellence (TN); Bo Adams, Gordon McNeill, Sage Hill School (CA) W6 Experiential Education: The Westminster Schools (GA); A. Lee Trends, Themes, and Burns, Presbyterian Day School (TN); Grant W11 Crisis! Attack on Three Curricular Integration Lichtman, Francis Parker School (CA) Fronts — News Media, Room 205 Social Media, and Parents Join Independent Schools Experiential W9 Addressing Student Discipline Room 210 Education Network members to explore When It Meets Technology Join us for an interactive workshop that will common themes of experiential education. Room 304 use actual case studies of crises recently faced Focus on funding, curriculum, evaluation, Are your policies keeping up with by schools. You’ll return to school with proven and risk management in outdoor/adventure technology? What are reporting obligations strategies and effective methods in dealing education, global education, sustainability, for sexting cases? Do faculty have any with the most difficult circumstances. and service learning programs. rights when they are the injured party? PRESENTERS: Jane Hulbert, The Jane Group (IL); PRESENTERS: Vicki Weeks (WA); Kevin Cook, Is there a legal nexus for jurisdiction on Meredyth Cole, The Madeira School (VA) St. Michaels University School (CANADA); Facebook? Should smart phones be allowed Siri Fiske, Chadwick School (CA) in locker rooms? Is there an expectation for W12 Financial Resilience privacy? Is a fake online identity considered and Planning for Strategic W7 Making the Headship identity theft? Learn essential updates. Marketing and Communications Work in Today’s World PRESENTERS: Katherine Koestner, Campus Room 201 Room 213 Outreach Services (PA); Jeff Dayton, NAIS data show that the downward pressure Better support the complex roles of the The Madeira School (VA); Andrew Speyer, on schools’ budgets will continue for some changing headship, including anchor, (CT) time: from smaller donations, to increased educational guru and CEO, pastor, catalyst, applications for financial aid, to erratic fundraiser extraordinaire, and ambassador. endowment valuations. Explore leadership, Apply Systems Lens, developmental, and marketing/communication, enrollment, and organizational management theory tools budget management as building blocks for and practices. your school’s resilience and support for its PRESENTERS: Debbie Freed, Debbie Freed and longevity and success. Associates (CA); Albert Adams, Al Adams PRESENTERS: Vanessa Wassenar, Rockland Consultancy (CA); Lucinda Lee Katz, Marin Country Day School (MA); Mike Connor, Country Day School (CA) Connor Associates (CA)

16 optional Workshops Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability 1:00 – 4:00 PM Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

W13 Take Service Learning W15 You Be the Judge! W18 Design Thinking: to a Higher Level A Mock Employment Law Trial Unlocking the Key to Innovation Room 204 PRESENTERS: Michael Blacher and Donna Room 3b Service learning continues to evolve from Williamson, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore (CA); Curious about design thinking? Wonder an extracurricular to an essential, integrated Mark Brooks, Pilgrim School (CA); Katherine what might drive innovation in your school part of school programs. Explore all facets of Dinh, Prospect Sierra School (CA); Jayne or classroom? Passionate, experienced service learning, from engagement with local Geiger, Far Hills Country Day School (NJ); workshop leaders will guide you through the refugee and immigrant communities to in- William Hannum andelled Sara Schwartz, design process as we collectively uncover the depth trips abroad. Engage in lively discus- Schwartz Hannumc PC (MA); Roger Weaver, issues, identify questions for inquiry, work as sions and videos on social action, authentic The Weaver Group (CA) teams to ideate and prototype, challenge one service learning, student-led projects, and Can another with results, and leave with toolkits the role of proper planning and reflection. W16 A Practical Guide to for change. Bring your ideas and your knowledge! Developing a 21st Century PRESENTERS: Laura Deisley, The Lovett School PRESENTERS: Paul Miller, NAIS (DC); Learning Community (GA); Trung Le, Cannon Design (IL); Christian panel of NAIS member schools Room 211 Long, Cannon Design / The Third Teacher Plus Make your school a model for 21st century (OH); Jeff Sharpe, Be Playful Design (TX) W14 The New Normal: Rethinking learning. Using interactive and engaging 21st Technology Leadership in a century pedagogy, a team from an award- W19 Educating Global World of Ubiquitous Access winning “School of the Future” in will Citizens: Innovation, Room 608 lead groups of teachers and administrators Imagination, and Inspiration Rethink assumptions about technology through the process in three areas: program Room 2b leadership and implementation given and assessment, technology, and building This intensive conflict resolution simulation evolving innovations in digital tools and adult professional learning communities. will enable you to think in more critical, practices. Learn how the spread of 1:1 PRESENTERS: Kate Mulligan, Marc Saks, and creative, and collaborative ways about devices, cloud-based ubiquitous access, and Adrienne White, Hualali Academy (HI); John teaching global citizenship in your school. an emphasis on natural integration impact Blossom, Parker School (HI) Plus, learn to prevent conflict in ways that the “business” of schools. Explore alternative awaken moral reasoning and impart social leadership models that support innovations W17 Best Practice in and civic skills that you can apply to myriad in teaching and the role of technology. Neurodiversity facets of independent school life. PRESENTERS: Howard Levin, Schools of the Room 3a PRESENTERS: Carl Hobert, Axis of Hope (MA); Sacred Heart — Convent & Stuart Hall (CA); Discover why neurological research should Robert Greene, Marin Country Day School (CA) Antonio Viva, Walnut Hill School for the Arts inform classroom practice to maximize the (MA); Keith Gillette, Lake Forest Country success of students who learn differently W20 Systems Thinking, Day School (IL) by rejecting the traditional “deficit model.” System Dynamics, and Thinking differently about how we learn Sustainability challenges traditional ideas of academic PRESENTERS: Dexter Chapin, Melinda Mueller, ability and leads us to teach differently. Paul Newton, and Marta Zuluaga, Seattle PRESENTERS: Alison Gammage, National Academy (WA) elled Cathedral School (DC); Katherine Schantz, c The Lab School of Washington (DC) Can

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Join us for an educational town hall meeting with both NAIS Meeting Annual Conference and National Business Officers Association (NBOA) Symposium attendees. This year we’ll explore the theme Doing Well by Doing Good: The Green Future. Inspired by Sponsored by TIAA-CREF expert keynote speakers, we’ll learn how independent schools Supported by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation can further their commitment to environmental and financial sustainability through a better understanding of renewable energy, green design, and healthier food. One-hour workshops related to these topics will follow the featured presenters.

DANIEL M. KAMMEN Chris Hellstern GARY GIBERSON As the World Bank Group’s chief technical and Stacy H. Smedley A professional chef for nearly 30 years, Gary specialist for renewable energy and energy Both associates at KMD Architects, Chris Giberson is a leading innovator in sustainable efficiency, Daniel M. Kammen provides Hellstern and Stacy H. Smedley cofounded dining. He joined The (New strategic leadership on policy, technical, the firm’s internal Sustainability Committee Jersey) as executive chef in 1998, and started and operational fronts. He is also the Class in order to foster sustainable practices as developing the school’s sustainable dining of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy one of the firm’s core principles. Dedicated program in 2003. In 2007, he founded the food at the University of California, Berkeley. He to work that benefits the community, they service company Sustainable Fare, LLC, with a is the founding director of the Renewable collaborate on exciting new LEED designs focus on integrating sustainable food systems. and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), and construction. Most recently at KMD, Giberson has earned the certified executive co-director of the Berkeley Institute of he finished the design and construction chef designation from the American Culinary the Environment, and director of the administration of a pro bono Seattle project Federation and is certified by the state of New Transportation Sustainability Research Center. aimed to achieve The Living Building Jersey as a master composter. He is a member Author of 12 books, Kammen has written more Challenge v2.0. Smedley managed the of Slow Food USA and a Terra Madre U.S. than 240 peer-reviewed journal publications, first Living Building project in Washington: delegate (2006, 2008), a board member of Fair testified more than 40 times to U.S. state and a science building for a local private Food, Farm to School, and federal congressional briefings, and provided elementary school. She holds the LEED a Steering Committee participant for Farm various governments with more than 50 AP BD+C credential from the U.S. Green to Institute. Giberson has recently been invited technical reports. Kammen has appeared on Building Council and is considered an expert to join First Lady Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move 60 Minutes, Nova, and Frontline, and hosted in sustainable design. He is the first regional to Schools initiative and attended the 2010 the six-part Discovery Channel series Ecopolis. chair for USGBC Students. White House event.

18 Our terrific 20-minute keynote addresses will give you plenty of new ideas to help your school with its sustainability work. Read about our headliners below. KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

DANIEL M. KAMMEN CHRIS HELLSTERN GARY GIBERSON Voltaire’s Voyagers: Practical Steps and STACY H. SMEDLEY Have Your Sustainability to Build Human Capacity to Launch Building a Sustainable Future and Eat It, Too! the “Sustainability Generation” Sustainable design plays a vital role in What do certified organic, fair trade, In Voltaire’s Bastards John Ralston Saul protecting and preserving our natural locally grown, school supported wrote “10 geographers who think the environment. Learn key strategies of agriculture, seed to table, slow world is flat will tend to reinforce each designing green — creating buildings that food, composting, integrated pest other’s errors… Only a sailor can set them consume less water and energy while management, fair food, carbon footprint, straight.” Discover tools already in use using healthy, environmentally friendly life cycle analysis, and zero waste by households, schools, companies, and materials — and how doing so at schools have to do with sustainability? Let municipalities to increase productivity not only improves the environment, it food service become the jewel of your and reduce environmental impact. teaches future generations how to care school’s sustainability crown through Uncover how to equip a generation of for and respect our world. easy, cost effective additions to the sustainability sailors. dining and academic programs.

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Create a 21st Century School Building: Triple Bottom Line: How Greening Strategic Technology Investment Your School Makes Sense/Cents After you get a taste Room 609 Room 607 of the captivating 21st century schools must prepare students Greening your school is essential financially, keynotes, select one for rapidly changing intellectual work: programmatically, and environmentally. workshop to attend instantly accessible information; social, Explore how Head-Royce School became and continue the interactive, cooperative learning; multimedia a model green school focused on energy conversation. content and communication. Find out how efficiency, healthy operations, and to integrate technology into every pore environmental literacy. Discuss tools that and tissue of school operations and create document savings from incorporating sustainable school buildings appropriate to energy efficiency in all building operations, constant change. renovation, and construction decisions. PRESENTERS: Robert Mueller, Delaware Valley Presenters: Paul Chapman, Inverness Friends School (PA); Frank Aloise, Springside Associates (CA); Daniel M. Kammen, University Chestnut Hill Academy (PA) of California, Berkeley (CA)

Green Your Dining Service Designing Regenerative Room 615 Schools Is Possible Food is the perfect medium for integrating Room 606 sustainability education and practice in a Learn about the most stringent sustainability campus setting. Learn how Lawrenceville rating system in the world: the Living made its dining service a conduit for school Building Challenge v2.0. Hear from designers and public awareness about food choices, of Washington’s first Living Building how nutrition, performance, and sustainability in a team of professionals donated time to general. Examine economic and ecological create a living legacy for future generations. costs as well as the impact on sustainability Uncover the design responses and solutions awareness and education. to achieving a building with net-zero water Presenters: Elizabeth Duffy, Gary Giberson, and net-zero energy, as well as the rigorous and Samuel Kosoff, The Lawrenceville materials requirements. School (NJ) PRESENTERS: Chris Hellstern and Stacy Smedley, KMD Architects (WA); Mike Saxenian, (DC) These events or programs require registration or tickets. 19 one-hour workshops

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6:30 AM – 6:00 PM 8:00 – 9:30 AM 9:30 – 10:00 AM Registration / Information Opening General Session Break Booth Open with Bill Gates Level 4, South Lobby Room 4A 10:00 – 11:00 AM Featured Workshop Musical Performance by The Northwest 6:45 – 7:45 AM with Soraya Darabi School (Washington) Coffee Break Room 6E Level 4, South Lobby Remarks by Dow Constantine, Introduction by Pam Dreisin, head of King executive school, French American International 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM School (Oregon), and 2012 NAIS Annual Remarks by Patrick F. Bassett, 4:30 – 6:00 PM Conference Think Tank member. See president, NAIS Exhibit Hall, NAIS Bookstore, and Darabi’s bio on page 6. Member Resource Center Open Introduction by Bernie Noe, head of Room 4E school, Lakeside School (Washington), In the exhibit hall, meet hundreds of 2012 NAIS Annual Conference Think companies and nonprofit organizations Tank member, and NAIS board member that support independent schools. Visit Remarks by Bill Gates the Member Resource Center to see demonstrations of NAIS online tools and Presentation of the learn about NAIS member benefits and Klingenstein Leadership Award School and Student Services (SSS By See Gates’ bio on page 4. NAIS). Remember to stop by the NAIS Bookstore to buy books by many of the outstanding conference speakers, Sponsored by The Klingenstein Fund, Inc. as well as numerous NAIS books and issues of Independent School.

The NAIS Annual Conference: A Team Experience

NAIS believes that for successful organizations, leadership development is only partly about individual professional development — and ultimately about team development. As you consider teaming, we urge you to: (1) bring a team to professional development opportunities, such as the NAIS Annual Conference; (2) plan your time at the Annual Conference as a collective unit and strategize how to best utilize the team’s experience; and (3) take time to outline your expectations of the team at the conference and mentor your team to help them network, participate fully, and report back on lessons learned. There are plenty of nooks around the convention center or Seattle coffeehouses and cafes nearby to gather and chat about what each of you has learned today! 21 block 1 TTThhurhurursssddaydayay

10:00 – 11:00 AM QR Codes, Mobile, and More: Latinos in Independent Schools: One-Hour Workshops, Block 1 Connecting Online with We’ve Found Them, Now How Your Community Do We Embrace? Room 205 Room 206 QR codes. Mobile pages. Mash-ups. College educated parents show the Communications Customized portals. Castilleja’s Head greatest interest in sending their children and Advancement of School Nanci Kauffman and Website to independent schools. By 2015, Latinos Manager Jamie Sullivan, along with are expected to account for 21 percent of finalsite’s President and Founder Jon Moser, U.S. children, but only 13 percent of these Advancement Solutions: share how the school and others are pushing Latino children will be raised by college Strategic Programming for the envelope with online tools that inform educated parents. Join us to study Latino Small Development Shops and engage. Uncover how to customize and demographics and cultural habits, then Room 620 deliver content effectively and much more. brainstorm ways to market to and retain The challenge: Build and sustain a robust PRESENTERS: Jon Moser, finalsite (CT); Nanci Latino families. philanthropy program in a highly competitive Kauffman and Jamie Sullivan, Castilleja PRESENTERS: Sandra Chapman, Little Red “post-bubble” economy. See what it takes to School (CA) School House and Elisabeth Irwin High run top-notch advancement programs in even School (NY); Lillian Imbelli, Loyola School the smallest offices. Return to school ready to (NY); Zenaida Muslin, Bank Street School put practical ideas and strategic solutions to Governance for Children (NY) work confidently in your own shop. PRESENTERS: Starr Snead, Advancement Planned Giving: Your Approach, Connections (SC); Shelley Reese Cornish, Gift Types, and Techniques Most The Learning Center for the Deaf (MA) Building a Better Headship: The Advantageous to Donors Important Role of Board Succession Room 304 Communicating Academic Rooms 307 – 308 Effectively approaching donors regarding Value Through the Arts: The head-board relationship is critical the best planned gifts in this low-interest rate An Innovative to a healthy school. While tremendously environment can impact fund-raising. Tax Rebranding Process impacting his or her success, this savings play a major role when considering Room 211 relationship is unfamiliar to a new head the right giving technique. Join us to identify Longitudinal studies indicate creative of school. Examine tactical transition the types of gifts and giving techniques that thinking has a higher correlation to planning, particularly the first three years, encourage giving and offer the greatest achievement in life than IQ. Creative thinkers including strategies to cultivate trustee economic benefit to your donors. will be in even greater demand in the future. leadership, assess needs of a new head of PRESENTERS: Doug Rothermich, Christine But how do you convince parents who are school, and foster board-head partnership. Kolm, Ero Johnson, and Michael Collins, so tied to SAT and ACT scores that the arts PRESENTERS: Kim Wargo, The Hockaday TIAA-CREF (CO) programs you offer will better prepare School (TX); Reveta Bowers, The Center for students for the world they will inherit? Early Education (CA); Peter Folger, Santa Learn how to evaluate internal and external Catalina School (CA); Virginia Paik, Live Oak perception, and create a strategic plan based School (CA); Mark Stanek, on these neutral third-party assessments, (MA); Irvenia Waters, Lick-Wilmerding High to do just that. School (CA) PRESENTERS: Melissa Brookes and Pamela , The Chicago Academy for the Arts (IL); Mike Connor, Connor Associates (CA) One-hour Workshops Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability 10:00 – 11:00 AM Global Sustainability Thursday Programmatic Sustainability TThurhurssdayday Daily Work of School Leaders

Strategic Planning The Changing Model Strategic Directions Reframed: for Sustainability: of Head Evaluation: Building Five Goals, Five Teams, Five Years A Future Imperative a Useful Process Room 2b Room 201 Room 3a Hear how Sewickley Academy leaders are According to a recent NAIS survey, While good practice dictates that heads shifting their community from a successful “lack of planning” makes it harder to receive a thoughtful yearly evaluation from traditional school model to a dynamic, implement environmental stewardship at least the board of trustees, in reality inquiry-based model. Learn how the and sustainability. Explore the benefits there is a very broad spectrum of evaluation process impacts board leadership, mission- and challenges of good planning, with methods. Discuss how to maximize the driven academic program, pedagogy, case stories from Rye Country Day and usefulness of this process and explore new assessment, professional development, and . Learn a step-by-step models emerging from higher education. college admission. Return to school with process for strong sustainability planning PRESENTERS: Judith Schechtman and Marc multiple resources. on your campus. Frankel, Triangle Associates (MO); Michael PRESENTERS: Claudia Gallant, Kolia O’Connor, PRESENTERS: Wynn Calder, Sustainable Schools, Davis, Colorado Academy (CO) and Lisa Giusti, Sewickley Academy (PA) LLC (MA); Catherine Bischoff and Scott Nelson, (NY); Schools of the Future: Bringing Stress Reduction Michael Carroll, Worcester Academy (MA) Ethical Excellence to Your School Through Mindfulness Room 2a Room 4c – 1 In 2010, NAIS published A Guide to Discover what mindfulness is and how you Leadership Becoming a School of the Future, featuring can use it both personally and professionally development seven sets of “essential capacities.” Under to reduce stress. Through discussion and the guidance of leaders from two national practical exercises, experience simple organizations, gain practical steps your techniques for increasing mindfulness, while A 21st Century Global school can take to meet Schools of the exploring the physiological responses of the Leadership Model: International Future standards in the area of Integrity body to both stress and relaxation. Emerging Leaders and Ethical Decision Making. PRESENTERS: Diane Hetrick, Swedish Medical Room 3b PRESENTERS: David Streight, Center for Spiritual Center (WA); Gail Suitor, Long Trail School Collegiate School hosted the International & Ethical Education (OR); Paula Mirk, Institute (VT); Lisa Zeller, The Community School of Emerging Leaders Conference in Richmond for Global Ethics (ME) Naples (FL) and Washington, DC. Students and teachers from around the world worked with internationally known scholars and business leaders. Discover the potential of this model for teaching 21st century Remember to wear leadership skills and significantly expanding a school’s global vision and footprint. your conference PRESENTERS: Ralph Davison, Carney, Sandoe & Associates (NC); Keith Evans and Clare badge at all times. Sisisky, Collegiate School (VA)

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The Tip of the Iceberg: Who’s Really Teaching Our Kids? Institutional Citizenship: A New Lessons from the First Year The Importance of Intentional Look at Diversified Leadership in Administration School Cultures Room 619 Room 618 Room 4c – 3 Diversified leadership based on a culture Hear five new administrators reflect on their Good schools create intentional cultures of institutional citizenship and interpersonal first year out of graduate school and return within their student communities. However, relationships, integrated into important to questions essential to leadership: How do educators increasingly feel challenged by decision-making settings, can create a our philosophies shape our practice? How the power of the general culture transmitted more dynamic community that echoes our do our experiences continue to influence our to our kids through the Internet, media, and increasingly global existence. Join us as we philosophies? How does critical reflection other influences. Join us to share examples of explore how St. James’ Episcopal School has energize and stimulate an educational intentional cultures in our schools and in yours. sustained a vibrant community with diversity leader’s commitment to 21st century PRESENTERS: Ellen Taussig, The Northwest on multiple levels. education and school mission and vision? School (WA); Lucinda Lee Katz, Marin Country PRESENTER: Angelina Arrington, Saint James’ PRESENTERS: Megan Howard, Trinity School Day School (CA) Episcopal School (CA) (GA); Annemarie Bacich, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy (CA); Jeremy Birk, United Seven Years Later: Nations International School (NY); Bill Management Lawrenceville Sustainability 2.0 Hulseman, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Room 303 Heart (MD); Belinda Nicholson, The School at Reflect on the experience guiding (NY) Lawrenceville’s Green Campus Initiative Financial Aid and the Recession: and hear suggestions as Lawrenceville moves Trends in Independent How Did We Do? into a new phase of campus sustainability Schools 2012 Room 4c – 4 that includes enhanced campus systems, Room 4c – 2 Schools have weathered the storm of an stronger academic links, and innovative Explore the latest trends in independent unprecedented economic recession. So solutions to campus problems. Use schools as identified by NAIS staff how did we do? Let’s look back at several sustainability as the frame to discuss land, and featured in the new 2011–2012 years of data and share the stories of waste, and energy management. NAIS Trendbook. schools that took noteworthy steps in the PRESENTERS: Samuel Kosoff, The Lawrenceville PRESENTERS: Donna Orem, Susan Booth, and face of the economic crisis. School (NJ); Gary Giberson, Sustainable Fare Amada Torres, NAIS (DC) PRESENTER: Mark Mitchell, NAIS (DC) at The Lawrenceville School (NJ)

Smart Hiring: What Every School Head Should Know and Do Pre- and Post-Hiring Room 603 In today’s tough economic climate, all independent schools face an increased likelihood that they will deal with all manner of employment-related claims. Find out how to design and implement policies and procedures that lead to effective hiring, and after hire Maximize your NAIS member benefits. detection and effective handling of issues to Stop by the NAIS Member Resource Center in the exhibit minimize costly employment litigation. 24 hall for timely tips on tools and resources created specifically PRESENTER: Howard Kurman, Offit Kurman (MD) for independent schools. 2424 One-hour Workshops

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Tread Lightly! Create a Disruptive Innovations: Rethinking Schedules by Engaging Sustainability Plan for Your Lessons Learned from in New Modes of Learning School and Campus Mobile Learning Devices Room 204 Room 604 Room 607 As online tools become more useful for While sustainability is not a new concept, Michael Horn dared the NAIS community teaching and learning outside of classrooms, many schools don’t know where to start. to prepare for “disruptive innovations” in schools can start to leverage them to Discover how to integrate sustainable the classroom and how they will change create more flexible schedules. Explore practices into the culture and operations how the world learns. Cloud-based mobile how offering reverse, blended, and/or of your school, looking at capital projects, computing devices — powered by Apple’s online courses can affect school schedules operations, and curriculum. Using a school iOS and Google’s ChromeOS — can and offer more flexibility for teachers and in Washington, DC, as a model, learn how to create student-centered classrooms. students, as well as more open classrooms reduce your school’s footprint. Discover how three schools leveraged the for face-to-face learning. PRESENTERS: Wirt Winebrenner and Tom Spies, opportunities and challenges to meet PRESENTERS: Molly Rumsey, Harpeth Hall School Hord Coplan Macht (MD); Clayton Lewis, the needs of their communities. (TN); Barbara Fishel and Cathy Murphree, The Washington International School (DC) PRESENTERS: Jim Bologna, Eryn Hoffman, and (TX) Larisa Showalter, Windward School (CA); Matthew Peskay, KIPP LA Schools (CA); Eric The classroom Walters, Marymount School (NY) experience Schools of the future workshop Global Studies: Critical Thinking, Civic Understanding, Tools at Schools: Teaching Design 1:1 iPad Program for and Economic Dynamism Thinking in Schools Elementary Students Room 608 Room 609 Room 606 Using Naussbaum’s Not For Profit: Why The classroom for kids. Designed by Saint Mark’s School launched a successful 1:1 Democracies Need the Humanities (2010), kids. Tools at Schools is an initiative to iPad program for elementary students. Hear we’ll connect global education and the teach students the value of design as how the school financed and implemented liberal arts to President Obama’s call for a problem-solving tool. Students were the program. Faculty will share apps that more STEM training to promote economic immersed in the entire design process, easily integrate and fold into the curriculum, growth. Review examples from classes and from research to ideation to 3-D modeling offer project-based learning techniques, and student trips that demonstrate how study and ultimately launch ­— eventually lead hands-on exploratory tablet time. in the humanities prepares students to producing prototypes of a desk, chair, PRESENTERS: Doreen Oleson and Richard Harris, optimize training in science and technology. and locker of the future. Join us to Saint Mark’s School (CA) PRESENTERS: Jack Creeden, School Year investigate this imaginative innovation. Abroad (MA); Susan Carrese, Fountain Valley PRESENTERS: Don Buckley, Rinat Aruh, and School of Colorado (CO); Paul Kim, Colorado Kim Lane, The School at Columbia University Academy (CO) (NY); Johan Liden, Aruliden (NY)

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11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Developing Volunteer Exhibit Hall Grand Opening Leadership Governance and Complimentary Lunch Room 603 Room 4E Explore the tools and approach designed to create a professional development program 12:00 – 1:00 PM for your volunteer leadership team. Investigate Avoiding Legal Pitfalls When Featured Workshop with adapted theories in order to better understand Investigating Harassment Raymond Yan the importance of connecting volunteer and Bullying Complaints Room 6E services with your mission — leading to the Room 604 Introduction by Marty Jones, director of creation of efficient, effective action plans for Independent schools must conduct a meaningful marketing and communications, Oregon volunteer committees. investigation when faced with a complaint Episcopal School (Oregon), and 2012 NAIS PRESENTER: Michael Larson, The (TX) involving pupil-to-pupil harassment, intimidation Annual Conference Think Tank member. or bullying. Explore the legally proper way to See Yan’s bio on page 6. Maximizing Video in Your School’s conduct this investigation — one that not only Communication Strategy protects the individuals involved but also holds Room 211 up in a court of law if the matter is litigated. Video is one of the most important components PRESENTER: Marc Zitomer, Schenck, Price, Smith 12:00 – 1:00 PM of your school’s communication strategy. While & King (NJ) One-Hour Workshops, Block 2 many schools have the tools and technology, they still struggle to get the most out of this Diversity and Cross-Cultural medium. Join us to go beyond the basics and Competency in Independent Schools examine what it takes to successfully implement Room 4C – 2 Communications and utilize video in school communication. Explore the state of diversity in independent and Advancement PRESENTERS: Travis Warren, WhippleHill schools, elephants in the room, and strategies Communications (NH); Curt Lewellyn, The on leading change in this arena. Using a (MA) cosmopolitan and appreciative-inquiry Building and Managing approach to global cross-cultural competency a Major Gifts Portfolio Transformative Communications: opens doors for discussing the subcultures Room 619 Advocacy, Admissions, in our country and schools. To grow operational funding, any organization and Advancement PRESENTER: Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS (DC) must rely on a strong and well managed Room 303 process to engage its top donors. Learn how Discover how one school rapidly shifted its to segment your donor base, identify and communications and learn specific strategies structure separate and appropriate strategies to apply creative thinking and embrace new for your top 100 donors, define a clear path to communications tools to drive admissions. develop donor relationships, and find creative experienced a surge of and meaningful ways to meet the needs of inquiries in direct correlation with the your donors so they, in turn, can help meet school’s transformative initiatives driven by the needs of your mission. word-of-mouth opportunities and enhanced PRESENTER: Schuyler Lehman, Mission by new marketing, communications Advancement (TX) technologies, and social media. PRESENTERS: Lawrence Sykoff, Patricia Marshall, and Valerie Francois, Ranney School (NJ)

26 One-hour Workshops Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability 12:00 – 1:00 PM Global Sustainability Thursday Programmatic Sustainability TThurhurssdayday Daily Work of School Leaders

How to Find and Keep an How to Move Traditional Exceptional Board Chair Leadership Faculty Members to Innovation (or Mentor a Poor One) development Using Their Strengths Room 607 Room 608 Most board chairs are loyal, embrace the Innovations excite and daunt you at the partnership with the head, build consensus The Different Faces same time? How will you move traditional on their boards, and give passion and of Public Purpose teachers into new modes of teaching while time to the position (and money to the Room 201 keeping anxiety at a minimum? Get a school). How does a head (along with the Whether your school is steeped in the 10-step program for introducing innovative Nominating Committee) find and encourage tradition of public purpose or you are programs, activities, and instruction into that person to serve or continue to serve? investigating ways to launch a program at your school with an eye on inspiring rather How does a head or board handle a chair your school, this workshop is for you! Join than stressing teachers. either unwilling or unable to learn the role? us to share best practices and challenges PRESENTER: Jenifer Fox, Clariden School Find the enlightening answers in the true within each of our public purpose / service of Southlake (TX) case studies we’ll discuss. learning programs. PRESENTERS: John Littleford, Littleford PRESENTERS: Jason Gregory, Sage Hill Leading Diversity & Associates (LA); Joseph Cox, The School (CA); Steven Barrett, Wildwood Strategically: The Critical Haverford School (PA) School (CA); Christopher Ellsasser, Role of School Leaders Lawrence Academy (MA) Room 3a Innovative Strategic Planning “Success” requires us to link cultural for the New Normal in “Glocal” Service and competency, diversity, and inclusion to Independent Schools Collaboration: educational excellence. For schools to Room 4C –4 Innovative Approaches remain viable, we need diverse thinkers, as Strategic planning should become an ongoing to Preparing Citizens well as a strategic approach to push beyond process for boards and senior administrators. Room 205 conflict aversion to a culture that thrives Discover how Denver Academy utilizes an Emphasizing “glocal” citizenship and on fearless conversations and culturally innovative strategic planning process to strategic adaptation to emergent competent adult leadership from heads, define parameters for long-term institutional contexts, we’ll examine one school’s diversity directors, boards, and other allies. sustainability. Learn process, our key efforts to develop essential literacies and Explore your role in this success. performance indicators, and how this process competencies in its students through PRESENTERS: Robert Greene, Marin Country advanced our board and school. innovative programs — including Day School (CA); Diana Artis, The Pingry PRESENTERS: Kevin Smith and Edwin Callahan, international exchanges involving reciprocal, School (NJ); David Grant and Carla Lukas, Denver Academy (CO) collaborative service. Learn how to apply a The Potomac School (VA); Steven Jones, similar approach in your school community. Jones & Associates Consulting, Inc. (CA) PRESENTERS: Christian Harth, Julia Chadwick, and George Penick, St. Andrew´s Episcopal School (MS)

SUPER SEATTLE CELEBRATION of 50 years of NAIS Be a part of history! Share your thoughts on the most important contribution of the NAIS community over the last 50 years. Look for our Post-It Wall to participate! 27 block 2 TTThhurhurursssddaydayay

Regional Trends and Insights Wanted: Head of School — Parents Associations: Best Room 4C – 1 What You Need to Know Practices, Approaches, Hear three regional association directors Before You Apply and Structures discuss current trends, the latest issues, and Room 204 Rooms 307 – 308 successful strategies for schools navigating School heads face myriad challenges in Parents associations can be the lifeblood the new “normal” of the current economic their demanding jobs. With large numbers of a school — and they can also undermine situation. Learn from information gathered of heads planning to retire within the next the authority of the school’s administration across varying school communities in five years, what should a new generation and board in a year or less. How should these three geographic areas and find out of leaders know when considering the job? they be structured? How do you keep about successful solutions to the prevailing A three-year study of 100 school heads by them from going “off the rails?” What dilemmas for today’s school leadership. Columbia University’s Klingenstein graduate do other schools do? We’ll walk through PRESENTERS: Barbara Hodges, Florida Council students sheds light on the inner lives best practices, common practices, and of Independent Schools (FL); Douglas of heads. The results may surprise you. philosophical points for consideration. Cummings, Independent Schools Association PRESENTERS: Pearl Kane, The Klingenstein PRESENTERS: Debra Wilson, NAIS (DC); of Northern New England (ME); Meade Center (NY); Vikash Reddy and Margot Schou, John Lewis, The Gunston School (MD) Thayer, Pacific Northwest Association of Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) Independent Schools (WA); Gail Suitor, Long When the Walls Come Tumbling Trail School (VT); Lisa Zeller, The Community Down: MySpace, Your Space, School of Naples (FL) Management School Space Room 2a The line between on- and off-campus conduct is increasingly blurred. Cut Leading People Through Change through the hype and get meaningful Room 2b guidance related to the educational and Many schools are trying to innovate in ways legal ramifications that the Internet and that move their programs and curriculum social media play at your school. Learn how into alignment with best practices for the to create practical, enforceable policies 21st century, but that means change. Hear and get an overview of the shifting legal what one school learned about leading landscape, plus much more. people through an aggressive period of PRESENTERS: Michael Blacher and Donna change and innovation. Williamson, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore (CA); PRESENTER: D. Scott Looney, Hawken Katherine Dinh, Prospect Sierra School (CA); School (OH) Betty Winn, Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School (CA)

Inspirational, Innovative, Imaginative, Independent School Grads

It’s no surprise the following featured speakers are independent school grads:

Soraya Darabi Bill Gates Sarah Kay TJ Vassar The Blake School Lakeside School United Nations Lakeside School (Minnesota) (Washington) International School (Washington) 2828 (New York) One-hour Workshops

Find workshop materials and presentations TTThhurhurursssddaydayay 12:00 – 1:00 PM at www.nais.org/go/annualconference.

Integrating Art and Music Students Sharing Inspiring The classroom in Academics: Helping LD Ideas with Students experience Students and All Students Worldwide: TEDxYouthDay Room 618 Room 4C – 3 The Siena School specializes in teaching Imagine your students taking part in a Challenge 20/20: School students with language-based learning worldwide event about the power of ideas. Teams Solving Global differences, and integrates art and music Learn how a group of schools, from the Problems Together extensively into academic classes. Research Independent Schools Association of the Room 3b shows that art and music can help students Southwest (ISAS), organized TEDxYouthDay Join us to learn about NAIS’s Challenge learn more — and learn more deeply. events. Return to school with ideas and 20/20 program and find out how you can Discover creative ways to prepare your practical tips for setting up your own participate. Hear how various participating students for a rigorous college curriculum. TEDxYouthDay event. schools have structured their own projects PRESENTERS: Clay Kaufman, The Siena School PRESENTERS: Rhonda Durham, Independent as part of the program and view a demo (MD); William Stixrud, William Stixrud and Schools Association of the Southwest (TX); of the Challenge 20/20 Portal that Associates (MD) Chris Bigenho, Greenhill School (TX); Larry participating schools can use to create Kahn, (TX); Jason Kern, classrooms and collaborations to The Oakridge School (TX) communicate with their partner schools. Schools of the future workshop PRESENTERS: Ioana Wheeler, NAIS (DC); Technology/Internet Safety, Stephanie Flanigan and Christopher Imhof, Cyberbullying, and Sexting: Montessori School of Denver (CO); Martha Putting Imagination at the Center Is Your School Ready? Fox, (MA); Elaine Griffin, Room 609 Room 206 University School of Milwaukee (WI); Hathaway Brown’s Bill Christ teams with Proactively address Internet safety and Richard Mwenyi, Bududa Vocational Institute renowned innovation and leadership gurus cyberbullying in your school. Rely on (UGANDA); Kimberly Sivick, Springside to highlight one school’s reimagination advice from this expert who previously Chestnut Hill Academy (PA); Michael Furdyk, of K-12 education and its deliberate, worked in the attorney TakingITGlobal (CANADA) successful reinvention of itself. Learn about general’s office and for the state police. HB’s silo-busting Institute for 21st Century Join her to cover issues such as Facebook, Design Thinking: Fostering Education, entrepreneurial ideas that stand Internet privacy, cyberbullying, texting, Innovation and the Creative the test of time, and the exponential ROI sexting, and more. Prepare now to keep and Analytical Young Mind yielded by liberating creativity. yourselves and kids safe. Room 606 PRESENTERS: William Christ, Hathaway Brown PRESENTER: Katie Greer, KL Greer The 21st century is characterized by School (OH); Michele Rogers, Kellogg Consulting (VT) continuous and rapid change. This new School of Business, ; pace and dynamism demand new skills Catherine Steiner-Adair, CSA Consulting and levels of adaptability, creativity, and and Harvard Medical School (MA) innovation. Dale Dougherty, founder of Make magazine and Maker Faire and TED speaker, and Kim Saxe, long-time educator and design thinking pioneer, will inform and inspire you to prepare students for the future. PRESENTERS: Kim Saxe, The Nueva School (CA); Dale Dougherty, Make Media (CA)

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1:00 – 1:30 PM Shoestring Storytelling Break Communications Room 619 and Advancement Tie stories together using low-cost, high- 1:30 – 2:30 PM quality video productions. Come see how one Featured Workshop school created 12 three-minute video stories with John Medina Capital Campaigns from A to Z designed to honor its rich past, lively present, Room 6E Room 618 and remarkably bright future. You will leave Introduction by Wendy Nakatsukasa-Ono, Campaigns continue to grow and serve as with a template on how you too can tie your trustee and parent, University Preparatory the cornerstone for many organizations’ stories together on a shoestring budget. Academy (Washington), and 2012 philanthropic efforts. Examine every PRESENTERS: Susan Doyle and Thaddeus Bird, All NAIS Annual Conference Think Tank step in the campaign process, from early Saints´ Episcopal School of Fort Worth (TX) member. See Medina’s bio on page 6. campaign planning to the leadership gift phase, to the kickoff and final stages. Take a look at campaign preparation, phases of Governance a campaign, and post-campaign planning through the experiences of a campaign staff 1:30 – 2:30 PM in the final stages of a successful $90 million Speed Innovating sold out capital campaign. Beyond the Basics: Room 6C PRESENTERS: Joe Montgomery and Tom Generative Board Leadership There is no additional fee for registered Whitworth, Darlington School (GA) Rooms 307 – 308 participants, but pre-registration and The essential work of a board involves a ticket for this event is required since Clarity vs. Complexity: operating at three levels: fiduciary, strategic, space is limited to 180 people. See How to Find a Single Concept and generative. This interactive workshop page 34 for details. to Unify Disparate Parts will clarify the work at each level and Room 2B examine models of generative leadership How do you present the singular, compelling through case study analysis. Gain ideas for 1:30 – 2:30 PM idea of your complex school to varied building a culture of inquiry to help make One-Hour Workshops, Block 3 audiences and across media channels? Join your board more effective and visionary. Patti Crane of Crane MetaMarketing and PRESENTERS: Lee Quinby, Association of Head of School Tony Farrell as they share Colorado Independent Schools (CO); Ginny the process that helped the Schools of the Christensen, Strategy for Growth, LLC (PA) Sacred Heart San Francisco distill all four of their very different schools’ identities into The Board and School two words that said everything. Leadership — A Partnership PRESENTERS: Patti Crane, Tiffany Hendryx, to Solve Enrollment Challenges These events or programs and Lindy Patterson, Crane MetaMarketing Room 201 require registration or tickets. Ltd. (GA); Tony Farrell, Stuart Hall High In this time of challenging enrollments for all School (Boys) (CA) schools, what can members of your board of trustees do to help? Trustees, heads of school, and admissions officers, join a discussion on the role of trustees in enrollment management. Book signing events We will consider how trustees can play an Save time in line when you buy your active roll in recruitment and retention. book at the book signing, immediately PRESENTERS: Mark Fader, following the presentations on the (CT); Stephen DiCicco, Educational Directions 30 fourth floor in the South Lobby. Incorporated (RI) One-hour Workshops Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability 1:30 – 2:30 PM Global Sustainability Thursday Programmatic Sustainability TThurhurssdayday Daily Work of School Leaders

The Era of Value and Values: Ready for Allegations of Sexual Independent Schools Acting The Relationship Between Abuse? Managing Your School’s with Bold Ambition! School Brand and Tuition Liability and Reputation Room 608 Room 4C – 3 Room 620 What tactics can schools employ to weather The 1990s was a time of abundance for Recent headlines have schools revisiting the forces that cause heads of school and independent schools. All of that has how to investigate and report crimes and other administrators sleepless nights? How changed — many schools find it hard to meet abuse, stay in compliance, and do the right can strategic thinking produce strategic results enrollment goals and address skyrocketing thing. Hear experienced counsel and a head to help our schools thrive during challenging financial aid requests. Explore a series of of school discuss these challenging issues, economic conditions in competitive school brand valuation studies, conducted by NAIS from investigation traps to communication markets? Join the conversation as we in partnership with research universities strategies, drawing on their experiences, in challenge others to embrace the joys of across the country, to understand what the this lively, interactive dialogue. Take home a thinking and the courage to act! marketplace values, how people perceive best practices checklist. PRESENTERS: Joan Myers and John Kowalik, independent school brands, and what families PRESENTERS: Jerry Katz, Park School (MA); The Peck School (NJ); Becky Morehouse, are willing to pay for an education. Take home Sara Goldsmith Schwartz and William E. Stamats, Inc. (IA) new marketplace insights and strategies for Hannum III, Schwartz Hannum PC (MA) conducting similar studies in your own market. Integrated Strategic Planning: PRESENTERS: Donna Orem and Jefferson Turning Challenge into Opportunity Burnett, NAIS (DC) Leadership Room 606 development In June 2009, OES faced the challenges of Legal Issues for Independent an unexpected change in leadership and the School Trustees impact of the downturn in the economy. Hear Room 2A Creating Sustainable Education how in the midst of so much uncertainty, Join an in-depth discussion of the rights, Through Cultural Competency the school initiated a two-year process of obligations, and liabilities of new and Room 206 self-scrutiny, vision articulation, and strategic seasoned trustees in the areas of corporate Learn from the exciting experience of planning that reaffirmed a strong identity and governance and policy making. Cover hot a school that is fusing Education for declared an ambitious future. topics such as duties, standard of care, Sustainability and Cultural Competency PRESENTERS: Martin Jones, Kathy Layendecker, conflicts of interest, insurance, policy making in unique and powerful ways. We have and Thomas Wheelock, Oregon Episcopal best practices, HR, Whistleblower, and more. discovered that neither paradigm can School (OR); Andrew Ellis, Emma Willard PRESENTERS: Howard Kurman and Timothy fully exist absent the other; they must be School (NY) Lynch, Offit Kurman (MD) systemically linked pedagogically and conceptually to provide the best 21st century education possible. PRESENTERS: Robert Greene and Alice Moore, Marin Country Day School (CA); Jaimie Cloud, Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education (NY); Steven Jones, Jones & Associates Consulting, Inc. (CA)

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Keys to Innovating and Leading Re-Thinking Professional Data-Driven Decision Making in Independent Schools Development: Inspiring Using NAIS Online Data Tools: Room 4C – 2 Meaningful Teacher Growth What, When, Why, and How? If innovation is the spark, leadership is Room 3b Room 4C – 1 everything else that translates that spark Learn accessible descriptions of new and Why should you use data to guide your into usable light. Delve into the latest successful ways of approaching professional decision-making process? How do you decide science about the developing brain, development to ensure meaningful, on a benchmark group? Do you use different psychology, and group dynamics to continuous, and sustained teacher growth. benchmark groups for making different understand what it means for a child to Uncover how to make staff meeting time decisions? What data are available to you and step outside the box in order to innovate, into real PD time, ensuring that PD is the your boards? When are the data available? And and what it means for students and cake — not the icing — and turn diversity of how can you use all of the NAIS data tools to schools to support that innovation. knowledge into collaborative action. make the best data-driven decisions? Hear about PRESENTERS: Ted Fish, gcLi@Fountain Valley PRESENTERS: Zoe Donoahue, Richard Messina, the latest updates to the online data tools and School of Colorado (CO); JoAnn Deak, The Elizabeth Morley, and Ben Peebles, Institute learn how you can apply them to your school. DEAK Group (OH); Jeremy LaCasse, Kents of Child Study (CANADA) PRESENTERS: Monique Rush, NAIS (DC); Marc Hill School (ME) Levinson, Mid-South Independent School The State of School Business Officers (CO) The Push-Me, Pull-You Year: Sustainability 2012 Navigating Conflicting Demands Room 204 Fixing the Wage Hour Problems in a New Headship Drawing on school visits, interviews with Lurking in Your School Room 205 sustainability coordinators from across the Room 604 Some independent schools see the head’s country, and the latest NAIS Environmental The federal wage hour law (FLSA) continues first year as a chance for forward movement; Sustainability Survey, we’ll discuss the top to be a compliance challenge for independent other schools envision that first year as trends, factors for success, overcoming schools. Learn how to properly classify and pay a time for careful study. An experienced obstacles, and critical issues facing schools your employees to avoid stiff penalties under head and two recently appointed heads of the future. Take home new ideas for this unforgiving law. will discuss conditions that support change advancing sustainability at your school. PRESENTERS: Suzanne Bogdan, Fisher & and conditions that require assessment first PRESENTERS: Wynn Calder, Sustainable Schools, LLC Phillips, LLP (FL); Marifred Cilella, so that the school AND the head imagine, (MA); Paul Chapman, Inverness Associates (CA) The Howard School (GA) invent, inspire, and dream together. PRESENTERS: Donald Grace, The Blue How “Transparent” Do We School (NY); two head of school colleagues Management Need and Want to Be? Room 607 Transparency in the conduct of the independent school board is a controversial The Anatomy of a Lawsuit topic. How do we also preserve the need for Room 211 confidentiality and fairness, especially in the Get the inside scoop and lessons learned board’s dealings with the head of school? from one of the most talked about lawsuits Should the board go into executive session? in the last decade. Every major media How do we strike the delicate balance between outlet — from Vanity Fair to Good Morning maintaining trustee relations with constituents America — covered this matter. Find out how and engaging in arm’s length deliberations? the school survived without losing enrollment Transparency need not mean vulnerable. or position in the community. PRESENTERS: John Littleford, Littleford & Associates PRESENTERS: Jane Hulbert, The Jane Group (IL); (LA); Joseph Cox, The Haverford School (PA) 32 Kate Windsor, Miss Porter’s School (CT) One-hour Workshops

Find workshop materials and presentations TTThhurhurursssddaydayay 1:30 – 2:30 PM at www.nais.org/go/annualconference.

The “Real” Test: How to Doing Good: Building the Power up Your Writing Identify the Five Essential Bridge to Our Public Purpose Program for Digital Learning 21st Century Skills Room 4c – 4 in 21st Century Schools Room 3A Montessori School of Denver’s innovative Room 603 Although we live in a 21st century global approach includes mission-driven, Developing competent, creative, and quality society, we do not have an educational meaningful, all school projects that provide writers should be the major goal of a standard to define and assess these skills. points of integration for curriculum, school’s writing curriculum. Explore how an Find out how to identify the essential experiential learning, parent education, and online writing program supports instruction 21st century skills in a global society. service learning. Learn how a year-long and writing practice for today’s digital Discover how students and faculty of partnership with Freedom to Roam helped learners, helps set writing expectations color actually bring key competencies one school bridge the connection between and goals, provides a platform for revision, that when translated into an academic school and the greater good. and monitors progress through immediate context, recruit, engage, and retain more PRESENTERS: Stephanie Flanigan, Julie Bragdon, scoring and reporting. Plus, take home students and faculty of color. and Christopher Imhof, Montessori School of tips on structures for integrating writing PRESENTERS: JuanCarlos Arauz and Lauren Denver (CO) instruction within the literacy block. Toker, Marin Academy (CA) PRESENTERS: Louise Saladino, ERB (NY); Joanne Williams, St. Anne School (CA)

The classroom Schools of the future workshop experience 3:00 – 4:30 PM NuVu: Innovative Education for the Future Creating Curriculum Change Room 609 for Global Competence NuVu is a magnet innovation center founded INDEPENDENT MATTERS with Stephen in the 21st Century in 2010 in a collaboration between MIT Carter, Cheryl Crazy Bull, and Sarah Kay Room 303 graduate students and Beaver Country Day Room 4A What do students need to become School. Our goal is to spread a culture of Musical performance by Lakeside School leaders in a global society? Now in the creativity and innovation in schools while (Washington) second year of a five-year initiative, developing other essential 21st century Ursuline Academy of Dallas will share its skills. Examine the NuVu program and its Moderated by Albert Throckmorton, goals, strategies, and progress in creating impact on partnering schools. assistant head of school, St. Mary’s a new curriculum to help students become PRESENTERS: Peter Hutton, Beaver Country Day Episcopal School (Tennessee), and NAIS globally competent in the 21st century. School (MA); Saeed Arida and Saba Ghole, board member Explore how global competence can be NuVu Studio Design (MA) See bios for Carter, Crazy Bull, and Kay on strengthened at your school. pages 4-5. PRESENTERS: Birgitt Lopez, Susan Bauer, Rhonda Bush, and Erin Evans, Ursuline Academy of Dallas (TX); Judith Conk, Consulting for Results/Asia Society ISSN (NY) 4:30 – 6:00 PM Super Seattle Celebration of 50 Years of NAIS Room 4E All are welcome and dress casual. 33 Back by popular demand! Thursday, March 1 1:30 – 2:30 PM Room 6C speed Free to registered attendees IIInnnovatinnnovatinnovatinggg Leadership and Innovation sold out

Cut to the chase with NAIS Speed Innovating! It’s three mini-sessions in one devoted to Innovation in Schools. During this hour-long special workshop, you choose NAIS wishes to thank these the three topics that meet your needs best. In one room, 20+ presenters host pioneers who generously their own tables, leaving room for eight to gave their time and brilliant nine attendees to sit down and learn from ideas to plan the Speed the experience of an independent school Innovating session at the colleague. These intimate, 15-minute, information-packed “dates” will dispense Annual Conference. with the small talk and background of an issue — and focus on the important themes, Speed Innovating details, problems, and solutions. After 15 Planning Committee minutes of inspiring ideas, you’ll move on Eileen Powers to another speaker who will share insights Campbell Hall (CA), chair on your next favorite topic. You’ll meet a total of three innovative speakers who Susan Booth can address your most pressing needs. NAIS (DC) The cutting-edge ideas you’ll take back to Than Healy school will prove invaluable. Lakeside School (WA) Demetri Orlando NAIS Speed Innovating is Buckingham Browne & Nichols (MA) free to registered attendees, Jason Ramsden but space is limited to the first Ravenscroft School (NC) 180 people who sign up on the Hope Staab Punahou School (HI) Annual Conference online Jenni Swanson Voorhees registration form. Sidwell Friends School (DC) Gennifer Yoshimaru Brentwood School (CA)

These events or programs 34 require registration or tickets. Table leaders and topics include:

1. Authentic Doing: 11. Inspiring Faculty: Producing and Publishing Online Professional Development Digital Video Oral Histories Leaders: Kevin Ruth and Christopher Leader: Howard Levin, Schools of Wheeler, Tower Hill School — eSchool the Sacred Heart (CA) Network (DE)

2. Building a Diverse Community Using 12. iPads in the Classroom: Innovating the Responsive Classroom Approach Are We Seeing Results? Leaders: Margaret Wilson, Northeast Leader: Jenni Swanson Voorhees, Foundation for Children (MA); Tanveer Sidwell Friends School (DC) Alibhai, St. Paul’s Episcopal School (CA) 13. Making the Most of Personal 3. Communicating and Connecting Learning Networks with Social Media Leader: Demetri Orlando, Buckingham Leader: Jason Ramsden, Browne & Nichols (MA) Ravenscroft School (NC) 14. Microfinance for Schools: 4. “Crisis-tunity!” How Change Creates Financial Literacy Through Global Opportunities for Innovation Social Entrepreneurship Leader: Julie Faulstich, Walnut Hill School Leaders: Emma Totten, Royal Saint for the Arts (MA) George’s College (CANADA); Daniel Hong, Upper Canada College (CANADA) 5. Design Thinking for a Public Purpose: Innovation and Re-imagine: Ed 15. Open Computer Testing: Leaders: Laura Deisley, The Lovett School Authentic 21st Century Assessment (GA); Christian Long, Cannon Design and Leaders: Jonathan Martin and Scott Morris, The Third Teacher (OH) St. Gregory College Preparatory School (AZ)

6. Designing the 21st Century High 16. The Future of Textbook Publishing School: Questions and Directions Leader: Don Buckley, The School at Leaders: Hugo Mahabir and George Columbia University (NY) Davison, Grace Church School (NY) 17. Through the Looking Glass: 7. Empowering Parents as Partners in a Teaching and Learning in Reverse Digitally Rich 21st Century Education Leader: Thaddeus Wert, Harpeth Leader: Mike Walker, Punahou School (HI) Hall School (TN)

8. Exploring the Use of Distance 18. Turn the Inside Out: Learning to Achieve Financial How Leaders Inspire Innovative, Sustainability Collaborative Teaching Leaders: Andrew Klingenstein and Andrew Leader: Wanda Holland Greene, Slater, Edmund Burke School (DC) The Hamlin School (CA)

9. Global Online Academy: 19. Understanding Your Tuition Elasticity: A Case Study for School Innovation Lessons from an NAIS Pilot Study Leaders: Michael Nachbar, Global Online Leader: Amada Torres, NAIS (DC) Academy (WA); Bernie Noe, Lakeside School (WA) 20. Vygotsky and Video Games Leader: Soren Bergesen, The IDEAL 10. Independent Schools and Public School of (NY) Purpose: Their Work Beyond the Walls of the School Leader: Reveta Bowers, The Center for Early Education (CA) 35 one-hour workshops

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6:30 AM – 3:00 PM 8:00 – 9:30 AM ANNUAL CONFERENCE Registration Open 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM ONLINE COMMUNITY Level 4, South Lobby Exhibit Hall, NAIS Bookstore, and Enhance your 2012 NAIS Annual Member Resource Center Open Conference experience — join the online 6:30 AM – 5:00 PM Hall 4E community created specifically for Information Booth Open In the exhibit hall, meet hundreds of this year’s conference. Innovate and Level 4, South Lobby companies and nonprofit organizations collaborate with other educators as that support independent schools. you experience the many speakers and 6:45 – 7:45 AM Visit the Member Resource Center to sessions at this year’s conference. There Coffee Break see demonstrations of NAIS online are multiple entry points to ensure Level 4, South Lobby tools and learn about NAIS member that everyone can participate. Take benefits and School and Student advantage of interactive, connected 7:30 – 9:00 AM Services (SSS By NAIS). Remember read/write web tools. Not yet familiar President’s Breakfast to stop by the NAIS Bookstore to buy with blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and Annual Meeting books by many of the outstanding WizIQ, Netvibes, Diigo, and other Room 6C conference speakers, as well as communication tools? Don’t worry — numerous NAIS books and issues of this is your opportunity to explore and Independent School. learn in a safe environment. Go ahead, let your imagination engage in this inventive community of colleagues! Join the online discussions with fellow innovative thinkers in the independent school community. For more information on how you can participate, visit http://naisac12.wordpress.com.

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8:00 – 9:00 AM Strategic Philanthropy: Student Safety on and One-Hour Workshops, Block 4 The New Sustainability off Campus: Lessons Room 201 Learned and Shared Examine Ranney School’s planning process Room 206 and how philanthropy was linked to its Student safety, both on and off campus, Communications strategic vision for the future. Explore the requires anticipating the seemingly and Advancement details of how a focus on core fund-raising unforeseeable. Expert presenters will address principles is the foundation of a successful practical and legal solutions to the challenges development initiative. of student safety, including sexual assault From Great to Green: PRESENTERS: Lawrence Sykoff and Greg Hagin, incidents, international trips, sex offenders Leverage Existing Resources Ranney School (NJ) on campus, and a detailed checklist for to Green Your School conducting a student safety audit. Room 303 PRESENTERS: Sara Schwartz, Schwartz Hannum By growing expertise from the inside out, Governance PC (MA); Peter Quimby, The Governor´s schools can grow green schools from the Academy (MA) very roots of their community. Hear both the national perspective of this growing movement, as well as from one campus in Innovating the Strategic Plan Leadership particular that is seeing the benefits take Room 608 development shape, without going out of the way — or In today’s environment of uncertainty, out of the budget — to make it happen. unpredictability, unprecedented dynamism, PRESENTER: Emily Knupp, U.S. Green Building and substantive shifts in the educational Best Practices on Engaging Council (DC) landscape, the traditional strategic plan and Students in Social Change planning process are not useful. Together Room 4c – 2 Re-Thinking an Annual Fund: we’ll outline how to develop a “strategic” Spencer West speaks candidly about the How an “Annual Fund” Became strategic plan that is agile and adaptable, struggles he overcame after losing his “The Moses Brown Fund” yet sets a focused strategic direction for legs at the age of five. Living through Room 211 your school. stereotyping and bullying, his address After a number of years of stagnant growth PRESENTERS: Jamie Baker, Martin Institute delves into everything you need to know in unrestricted annual fund-raising, our for Teaching Excellence (TN); Mark Hale, about steps that can have a lasting influence development team (staff and volunteers) Greensboro Day School (NC) on a student’s life — resulting in measurable underwent a two-year journey to rethink our impacts from improved grades to higher annual fund. A fun, yet challenging process, Mission-Driven Sustainability self-esteem. we learned what our constituents really Room 603 PRESENTERS: Spencer West, Me to We thought about our traditional outreach Is your institution trying to find new ways (CANADA); John Godfrey, Toronto French and what we should be saying about our to be sustainable? In your programs, School (CANADA) annual fund. Learn how to put our new facilities, and operations? How can you help knowledge to use at your school and build evaluate and understand various initiatives a better annual fund. in order to separate the “greenwash” from PRESENTER: Perry Buroker, Moses Brown truly sustainable strategies? Join us for an School (RI) interactive conversation about aligning your institutional mission with best practices in sustainability. PRESENTERS: Peter Bachmann, JCJ Architecture (NY); David Patnaude, Riverdale Country School 38 (NY); Peter Lippman, JCJ Architecture (CT) OONne-houre-hour Workshops Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability 8:000:00 –– 9:000:00 AxMM Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

Global Online Academy The Evolving Standard of Room 4c – 3 Management Care for Responding to Online education allows our schools to Harassment and Bullying innovate in exciting ways. Hear from a Room 3a Global Online Academy teacher, student, The national standard of care for how board member, member school head, and Advancing Your Cause independent schools should respond the director of GOA about what it took to Room 4c – 4 to the increasing number of complaints start a new school and how it’s transforming Share “lessons learned” that can guide of harassment, hazing, and bullying is teaching, learning, and our institutions. any program or school on a path to social evolving. Our expertise will assist you in PRESENTERS: Michael Nachbar, Global justice innovation. Hear the experience evaluating whether your current policies Online Academy (WA); Jim Best, Dalton of creating innovative school-based and and procedures can withstand legal scrutiny. School (NY); Jake Clapp and Connie national programs, and explore your Return to school with practical strategies Ballmer, Lakeside School (WA); Rob Lake, capacity to leverage your assets and for prevention and response to complaints. Head-Royce School (CA) advance your cause. PRESENTERS: David Wolowitz, McLane, PRESENTERS: Jacqueline Smethurst and David Graf, Raulerson & Middleton Professional Powerful Approaches for Teacher Drinkwater, Wingspan Partnerships (CA); Association (MA); Dan Morrissey, Phillips Professional Learning Scott Bechtler-Levin, IdeaEncore Network Exeter Academy (NH) Room 607 (CA); Thomas Little, Park Day School (CA) Many schools lack the structure and culture Finding Socioeconomically to support the kind of job-embedded, Developing New Revenue Diverse Students Who Are sustained, collaborative teacher professional Through Summer Programming: Ready for Success learning that leads to improvements in 10 Guiding Principles Room 204 teaching and learning. Let’s focus on Room 4c – 1 Everyone wants to see greater diversity in how schools can transform their teacher Forward-thinking schools continue to the classroom. But what is the best way to professional learning by implementing diversify their revenue base through find socioeconomically diverse students practical, successful approaches common the creation or expansion of summer who will succeed in the competitive, in high-achieving nations. programming. The benefits are clear: academically-challenging environment of PRESENTER: John Murray, Saint James gaining new sources of revenue, extending an independent school? Join us to explore School (AL) the school’s brand, and furthering the the myriad benefits of close partnership school’s mission. Examine critical strategies with a placement organization. that will increase the likelihood of achieving PRESENTERs: David Allyn, New Jersey Seeds both financial and programmatic goals at (NJ); Nathaniel Conard, The Pingry your school. School (NJ); Elizabeth Duffy, The PRESENTER: Nathaniel Saltonstall, Beaver Lawrenceville School (NJ); Gordon McHenry, Remember to wear Country Day School (MA) Rainier Scholars (WA); Booth Kyle, Lakeside your conference School (WA) badge at all times.

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Inspired Leadership: Leading Exploring Femininity and from the Middle in 2012 in The classroom STEM: Girls’ Implicit Attitudes Innovative Ways! experience Toward STEM Disciplines Rooms 307 – 308 Room 604 Two experienced school leaders will facilitate The National Coalition of Girls’ Schools a discussion of the challenges and joys of Blended Learning: Design and Harvard’s Social Cognition Lab are leading from the middle, including attending Technology Goes Online exploring questions related to girls and to the messy, day-to-day business of school Room 3b STEM disciplines. For example, are there while keeping the big picture in mind. Looking for ways to redesign and critical periods in the development of girls’ For division heads and other middle level reenergize your curriculum or a single attitudes to STEM? Are there environments managers, join us to laugh, share, and renew. lesson? Frustrated by lack of class time to that help girls build resistance to PRESENTERS: Kathleen McNamara, Tuxedo Park accomplish your teaching goals? Blended stereotyping pressures? Analyze this School (NY); Barbara Kraemer-Cook, Marin learning provides an innovative solution by study with us to reveal essential data Country Day School (CA) using interactive online activities in addition to all who teach girls. to regular face-to-face class time. This PRESENTERS: Emilie Liebhoff, The National Social Media: What Every integrated instructional approach literally Coalition of Girls’ Schools (MA); Carlo Cerruti, School Should Know provides the “best of both worlds.” Harvard University (MA) Room 2b PRESENTERS: Linda Caleb, Kathleen Chaney Innovations in the availability, scope, and Craig Luntz, The Holton-Arms School, and use of social media by independent Inc. (MD) Schools of the future workshop schools and their faculty/staff, students, parents, and alumni have combined with a Bullying Prevention: A Year of changing legal environment to create new Consistency and Respect Innovative Schools, and complex legal issues for independent Room 606 Innovative Students schools. Assess the legal landscape and take Students learn best when they are in an Room 609 home a roadmap for navigating these issues environment that not only teaches but also There is no more important 21st century and reducing risk at your school. models tolerance and respect. Discover skill and mindset than that of innovation. PRESENTER: Caryn Pass, Venable LLP (DC) how in the span of one year you can design, To educate our students to become more implement, and provide school-wide innovative thinkers and doers, we must Uncovering Unspoken Messages: education around bullying prevention and promote more innovative school cultures. Listening for Parents’ True Concerns create a curriculum and culture that allows Drawing upon many recent publications, Room 2a for a much more consistent and aware including Steven Johnson’s Where Good Learn how to enhance communication with school community. Ideas Come From, we’ll share strategies parents by understanding unconscious PRESENTERS: Daniel Sweeney, Jackie Bradley, and tactics to accomplish this goal. and/or unspoken messages connected to Amy Colfelt, and Eleanor Peterson, Seattle PRESENTER: Jonathan Martin, St. Gregory parents’ self-esteem and anxiety. We’ll Country Day School (WA) College Preparatory School (AZ) discuss how to recognize unconscious motives in parents’ behavior and to intervene with parents more effectively. PRESENTERS: Wendy Winograd, Shelley Krause, and Sherry Riggi, Rutgers Preparatory School (NJ) OONne-houre-hour Workshops

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9:30 – 11:00 AM General Session with John Hunter Room 4A Spotlight on Innovation Musical performance by St. Thomas School (Washington)

Remarks by Patrick F. Bassett, president, Thank you to all the schools that shared their inventive programs to NAIS, and Marcia Prewitt Spiller, head inspire the NAIS community, especially: of school, The Children’s School (Georgia), ☞☞ Canterbury School (North ☞☞ Oregon Episcopal School and NAIS board chair Carolina) (Oregon) Introduction by Meade Thayer, ☞☞ Fayerweather Street School ☞☞ Prairie School (Wisconsin) executive director, Pacific Northwest (Massachusetts) ☞☞ St. Andrew’s Episcopal Association of Independent Schools, ☞☞ Lakeside School (Washington) School () and 2012 NAIS Annual Conference ☞☞ The Lowell Whiteman Primary ☞☞ St. Luke’s School Think Tank member School (Colorado) (Connecticut) Remarks by John Hunter Together we can imagine a new future for education. See Hunter’s bio on page 5.

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11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Featured Workshop and NAIS Diversity Leadership Award Honoring TJ Vassar Rooms 6E

Introduction by Bernie Noe, head of school, Lakeside School (Washington), 2012 NAIS Annual Conference Think Tank member, and NAIS board member Presentation by Patrick F. Bassett, president, NAIS, and Gene Batiste, vice president of school consultancy services and equity and justice initiatives, NAIS See Vassar’s bio on page 7.

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11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Giving out to Gain More: Reaching Parents: How One-Hour Workshops, Block 5 Leveraging Experts in Your School Understanding Your Audience Room 606 and Using Targeted Messages These days quality professional Can Improve Enrollment development is hard to afford, high caliber Room 205 Communications staff can become bored and look for new What motivates parents to select and Advancement opportunities, and marketing/outreach dollars independent schools? Does the way you don’t seem to go as far. Can you innovate and describe your school and its programs gain ground on all these fronts by cultivating attract different types of families? Delve into Blogging to “Learn How to Learn” a trainer/speaker/facilitator within your own NAIS’s recent research initiative, The Parent Room 4c – 4 school? Hear how two schools have found Motivations Study. Learn what parents value Explore the world of metacognitive success through this very model! and how you can keep enrollment healthy blogging or “Thinking About Thinking” as PRESENTERS: Rosetta Lee and Rafael Del by tailoring your communications to appeal a way for students to discover their own Castillo, Seattle Girls’ School (WA); Kapono to your target audiences. learning process. This iterative approach Ciotti and Betsey Gunderson, Maryknoll PRESENTERS: Myra McGovern and Amada Torres, to reflection is a powerful way to help School (HI) NAIS (DC) students improve their understanding of how they learn. Analyze the science Going Mobile with Your Website: Successful Gift behind metacognition and how it can be The Oakridge Story and Beyond Solicitation Strategies used in your school through reflective Room 2a Room 206 blogging. Plus, we’ll cover recent research How does your school’s website stack up A little experience is all you need to learn findings and specific examples from on a mobile device? The Oakridge School’s the positive language and mindset for K-12 and beyond. Director of Technology Jason Kern and enjoying gift solicitation and doing it well. PRESENTER: Chris Bigenho, Greenhill finalsite’s President and Founder Jon Moser Join us to design a successful solicitation School (TX) spotlight how mobile has changed the strategy, identify tips and techniques for rules of the game for the school website, training volunteer fund-raisers, learn how to Educator Authors: Writing an including the Oakridge story, mobile usage address donor objections, and work through Independent School’s Story today, mobile face and function, case a case study that provides an opportunity to Room 4c – 1 studies, and tips for success. put theory into practice. Do you have a school story to tell? Three PRESENTERS: Jon Moser, finalsite (CT); Jason PRESENTERS: Starr Snead, Advancement former school heads share their authorial Kern, The Oakridge School (TX) Connections (SC); Shelley Reese Cornish, The and editorial experiences. Listen, share, and Learning Center for the Deaf (MA) perhaps find inspiration to launch your own writing project! PRESENTERS: Peter Tacy (CT); Richard Barbieri, Facing History and Ourselves (MA); Stephen Davenport, The Athenian School (CA)

4242 OONne-houre-hour Workshops Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability 11:300:00 –A 0:00M – 12:30 xM PM Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

The Struggle to Be Green Leadership Governance Room 603 development Many schools have made impressive commitments to environmental sustainability, but how do you become How to Keep an Effective Community Collaboration a truly green school? In this session leaders Head of School for Learning and Change from The Evergreen School will share Room 3a Room 3b their successes and challenges on the As legions of NAIS and international school Explore an innovative model of community- journey to becoming green. Engage heads near retirement age, boards find based experiential and academic learning, in discussion and planning to advance themselves in an increasingly competitive from both school and partner perspectives. environmental sustainability in your market. So how can you hold on to your Uncover details of how and why the own school. effective head of school? Examine what it program was created as we share feedback PRESENTERS: Janet Charnley, Michelle takes to be an effective head by looking at with each other. Brainstorm how similar Harrison, and Meredith Lohr, The Evergreen the job and by exploring ways trustees can programs could be created in a range of School (WA) entice an effective head to remain at her different communities — including yours. or his school. PRESENTER: Annabel Lucy Smith, The American PRESENTERS: Ralph Davison, Carney, Sandoe & School in London () Management Associates (NC); Robert Kosasky and Anne Wallace, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (MD) How and Why Headship Has Changed Preparing for the Future: Room 204 Current and Coming Legal Issues in Leadership Several school heads, all of whom were new Legal Adventures for Succession Planning to the position in the fall of 2008, reveal Independent Schools Room 2b how expectations changed, processes Room 4c – 2 Utilizing your legal options in creating evolved, and skills developed in the wake Join NAIS’s legal counsel on a wild ride succession plans will promote smooth of the Great Recession. Plus, we’ll analyze a through the legal ghosts of the year past, transitions and position a school for the survey of the new heads class of 2008. as well as the up and coming attractions future. Learn legal methods that support the PRESENTERS: Christopher Post, The Boys´ Latin sure to impact schools across the country. departing head and incentivize the arriving School of Maryland (MD); Mark Fader, The What is hot this year? Social media? head, ensure good governance through Williams School (CT); Wanda Holland Greene, Americans with Disabilities Act? Wayward strategic bylaw language, and promote best The Hamlin School (CA); Scott Kennedy, seniors with litigious parents? Pull up a practice by creating policies that codify Norfolk Collegiate School (VA) seat to learn more! appropriate procedures for change. PRESENTER: Debra Wilson, NAIS (DC) PRESENTER: Caryn Pass, Venable LLP (DC)

Miss a Keynote Speaker? Let the Bloggers Fill You In. Don’t be surprised if the person sitting next to you is one of our Annual Conference bloggers, tapped to provide online insight in real time for both conference participants and those back at school. Visit www.nais.org/go/annualconference to link to the AC blogs. 43 block 5 FFFrridayridayiday

Dealing with “Sexting” Cases: Innovative, but Illegal: Wage Unlikely Allies: School Strategies for Minimizing Risk and Hour Misconceptions at Partnership Leads to Room 303 Independent Schools Innovations in Financial Aid Sexting cases are at the intersection of Room 211 Room 607 the disciplinary system, anti-harassment Creative payments for coaches, parents who Miss Porter’s School developed an law and policies, and the criminal justice work and volunteer at school, and additional innovative approach to managing financial system. Join us to discuss the intricacies of payments (or not) for aides who attend aid that partners the admission and police notification, handling and preserving overnight trips make this area of the law one business offices. Hear about our strategic evidence, conducting and documenting of the most perplexing. Identify the risks partnership and involvement of the board internal investigations, protecting students’ schools face everyday and discover creative in a Financial Aid Summit, which resulted rights, parental notification, policy issues, solutions that are within the boundaries in an examination of our institutional prevention strategies, and much more. of the law and your school’s culture. priorities and the development of mission PRESENTERS: David Wolowitz, McLane, PRESENTERS: Donna Williamson, Liebert Cassidy appropriate policies for allocating aid. Graf, Raulerson & Middleton Professional Whitmore (CA); Diane Rosenberg, The Nueva PRESENTERS: Liz Schmitt, Michael Bergin, Lisa Association (MA); Dan Morrissey, Phillips School (CA) Chetelat, and Kimberly Mount, Miss Porter’s Exeter Academy (NH) School (CT) Keeping Our Children Safe From Envisioning to Room 618 You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto: Implementing Global NAIS has published a new handbook on child Just What Does Tech-Savvy Mean? Programs safety in the wake of the Penn State crisis. Room 4c – 3 Room 201 The booklet, written by abuse prevention What happens when faculty and How does a school begin to develop new experts Anthony Rizzuto and Cynthia administrators move from one technology- global programs? Does it begin with a Crosson-Tower, provides general information rich environment to another? Can location? A theme? Or a vision? What and guidance to heads of school about we assume that skillsets will transfer programs should be offered and what about the issues and responsibilities involved in seamlessly? This doesn’t necessarily financial aid and health and safety issues? identifying, responding to, reporting, and happen painlessly. Share a case study of Join us for insights based on our vast preventing child abuse and neglect. one such more-complicated-than-we- experience in global programming. PRESENTERS: Anthony Rizzuto, Abuse thought (and often unintentionally PRESENTERS: Charlotte Blessing, Lakeside Prevention Consultant (MA); Nancy Raley, humorous) move and discuss how school School (WA); Siri Fiske, Chadwick School NAIS (DC) leaders can ease such transitions. (CA); William Fluharty, Cape Henry Collegiate PRESENTERS: Sarah Hanawald and Joseph School (VA); Kisha Palmer, Forest Ridge Trojan, Cannon School (NC) School of the Sacred Heart (WA)

CELEBRATe 50 years of NAIS Be a part of history! Share your thoughts on the most important contribution of the NAIS community over the last 50 years. Look for our Post-It Wall to participate!

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Find workshop materials and presentations 11:300:00 –A 0:00M – 12:30 xM PM at www.nais.org/go/annualconference.

Religion in Independent Wherever You Are, There You The classroom Schools: Innovations in Go: Engaging Schools with experience Multicultural Education Local Communities Room 604 Room 608 National expressions of intolerance against Public-private partnerships can happen multiple religious groups serve as a call to anywhere! Come learn how two schools Schools of the future workshop action for educators to build communities located in vastly different settings (one of respect and curiosity. Tanenbaum and urban and one suburban) engage their local Embracing Independence independent school partners will share communities in deep, meaningful ways. Through Innovation pedagogy, better practices, and tools from From innovative service initiatives to school- Room 609 our work together teaching students how wide campaigns, walk away with practical Berkeley Carroll is leveraging to respectfully explore the diversity of all models and knowledge that can be applied interdisciplinary approaches, partnerships people, including religious diversity. to any school setting. with universities, research, blended learning, PRESENTERS: Anshu Wahi, Tanenbaum Center PRESENTERS: Guybe Slangen and Catherine and a school-wide commitment to depth for Interreligious Understanding (NY); Cathy Hunter, San Francisco Friends School (CA); over breadth to inspire student learning. Ann Cramer, New York Interschool (NY); Robert Greene, Marin Country Day Freed of restrictions such as schedule, Jordana Jacobs, The Hudson School (NJ); School (CA) facilities, and standards imposed by Priscilla Taylor-Williams, Moorestown outside programs like APs, NAIS schools Friends School (NJ) can create entirely new ways of doing school. Find out how. Sustainable Campus: Aspiring School Heads PRESENTERS: Suzanne Fogarty, Brandon Clarke, An Innovative Welcome to our current 2011-12 NAIS and Christopher Moses-Jenkins, Berkeley Educational Experience Fellowship for Aspiring School Heads Carroll School (NY) Room 619 cohort and congratulations to our new Bertschi School’s innovative curriculum 2012-13 fellows! These individuals have and urban campus bring focus to the been selected to participate in the NAIS triad of place, learning, and practice as Fellowship for Aspiring School Heads Innovator’s Challenge it pertains to environmental sustainability program, a professional development Promotes Cross-Curricular and responsibility. Hear firsthand from program for individuals at NAIS Collaboration and Innovation a panel including students and explore member schools who wish to become Rooms 307 – 308 the relationship of program and the heads of independent schools. The Hear the story of how one school adopted Living Building Science Wing, a building program includes workshops, leadership an idea from Heidi Hayes Jacobs’ influential that brings learning to life, pushing assessments, a mentor relationship, peer book, Curriculum 21, and used it as the basis student thinking well into the future. and professional coaching, a series of for an Innovator’s Challenge. With clearly PRESENTERS: Stan Richardson, Brigitte webinars, and a focused school project, defined desired outcomes, the promise of a Bertschi, and Julie Blystad, Bertschi all throughout the course of one year. modest monetary prize, and time set aside School (WA) Part of the programming occurs at the for work, the challenge promoted significant Annual Conference. You, too, can join this cross-curricular collaboration and innovation network of aspiring school leaders and among the school’s faculty. Learn how your take your career to the next level. For school can benefit, too. more information about the fellowship, PRESENTERS: Penny Summers and Burns Jones, visit www.nais.org/go/fellowship. Canterbury School, Greensboro (NC)

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1:30 – 2:30 PM Innovation and Fund-Raising Stop Counting Fish! Use the Featured Workshop Potential: The Power of an CWRA to Align Teaching, with Dan Savage Advancement Assessment Learning, and Assessment Room 6E Room 206 Room 205 What is the role of creativity and innovation College Work Readiness Assessment Introduction by Rosetta Lee, faculty and in developing a school’s advancement (CWRA) staff, along with educators from professional outreach, Seattle Girls’ School operations? Discuss the benefits of tailoring Wildwood School, will discuss ways that (Washington), and 2012 NAIS Annual an institutional advancement assessment to independent schools can improve higher- Conference Think Tank member examine current fund-raising approaches and order skills (like critical thinking, problem See Savage’s bio on page 7. strategies, as well as operations and systems, solving, and effective communication) and explore best practices for how schools by connecting teaching, learning, and can plan for improved fund-raising results. assessment through authentic performance- PRESENTERS: John Lewis, The Gunston School based practices. Learn how to use these (MD); Greg Hagin, CCS (PA) tools at your school. PRESENTERS: Chris Jackson, CWRA (NY); Deb 1:30 – 2:30 PM Listening to and Learning from Christenson, Wildwood School (CA) One-Hour Workshops, Block 6 the Voices of Prospective Parents Room 211 Examine interview and survey data from a Governance study about how parents make elementary school choices. The data speak to parents’ Communications educational ideals and the trade-offs and Advancement they are and aren’t willing to make for an How to Survive (and Thrive) During independent school education. Get a unique the Transition to a New Head opportunity to look at your school through Room 204 The Five-Week Annual Fund the eyes of prospective parents. A head transition can take a toll on a school Room 620 PRESENTERS: Julie McCleery (WA); Pam community. Examine how to turn the Explore the strategy, implementation, and Lauritzen, Bertschi School (WA) transition into an opportunity to energize results of a five-week annual fund for the the school and build toward future success. families of The Fay School that has resulted Discover key actions to take in the year prior in 100 percent family participation and to, and in the six months following, the new significant increases in revenue for each of head’s installation, helping insure the new the past three years. The drive focuses on hire arrives prepared and connected shortening solicitation periods in order to PRESENTERS: Janice Chiles, The Northwest increase the natural cultivation of donors. School (WA); Will Hancock, Hawaii PRESENTER: Michael Larson, The Fay School (TX) Preparatory Academy (HI); Olaf Jorgenson, Almaden Country School (CA); James Wickenden, Wickenden Associates, Inc. (NJ)

Book signing events Save time in line when you buy your book at the book signing, immediately following the presentations on the 4646 fourth floor in the South Lobby. OONne-houre-hour Workshops Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability 1:300:00 – – 2:30 0:00 P xMM Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

Mission and Metrics: Folio: Faculty Evaluation Seeking Common Ground Grounded in Honest Dialogue Management Room 603 Informed by Real Data Can you quantify leadership? Is it possible Room 2b to measure the head’s effectiveness? Many school leaders seek a faculty evaluation Each school is different, but everyone will system that leads to real growth. Learn how Admission and Financial Aid gain a better understanding of the issues one school developed a web-based, data- Trends that Every School to consider when constructing modern, driven process that streamlined its approach Leader Needs to Know innovative, and effective head of school and inspired its board, administration, and Room 4C –2 goals, as well as appreciation of the evolving faculty to create an evaluation system that To help ensure your school is on a successful nature of metrics-based evaluation systems. other schools can easily adopt. enrollment management path, your PRESENTERS: Terry Macaluso, Eastside PRESENTERS: Timothy Fish, Kirsten Adams, and admission and financial aid professionals Preparatory School (WA); Skip Kotkins, Charles Britton, McDonogh School (MD) should be well versed in national and Skyway Luggage Company (WA) regional trends. Join SSS by NAIS and Moving the Mountain: Changing SSATB representatives for a walk-through Faculty Cultures from Within of some interesting and important trends Leadership Room 4C – 3 we’re seeing nationally in financial aid and development How do school cultures of “faculty autonomy” admission at our schools. survive in a world where education is PRESENTERS: Amy Hammond, SSS by NAIS changing rapidly? Look at how two schools, (DC); Aimee Gruber, Secondary School The Evolving Role of Head of a K-8 school in California and a K-12 school Admission Test Board (SSATB) (CANADA) School: Words with Heads at in Virginia, developed clear, forward-thinking Three Career Points strategies that prepare students for the Enrollment Management Room 2a future while maintaining high levels of faculty by the Book Join three heads of school — one in her autonomy and professional excellence. Room 4C – 4 first decade in the post, one in his third PRESENTERS: Alice Moore, Marin Country Day Engage in a lively discussion with the decade, and another who served as head School (CA); David Colon, Collegiate School (VA) authors of one of NAIS’s latest books, of two schools before leaving the role — as focusing on enrollment management they reflect on their sense of the changes NAIS Heads Equity and Diversity at independent schools. in the demands and rewards of the work. Seminar (HEADS) 2012 PRESENTERS: Christine Baker, The Baker Talk directly with panelists and take home Room 619 Group (MA); Monique DeVane, The College recommendations for follow-up reading. HEADS is a generative opportunity for Preparatory School (CA); D. Scott Looney, PRESENTERS: Claudia Daggett, Elementary heads of independent schools, senior-level Hawken School (OH) School Heads Association (MO); Chad Small, administrators, and teams of administrators The Rumson Country Day School (NJ); Clay to learn from each other about the important Stites, Resource Group 175 (MA); Angél Kytle, work of leading efforts to build and sustain Saint Paul’s School (FL) inclusive and equitable school communities. Preview the 2012 HEADS’s focus on building knowledge and skills in leading individual and institutional cross-cultural competency work in independent schools. PRESENTERS: Katherine Dinh, Prospect Sierra School (CA); Elizabeth Duffy, The Lawrenceville School (NJ); Gene Batiste, NAIS (DC)

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Entrepreneurial Spirit Student Interactions: Respect Using Outcome Data to Improve Room 201 the Boundaries or Pay the Price Academic Skills in Students Who The Lexington School formed an Room 604 Learn Differently Entrepreneurial Task Force in response to Student/adult interactions, whether in Room 4C – 1 Pat Bassett’s call for schools to research and person, on the phone, over a text, or on Analyze a case example of how to use test consider alternative revenue sources. The Facebook pose significant concerns and data to improve reading, math, and writing school has started several new ventures that often result in a loss of one’s job or defense in young children with learning differences. collectively provide hundreds of thousands of a claim. Administrators and educators, Examine data collected over four years at of dollars, strong brand recognition in the join us to better understand appropriate Lawrence School, an independent school for community, and opportunities for faculty boundaries to avoid liability. K-12 children who learn differently. Learn how members to grow professionally. Get the PRESENTER: Suzanne Bogdan, Fisher & Phillips, to use this information at the individual and details and learn how your school can LLP (FL) organizational level. innovate, too. PRESENTERS: Ethan Schafer and Vanessa PRESENTER: Charles Baldecchi, The Lexington The Transformative Diffenbacher, Lawrence School (OH) School (KY) School Schedule Room 3b Shrink Your Carbon Footprint Discover how a transformative school The classroom and Lower Costs! schedule empowered student learning — experience Room 618 both in and out of the classroom. Oil to biomass: good for the triple bottom Learn about the research, planning, line — kids, Earth, and financial health. and implementation process that shaped Character Mapping: A Tool Learn how one school in Upstate New York a schedule change to longer periods, for Literacy Development reduced its operating cost and carbon which resulted in lower levels of student and Social/Emotional Learning footprint by using locally produced biomass stress and statistically significant Room 303 for space and hot water heating. Get a achievement gains (by both subjective Learn a practical technique to make concrete perspective through the eyes of the business and objective measures). for young students concepts of identity manager, head, and facilities manager. PRESENTER: David Flocco, The Montclair development and role stereotypes. This character PRESENTERS: David Hochschartner, John Kimberley Academy (NJ) mapping lesson engages students in literacy Culpepper, and Betsy Smith, North Country tasks and visually depicts relationships among School (NY) feelings, actions, and societal messages. Discord in this schema leads to social and internal conflict, which children need support to navigate. PRESENTERS: Julia Smith and Chelsea Coussens, Corlears School (NY)

Maximize your NAIS member benefits. Educating Global Citizens Rooms 307 – 308 How do we prepare graduates for the rigors of life in this new century, equipped with Stop by the NAIS Member Resource Center in the an entirely new set of skills and capacities? exhibit hall for timely tips on tools and resources Based on principles of “global education” and created specifically for independent schools. “schools of the future,” we’ll share various project-based curricula that challenge students to develop innovative answers and actions. PRESENTERS: Hope Staab, Chaitanya Reddy, 4848 and James Scott, Punahou School (HI) OONne-houre-hour Workshops

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Ethical Education: Creating Measuring What We The What and How of Creativity Authentic Arenas for Student Value: 21st Century and Innovation Learning and Leadership Assessment Tools Room 608 Room 3a Room 607 As the clarion call grows for creativity and High achieving, innovative students may The experience of standardized testing in innovation, schools are often left with little sometimes wonder about ethics. What’s public education is a lesson on the pitfalls guidance for how to accomplish these in it for them? How can diverse school of “one size fits all” student performance urgent and necessary feats. Gain novel communities advance common ethical measures. If our schools hope to lead ways to understand what creativity is and values? Talk with educators from three the conversation about the skills the how you might foster it in your classroom different environments who have 21st century will require, we must become and school. Expect to leave with new emphasized ethical education through more sophisticated in measuring what we insight, numerous examples, and usable student leadership development, most value. Join us to explore examples knowledge. classroom teaching, and other arenas. of emerging assessment tools. PRESENTER: Peter Nilsson, Deerfield PRESENTERS: Colleen Kyle and Bryan Smith, PRESENTERS: Douglas Lyons, Connecticut Academy (MA) Lakeside School (WA); Michael O’Donnell, Association of Independent Schools (CT); (MA); Susie Wu, Andrew Niblock, Hamden Hall Country Day Rainier Scholars (WA) School (CT) 3:00 – 4:30 PM Closing General Session Personal Learning Environ- with Amy Chua Room 4A Schools of the future workshop ments: Creating Sustainable Learning Communities Musical Performance by Seattle Academy Room 606 (Washington) Game Design for Dummies PLEs include tools, communities, and service and Geniuses learners use to direct learning and pursue Remarks by Jack Creeden, president, Room 609 personal and educational goals. Placing School Year Abroad (Massachusetts), and Crafting a successful game involves students in the center of their learning incoming NAIS board chair systems-based thinking, creative problem environment provides a unifying concept that Introduction by Skip Kotkins, trustee, solving, a sense of art and aesthetics, as well can address a number of educational issues. If Lakeside School (Washington); chairman as engaging writing and storytelling. To be scaffolded properly, the PLE is a pedagogical and CEO, Skyway Luggage Company; successful, students must think analytically technique that can encourage many promising NAIS board member; and 2012 NAIS and holistically, experimenting and testing educational practices. Join us to learn how. Annual Conference Think Tank member theories, and considering others’ viewpoints PRESENTERS: Victoria Butler and Kathy Johnson, within their systems. Discover how to use Seattle Academy (WA) Remarks by Amy Chua game design as a great jumping-off point to See Chua’s bio on page 5. get to the heart of systems-based thinking. PRESENTERS: Monica Van Aken, Sherri Dodd, and Meg Kearns, Milwaukee Montessori School (WI)

Book signing events Save time in line when you buy your book at the book signing, immediately following the presentations on the fourth floor in the South Lobby. 49 join us in the EExhibitExhibitxhibit hhallhallall

Visit with more than 200 exhibitors to find out about new and NAIS MEMBER NAIS BOOKSTORE innovative independent RESOURCE CENTER Pick up books by many of the outstanding Featuring hands-on demonstrations conference speakers, as well as NAIS school products and of NAIS tools and services titles and issues of the award-winning services designed Visit the Member Resource Center to Independent School magazine. Plus, you learn about NAIS products and services, can buy speakers’ books at the book to meet your school’s including StatsOnline, School and signings. Save time in line when you changing needs in Student Services (SSS by NAIS), the purchase your book and get it signed Online Career Center, Demographic Center, at the same time! the 21st century. Independent School Survey Center, and Online Member Directory. NAIS Cyber Café Sponsored by LaptopSchools.com and Make room in your Annual Conference Lenovo, the Cyber Café is available in the schedule to stop by the NAIS Member exhibit hall and offers remote access to all Resource Center. Pick up a copy of 5 in 5: conference participants so they can stay Five NAIS Reports You Can Run in Less connected to their schools and families Than Five Minutes. While you’re there, while in Seattle. The café is available while learn from NAIS staff about StatsOnline the exhibit hall is open. Snapshots, enhancements to the Survey Center, and updated census data in the School and Student Demographic Center. NAIS staff and Services (SSS by NAIS) representatives from School and Student Stop by the SSS booth in hIGhlights! Services (SSS by NAIS) look forward to the Member Resource Center personally answering all your questions. for a guided tour of new ☞☞Member Resource Center enhancements to Comp*Assist Online ☞☞NAIS Bookstore More information about our tools and and a free whitepaper on protecting services is available 24/7 online at privacy in your financial aid office. ☞☞Cyber Café www.nais.org. We also want to welcome our first-time conference attendees and DON’T FORGET THE ☞☞Complimentary lunches new school members. We have some FREE NAIS RAFFLES! on Thursday and Friday great gifts to show our appreciation At the Member Resource Center, for everyone in the independent school enter the NAIS raffle for a chance to ☞☞Super Seattle Celebration community! Limited quantities available. win an iPad! To win come to the Super networking reception on Seattle Celebration in the exhibit hall Thursday evening on Thursday, where the drawing will take place at 5:15 PM.

50 Thursday, March 1 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EVENTS IN THE EXHIBIT HALL 4:30 – 6:00 PM Friday, March 2 8:00 – 9:30 AM ☞☞Grand Opening 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Thursday, March 1☞ Room 4E 11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON Join NAIS staff, Annual Conference participants, Please note: The exhibit hall will and exhibitors for the grand opening of the 2012 close during all general sessions. exhibit hall. Stop by for a complimentary lunch.

☞☞Super Seattle Celebration ☞ of 50 Years of NAIS Thursday, March 1☞ 4:30 – 6:00 PM All conference participants welcome. Let’s party in the Pacific Northwest! Join Pat Bassett and NAIS staff in a networking event where you can meet and greet friends, experience live entertainment, enjoy beverages and food, participate in live, interactive demonstrations, and enter our prize drawing. Together we’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary of the vote to found NAIS on March 1, 1962… and 50 years of innovation in our independent school community. Be a part of history! Share your thoughts on the most important contribution of the NAIS community over the last 50 years.

☞☞NEW! Exhibit Quest Thursday and Friday Play a part in this exciting, interactive game involving conference attendees and exhibitors. This voyage of discovery will take you on adventures around the exhibit hall in search of answers that can win you prizes. Designed and played online using any smart device, attendees can engage in this activity at their leisure while learning along the way. The quest will begin with the grand opening of the exhibit hall on Thursday at 11:00 AM and conclude at 1:15 PM Friday in the exhibit hall.

First Prize Two free registrations to the 2013 NAIS Annual Conference in Philadelphia, and two roundtrip airline vouchers. Second Prize Apple iPad Third Prize Kindle Fire

Prizes are not redeemable for cash, exchangeable for any product, or transferable to other parties. Exhibitors may not participate. Winners need not be present to win and all prizes will be shipped directly to the winner after the conference.

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520 A.W.G. Dewar, Inc. 424 Adelja Learning Inc. 715 ADT Security Services 737 American Red Cross 733 Anatomy in Clay® Learning

Cyber Café Sales Office Systems 326 Atomic Learning Exhibitor Services 853 12 Ayusa Global Youth Exchange 650 651 750 427 Bedford, Freeman & Worth 648 649 748 (BFW) Publishers NAIS 646 647 746 232 Better Chinese LLC Bookstore 644 645 744 429 Beyond Nines 508 Big Toys 642 643 742 843 613 Biospace, Inc. 411 Blackbaud, Inc. 139 238 339 438 639 738 739 838 714 Blackboard 239 Lounge 402 Bolton & Company 137 236 337 436 637 736 737 836 721 Brock and Company 135 234 335 434 635 734 735 834 633 The Cambridge Institute 133 232 332 333 432 433 533 632 633 732 733 832 607 Camelot Pewter, Co., Inc. 231 330 331 430 431 530 531 630 631 730 731 830 407 CampusQuest 33 229 CanAchieve Consultants Ltd.

229 328 329 428 429 528 529 628 629 728 729 828 32 Networking 328 Carnegie Communications

Center 31 227 326 327 426 427 526 527 626 627 726 826 139 CCS

725 30 225 324 325 424 425 525 624 625 724 425 Center for Evaluation 522 822 29 16 223 322 323 422 423 523 622 623 722 723 and Education Policy 28

15 121 14 Center for Spiritual 221 320 321 420 421 520 521 620 621 720 721 820 27 and Ethical Education 14

26 303 Centerbrook Architects 13

25 650 Change My World Now 12 24

11 115 214 514 515 614 615 714 715 814 430 Character Counts 23

10 29 CK-12 Foundation 113 411 512 513 612 613 712 713 812 22 420 ClassBook.com 210 NAIS Member 111 510 511 610 611 710 711 810 21 Resource Center 610 Clearly Filtered 109 208 409 508 509 609 709 808 20 133 Colonial Williamsburg

606 706 19 Foundation 107 206 407 506 507 607 707 806 18 321 Concordia Language 105 204 405 504 505 605 705 804 17 Villages 103 202 203 303 402 403 502 748 Confucius International Education — Confucius 101 200 201 300 301 400 401 500 School 838 Contrax Furnishings 428 Cornerstone by ImageTrend 836 Costa Rican Adventures 526 Costa Rican Resource 528 Council of International Schools

5252 Enter the prize drawings! Check the sign at the entrance of the exhibit hall for companies hosting prize drawings. Visit the exhibit hall! Learn about products and services designed for independent school professionals.

13 Council on International 400 Holbrook Global 651 National Student 739 Shaw Sportexe Educational Exchange Field Expeditions Clearinghouse 201 Sheldon Laboratory 729 Crow Canyon 625 Hothouse Media Ltd. 720 National Student Leadership Systems, Inc. Archaeological Center 724 IDville Conference 808 Silverpoint, Inc. 707 CulinArt Dining Services 639 infosnap, inc. 628 NETC 843 SIS-USA Inc. 623 CWRA 324 Inkling 202 New York Film Academy 515 Smith System 521 Dennis Uniform 208 inRESONANCE 333 Oak Meadow Curriculum 506 Snug Play USA 426 Discovery Student 644 Insight China International and School 631 Softlink America Inc. Adventures Travel Service 26 Ocean Classroom 647 Speakmandarin.com Foundation 325 DreamBox Learning 434 Interactive Data Partners 22 StoryCorps 712 Olson Lewis + Architects 511 Dynamic Data Concepts 746 International Baccalaureate 330 Student Discoveries 431 OrgSync, Inc. 25 Eastside Preparatory School 19 IslandWood 642 Sunshine School Fashions 335 eCampus.com 320 JCJ Architecture 500 Outreach360 (Formerly Orphanage Outreach) 621 Sustainable Horizon 504 Educator’s Ally Inc. 115 Joffe Emergency Services 620 Parker School Uniforms 713 Sycamore Education 810 Educators for Social 627 K12 International Academy 509 Taher, Inc. Responsibility 505 PCR Educator 612 Kendall Hunt 337 TakingITGlobal 814 EF Education First 438 Pennies for Peace Publishing Co. 709 TeenLife Media LLC 632 ELAN Publishing Company, 710 Pepperdine University 16 Kids’ Turn 18 Teton Science Schools Inc. 611 L4U Library Software 225 Praesidium, Inc. 329 Engrade.com 726 prepGATE Loan Program 820 Three W International 635 Lake | Flato Architects 433 TIAA-CREF 706 ERB (Educational Records 10 Lakeside School 522 QuaverMusic.com Bureau) 531 Top Ten Regalia 239 Lands’ End 736 QuickSchools.com 214 Eustis Chair 33 Trinity Western University 853 LaptopSchools.com 322 Qwizdom, Inc. 629 Evernote 615 True Grits School Uniforms 323 The Laurasian Institution 234 Rapid Learning Institute 738 FCD Educational Services 403 Ravenna Solutions 728 Tuition Management 637 Laurel Springs School Systems 422 Federal Deposit Insurance 20 Reasoning Mind Corporation 409 LearnBoost 626 University Child 510 Liebert Cassidy Whitmore 804 Rediker Software Development School 432 Fieldwork Education 210 RenWeb School 705 finalsite 227 Lock ‘n’ Charge 11 University of Miami Global Technologies Management Software Academy 221 Fisher & Phillips LLP 514 Longhouse Software 339 Responsive Classroom 327 VALIC 812 FlagHouse, Inc. 742 Magic Hour Communications 723 Rjenda.com 421 Venable LLP 405 Flansburgh Architects 436 Magnus Health SMR 606 Rowland Reading 614 Veracross by Breuer & Co. 750 Flik Independent Foundation (Student Medical Record) 512 Virco, Inc. School Dining 200 The S/L/A/M Collaborative 507 MBS Service 203 VS America, Inc. 725 Follett Virtual Bookstores 401 SAGE Dining Services Company, Inc. 624 WAT-AAH! 730 Foundation for 731 Me to We 27 SAGE Study Abroad Teaching Economics 735 Wells Fargo Education 101 Metz Culinary Management 17 SAIS 502 Furniture Options Financial Services 533 Mills Uniform Company 231 Saxton Bradley Inc. 744 George Mason University 646 The Whalen Berez 732 MIND Research Institute 527 School Issue Shoes by Group, LLC 523 Global Leadership Trimfoot Adventures 609 Minds Abroad 300 WhippleHill 223 School Office Services Communications 121 Google Chrome 525 Mirman School For Gifted Children 630 School Tours of America 734 Whizz Education, Inc. 204 H2L2 Architects / Planners 530 SchoolAdmin LLC 622 Music Together LLC 238 Williams-Sonoma, Inc. 711 SchoolFront.com 32 H2O for Life 423 National Association 30 Wisdom Thinkers Network of Episcopal Schools 645 SchoolMessenger 332 Handwriting Without Tears 822 World Peace Game 301 National Purchasing 806 Schoology Foundation, Martin Institute 21 Healthy Lifestyle Choices Partners 206 Schoolyard 529 Your Self Series 722 Heifer International 331 National SCRABBLE 605 Senior Systems 643 HMFH Architects, Inc. Association

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This list is subject to A.W.G. Dewar, Inc. American Red Cross Ayusa Global Youth change, and is current Booth 520 Booth 737 Exchange as of February 1, 2012. 4 Batterymarch Park 2025 E Street, NW Table 12 Quincy, MA 02169 Washington, DC 20006 600 California Street (617) 774-1555 (202) 303-5224 10th Floor www.tuitionrefundplan.com www.redcross.org/ehl San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 434-5550 Originators of the Tuition The American Red Cross offers Refund Plan. Providing the Exploring Humanitarian www.ayusa.org custom tuition insurance Law (EHL) to teachers. EHL A leading nonprofit plans and student accident is an international education organization promoting plans. Celebrating more program that explores the global learning and leadership than 80 years of service principles of respect for life through foreign exchange to independent schools. and human dignity. programs and study abroad opportunities, Ayusa is a Adelja Learning Inc. Anatomy in Clay® founding member of CSIET. Booth 424 Learning Systems 16 Centre Street Booth 733 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Concord, NH 03301 2198 West 15th Street (BFW) Publishers (603) 856-0072 Loveland, CO 80538 Booth 427 www.wordvoyage.com (970) 667-9047 300 American Metro www.anatomyinclay.com Heads of school, academic Boulevard, Suite 140 Hamilton, NJ 08619 deans, English teachers: Kinesthetic, hands-on learning (866) 843-3715 Word Voyage, our web-based system allows students to vocabulary and grammar build detailed body, muscular, www.bfwpub.com/highschool system, matches word study and skeletal systems on Bedford, Freeman & Worth to your curriculum and targets models using clay. System is (BFW) Publishers offers the each student’s needs. proven to increase retention highest quality print and and test scores. electronic resources for ADT Security Services AP and IB courses. Visit our Booth 715 Atomic Learning booth to learn more. 1501 Yamato Road Booth 326 Boca Raton, FL 33431 15088 Northeast Better Chinese LLC (561) 988-7524 22nd Avenue Booth 232 www.adt.com/education Little Falls, MN 56345 640 Waverley Street (320) 639-5968 ADT protects 15,000+ K-12 Palo Alto, CA 94301 schools with an integrated www.atomiclearning.com (650) 384-0902 approach of video surveillance, Atomic Learning provides www.betterchinese.com access control, and fire/life just-in-time, cost-effective Better Chinese is a leading safety solutions, including PD, technology integration, publisher of Mandarin learning visitor management and alert and support that empowers curriculum (PK–college). Story- notification services. educators to develop college- centered and inquiry-based, and career-ready students. our materials are used in 1,200+ schools worldwide, plus nine states.

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Beyond Nines Blackbaud, Inc. Brock and Company CampusQuest Booth 429 Booth 411 Booth 721 Booth 407 17024 37th Avenue, NE 2000 Daniel Island Drive 257 Great Valley Parkway 199 Albertus Avenue Seattle, WA 98155 Charleston, SC 29492 Malvern, PA 19355 Toronto, ON M4R 1J6 (206) 651-5099 (843) 216-6200 (860) 651-8011 CANADA www.beyondnines.com www.blackbaud.com/k-12schools www.brockco.com (877) 833-7178 www.campusquest.net The Raiser’s Edge® and Blackbaud, Inc. is a leading Quality dining service provider NetCommunity™ Specialists. provider of education for private schools, Brock Mobile scavenger hunt game Independent provider of con- administration, fund-raising, provides individualized for schools. Ideal for orientation, sulting, hosting, web design, financial management programs to meet your alumni reunions, campus tours, and custom programming software, as well as website campus needs. We focus on field trips, fund-raising, and services using the Blackbaud services designed specifically student satisfaction while team-building. suite of products. for private schools. exceeding your expectations. CanAchieve Consultants Ltd. Big Toys Blackboard The Cambridge Institute Booth 229 Booth 508 Booth 714 Booth 633 802, Tower B, JianWai SOHO 401 Chestnut Street 650 Massachusetts 99 South Bedford Street Office Building Chaoyang Suite 310 Avenue, NW Burlington, MA 01803 District Chattanooga, TN 37402 Washington, DC 20001 (781) 270-1066 Beijing 100022 (877) 762-7563 (202) 463-4860 www.thecambridgeinstitute.org CHINA www.bigtoys.com www.blackboard.com/k12 (86-) 0-58699445 The Cambridge Institute BigToys, a PlayCore Company, Used by millions of learners, is a Boston-based multina- www.canachieve.com.cn building playgrounds with Blackboard® solutions offer tional consulting firm that Founded in 1994, CanAchieve recycled and renewable K-12 schools a central online offers schools structured Consultants is one of the largest materials that enhance the hub for teaching, learning, guidance and comprehensive and most reputable education lives of children 6 months and community development support in developing consulting firms in China, pro- to 12 years of age. to enhance academic sustainable international viding students the opportunity performance. student programs. to study in the U.S. and operat- Biospace, Inc. ing over 20 branches in China. Booth 613 Bolton & Company Camelot Pewter, Co., Inc. 4801 Wilshire Boulevard Booth 402 Booth 607 Carnegie Communications Suite 320 3475 East Foothill Boulevard P.O. Box 29701 Booth 328 Los Angeles, CA 90010 Suite 100 Richmond, VA 24242 2 Lan Drive (323) 932-6503 Pasadena, CA 91107 (804) 784-3770 Westford, MA 01886 www.biospaceamerica.com (626) 535-1829 www.camelotpewter.com (816) 216-7471 www.boltonschools.com www.carnegiecomm.com Healthy kids learn better. We proudly produce lead- With the InBody and BSM370, Established in 1931, our free pewter in the USA. We With 26 years of enrollment get muscle, water, BMI, and Education Practice Group personalize most items with and development experience, percent body fat. Discover the is recognized as a national names, dates, logos, etc., Carnegie Communications is first-ever automatic height, leader in providing insurance, specializing in gifts for donor the go-to partner for creative, weight, and body composition risk management, employee recognition, service awards, digital, direct mail, consulting, experience. benefits, and retirement plans retirements, special events. and PR. Results-driven and for independent schools. budget friendly.

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CCS Centerbrook Architects CK-12 Foundation Colonial Williamsburg Booth 139 Booth 303 Table 29 Foundation 461 67 Main Street, P.O. Box 955 3430 West Bayshore Road Booth 133 New York, NY 10017 Centerbrook, CT 06409 Palo Alto, CA 94303 P.O. Box 627 (212) 695-1175 (860) 767-0175 (650) 353-3818 107 Visitor Center Drive www.ccsfundraising.com www.centerbrook.com www.ck12.org/flexbook Williamsburg, VA 23187 (757) 229-1000 Established in 1947, CCS A national architecture firm in CK-12 Foundation is a provides fund-raising counsel, Connecticut. Participation and nonprofit with the mission www.history.org/GroupTours development services, and sustainability pioneers, projects to produce free and open- Colonial Williamsburg, strategic consulting to independ­ include independent school art, source K-12 materials aligned established in 1926, is a ent schools throughout the science, and athletics buildings, to state curriculum standards, nonprofit educational West Coast and nationwide. libraries, museums, and dorms. customized to meet student institution that preserves and and teacher needs. operates the restored 18th Center for Evaluation Change My World Now century Revolutionary capital and Education Policy (CEEP) Booth 650 ClassBook.com of Virginia as a town-sized living history museum. Booth 425 32 Union Square East Booth 420 1900 East 10th Street Suite 1008 34 Commercial Drive Suite 918 New York, NY 10003 Castleton, NY 12144 Concordia Language Villages Bloomington, IN 47406 (646) 861-0571 (518) 336-2105 Booth 321 (812) 855-4438 www.ChangeMyWorldNow.com www.classbook.com 901 Eighth Street South Moorhead, MN 56562 www.ceep.indiana.edu The premiere online bookstore The Change My World Now (218) 299-4544 Educational Portal provides solution for independent CEEP helps professionals find www.concordialanguagevillages.org reliable answers to their questions educators with access to schools that offers new, about programs they manage. activities and content that used, and digital textbooks, For more than 50 years, CEEP also offers the High School promote character building onsite buyback, customized Concordia Language Villages Survey of Student Engagement and positive behavior in the bookstores, and superior has pursued a vision of peace (HSSSE), the most comprehensive classroom. customer service. and understanding by immers- survey of its kind. ing learners in the languages Character Counts Clearly Filtered and cultures of our world. Center for Spiritual Booth 430 Booth 610 and Ethical Education 9841 Airport Boulevard 2 Foxtail Lane Confucius International Table 14 Suite 300 Dove Canyon, CA 92679 Education — Confucius P.O. Box 19807 Los Angeles, CA 90045 (949) 973-6911 School Portland, OR 97280 (310) 846-4800 www.clearlyfiltered.com Booth 748 www.charactercounts.org (503) 232-1531 Clearly Filtered, a water 232 Songling Road www.csee.org CHARACTER COUNTS! filtration company with a Qingdao, CHINA unique product line, now (008) 18660223766 CSEE provides state-of-the-art integrates ethical concepts helps schools raise funds, www.chinaoic.com resources and consultation to into curricula and school culture by teaching the Six go green, and promote social independent schools for ethical Confucius International Pillars of Character framework responsibility. Find out how and spiritual missions to match Education Group (CIEG) was (trustworthiness, respect, we can help your school their academics. founded by Confucius’ 76th responsibility, fairness, caring, achieve success today. descendant, Mr. Kong Lingtao. and citizenship). Integrating Confucian New 6 Arts with western elite education, CIEG has set up several schools in China.

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Contrax Furnishings Costa Rican Resource Crow Canyon Dennis Uniform Booth 838 Booth 526 Archaeological Center Booth 521 690 Northeast 23rd Avenue P.O. Box 359-3011 Booth 729 714 Northeast Hancock Street Gainesville, FL 32609 Barva Heredia 23390 Road K Portland, OR 97212 (352) 416-1314 COSTA RICA Cortez, CO 81321 (503) 238-7123 www.contrax.com (352) 694-3462 (970) 565-8975 www.dennisuniform.com www.crrtravel.com www.crowcanyon.org Contrax Furnishings works Outfitting the nation’s best with educational institutions Student travel company based Crow Canyon Archaeological schools since 1920, Dennis to provide integrated programs in Costa Rica focusing on Center’s core activities teach domestically manufactures that comprehensively address environmental education and about SW archaeology, garments of quality, style, their furniture and equipment awareness while getting kids ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) and value. Shopping is easy needs. out into nature helping to solve history, the scientific process, with branches nationwide the Nature-Deficit Disorder. and the complex interactions and online ordering. Cornerstone by ImageTrend between people and their Booth 428 Council of International environments. Discovery Student Adventures 20855 Kensington Boulevard Schools Booth 426 Lakeville, MN 55044 Booth 528 CulinArt Dining Services 2001 South Flint Road (888) 469-7789 401 East State Street Booth 707 Spokane, WA 99224 www.ImageTrend.com/Cornerstone Suite 405 175 Sunnyside Boulevard (509) 568-7935 Ithaca, NY 14850 Plainview, NY 11803 www.discoverystudentadventures.com Cornerstone by ImageTrend (607) 272-5758 (516) 390-2748 allows students, teachers, Discovery Student Adventures www.culinartinc.com parents, and administrators www.cois.org offers teacher-led educational to easily communicate, share A member association of CulinArt provides tailored trips for students in grades information, and manage schools and universities, CIS nutrition programs and 5-12. Travelers get hands-on multiple tasks with one works for the continuous sustainable dining solutions instruction and experience centralized online solution. improvement of international to boarding and private activities that capture the spirit education. Services include schools. CulinArt blends of Discovery. Costa Rican Adventures accreditation, teacher recruit- culinary excellence with Booth 836 ment, leadership searches. financial accountability. 120 South Carol Boulevard Upper Darby, PA 19082 Council on International CWRA (484) 412-8812 Educational Exchange Booth 623 www.costaricanadventures.com Table 13 215 300 Fore Street 21st Floor Costa Rican Adventures is New York, NY 10016 an educational organization Portland, ME 04101 (212) 217-0845 committed to creating a (207) 553-4000 healthier, more sustainable www.ciee.org/hsabroad www.cae.org/cwra planet via customized eco- The leading U.S. non- The College and Work centered adventure travel, governmental international Readiness Assessment service, and cultural immersion. educational organization, (CWRA) helps high schools CIEE administers programs improve 21st century skills by that allow high school connecting teaching, learning, and university students and assessment through and educators to study performance-based practices. and teach abroad.

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DreamBox Learning eCampus.com EF Education First ERB (Educational Booth 325 Booth 335 Booth 814 Records Bureau) 305 108th Avenue, NE 2373 Palumbo Drive One Education Street Booth 706 Suite 200 Lexington, KY 40509 Cambridge, MA 02141 220 EAST Bellevue, WA 98004 (859) 552-7874 (617) 619-1657 New York, NY 10017 (425) 637-8900 www.ecampusvbp.com www.ef.com (212) 672-9807 www.dreambox.com www.erblearn.org Learn how we customize our As the world leader in DreamBox Learning Math is an eCampus Virtual Bookstore international education, EF ERB is a not-for-profit, intelligent, adaptive program Program to create an online works to break down barriers educational membership that transforms the way students bookstore that meets the of language, culture, and association providing quality learn math. Virtual manipulatives needs of your school. Schedule geography through educa- admission, achievement, and develop conceptual understand- a web demonstration for the tional travel, language learning, support services for nearly ing, fluency, and proficiency. future and get a $25 gift card cultural exchange, and various 2,000 PK-12 schools and after the meeting. academic degrees. districts around the world. Dynamic Data Concepts Booth 511 Educator’s Ally Inc. ELAN Publishing Eustis Chair 1450 37th Street Booth 504 Company, Inc. Booth 214 Brooklyn, NY 11218 P.O. Box 295 Booth 632 P.O. Box 842 (718) 259-3636 Bedford Hills, NY 10507 P.O. Box 683 Ashburnham, MA 01430 www.dynamicdataconcepts.com (914) 666-6323 Meredith, NH 03253 (978) 827-3103 www.educatorsally.com (800) 258-2000 www.eustischair.com Dynamic Data Concepts is a www.elanpublish.com leading provider of software and Educator’s Ally assists Eustis Chair designs and services to manage the business, independent schools in the ELAN provides custom student manufactures hardwood academic, and development New York area in their hiring. academic planners. Select chairs for dining halls and functions for private schools. We are here to help, advise, from our stock designs or libraries. Our chairs are and encourage those who create your own. Add your designed for elegance and Eastside Preparatory School are interested in careers in school handbook as well as comfort, engineered for independent education. your school’s colors and logo lasting durability, and made Table 25 to the cover. in the U.S. 10635 Northeast 38th Place Kirkland, WA 98033 Educators for Social (425) 822-5668 Responsibility Engrade.com Evernote www.eastsideprep.org Booth 810 Booth 329 Booth 629 23 Garden Street 1327 Ocean Avenue, Suite I 333 West Evelyn Avenue A co-ed, independent school Cambridge, MA 02138 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Mountain View, CA 94041 serving 250 students in (617) 492-1764 (800) 305-1367-105 (408) 772-5915 grades 5-12, founded in 2003, www.esrnational.org www.engrade.com www.evernote.com the school’s mission is to think critically, act responsibly, ESR provides hands-on Engrade connects 3.5 million Evernote lets users capture lead compassionately, and PD in advisory design and administrators, teachers, notes, save research, innovate wisely. implementation, engaging students, and parents through collaborate on projects, reluctant students, classroom easy-to-use online classroom snap photos of whiteboards, management/discipline, tools, learning applications, record audio, and more. and more. and administrative student performance tracking.

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FCD Educational Services finalsite Flansburgh Architects Foundation for Booth 738 Booth 705 Booth 405 Teaching Economics 398 Walnut Street 809 Main Street 77 North Washington Street Booth 730 Newton, MA 02460 East Hartford, CT 06108 Boston, MA 02114 260 Russell Boulevard (617) 964-9300 (860) 289-3507 (617) 367-3970 Suite B www.fcd.org/content/index.asp www.finalsite.com www.faiarchitects.com Davis, CA 95616 (530) 757-4643 Since 1976, FCD has become finalsite brings innovative Flansburgh Architects is an the leading nonprofit provider web software and web internationally recognized www.fte.org of school-based substance design to leading schools leader in architecture, master Our mission is to introduce abuse prevention education and organizations, serving planning, programming, high school students to an and planning services, for independent schools and and sustainable design for economic way of thinking 800+ schools in 50+ countries educational organizations educational facilities in the and promote excellence in on five continents. in 40 states and 41 countries. U.S. and abroad. economic education by helping economics teachers become Federal Deposit Fisher & Phillips LLP Flik Independent more effective. Insurance Corporation Booth 221 School Dining Booth 422 450 East Las Olas Boulevard Booth 750 Furniture Options 550 17th Street, NW Suite 800 3 International Drive Booth 502 Washington, DC 20429 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Rye Brook, NY 10573 P.O. Box 220 (202) 898-7425 (954) 525-4800 (914) 935-5401 Exeter, NH 03833 www.fdic.gov www.laborlawyers.com www.FlikISD.com (603) 418-8669 www.exetertablecompany.com The FDIC preserves and Fisher & Phillips LLP is a Flik Independent School promotes public confidence national law firm with more Dining is a dedicated dining The world-leading designer in the U.S. financial system by than 250 attorneys engaged service specialist committed and supplier of collaborative insuring deposits in banks and exclusively in management- to providing freshly prepared learning tables. Also specializing thrift institutions for at least side employment, education, nutritious foods. in solid-wood dining hall, study $250,000. benefits, and immigration law. hall, dorm, and library furniture. Follett Virtual Bookstores Formerly harknesstable.com. Fieldwork Education FlagHouse, Inc. Booth 725 Booth 432 Booth 812 2211 West Street George Mason University 25 Buckingham Gate 601 Flaghouse Drive River Grove, IL 60171 Booth 744 London SW1E 6LD Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07605 (877) 927-2665 4400 University Drive, MS 1E8 UNITED KINGDOM (800) 793-7900 www.follettvirtualbookstores.com Fairfax, VA 22030 +44 (0) 2075319696 www.flaghouse.com (703) 993-3602 www.schools.greatlearning.com/ Follett Virtual Bookstores www.fasttrain.gmu.edu For 55+ years, FlagHouse offers you a simple way to fieldworkeducation has been the leading supplier focus on what’s important — FAST TRAIN Programs at Fieldwork Education works of physical education products, providing a successful George Mason University with schools to improve equipment, and programs, learning environment for provide licensure and master’s learning via school manage- including the CATCH® health your students — while we degree programs in elementary ment services, curriculum, and nutrition program for take care of the books. ed, ESL, advanced IB studies, professional development schools. and special ed to meet the support, and evaluation needs of teachers around and assessment programs. the world.

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Global Leadership Adventures H2L2 Architects / Healthy Lifestyle Choices Holbrook Global Booth 523 Planners LLC Table 21 Field Expeditions 3636 Camino del Rio North Booth 204 1215 Prytania Street, Suite 171 Booth 400 Suite 120 714 Market Street, Suite 600 New Orleans, LA 70130 3540 Northwest 13th Street San Diego, CA 92108 Philadelphia, PA 19106 (504) 299-1966 Gainesville, FL 32609 (858) 771-0644 (215) 925-5300 www.hlconline.org (800) 451-7111 www.experienceGLA.com www.h2l2.com www.holbrooktravel.com Healthy Lifestyle Choices GLA service learning journeys H2L2 Architects / Planners is a nonprofit organization We make it our mission to combine community service with specializes in the design and empowering youth, families, facilitate education and life- hands-on learning about global planning of independent and educators with the changing experiences through issues and personal leadership. schools, with 100+ years of knowledge, skills, and tools authentic and engaging Programs offered in Asia, Africa, design excellence, national to make healthier choices travel. We put our 37+ years and Latin America. and international experience, for a lifetime. of experience to work for you and loyalty to our clients. when we plan trips. Google Chrome Heifer International Booth 121 H2O for Life Booth 722 Hothouse Media Ltd. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Table 32 1 World Avenue Booth 625 Mountain View, CA 94043 5527 Hugo Road Little Rock, AR 72202 11-15 Emerald Street (650) 253-0000 White Bear Lake, MN 55110 (501) 907-2615 London, WC1N 3QL www.google.com/education (651) 491-3364 www.heifer.org UNITED KINGDOM +44 (0) 74404037 Google’s Chromebooks for H2O for Life provides a Turn your students into global www.hothousemedia.com Education offer intuitive, easy- transformational service citizens! Our sustainable to-manage, and simple-to-scale learning opportunity for development organization Advertise in Study Travel computers designed for the students to study the global offers teaching resources Magazine (reaches 36,000 web. Google Apps for Education water crisis, while taking for K-8, as well as field trips agencies in over 110 countries) provides powerful online action to help bring water and professional development or attend the Alphe Conferences collaboration tools for teachers to a developing country opportunities. (2-day networking events and students. school. Make a difference! in eight venues around the HMFH Architects, Inc. world) to connect with quality Handwriting Without Tears Booth 643 checked agents. Booth 332 130 Bishop Allen Drive 8001 MacArthur Boulevard Cambridge, MA 02139 IDville Cabin John, MD 20818 (617) 492-2200 Booth 724 (301) 263-2700 www.hmfh.com 5376 52nd Street, SE www.hwtears.com Grand Rapids, MI 49512 Building opportunities for (616) 698-0889 A developmentally based learning is our mission. handwriting curriculum for Through elegant design, www.idville.com all children that incorporates collaboration, and responsible IDville, the leading ID expert workbooks, teachers guides, use of client resources, for schools, focuses on the and multisensory teaching tools we create award-winning, identification of students and for classroom and individual innovative learning staff. We offer complete ID instruction. environments. solutions, including software, printer systems, custom lanyards, and more.

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infosnap, inc. Insight China International IslandWood K12 International Academy Booth 639 Travel Service Table 19 Booth 627 4550 Montgomery Avenue Booth 644 4450 Blakely Avenue 2300 Corporate Park Drive Suite 310 N 43, Lane 588, Dongxulian Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 Road, Xujin District, (206) 855-4304 Herndon, VA 20171 (301) 907-7073 Qingpu www.islandwood.org (863) 370-6720 www.infosnap.com Shanghai 201702 www.k12.com/icademy We offer school overnight CHINA infosnap, inc. creates school- programs, summer camps, K12 is a partner to the public (+86) 21-13801696578 specific, secure, custom, online and a University of Washington and private school systems, forms that are accessible from www.insight-adventures.com 10-month graduate program offering a continuum of a school’s website, to provide Insight China is a leading for educators. Plus, conferences curriculum and services to schools with online inquiry, provider of Chinese culture and retreats on weekends help educators with their core application, and re/enrollment. trips, outdoor education, and in the summer. mission — to serve all students. and school trips in China. Inkling JCJ Architecture Kendall Hunt Publishing Co. Booth 324 Interactive Data Partners Booth 320 Booth 612 153 Kearny Street Booth 434 38 Prospect Street 4050 Westmark Drive San Francisco, CA 94108 6722 Charter Hills Road Hartford, CT 06103 Dubuque, IA 52002 (510) 708-5922 Charlotte, NC 28277 (860) 247-9226 (563) 589-1075 www.inkling.com (704) 237-0124 www.jcj.com www.kendallhunt.com Inkling, a leading digital www.interactivedatapartners.com JCJ Architecture offers The Religious Publishing publishing platform, rebuilds Data dashboards that put comprehensive planning, Division of Kendall Hunt textbooks from the ground up your data into a visual format architectural, and interior Publishing Company publishes as interactive and engaging that is intuitive and easy to design services to educational Christian educational materials Smartbooks. From high school understand. Use this tool to clients throughout national in the areas of PK-12 math, to graduate school titles, communicate with the board, network of offices. science, talented and gifted, Smartbooks think, play, and monitor the health of your and language arts. save money. school, and much more. Joffe Emergency Services Booth 115 Kids’ Turn inRESONANCE International Baccalaureate 1823 12th Street, Suite 5 Table 16 Booth 208 Booth 746 Santa Monica, CA 90404 55 New Montgomery Street 32 Industrial Drive East 475 Riverside Drive (310) 525-6333 Suite 500 Northampton, MA 01060 Suite 240 www.joffeemergencyservices.com San Francisco, CA 94105 (413) 587-0236 New York, NY 10115 (415) 777-9977 www.inresonance.com Joffe works with schools www.kidsturn.org/kt (212) 696-4464 to provide CPR, first aid inRESONANCE is the leading www.ibo.org and AED training, AED sales Kids’ Turn introduces NAIS and service, school-based provider of open-customizable IB offers international to its world class Emotional disaster supplies, emergency FileMaker® Pro solutions education programs to 2,500 Literacy curriculum, helping kits, first aid equipment, and related web applications schools in 132 countries for educators support students and drill observation. (admissions, registrar, students age 3-19, developing with difficulties attributable to and development) with the intellectual, emotional, parental separation or divorce. simplest interface. and social skills to thrive in a rapidly globalizing world.

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L4U Library Software Lands’ End Laurel Springs School Lock ‘n’ Charge Technologies Booth 611 Booth 239 Booth 637 Booth 227 1632 Dickson Avenue 6 Lands’ End Lane 1615 West Chester Pike 307 Sixth Street West Suite 400 Dodgeville, WI 53595 West Chester, PA 19382 West Fargo, ND 58078 Kelowna, BC V1Y 7T2 (608) 937-5412 (800) 377-5890 (701) 630-9357 CANADA www.landsend.com/school www.laurelsprings.com www.lockncharge.com (800) 667-3634 www.L4U.com Lands’ End School Uniforms Laurel Springs is an accredited All steel solutions for storage, is a provider of high quality private online school. With charging, security, and The award winning L4U™ uniform, PE, and spiritwear college prep academics transport of mobile computer has been serving K-12 schools options. Through our new (AP, honors, and gifted and labs. Created for teachers, and public libraries for 25 years customized web solutions, talented), we have a proven these designs combine and is installed in 2,700 libraries we have a program to fit record of placing graduates strength, light weight, energy in North America. L4U is library all schools. into selective colleges. efficiency, and ease-of-use. automation made easy! LaptopSchools.com LearnBoost Longhouse Software Lake | Flato Architects Booth 853 Booth 409 Booth 514 Booth 635 P.O. Box 3835 300 Brannan Street 6370A Greenhill Road 311 Third Street Seal Beach, CA 90740 Suite 409 New Hope, PA 18938 San Antonio, TX 78205 (888) 662-6924 San Francisco, CA 94107 (215) 297-5480 (210) 227-3335 www.laptopschools.com (805) 662-6678 www.longhousesoftware.com www.lakeflato.com www.learnboost.com Supporting technology rich Class A Signup is the solution Lake|Flato creates purposeful academic environments We empower schools and for students to register for connections between for over a decade, our staff teachers with free software. courses on the web. Class each school’s mission and would like to help your Track grades, manage lesson A Scheduler is the solution architecture. We act as stewards school implement, maintain, plans, generate reports, for scheduling classes. We of your resources — families, and improve a ubiquitous integrate with Google Apps, provide easy data migration teachers, culture, finances, 1:1 technology program. share progress with parents with other systems. and environment. and students, & more! The Laurasian Institution Magic Hour Communications Lakeside School Booth 323 Liebert Cassidy Whitmore Booth 742 Table 10 12345 Lake City Way, NE Booth 510 150 Monument Road 14050 First Avenue, NE Suite 151 6033 West Century Suite 215 Seattle, WA 98125 Seattle, WA 98125 Boulevard, Suite 500 Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 (206) 440-2728 (206) 367-2152 Los Angeles, CA 90045 (610) 617-4515-120 www.lakesideschool.org www.laurasian.org (310) 981-2000 www.magic-hour.com www.lcwlegal.com Lakeside School is a dynamic We offer outstanding SEVP- Magic Hour Communications place to teach. We are an approved schools access to We provide general counsel, is an award-winning independent school educating Chinese exchange students labor and litigation advice, communications agency 776 highly capable students with excellent English language and assistance to California focusing exclusively on in grades 5-12. We seek great skills, strong academic independent schools in designing best-in-class educators to join our community credentials, keen interest in education law, business and websites for nearly 100 schools in Seattle. studying abroad. Students facilities, and employment and colleges in the U.S. and cover tuition. relations matters. abroad.

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Magnus Health SMR Metz Culinary Management Minds Abroad National Association (Student Medical Record) Booth 101 Booth 609 of Episcopal Schools Booth 436 2 Woodland Drive 6000 Brass Lantern Road Booth 423 415 Hillsborough Street Dallas, PA 18612 Raleigh, NC 27606 815 Second Avenue, Suite 819 Suite 201 (570) 675-8100 (919) 573-9594 New York, NY 10017 Raleigh, NC 27603 www.metzculinary.com www.mindsabroad.com (212) 716-6134 (877) 461-6832 www.episcopalschools.org A leading food and Minds Abroad offers www.magnushealth.com support services hospitality customized, faculty-led Providing resources, services, A web-based solution that management company in programs in China and professional development, streamlines the collection and the U.S., Metz knows each India that combine studying and publications focused secure storage of student independent school is unique language and culture, on Episcopal school identity, health data to help schools so we bring a customized volunteer service, internships, leadership and governance, save time and money, offering that fits your school. and travel to some of Asia’s and the spiritual development reduce liability, and improve most spectacular destinations. of school leaders. emergency preparedness. Mills Uniform Company Booth 533 Mirman School National Purchasing Partners MBS Service Company, Inc. 1830 Harrison Street for Gifted Children Booth 301 Booth 507 San Francisco, CA 94103 Booth 525 1100 Olive Way, Suite 1020 2711 West Ash Street (415) 864-1899 ext. 126 16180 Mulholland Drive Seattle, WA 98101 Columbia, MO 65203 www.millswear.com Los Angeles, CA 90049 (206) 515-5205 (866) 638-5954 (310) 775-8418 www.mynpp.com Mills Uniform Company. www.mbsDirect.net www.mirman.org Online. On-campus. In-stores. National Purchasing Partners We provide a course materials Nationwide. Uniform programs Mirman School is passionately is owned by a nationally fulfillment program through an reflecting the values and committed to the education acclaimed nonprofit medical online bookstore solution that community of independent of highly gifted children. facility. We offer products manages inventory, buyback, schools since 1947. Located in Los Angeles, we and services to our members. order processing, delivery, and are dedicated to meeting the Membership is free. customer service. MIND Research Institute academic, social, emotional, Booth 732 and physical development of our students. Me to We 3621 South Harbor Boulevard Booth 731 Suite 200 233 Carlton Street Santa Ana, CA 92704 Music Together LLC Toronto, ON M5A 2L2 (888) 978-2626 Booth 622 CANADA www.mindresearch.net 66 Witherspoon Street (416) 964-8942 Princeton, NJ 08542 Based on neuroscience and www.metowe.com (609) 945-0338 education research, MIND’s www.musictogether.com A new kind of social enterprise ST Math education process for people who want to change engages spatial temporal A curriculum serving PS-K the world. Through our socially reasoning abilities to explain, classrooms, supporting music responsible choices and understand, and solve and developmental growth. leadership, we support Free multistep math problems. Specialist gives weekly classes, the Children’s work with youth. mentoring staff so music is part of each day. Materials go home for families.

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National SCRABBLE National Student Oak Meadow Curriculum OrgSync, Inc. Association Leadership Conference and School Booth 431 Booth 331 Booth 720 Booth 333 13140 Coit Road, Suite 405 403 Front Street 320 West Ohio Street P.O. Box 1346 Dallas, TX 75240 P.O. Box 700 Suite 4W Brattleboro, VT 05302 (972) 907-0900 Greenport, NY 11944 Chicago, IL 60654 (802) 251-7250 www.orgsync.com (631) 477-0033 (312) 322-9999 www.oakmeadow.com OrgSync provides a centralized www.scrabbleassociation.com www.nslcleaders.org Oak Meadow offers a uniquely Campus Engagement A great social activity, Since 1989, thousands of flexible and creative K-12 fully Network that connects your SCRABBLE teaches spelling, outstanding high school accredited distance learning students to organizations and vocabulary, and math. Our students from around the world curriculum that engages departments. With OrgSync, free school program is used have come to NSLC to explore students and provides added your campus can improve by students, libraries, after- qualities of effective leaders teacher support and official communication, information school programs, and camps and get an insider’s perspective school records. sharing, and collaboration. across the U.S. on a future career. Ocean Classroom Foundation Outreach360 (Formerly National Student Clearinghouse NETC Table 26 Orphanage Outreach) Booth 651 Booth 628 1 Oak Street, P.O. Box 205 Booth 500 2300 Dulles Station 50 Franklin Street, 2nd floor Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538 6611 West Robert E. Boulevard, Suite 300 Boston, MA 02110 (207) 633-2750 Lee Street Herndon, VA 20171 (617) 878-2648 www.oceanclassroom.org Glendale, AZ 85308 (703) 733-4185 www.educationaltravel.com (800) 876-5678 www.studentclearinghouse.org We offer accredited academic www.outreach360.org NETC provides outstanding, programs for middle, high StudentTracker, provided by the culturally enriched, school, and gap students Engaging students in service National Student Clearinghouse, educational travel programs. aboard three USCG certified learning to transform the equips you with real-time, Our unique LEAP! Program schooners on voyages of lives of individuals, families, reliable information on 96% transforms sightseeing tours adventure sailing from Maine communities, and countries of all college enrollments and into empowering learning to the Caribbean. through the education degrees at U.S. institutions. experiences. and development of Olson Lewis + Architects disadvantaged children. New York Film Academy Booth 712 Booth 202 17 Elm Street Parker School Uniforms 100 East 17th Street Manchester, MA 01944 Booth 620 New York, NY 10003 (978) 526-4386 2315 Karbach Street (212) 674-4300 www.oldarch.com Houston, TX 77092 www.nyfa.edu (713) 957-1511 Olson Lewis + Architects is an www.parkersu.com NYFA offers programs in film- award-winning, full-service making, acting for film, musical architectural firm. We work Since 1931, we have been a theatre, cinematography, closely with our educational trusted partner for private documentary, screenwriting, clients to identify and build schools. Our personal producing, photography, upon each school’s unique service, contemporary style, and animation. characteristics. and exceptional quality are unbeatable. Specializing in uniforms, shoes, spiritwear.

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PCR Educator Praesidium, Inc. QuickSchools.com Ravenna Solutions Booth 505 Booth 225 Booth 736 Booth 403 5 Choke Cherry Road 4727 Northeast 55th Street 15500 Southwest Jay Street 20126 Ballinger Way, NE Suite 260 Seattle, WA 98105 Suite 19970 Suite 112 Rockville, MD 20850 (800) 743-6354 Beaverton, OR 97006 Seattle, WA 98102 (301) 947-7380 www.PraesidiumInc.com (877) 761-7097 (206) 357-5779 www.pcreducator.com www.quickschools.com www.ravennasolutions.com Praesidium helps schools PCR Educator with its latest manage the risk of abuse QuickSchools.com is a Ravenna Solutions offers PCR Campus provides and bullying by strengthening breath of fresh air in the innovative online solutions independent schools with a areas such as policies, headache-inducing school to replace paper processes. web-based software solution screening, training, supervision, management system. Grade, ORCAS provides efficient uniting their school community, and responding. take attendance, and even progress report production. including faculty, parents, schedule in minutes completely ORCAS MOSAIC allows admissions, development prepGATE Loan Program online. FREE 30-day trial. admission teams to review and administrators. applications online. Booth 726 800 Boylston Street Qwizdom, Inc. Pennies for Peace 34th Floor Booth 322 Reasoning Mind Booth 438 Boston, MA 02199 12617 Meridian Avenue East Table 20 P.O. Box 7209 (781) 475-6807 Puyallup, WA 98373 3050 Post Oak Boulevard Bozeman, MT 59771 www.prepgate.com (253) 845-7738-233 Suite 1200 (406) 585-7841 www.qwizdom.com Houston, TX 77056 www.penniesforpeace.org With its competitive interest (832) 255-2936 rates and flexible repayment Our interactive learning system www.reasoningmind.org Pennies for Peace is an award- terms, the prepGATE Loan includes student remotes winning international service Program helps make K12 and a designated instructor A nonprofit changing the learning program designed private school education remote and Qtopia, free online paradigm of math education. to broaden youth’s cultural more attainable for a wider access to many ready-to-use Using RM’s 2nd-6th grade horizons and help them learn range of applicants. activities, motivating games, web-based program, students about their capacities as avatar features. take an individual path of philanthropists. QuaverMusic.com learning and teachers receive extensive support. Booth 522 Rapid Learning Institute Pepperdine University 1706 Grand Avenue Booth 234 Booth 710 Nashville, TN 37212 1510 Chester Pike, Suite 310 Rediker Software 6100 Center Drive (615) 812-5750 Eddystone, PA 19022 Booth 804 Los Angeles, CA 90045 www.quavermusic.com (484) 490-9204 2 Wilbraham Road (310) 568-5622 www.rapidlearninginstitute.com Hampden, MA 01036 www.gsep.pepperdine.edu Quaver’s Marvelous World (800) 213-9860 of Music is a high-energy, Education Leadership and www.rediker.com Pepperdine University captivating experience that Administration Rapid Learning Graduate School of Education leads students on a journey Center. Quick, simple, Do you have an APPLY NOW offers a wide range of master’s of musical discovery via actionable online management button on your website? and doctoral degree programs, DVD episodes, teacher guide training for today’s school Increase enrollment and both online and at campuses resources, plus a powerful administrators, brought to you improve recruitment with across Southern California. interactive website. by The Rapid Learning Institute. online admissions applications from Rediker Software.

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RenWeb School Rowland Reading Foundation SAGE Study Abroad School Issue Shoes Management Software Booth 606 Table 27 by Trimfoot Booth 210 6120 University Avenue 19 Old Town Square Booth 527 P.O. Box 1622 Middleton, WI 53562 Suite 238 2 Country Farm Road Burleson, TX 76097 (608) 729-2831 Fort Collins, CO 80524 Stratham, NH 03885 (866) 800-6593 www.rowlandreading.org (970) 482-3188 (603) 498-9756 www.renweb.com www.sageprogram.org www.trimfoot.com Rowland Reading Foundation RenWeb is the leading Internet- publishes Superkids, a core SAGE offers custom designed Trimfoot Company provides based school management K-2 reading program, and study and service trips to school, parents, and students software offering unmatched Happily Ever After, a reading Asia, Africa, and Latin America. with the highest quality power, integration, ease-of-use, readiness program. Transformative for students footwear for school wear. We and affordability to more than and secure and reliable for ensure that the consumer 2,000 schools. The S/L/A/M Collaborative schools. Creating global receives quality service and leaders since 1992. Booth 200 reliable, long-wearing footwear for every need. Responsive Classroom 80 Glastonbury Boulevard Booth 339 Glastonbury, CT 06033 SAIS 85 Avenue A, Suite 204 (860) 657-8077 Table 17 School Office Services P.O. Box 718 www.slamcoll.com P.O. Box 369 Booth 223 Turners Falls, MA 01376 Alpharetta, GA 30009 5050 Spring Valley Road We are an architecture firm (413) 863-8288 ext. 125 (404) 561-5841 Dallas, TX 75244 specializing in campus planning www.sais.org (972) 687-1814 www.responsiveclassroom.org and facilities that respect www.soserv.org Classroom management matters. tradition, foster community, and SAIS provides leadership, Responsive Classroom practices support the educational mission accreditation, and professional SOS provides HR and risk teach social and academic skills of independent schools. development that helps management support to in safe, joyful, and challenging strengthen schools as they 400 independent schools classrooms. Print and video SAGE Dining Services fulfill their missions. Stop by nationally. We provide a table #17 to learn more and resources, workshops, on-site Booth 401 complete HRMS system and get a $25 event coupon. online management training consulting. 222 Bosley Avenue, Suite B7 program specific to schools. Towson, MD 21204 Rjenda.com (410) 339-3950 Saxton Bradley Inc. (SBI) Booth 723 www.sagedining.com Booth 231 School Tours of America 1342 Bel Aire Road 801 Southwest 16th Street Booth 630 San Mateo, CA 94402 SAGE Dining Services is a Suite 200 P.O. Box 550379 leading provider of dining (650) 430-4149 Renton, WA 98057 Houston, TX 77255 services and gourmet catering (425) 970-6620 (866) 543-8687 www.rjenda.com to discerning independent www.saxtonbradley.com www.schooltoursofamerica.com Rjenda helps schools proactively schools nationwide. manage student workload. SBI is the local source for America’s most experienced Use our online test calendar, educationally correct furniture and trusted team of field trip homework tracking, and analytics and technology solutions from planners. Our customized, to identify student workload cutting-edge product leaders boutique approach has peaks and take mitigating action. including VS and SMART; produced the most satisfied plus consultant services and clients for three decades PD for education. in student travel.

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SchoolAdmin Schoology Shaw Sportexe SIS-USA Inc. Booth 530 Booth 806 Booth 739 Booth 843 900 Congress Avenue 115 West 30th Street 1201 Roberts Boulevard, NW 55 Wentworth Avenue Suite 201 Suite 602 Suite 220 Londonderry, NH 03053 Austin, TX 78701 New York, NY 10001 Kennesaw, GA 30144 (603) 432-4495 (512) 520-8663 (212) 213-8333 (866) 703-4004 www.sisusainc.com www.schooladmin.com www.schoology.com www.shawsportexe.com SIS-USA offers flexible student SchoolAdmin has worked An easy-to-use, easy-to- Shaw Sportexe has a rich and teacher desks, activity with school administrators implement, online learning, 20-year history in the artificial tables, adjustable chairs, mobile to create an intuitive online classroom management, and turf industry, with proven storage, space division, and the software system built for social networking platform that high performance turf systems innovative 1-2-3 wall system for independent schools. Redefine enhances student engagement and more than 800 successful all learning environments, K-12. expectations of school and improves learning. installations in the U.S. and management software. Canada. Smith System Schoolyard Booth 515 SchoolFront.com Booth 206 Sheldon Laboratory P.O. Box 8660415 Booth 711 550 South Water Street Systems, Inc. Plano, TX 75086 21 Vick Park B Providence, RI 02903 Booth 201 (972) 398-4050 Rochester, NY 14607 (401) 272-0079 102 Kirk Street www.smithsystem.com (585) 568-7813 www.schoolyard.com Crystal Springs, MS 39059 Furniture for Inspired Learning. www.schoolfront.com (601) 892-1727 Schoolyard is the only provider Learn how the Cascade www.sheldonlabs.com SchoolFront.com is a powerful of open-source web solutions classroom storage line and comprehensive online to independent schools. Drupal Sheldon Laboratory Systems can help you organize your school management system allows us to charge the lowest is a 112-year-old company classroom. All products that can improve the overall prices while providing ground- recognized worldwide as are Greenguard for Children operations and internal and breaking web technologies. the premier lab planner and Schools Certified. external communication at and provider of innovative schools of any size. Senior Systems and applicable casework Snug Play USA Booth 605 furnishings for all school labs. Booth 506 SchoolMessenger 15915 Katy Freeway 401 Chestnut Street Booth 645 Suite 560 Silverpoint, Inc. Suite 310 603 Mission Street Houston, TX 77094 Booth 808 Chattanooga, TN 37402 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (877) 850-2764 3600 Clipper Mill Road (423) 648-5608 (888) 527-5225 www.senior-systems.com Suite 422 www.snugplayusa.com www.schoolmessenger.com , MD 21211 Snug Play is ideal for We provide comprehensive (800) 588-5330 SchoolMessenger empowers solutions integrated into independent schools offering www.silverpoint.net educators to easily connect a single database design. versatile play indoors and out with their communities in any Modules include admissions, Silverpoint provides web for children of all ages. language or device. Since 1999, business office, registrar, design and development for Experience maximum play thousands of organizations alumni/development, campus schools. Our experienced and learning value for recess, have counted on us for both store, my backpack, consultants, creative designs, PE, and classroom learning. emergency/non-emergency web solutions. and powerful Silverpoint communications. SchoolSuite® software deliver lasting custom website solutions.

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Softlink America Inc. Student Discoveries Sycamore Education TeenLife Media LLC Booth 631 Globus family of brands Booth 713 Booth 709 720 , Suite 2220 Booth 330 P.O. Box 291 1330 Beacon Street, Suite 268 Seattle, WA 98104 5301 South Federal Circle Fremont, NE 68026 Brookline, MA 02446 (206) 774-6798 Littleton, CO 80123 (866) 757-4968 (617) 277-5120 www.softlinkint.com (407) 342-9027 www.sycamoreeducation.com www.teenlife.com www.studentdiscoveries.com Oliver is the leading school Sycamore is a cutting-edge, TeenLife is an award-winning library management system Student Discoveries travel all-inclusive SIS and school go-to resource for educators, in Australia and UK, with over programs are influenced by management system. Improve parents, and students for 10,000 libraries worldwide. educators and customized for school office, classroom, meaningful programs, schools, Now Oliver v5 is available in students. We provide enriching and communication efficiency college admission resources, the U.S. — a fully web-based experiences around the globe, with faculty and parents. and services for students in system for your school. providing a trip of a lifetime — No modules or plug-ins. grades 7-12. every time! Speakmandarin.com Taher, Inc. Teton Science Schools Booth 647 Sunshine School Fashions Booth 509 Table 18 9122 J Regents Road Booth 642 5570 Smetana Drive 700 Coyote Canyon Road La Jolla, CA 92037 16371 Northwest 57th Avenue Minnetonka, MN 55343 Jackson, WY 83001 (858) 220-4585 Miami, FL 33014 (952) 945-0505 (307) 733-1313 www.speakmandarin.com (305) 779-7513 www.taher.com www.tetonscience.org www.sunshineuniforms.com By utilizing the latest Taher, Inc. offers a fresh, Independent schools can bring pedagogical approaches Designer, manufacturer, and chef-based approach to groups of students to Teton and Internet technology, retailer. Top quality mix-and- food service management. Science Schools in Jackson SpeakMandarin.com provides match designs for PK-12. Hole, WY, to learn science in a live online Mandarin Chinese Modern styles, classic designs. TakingITGlobal hands-on, field-based setting. training with certified teachers Full multilevel customer Booth 337 to students worldwide. service program that makes 19 Duncan Street, Suite 505 Three W International it easy for parents! Toronto, ON M5H 3H1 Booth 820 StoryCorps CANADA 4700 Millenia Boulevard Table 22 Sustainable Horizon (416) 977-9363 ext. 313 Suite 375 80 Hanson Place, 2nd Floor Booth 621 www.tigweb.org Orlando, FL 32839 Brooklyn, NY 11217 1818 Dilworth Road East (248) 808-8668 (646) 723-7020 Charlotte, NC 28203 TakingITGlobal offers global www.threew.us www.storycorps.org (718) 578-4020 education programs that www.sustainablehorizon.com help students develop an Three W International StoryCorps is a nonprofit oral understanding of social is the largest and most history project whose mission Customized international issues and tools to support sophisticated international is to provide Americans of educational programs focusing meaningful action in their student placement program all backgrounds and beliefs on community service, communities, countries, in North America. with the opportunity to record, environmental conservation, and around the globe. preserve, and share the stories and cultural/language of our lives. immersion in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Bring your classroom to life!

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TIAA-CREF True Grits School Uniforms University of Miami Veracross by Breuer & Co. Booth 433 Booth 615 Global Academy Booth 614 1670 Street 971 Calle Negocio Table 11 701 Edgewater Drive Suite 2200 San Clemente, CA 92673 5050 Brunson Drive Suite 360 Denver, CO 80202 (949) 498-3516-107 111 Allen Hall Wakefield, MA 01880 (303) 626-4147 www.truegrits.com Coral Gables, FL 33146 (781) 303-1119 www.tiaa-cref.org (305) 284-2980 www.veracross.com True Grits is a full-service www.umga.miami.edu TIAA-CREF and its group of uniform provider to private We are an integrated, web- companies is a leading nation- schools. True Grits delivers The University of Miami based school information wide provider of financial and style, quality, and reasonable Global Academy is a system connecting staff, retirement services. prices, with the most fully accredited, college students, and parents into comprehensive customer preparatory, online high school one seamless community. We Top Ten Regalia service in the business. that offers honors, AP, and provide customized solutions and have 100 percent client Booth 531 world language courses. UMGA has a Nat’l Honor Society, retention. 1638 Southeast Marine Drive Tuition Management Systems service/global learning. Vancouver, BC V5P 2R6 Booth 728 CANADA 171 Service Avenue, Suite 200 Virco, Inc. (604) 322-1626 Warwick, RI 02886 VALIC Booth 512 www.toptenregalia.com (401) 921-3976 Booth 327 2027 Harpers Way www.afford.com 1304 Concourse Drive Torrance, CA 90501 We are North America’s Suite 150 (310) 533-0474 TMS is dedicated to helping premium podium banner Linthicum, MD 21090 www.virco.com families afford education company! Enhance your (410) 916-1709 school’s image using banners and schools prosper. We As America’s leading www.valic.com and crest. Our products are provide affordability solutions, manufacturer and supplier ideal for award presentation including affordability VALIC, an industry leader, of K-12 furniture and equipment, and donor appreciation gifts. counseling, billing, payment markets long-term investment we offer best-selling ZUMA® options, and payment programs for 28,000 organiza- models, traditional chairs and processing. Trinity Western University tions using a national team of desks, and all-new TEXT™, Metaphor™ and Telos™ products. Table 33 financial advisors dedicated to providing unparalleled 143 West Kellogg Road University Child personal, face-to-face service. Bellingham, WA 98226 Development School VS America, Inc. (360) 527-0222 Booth 626 Booth 203 www.twubellingham.com 5062 Ninth Avenue, NE Venable LLP 1940 Abbott Street Seattle, WA 98105 Booth 421 Charlotte, NC 28203 Trinity Western University is (206) 547-8237 575 Seventh Street, NW (704) 378-6500 Canada’s leader for academic www.ucds.org/spark Washington, DC 20004 www.vs-furniture.com and student experience. TWU (202) 344-4984 offers a unique freshman A well respected, expert The Spark project is a trove www.venable.com experience in Bellingham of curriculum resources for manufacturer of quality, and full traditional campus teachers of early learners We provide legal counsel to ergonomic furniture, VS offers programs in Langley, BC. created by UCDS educators schools on issues including patented designs suitable who inspire each other to employees, benefits, students, for flexible classrooms. Plus, reflect, question, and eagerly governance, bylaws, head, all products meet Greenguard share ideas about teaching. employee and enrollment requirements. contracts, social media, finance, marketing, and policies.

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WAT-AAH! WhippleHill Communications Wisdom Thinkers Network Booth 624 Booth 300 Table 30 133 West 25th Street 436 South River Road 1736 State Route 5 Suite 9W Building C Elbridge, NY 13060 New York, NY 10001 Bedford, NH 03110 (888) 793-7257 (212) 627-2630 (603) 669-5979 www.wisdomthinkers.org www.drinkwataah.com www.whipplehill.com Innovative character ed. and WAT-AAH! is a functional water WhippleHill is the leading anti-bullying program using for kids, whose mission is to provider of independent school award-winning multicultural reverse kids’ dependency on website design, customized wisdom stories delivered sodas and sugary drinks by portal communication, and digitally by web, audio, and making water their #1 choice student information systems. print to create a new vision for hydration. of what students and the Whizz Education, Inc. world can be. Wells Fargo Education Booth 734 Financial Services 619 North 35th Street World Peace Game Booth 735 Suite 101M Foundation, Martin Institute 301 East 58th Street North Seattle, WA 98107 Booth 822 Sioux Falls, SD 57106 (206) 547-0434 4025 Poplar Avenue (605) 575-8761 www.whizz.us Memphis, TN 38111 www.wellsfargo.com/student (901) 842-4602 Raising standards in math via www.martininstitute.org Providing high quality education personalized online tutoring financing products and services and best practice. Students Learn how general session since 1968. Proud to have helped using Math-Whizz for 60 speaker John Hunter, his World millions of families. An industry minutes per week improve their Peace Game, and the film leader in sound and ethical Math Age on average World Peace and Other Fourth- business practices. by 1.6 years in 12 months. Grade Achievements can benefit teachers and schools. The Whalen Berez Group, LLC Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Booth 646 Booth 238 Your Self Series 209 Heyers Mill Road 3250 Van Ness Avenue Booth 529 Colts Neck, NJ 07722 San Francisco, CA 94109 23 Springhurst Road (732) 946-1078 (415) 616-8480 Bedford Hills, NY 10507 www.thewbg.com www.williams-sonomainc.com (914) 244-1032 www.yourselfseries.com The Whalen Berez Group Pottery Barn Kids and Pottery provides a single and complete Barn Teen, the premier retailers YSS is an interactive curriculum resource for all interior project in children’s furnishings and that promotes self skills. requirements, including furniture, accessories, are launching Knowing who you are is the millwork, and equipment. a new School Rewards foundation to all preventative Program. Visit us for details and proactive programs. With and to sign up! self skills, students achieve more and feel happier.

70 Teacher and Administrative Placement Firms

These placement firms will be Carney, Sandoe & Associates Independent Thinking available at the following times at Rooms 6A and 6B Room 616 the Washington State Convention Wednesday, February 29 Wednesday, February 29 Center. See page 9 for a map. 12:00 – 5:00 PM 12:00 – 6:00 PM Thursday, March 1 Thursday, March 1 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Friday, March 2 Friday, March 2 Cal/West Educators ☞ 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Placement Rooms 611-614 CS&A provides recruitment, executive Independent Thinking (IT) works with Wednesday, February 29 search, and strategic consulting to independent schools on all their hiring 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM independent schools. The CS&A needs — for administrators and teachers. Thursday, March 1 LINK@NAIS held during the NAIS IT offers managed/retained search 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM Annual Conference facilitates interviews services for all administrator positions, between job-seekers and school including head of school searches. Friday, March 2 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM representatives. Candidates and Our online tool, IT CONNECTS, offers schools are able to interview in a hiring schools and teaching candidates Cal/West Educators Placement single location efficiently and cost a technologically savvy, revolutionary specializes in recruiting and placing effectively. To gain access to hundreds approach for connecting. Each member highly qualified senior leaders, of qualified candidates, register with of the Independent Thinking team administrators, and teachers (K-12), CS&A in the convention center, room has worked in independent schools through retained and contingent 6A. CS&A offers comprehensive head and brings strong knowledge of the searches, in independent and private of school and administrator search independent school culture. schools throughout California and services and consulting through its [email protected] other western states. We recruit and team of consultants. (617) 332-3131 interview candidates regionally and [email protected] www.independent-thinking.com nationally year-round to fill current and (617) 542-0260 future openings. We pride ourselves www.carneysandoe.com In the Exhibit Hall: on the personal relationships that we Educators’ Ally have with school leaders and with our The Education Group Booth 504 candidates, and are dedicated to helping Room 617 Educator’s Ally assists independent find “The Perfect Match!” Wednesday, February 29 schools in and [email protected] 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM surrounding suburbs, as well as a (800) 390-4737 Thursday, March 1 selection of New England boarding Onsite at the NAIS Annual Conference, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM schools, in hiring teachers and call (818) 399-5129. Friday, March 2 administrators. We also help and advise www.CalWestEducators.com 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM individuals established in their careers Specialists in the people business of looking to make a change, as well as education since 1988, The Education those just starting out. For more than Group provides faculty and administrative 35 years, we’ve been making matches placement in all subject areas, as well between schools and candidates; our as retained search services. We offer personalized service is our trademark. individual meetings with our consultants, [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: NAIS does interviews between schools and (914) 666-6323 not schedule interviews for candidates, as well as the opportunity www.educatorsally.com candidates. Please contact to search our current listings and the firms directly with questions candidate resumes. We welcome or to schedule an interview. school representatives and candidates to come by and meet our team. [email protected] (800) 369-9102 www.educationgroup.com

71 2012 Think Tank

The NAIS Annual Conference is enriched by the 2012 Think Tank. NAIS Schools Give These devoted individuals have offered their time generously Back to Seattle in order to serve school leaders by creating innovative and imaginative programming to As part of our public purpose, NAIS advocates inspire and enlighten participants. giving back to the local community. With your We at NAIS are indebted to: help, we’d like to do just that in Seattle. Located in the Belltown neighborhood of downtown Pam Dreisin Seattle, YWCA Angeline’s Women’s Center offers Head of School a safe, clean, supportive, and welcoming place French American International for homeless women to spend the day. Angeline’s School (Oregon) serves an average of 200 women each day, Marty Jones reaching as many as 300 women on a busy day. Director of Marketing and The women who access services may be dealing Communications with mental health issues, substance abuse, Oregon Episcopal School (Oregon) disabilities, physical abuse, and past incarceration, in addition to being homeless. In order to help Skip Kotkins women stabilize and move forward in their lives, Trustee Angeline’s also provides critical, comprehensive Lakeside School (Washington) services, including meals, links to additional Skyway Luggage Company support, and overnight shelter. Rosetta Lee NAIS encourages all conference attendees Faculty to bring donations for the center. Women at Seattle Girls’ School (Washington) the center need: Kate Curtin Lindsey ☞☞ Adult diapers, Director of Finance ☞☞ Band-Aids, The Hewitt School (New York) ☞☞ Combs and brushes, ☞ Wendy Nakatsukasa-Ono ☞ Hair products for African-American women, ☞ Trustee and Parent ☞ Bus tickets, ☞ University Preparatory ☞ Sensible shoes, ☞ Academy (Washington) ☞ Deodorant, ☞☞ Perfume, jewelry, wallets, and other fun little items, Bernie Noe ☞☞ Compact umbrellas, Head of School ☞☞ Pens and pocket calendars, and Lakeside School (Washington) ☞☞ Coats, hats, scarves, gloves, underwear, Meade Thayer and socks for adults. Executive Director You can easily purchase these everyday Pacific Northwest Association of essentials at local stores. Please bring all Independent Schools (Washington) donations to the Information Desk by Friday, March 2. Volunteers from YWCA Angeline’s Women’s Center will collect the donations from us at the convention center. Your small effort will make a big difference. Thank you for your support.

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73 Acknowledgments

NAIS gratefully acknowledges ☞ the support of the sponsors of the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference.

Gold sponsors

Platinum sponsors

Laptopschools.com and Lenovo Sponsor of the Cyber Café

ERB (Educational Records Sodexo Lenovo and LaptopSchools.com — helping Bureau) schools plan for, implement, and support 1:1 Sponsor of the John Hunter ☞ ubiquitous academic technology programs using Sponsor of the Independent ☞ General Session and Club Sodexo the ThinkPad line of laptop and tablet computers. Matters General Session Sodexo offers dining services, (888) 662-6924, www.laptopschools.com ERB is a not-for-profit, educational catering, vending, maintenance, membership association providing quality engineering and landscaping, and admission, achievement, and support custodial project management. services for nearly 2,000 PK-12 schools (413) 499-8434 Bronze sponsors and districts around the world. www.sodexousa.com (212) 672-9816 www.erblearn.org S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation The S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation is dedicated to advancing a productive, vibrant, and sustainable California. www.sdbjrfoundation.org The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc. Blackboard Blackboard expands education opportunities and creates collaborative learning communities to engage students, teachers, parents, and The Klingenstein Fund, Inc. TIAA-CREF administrators. With our online learning, mobile, mass communication and web Sponsor of the Bill Gates ☞ NAIS / NBOA National ☞ solutions, educators are closing the gap General Session Town Hall Meeting between the way students live and learn. NAIS acknowledges the generous TIAA-CREF and its group of companies (800) 424-9299 ext. 4, www.blackboard.com/k12 support of the Klingenstein Fund for the is a leading nationwide provider of 2012 NAIS Annual Conference. financial and retirement services. (212) 490-9000 ext. 23-3162 Google Chrome www.tiaa-cref.org Google’s Chromebooks for Education offer intuitive, easy-to-manage, and simple-to-scale netbook computers designed to power learning while delivering the power of the web. (650) 253-0000, www.google.com/education

74 Acknowledgments

NAIS gratefully acknowledges the following Families First Facilitators Our 2012 Annual Conference Bloggers companies, schools, and foundations for Barbara Bassett Mike Brown, headmaster, Trinity Episcopal their support of our programs in 2011: Gail Suitor, Long Trail School (Vermont) School () ARAMARK Education Lisa Zeller, The Community Randall Dunn, head of school, Latin School The Benedict Foundation School of Naples (Florida) of Chicago (Illinois) for Independent Schools Sarah Lin Hanawald, dean of academic Cal/West Educators Placement Speed Innovating Planning Committee affairs, Cannon School (New Hampshire)

Carney, Sandoe & Associates Eileen Powers, Campbell Hall (California), Kathy Mitchell O’Neal, director of admission Educational Records Bureau Chair and financial aid, University Preparatory Academy (Washington) The Edward E. Ford Foundation Susan Booth, NAIS (District of Columbia) Jason Ramsden, chief technology officer, EHDD Architecture Than Healy, Lakeside School (Washington) Ravenscroft School (North Carolina) Friends Council on Education Demetri Orlando, Buckingham Browne & Our 2012 Annual Conference Reporters The Klingenstein Fund, Inc. Nichols (Massachusetts) Julia Grandison, English teacher, The Jason Ramsden, Ravenscroft School Laptopschools.com and Lenovo Holton-Arms School, Inc. (Maryland) (North Carolina) R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation Bridget Janicki, annual conference Hope Staab, Punahou School (Hawaii) Rosetta Eun Ryung Lee and production manager, NAIS (District of individual donors / Diversity Films Jenni Swanson Voorhees, Sidwell Columbia) Friends School (District of Columbia) Smart Tuition Gennifer Yoshimaru, Brentwood Sodexo School (California) These schools have participated ☞ StratéGenius in the conference by offering ☞ TIAA-CREF 2013 NAIS Annual Conference ☞ musical performances. Think Tank Lakeside School (Washington) The Annual Conference is the result ☞ Crissy Caceres, head of lower school, Paul Harshman, director of bands of in-depth collaboration, advice, and ☞ Abington Friends School (Pennsylvania) Bernie Noe, head of school commitment of resources by hundreds ☞ The Northwest School (Washington) of individuals and numerous organizations Darryl Ford, head of school, William Penn Dana Sewall, school choir director in the independent school community. ☞ Charter School (Pennsylvania) Mike McGill, head of school NAIS wishes especially to recognize the Bryan Garman, head of school, Wilmington significant contributions of the following: Friends School (Delaware) Seattle Academy (Washington) Mark Hoover, director of vocal music Mindy Hong, assistant head of school, All individuals who proposed workshops Joe Pugelli, head of school for the 2012 NAIS Annual Conference Baldwin School (Pennsylvania) St. Thomas School (Washington) Beth Johnson, upper school co-principal, Chris Bigenho, coordinator of the Matt Turner, music teacher Friends’ Central School (Pennsylvania) Annual Conference Online Community, Kirk Wheeler, head of school Greenhill School (Texas) Barbara Kraus-Blackney, executive director, Marcus Eng, Jo Ann Matousek, Shaun Association of Delaware Valley Independent Mishler, and Joy Womack, Experient Schools (Pennsylvania) The 425+ workshop presenters Irene McHenry, executive director, Friends Council on Education (Pennsylvania) KINETIK Bob Mueller, business officer, Delaware A to Z Valley Friends School (Pennsylvania) Experient Registration and Housing Staff Linda Phelps, Pennsylvania Association of Freeman Independent Schools (Pennsylvania) Gecko Graphics Jason Ramsden, chief technology officer, Net Directories Inc. Ravenscroft School (North Carolina) PRG

75 NAIS Board and Staff

NAIS Board of Trustees NAIS wishes to welcome and thank four Paul Miller, senior director of global initiatives Marcia Prewitt Spiller, chair, head of school, new trustees on the membership slate, Donna Orem, chief operating officer The Children´s School (Georgia) scheduled for election at the Annual Elizabeth Pringle, vice president Meeting, March 2, here in Seattle: Jack Creeden, vice chair, president, School Year for professional development Abroad (Massachusetts) Carolyn Chandler, head of school, Metairie Nancy Raley, vice president, communications Skip Kotkins, secretary, trustee, Lakeside School Park Country Day School (Louisiana) Jay Rapp, senior director (Washington), Skyway Luggage Company Randall Dunn, head of school, of programs for professional development Lou Salza, treasurer, head of school, Latin School of Chicago (Illinois) John Rodrigues, vice president, Lawrence School (Ohio) Albert Throckmorton, assistant head of school, information technology Dennis Bisgaard, head of school, Saint Mary’s Episcopal School (Tennessee) Monique Rush, senior director (Connecticut) Andrew Watson, head of school, of online statistics and applications Mark Brooks, head of school, Albuquerque Academy (New ) Zoe Sherlick, vice president, marketing Pilgrim School (California) NAIS Staff Floyd Smith, member services associate Pilar Cabeza de Vaca, head of school, Efrem Abate, staff accountant The Madeira School (Virginia) Shannon Spaeder, director, marketing Amy Ahart, senior director, annual conference Paul Chapman, executive director, Beth Spriggs, senior director, Inverness Association (California) Pat Bassett, president IT project management Elizabeth Coleman, president, Gene Batiste, vice president, school field Megan Steehler, member services associate Bennington College (Vermont) services and equity and justice initiatives Kitty Thuermer, director of publications Katherine Dinh, head of school, Duawwonna Bell, human resources manager Amada Torres, senior director Prospect Sierra School (California) Susan Booth, senior director of academic research Elizabeth Duffy, headmaster, of strategic initiatives William Umanzor, help desk technician The Lawrenceville School (New Jersey) Janyce Bryant, director of administration Ioana Suciu Wheeler, director of global Barbara Egan, vice president for finance and and facilities initiatives and board of trustees programs administration, Woodward Academy (Georgia) Jefferson Burnett, vice president, Debra Wilson, legal counsel government and community relations Bryan Garman, head of school, Wilmington Tina Wood, director of team administration, school Friends School (Delaware) Vivian Dandridge, managing field services and equity and justice initiatives Wanda M. Holland Greene, head of school, director, member services The Hamlin School (California) Whitney Duff, director of legislative affairs School & Student Services by NAIS Dorothy Hutcheson, head of school, The Netty Ford, accounts receivable manager Charlie Carr, program lead, educational access Nightingale-Bamford School (New York) Daniel Gage, database integrator/ Alisa Evans, regional director Jerry Katz, head of school, IT project manager Mike Flanagan, chief executive officer (Massachusetts) Martha Lucia Galindo, senior statistician Amy Hammond, national director John Katzman, CEO, 2tor, Inc. (New York) Francois Innocent, comptroller Patricia Hayden, director, D. Scott Looney, head of school, Bridget Janicki, annual conference professional development Hawken School (OH) production manager Mark Mitchell, vice president, Bernie Noe, head of school, Cameron Johnson, web director Lakeside School (Washington) school and student services Amelia Kurtz, marketing Daniel Mollen, director, James Rogers, principal, James G. Rogers production coordinator Architects (Connecticut) marketing communications Karen Layser, annual conference Tammy Pearson, business analyst Michael Saxenian, assistant head of school, logistics coordinator Sidwell Friends School (District of Columbia) Kristen Power, regional director Jen Lesar, web content strategist Robert Witt, executive director, Hawaii Melvin rhoden, sales manager, Michael Lewis, program analyst Association of Independent Schools (Hawaii) SSS products and services for online services Special thanks to Marcia Prewitt Spiller, Paul Charles Terzi, director, contact Michelle Lyde, database manager Chapman, Dorothy Hutcheson, and Skip communications center Myra McGovern, senior director Kotkins, who conclude their distinguished Aaron Wachholz, regional director service on the NAIS board this month. of public information Abdul Yaro, regional director Corey McIntyre, chief financial officer

76 George Mendel, senior director of network systems and operations Online Tools at the NAIS Member Resource Center

Make room in your Annual Conference schedule to stop by the NAIS Member Resource Center. Pick up a copy of 5 in 5: Five NAIS Reports You Can Run in Less Than Five Minutes. While you’re there, learn from NAIS staff about StatsOnline Snapshots, the Demographic Center, Career Center, and Survey Center. Share your feedback with us and enter a drawing to win an iPad!

Sustainability

After the conference... Ways the Annual Conference is striving to be more environmentally friendly. ☞☞Check out the graphic depictions of the general ☞☞ We encourage presenters to post ☞☞ WSCC has contracted with a local sessions and featured handouts online. composting firm to haul away all workshops. ☞☞ We encourage online registration. food scraps, food-soiled paper, and landscape trimmings. ☞☞Watch interviews with some ☞☞ We conduct evaluations online. of the major speakers. ☞☞ WSCC practices savings in water ☞☞ We do not allow exhibitors/sponsors usage, energy savings, and other ☞☞Read articles about the to distribute mass quantities conservation efforts. general session and featured of printed promotional materials. ☞☞ All disposable food service items pro- workshop speakers. ☞☞ Our printed materials (preview and vided to customers are sustainable, program) are printed on partially www.nais.org/go/ including plates made of sustainable recycled stock. annualconference bamboo, wax-free coffee cups, and ☞☞ We have reduced the number of cutlery made from a corn-based resin. pages in the preview that mails and ☞☞ Whenever possible, locally sourced produce the online virtual preview sustainable food products are ordered that contains even more information. for use by the in-house catering staff. ☞☞ We recycle the conference badges. ☞☞ Some 95 percent of the wines served Remember to drop your badge come from Washington state wineries. off at the registration area after the conference. ☞☞ All coffee and tea products served come from Fair Trade Certified, ☞☞ Washington State Convention Center organic, shade-grown sources. (WSCC) was named Best Green Event Venue in Washington by Northwest ☞☞ Conference signs are printed on TM Meetings + Events magazine and is Falconboard , which is made with a currently listed as one of Washing- minimum of 20 percent recycled fiber ton’s Green 50 businesses by Seattle content. We donate some signage to Business magazine. local schools to be used for school activities. The remaining signage is recycled by the convention center. NAIS has a new Address!

1129 20th Street, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036-3425 (202) 973-9700

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Save the date!

2013 NAIS Annual Conference February 27 – March 1, 2013 Pennsylvania State Convention Center Philadelphia Revolutionary Traditions: Think Big, Think Great We will accept workshop proposals for the 2013 conference at www.nais.org/go/annualconference from March 15 - June 1, 2012.

2012 People of Color Conference December 6 – 8, 2012 George R. Brown Convention Center Houston Energizing Our Future Through Refining Our Shared Sense of Community: 25 Years of Fueling the Power of Change in Independent Schools