PROGRAM Feb New York City

NAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM feb new york city

27 2008 – mar

1 The NAIS Annual Conference is an energetic event, bringing together more than 5,000 independent school leaders, administrators, teachers, and trustees.

Welcome Page 1

Program at a Glance Page 2

Global Education Summit Page 4

Speakers Page 6

Conference Highlights Page 12

Classrooms of the Future Page 15 Workshop Tracks and Conference Planning Worksheet Page 16

daily Program Wednesday Page 18 Thursday Page 24 Friday Page 38

Teaching and Learning Symposium Page 55

Street Map and Floor Plans Page 56 Exhibit Hall and Member Resource Center Page 59 Teacher and Administrative Placement Firms Page 62

Acknowledgments Page 64

All are welcome to attend. NAIS has an institutional commitment to the principles of diversity. In that spirit, NAIS does not discriminate in violation of the law on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, age, physical challenge, nation of origin, gender, or any other characteristic. welcome to New York City!

Welcome to the city that never sleeps and to the 2008 NAIS Annual Conference! For more than 45 years, this conference has united leaders from independent schools in purposeful dialogue to the important end of bettering our community. We hope that the next four days of programming and networking in New York City will provide a measure of inspiration and will challenge you to “take flight” as suggested by the ultimate Renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, so that you will return to your school reborn with energy and ideas. Our conference theme, Schools of the Future: Embracing the Educational ReNAISsance, has been developed to address many opportunities and challenges that independent schools are facing in their daily operations: technology and its increasing role in our schools and lives; communications worldwide among diverse cultures; rapidly accelerating knowledge about brain function and research about skills needed for success in the Global Age; and our own sense that schools must both preserve the best of the “classical” past and consider new imperatives of the present and future in order to inspire students of the 21st century toward greatness. We have lined up spectacular speakers for you here in the Big Apple — all Renaissance men/women in their own right. Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, will discuss the importance of “right-brained” thinking as a critical skill for our schools to develop. Writer Mariane Pearl will urge us all to embrace the “Challenge of Peace” in this chaotic global society. NYC’s own Kevin Jennings will be honored for his lifetime commitment and activism in making schools safe for all children. Energetic journalist Simran Sethi will give us simple examples of how we, as educators and citizens, can make simple For once you have changes in our daily lives to work towards saving the environment. These are just a few tasted flight, you profiles of our outstanding speakers, all of whom are described on pages 6 – 11. will walk the earth As this conference has grown in numbers and complexity over the years, we have heard with your eyes turned some call the experience “overwhelming.” We think it is time to tackle that emotion by skywards, for there challenging all attendees to reach out and extend yourselves to others. Will our more you have been and “seasoned” colleagues please offer a hand of friendship to a new participant while in New there you will long York? If you make one new connection at this conference, it will only serve to strengthen to return. our collective community. leonardo da vinci We offer thanks to the New York State Association of Independent Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, and Connecticut Association of Independent Schools for welcoming the NAIS Annual Conference to this vibrant city. On behalf of the NAIS board and staff, we thank you for being part of this event and for your commitment to the children in your schools. Now, look skyward, and use this conference to take flight into the renaissance of ideas, both time-tested and new, so that your schools can become epicenters for creative expression, global connectedness, and right-brained leadership.

Patrick F. Bassett President Heather Hoerle Vice President of Member Relations Amy Ahart Director of the NAIS Annual Conference SATIRA BUSHELL ASSOCIATE Director of the NAIS Annual Conference

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8:00 AM registration and INFO BOOTH HOURS 8:30 AM Wednesday, 7:00 AM–7:00 PM 8:30 AM–4:00 PM Thursday, 6:30 AM–6:00 PM Global Education 9:00 AM Summit Friday, 6:30 AM–4:00 PM 9:30 AM EXHIBIT HALL and NAIS BOOKSTORE HOURS 10:00 AM Thursday, 11:00 AM–6:30 PM Friday, 8:00 AM–2:00 PM 10:30 AM

NEW ! Classrooms 11:00 AM OF the Future: an interactive 11:30 AM demonstration and learning center Hours 12:00 PM Thursday, 8:00–9:30 am, 12:00–4:00 PM 11:00 AM–3:15 pm, and 5:00–6:30 pm Families First 12:30 PM Meeting and Tour Friday, 8:00–9:30 am, 11:00 AM–3:00 pm 1:00 PM NEW ! Teaching and 1:00–4:00 PM Learning Symposium Three-Hour 1:30 PM Workshops On Saturday, March 1, 9:00 AM– 12:00 PM, don’t miss an energetic 2:00 PM group conversation with Ian Jukes. Read more on page 55. 2:30 PM

3:00 PM Program at a Glance Key Book signings take place immediately 3:30 PM following speakers’ presentations in the Hilton. 4:00 PM These events or programs require pre-registration or tickets. 4:30 PM General Session Events take place in Radio City Music Hall. 5:00 PM Featured Workshops, One-Hour Workshops, Optional Three-Hour 5:30 PM Workshops, and Special Events 5:30–6:30 PM take place in the Hilton. Reception for Exhibitors Exhibit Hall activities take place 6:00 PM in the Hilton. 6:30 PM

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6:30–7:45 AM 6:30–7:45 AM Coffee/Tea in the Coffee/Tea in the 6:45–7:45 AM Registration Area Registration Area Breakfast for Schools that Serve Children with Learning Differences 7:30–9:00 AM President’s Breakfast/ 8:00–9:00 AM Annual Meeting 8:00–9:00 AM Block 1 One-Hour Workshops Block 4 One-Hour Workshops Featured Workshop with Featured Workshop with Simran Sethi Roland Fryer

9:30–11:00 AM 9:30–11:00 AM Opening Session Featuring Patrick Bassett General Session: New York Welcome and and Sir Ken Robinson Daniel Pink

11:00 AM–12:30 PM Exhibit Hall Grand Opening and Complimentary Lunch in Exhibit Hall 11:30 AM–12:30 PM 11:30 AM–12:30 PM Block 5 One-Hour Workshops NAIS Diversity Leadership Featured Workshop with Award Honoring GLSEN’s Firoozeh Dumas Kevin Jennings 12:30–1:30 PM 12:30–1:30 PM Block 2 One-Hour Workshops Complimentary Lunch in Exhibit Hall Featured Workshop with Karen Kasmauski Featured Workshop with Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik 1:30–2:30 PM 1:45–2:45 PM Block 6 One-Hour Workshops Block 3 One-Hour Workshops Featured Workshop with Reza Aslan Featured Workshop with Ishmael Beah Featured Workshop with Patrick Bassett Featured Workshop with Faith Popcorn

3:00–4:30 PM 3:15–5:00 PM Closing General Session General Session Featuring Pearl Cleage Featuring Mariane Pearl

5:00–6:30 PM A Faire to Remember: New on Saturday morning! Don’t miss Renaissance Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall the exciting new Teaching and Learning Symposium. See page 55 for more details.

Wednesday, February 27, 8:30 AM–4:00 PM hilton grand ballroom, EAST

Join leaders of independent education from GES Schedule around the world at the third NAIS Global Education Summit (GES) for further 8:30–8:45 AM Welcome and presentation of the 2008 NAIS Global Citizen Award, conversations on global issues and the given each year to an individual who has development of global citizens. Hear promoted the cause of global education in internationally renowned speakers discuss our member schools. current global problems — challenges that your students will encounter. 8:45–9:45 AM Keynote Address, Kwame Anthony Appiah

9:45–10:00 am Break

10:00–11:00 am Keynote Address, Kenneth Bacon The GES is just one of the NAIS Global Initiatives. To find out more about programs such as Challenge 11:00 am–12:00 pm Small Group Discus- sions. The names of the groups all mean 20/20 and the Institute for Student Leaders, and “peace” in different languages. Your group to investigate the wide range of resources available name is on your badge and you will find a to schools, go to www.nais.org/go/global, or visit us corresponding sign for your group in the in the Global Village in the Exhibit Hall. meeting space. 12:00–1:00 pm Boxed Lunch

1:00–4:00 pm GES participants attend a three-hour conference workshop for which they previously registered. See pages 19 — 23 for locations.

Pre-registration for the GES is required. Kwame Anthony Appiah Kenneth Bacon NAIS Global Citizen Award — Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of Since 2001, Kenneth Bacon has Andrew Corcoran America’s leading public intellectu- served as president of Refugees The 2008 NAIS Global Citizen Award als. He asks probing questions about International. His organization has will be given to Andrew Corcoran, identity and ethical behavior in a campaigned for an end to the conflict head of The Chinese American In- world where race, ethnicity, religion, in the Darfur region of Sudan and on ternational School in San Francisco. and nationalism make the answers behalf of displaced persons throughout Under his leadership, CAIS has more important than ever. Profes- the world. An expert in international solidified its position as a model in sor Appiah was born in London to a affairs and security issues, Bacon has the immersion teaching of Mandarin Ghanaian father and a white mother. concentrated on expanding Refugees and in the promotion of Chinese He spent much of his childhood in his International’s capacity to promote language and culture in the United father’s native country, before return- more effective ways for the interna- States. In 2004, CAIS was awarded ing to England to continue his educational community to meet the needs the Goldman Sachs Award for Excel- tion. He is currently the Laurance S. of refugees and displaced people. He lence in International Education. Rockefeller University Professor of is the co-chairman of the Partner- Corcoran brings more than 30 years Philosophy at Princeton University. In ship for Effective Peacekeeping and of extensive experience in education. his most recent book, Cosmopolitanism: serves on the boards of The American Prior to joining CAIS, he was prin- Ethics in a World of Strangers, he gets University in Cairo, Population Action cipal of Maryknoll High School in beyond empty rhetoric to identify the International, and InterAction. Hawaii. Corcoran continues to work struggles we all face to come to terms He is a member of the Council on with Teachers without Borders in with the “strangeness of strangers” Foreign Relations and the Interna- China and previously worked with and the “foreignness of foreigners.” In tional Institute for Strategic Studies. Global Children’s Organization in his presentations, he helps listeners Bacon has published articles and Bosnia, Croatia, and Ireland to aid to develop a new approach to living a op-ed pieces on humanitarian issues children affected by the violence in moral life in the modern age — where in publications worldwide, including those countries. He is both the head the competing claims of “a clash of the New York Times, Washington Post, of CAIS and the executive director civilizations” on the one hand, and a and International Herald Tribune. Prior of the CAIS Institute, a Mandarin groundless moral relativism on the to working at Refugees International, resource center for educators, other, can make such a project seem Bacon served as Pentagon spokesman students, and community organiza- impossible. from 1994 to 2001. From 1969 to 1994, tions. A leader in the field of Chinese he was a reporter, editor, and colum- education, Corcoran realized his nist for the Wall Street Journal, based in vision when the CAIS Institute hosted Washington, DC. the nation’s first annual Chinese Language Conference in 2007.

GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERS these engaging speakers will present at the general sessions in radio city music hall.

Ken Robinson Thursday, February 28, 9:30–11:00 AM Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation, and human resources. For 10 years, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick in England. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education, and the economy for the United Kingdom, bringing together leading business people, scientists, artists, and educators. His report, All Our Futures: Creativity, Cul- ture, and Education (The Robinson Report), was published to widespread acclaim. He played a central role in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the peace process in Northern Ireland. The resulting blueprint for change, “Unlocking Creativity,” was adopted by politicians of all parties and by business, education, and cultural leaders across the province. He was one of four international advisors to the Singapore government on its strategy to become the creative hub of Southeast Asia. Robinson is an inspira- tional speaker with a unique talent for conveying profoundly serious messages with enormous humor, passion, and wit. He speaks to audiences on the creative All book signings will take place in the Hilton’s challenges facing business and education Grand Ballroom lobby, immediately following in the new global economy. each presentation, with the exception of Mariane Pearl. Ms. Pearl will sign pre-purchased books in Radio City Music Hall’s Grand Lounge. Pearl Cleage Daniel Pink Mariane Pearl Thursday, February 28, 3:15–5:00 PM Friday, February 29, 9:30–11:00 AM Friday, February 29, 3:00–4:30 PM A Writer’s Role in Wartime: A Whole New Mind Fighting Violence: Open up a Dialogue The Campfire at the End of the World Daniel Pink is a best-selling author and Mariane Pearl was five months pregnant An accomplished playwright, journal- an expert on innovation, competition, when her husband, Wall Street Journal ist, poet, and novelist, Pearl Cleage and the changing world of work. His reporter Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped and explores issues of race, sex, and love in latest book, A Whole New Mind, charts the brutally murdered by a militant Islamic a growing body of literary work while rise of right-brain thinking in modern fundamentalist group in Pakistan in 2002. revealing poignant truths about brave economies and explains the six abilities Determined not to be broken, she wrote A black women. An Atlanta-based writer, individuals and organizations must Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Cleage has published five novels, a dozen master in an outsourced and automated Husband Danny Pearl that introduced the plays, two books of essays, two books of world. Pink’s first book, Free Agent Nation, world to Daniel Pearl as he was when he was poetry, and 10 years’ worth of newspaper about the rise of people working for alive while also providing a heart-breaking columns. She has drawn national atten- themselves, was a Washington Post best first-person account of his disappearance tion with her dramatic plays, including seller. His articles on work, business, and and death. Despite the ongoing investiga- Flyin’ West, an extraordinary story about technology appear in The New York Times, tion and declarations about Pearl’s mur- four indomitable black women set in 1898 Harvard Business Review, Slate, Fast Com- der, Mariane continues to gain strength by Kansas, and Blues for an Alabama Sky. Her pany, and Wired, where he is a contribut- celebrating life, the values of humanism, novels have received wide recognition, ing editor. Pink has provided analysis and dignity. She is co-founder of the Dan- including Oprah’s Book Club selection, of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, iel Pearl Foundation, created to further the New York Times best-seller status, the NPR, and other media networks. And as ideals that inspired his life and work and BCALA Literary Award, a Good Morning an independent business consultant, he’s to promote cross-cultural understanding America pick, and the first selection of the advised start-up ventures and Fortune through journalism, music, and innova- Essence Magazine Book Club. Recently 100 companies on recruitment, innovative communications. An award-winning honored by Oprah Winfrey as part of tion, and work practices. A free agent international journalist, Mariane has her “Legends Weekend” as an African- himself, Pink held his last “real” job in traveled the world, reporting and produc- American woman of distinction, Cleage the White House, where he served from ing documentaries on the sensitive issues and her poem “We Speak Your Names” 1995–97 as chief speechwriter to Vice surrounding the application of genetic served as the celebration’s centerpiece. President Al Gore. He also worked as an technology to contemporary challenges. Chosen by Spelman College as one of its aide to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. After September 11, 2001, she reported Cosby Chairs in the Humanities, Cleage Reich, an economic policy staffer in the from Pakistan, examining media coverage currently teaches at the college. U.S. Senate, a legal researcher in India, of the war in neighboring Afghanistan. and a latrine builder in Botswana. He Today she is a reporter and “Global Diary” received a bachelor’s degree from North- columnist for Glamour magazine. western University and a law degree from Yale Law School. book signing event in Radio city music hall. You must purchase your book in advance at the Hilton, as we cannot sell books at Radio City Music Hall. Sponsored by Educational Records Sponsored by Sodexo Education Bureau (ERB) FEATURED WORKSHOP SPEAKERS these speakers will present featured workshops in the hilton grand ballroom at the same time as the concurrent one-hour workshops.

Roland Fryer Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik Thursday, February 28, 8:00–9:00 AM Thursday, February 28, 12:30–1:30 PM Economics of Incentives: The Ends of Education: What Drives Individuals and A Spirited Conversation Organizations to Make Decisions? Malcolm Gladwell has an incomparable Economist Roland Fryer was first brought gift for interpreting groundbreaking to the public eye in March 2005 when research in psychology, sociology, and The New York Times profiled him and neurology and applying it to business. the struggles of his childhood, during In 2005, Time magazine named Gladwell which he was exposed to drugs, crime, one of its 100 Most Influential People. and parental abandonment. Despite this He is the author of two New York Times #1 challenging childhood, Fryer succeeded best sellers. With his first book, Gladwell in receiving an athletic scholarship to embedded the concept of “the tipping the University of Texas at Arlington and point” into our everyday vocabulary and graduated in a mere 2 ½ years. He then gave organizations new tools for under- pursued his Ph.D. in economics from standing how and why change happens Pennsylvania State University. Now and how to create positive epidemics of an assistant professor of economics at ideas and behavior. In Blink, he analyzes Harvard University, Fryer has quickly first impressions and how we can master become a major player in the application them as an important aspect of success- of economic theories to issues of race ful decision-making. He is currently a All book signings will and discrimination. He has studied the staff writer for The New Yorker. take place in the Hilton’s black-white achievement gap, the causes Adam Gopnik is an award-winning and consequences of distinctively black journalist who speaks with singular wit, Grand Ballroom lobby, names, colorblind affirmative action, eloquence, and insight on modern life immediately following and the consumption patterns of blacks and culture through the medium of what each presentation, with vs. whites. He was named a “Rising Star” he calls “comic-personal essays.” Gopnik by Fortune magazine and was featured in also writes for The New Yorker. Gopnik’s the exception of Mariane Esquire’s “Genius Issue.” Many recognize most recent book, Through the Children’s Pearl. Ms. Pearl will sign Fryer’s name from the best-selling book Gate: A Home in New York, follows his fam- pre-purchased books in Freakonomics, on which he collaborated ily back to New York after seven years in Radio City Music Hall’s with the book’s author Stephen Levitt. Paris (about which he wrote in the best- From his findings on the racial inequalities selling Paris to the Moon) in a mood of Grand Lounge. within the U.S. education system to the hope and adventure, only to live through real reasons why people join the Ku Klux the events of 9/11. In it, he explores how Klan, Fryer and the Freakonomics team to recover hope — as a country, as a city, as debunked several of society’s racial mores. parents and children.

Sponsored by ABCTE Sponsored by The Klingenstein Fund Karen Kasmauski Ishmael Beah Faith Popcorn Thursday, February 28, 12:30–1:30 PM Thursday, February 28, 1:45–2:45 PM Thursday, February 28, 1:45–2:45 pm The World’s Other War: A Decade on the A Long Way Gone: The Trend Oracle Front Lines of Global Health A Story of Redemption and Hope Faith Popcorn advises many Fortune 500 Karen Kasmauski is driving a global When Ishmael Beah was 11 years old, his companies on trend-based techniques health/global change initiative at Na- life, along with the lives of millions of that remove the mystery from business, tional Geographic. Every so often, two other Sierra Leoneans, was derailed by transforming companies into leaders of skills collide in a way that amplifies each the outbreak of a brutal civil war. After the future, not followers. The New York Times of them. Such is the case with Kasmauski, his parents and two brothers were killed, has called her “the trend oracle” and she whose social science training gives her Beah was recruited to fight as a child is recognized as America’s foremost trend a unique perspective on her subjects. soldier at the age of 13. He fought for two expert. She correctly predicted the demand This veteran photographer focuses her years before UNICEF removed him from for fresh foods and four-wheel drives, as lens on the personal stories of the people the army. After completing rehabilita- well as the spiritual tenor of the millennium she photographs. Often these stories tion, Beah won a competition to attend a (The Anchoring Trend). She was the first to center on health, community, family, conference at the United Nations to talk anticipate the explosive growth in home and activism. She has a gift for distilling about the devastating effects of war on delivery, home businesses, and home shop- sweeping change and global issues into children in his country. It was there that ping (The Armored Cocoon). As founder of a single image, relying on her training he met his new mother, Laura Simms, BrainReserve, her future-focused marketing in social science to blend a therapist’s a professional storyteller who lives consultancy, Popcorn helps organizations sensitivity with a photographer’s eye in New York. Beah returned to Sierra look at the present from the other end of the for detail. Throughout her 20 years of Leone and continued speaking about his telescope to make critical business decisions contributing to National Geographic, experiences to help bring international today. Documented as having a 95 percent Kasmauski has introduced a generation attention to the issue of child soldiering. accuracy rate, Popcorn and BrainReserve of readers to critical global health issues In 1998, Beah came to live with his provide the inspiration and foresight needed — the effect of female reproductive health U.S. family. He completed high school at to predict evolving future consumer markets. on world population, immigration and the United Nations International School The author of the mega best seller The Popcorn the changing face of America, and the and went on to Oberlin College. Through- Report and Clicking, she predicted another unrelenting spread of the AIDS virus. out his education, Beah continued his revolution in U.S. business in EVEolution: The She is also known for her extensive work advocacy work, speaking on behalf of Eight Truths of Marketing to Women. Her latest chronicling the spread of infectious UNICEF, Human Rights Watch, and book, Dictionary of the Future, includes 1,500 disease. Celebrated for her ability to il- the UN Secretary General’s Office for new, emerging, and just-invented terms in lustrate the microscopic architecture of Children and Armed Conflict. In A Long 35 diverse categories so readers can see the a disease and to record the social impact Way Gone, Beah, now 26 years old, tells future taking shape, word by word, idea by left in its wake, Kasmauski’s work has a riveting story of his childhood and his idea. Popcorn will discuss trends impacting won the praise of both the medical and struggle to regain his humanity and education today, the subject of governance, journalism communities. Photograph by re-enter the world of civilians. and the growing call for transparency with Mark Thiessen board members, and will touch on the changing nature of leadership.

Sponsored by Discovery Education FEATURED WORKSHOP SPEAKERS these speakers will present featured workshops in the hilton grand ballroom at the same time as the concurrent one-hour workshops.

Simran Sethi Firoozeh Dumas Friday, February 29, 8:00–9:00 AM Friday, February 29, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM Musings and Advice from a Funny in Farsi: Sustainability Journalist Humor and Shared Humanity Simran Sethi is an award-winning Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, journalist who reports on issues of Iran, and, at the age of seven, moved to economic sustainability, environmental Whittier, California, with her family. stewardship, and social justice. She is a After a two-year stay, they moved back contributing author to Ethical Markets: to Iran, then two years later, returned to Growing the Green Economy, the com- California. Dumas attended the Univer- panion guide to the PBS series Ethical sity of California at Berkeley where she Markets. Sethi is the host and writer of met and married a Frenchman. Dumas Sundance Channel’s program The Green grew up listening to her father, a former and is a commentator and consultant for Fulbright Scholar, recount the many its series Big Ideas for a Small Planet. She colorful stories of his life in both Iran hosts a weekly environmental podcast and the United States. In 2001, with no for TreeHugger.com, the largest environ- prior writing experience, Dumas decided mental website on the Internet. Lauded to write her own stories as a gift to her in Vanity Fair’s green issue as the envi- two children, resulting in the collection ronmental “messenger,” Sethi recently called Funny in Farsi. Critics and readers hosted a forum with Al Gore for MSN.com of all ages have loved her stories. In April All book signings will and has created an audio podcast series 2005, Dumas’s one-woman show, Laugh- take place in the Hilton’s for Gore’s nonprofit Alliance for Climate ing without an Accent, opened in Northern Protection. The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen California to sold-out audiences. For the Grand Ballroom lobby, DeGeneres Show, and Martha Stewart Show past three years, Dumas has traveled the immediately following have featured Sethi to highlight ways country reminding us that our common- each presentation, with citizens can become more environmen- alities far outweigh our differences… tally friendly. She is the “eco-expert” on disarming audiences with humor. She the exception of Mariane the syndicated green home makeover has spoken at conferences, schools, Pearl. Ms. Pearl will sign show The EcoZone Project and is the host of churches, Jewish temples, and Islamic pre-purchased books in Voom HD Network’s social series Keep It centers. Everywhere she has gone, audi- Radio City Music Hall’s Green. Sethi anchored the news for MTV ences have embraced her message of Asia, created the MTV India news divi- shared humanity. Grand Lounge. sion, and developed programming for the BBC through her production company SHE TV. She holds an MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio School of Management and a B.A. in sociology and women’s studies from Smith College.

10 Kevin Jennings Reza Aslan Friday, February 29, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM Friday, February 29, 1:30–2:30 PM NAIS Diversity Leadership Maneuvering through the Muslim World Award Recipient Reza Aslan is one of the nation’s most Miss a An accomplished writer, teacher, and respected experts on Islam and the leader in the fields of K-12 education and Middle East. He is a research associate at Keynote Speaker? civil rights, Kevin Jennings began his ca- the University of Southern California’s reer as a high school history teacher. He Center on Public Diplomacy, Middle East Let the bloggers fill you became the faculty advisor to the nation’s commentator for NPR’s “Marketplace,” in during and after the first Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) at Con- and Muslim affairs analyst for CBS News. conference. Read the speaker cord Academy (MA), launching his life on In his internationally acclaimed book, No blogs at www.nais.org. a path dedicated to ensuring that schools God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Fu- become places where young people learn ture of Islam, Aslan masterfully explores to value and respect everyone, regardless the intricate interplay between faith and of sexual orientation or gender identity. politics in the Muslim world, present- As more educators and students began ing Islam as an ever-evolving faith and contacting him for help, Jennings saw a culture in the midst of a cataclysmic need that wasn’t being met. So in 1990 he internal battle for reform and modern- founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight ization. In 1999, he was elected president Education Network (www.GLSEN.org), a of Harvard University’s chapter of the local volunteer group in the Boston area World Conference on Religion and Peace bringing together LGBT and straight (WCRP), a United Nations organization teachers, parents, students, and commu- committed to global understanding. In nity members who want to end anti-LGBT 1999, after consecutive nuclear tests by bias in the state’s K-12 schools. Follow- India and Pakistan, the WCRP under ing his teaching career, Jennings built Aslan’s leadership brought the ambas- the all-volunteer GLSEN organization sadors of the two countries to Harvard into a national force. Under his leader- to discuss for the first time their shared ship, GLSEN (located in New York City) nuclear future. In 2000, he was named has made safe schools a national issue. Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at GLSEN programs like GSAs, No Name- the University of Iowa, becoming the first Calling Week, and Day of Silence are now full-time professor of Islam in the his- commonplace in U.S. schools. Newsweek tory of the state. When the Pentagon and named Jennings to the “Century Club” World Trade Center were attacked on 9/11, as one of “100 people to watch in the new Aslan put his expertise to work traveling century.” In addition to authoring six throughout Iowa speaking to businesses, books, Jennings helped write and pro- churches, mosques, and universities. duce the documentary Out of the Past.

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Musical Performances gloBAL EDUCATION Breakfast for Schools During the general sessions in Radio SUMMIT that Serve Children with City Music Hall, enjoy the wonderful Wednesday, 8:30 AM–4:00 PM Learning Differences performances of these local groups: Pre-registration required. Friday, 6:45–7:45 AM Greenwich Academy See page 4 for program details. hilton, Grand Ballroom, West Madrigal Singers Hilton, Grand ballroom east Independent schools that primarily serve Thursday morning Opening Session students with learning differences will Beth Raaen, performing arts chair Classrooms of the Future: come together to discuss issues of par- and director of the Madrigal Singers; An Interactive Demonstra- ticular interest to this community. Dianne Ellis, accompanist and lower tion and Learning Center All are welcome. school music director; Diana Beste, up- Thursday, 8:00–9:30 am, per school head; and Molly King, head of 11:00 AM–3:15 pm, 5:00–6:30 pm NAIS Diversity Leadership school, Greenwich Academy (CT) Friday, 8:00–9:30 am, Award: Recognition for The Town School Lower 11:00 AM–3:00 pm Outstanding Achievement School Chorus See page 15 for details. in Diversity Thursday afternoon General Session Hilton, Mercury Rotunda Friday, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM Janie Vance, chorus director; Amy hilton, Grand Ballroom, East Yeh, chorus assistant; Melissa Bau- PRESIDENT’S BREAKFAST Join us to celebrate diversity efforts and man, accompanist; Joan Sokotch, and ANNUAL MEETING achievement in independent schools as lower school head; and Christopher Thursday, 7:30–9:00 AM we honor Kevin Jennings, founder of the Marblo, head of school, The Town Tickets: $25 Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education School (NY) hilton, Grand Ballroom, East Network (GLSEN), former independent The Gay Men’s Chorus of Manhattan Join head of school colleagues for break- school teacher, and esteemed author. Thursday afternoon General Session fast and a presentation by NAIS president See page 11 for Kevin Jennings’s full bio. Musical Director, Casey Hayes, Patrick Bassett and the NAIS board of This event is no longer a lunch and no ticket Hewitt School (NY) trustees. The Annual Meeting for mem- is required. All are welcome. Organized in 2003, the members of bers immediately follows the breakfast. the Gay Men’s Chorus serve as edu- featured workshop by cational representatives of the New ReNAISsance NETWORKING FETE: NAIS President Pat Bassett: York City gay community. They sing A FAIR TO REMEMBER / “The Right-Brained Future” to promote tolerance and acceptance, Reception in the Exhibit Hall Friday, 1:30–2:30 PM not just for the GLBT community, but Thursday, 5:00–6:30 pm hilton, grand ballroom, west for all people. ALL CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS Patrick Bassett will present a workshop The Elisabeth Morrow ARE WELCOME! on the theme of “right-brained” creativ- School EMS Orchestra hilton, Exhibit Hall ity, rooted in ideas from Daniel Pink’s Friday morning General Session Meet with old friends and new ones at book A Whole New Mind, exploring the Amelia Gold, music director; and NAIS’s own unique Renaissance Fair implications for teaching and learning David Lowry, head of school, The and experience live entertainment and in 21st century schools. He will examine Elisabeth Morrow School (NJ) interactive demonstrations. Join us for the six core competencies of our right- The Masters School Dobbs 16 free food and drinks, strolling minstrels, brained future and illustrate exercises Friday afternoon General Session jugglers, and other Renaissance char- related to each: design, story, symphony, Gillian Crane, musical director and acters. Dress is casual. We hope you will empathy, play, and meaning. The genera- associate dean of students; Nancy join in the festivities! tive question to be addressed: What will Theeman, head of the music depart- be the skills and values that the 21st cen- ment; and Maureen Fonseca, head of tury will demand and reward, and how school, The Masters School (NY) will independent schools teach them? These events or programs require registration or tickets. 12 Teaching and NAIS Programs Highlighted Share your success stories Learning Symposium at the Conference in technology with other Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 pm Challenge 20/20 and Institute independent schools! Registration is required for this for Student Leaders (ISL) The NAIS 21st Century Curriculum/ program. This event is sold out. Sign up to participate in Challenge Technology Task Force invites you Hilton, Grand ballroom east 20/20 by August 15, 2008. Find to submit information about the out- Join colleagues to participate in this out more about ISL in Costa Rica standing examples of teaching and interactive event lead by Ian Jukes (June 22 – 27, 2008). Stop by the learning with technology that are hap- on Teaching and Learning in the Digital Global Village or go online to pening at your school. The task force Landscape. For a full description of this www.nais.org/go/challenge2020. will review submissions and select up program, see page 55. NAIS Aspiring Head Fellowship to 20 case studies for inclusion in an Welcome to our 2007–08 and upcoming print booklet, Stories of Excel- Club Sodexo 2008–09 Fellows! The Fellowship, lence: Case Studies of Exemplary Teaching Thursday, 7:00 AM–4:00 PM a Carney, Sandoe & Associates- and Learning with Technology. Go to Friday, 7:00 AM–2:00 PM sponsored partnership, is a year-long http://naisnet.ning.com for more informa- Hilton, Nassau Suite A professional development program tion and to submit your case study by Club Sodexo is an exclusive business- for individuals at NAIS member April 1, 2008. class lounge for heads of school and other schools who wish to become heads of senior administrators of educational in- independent schools. The program stitutions worldwide. The lounge offers a is generously sponsored by Carney, quiet, comfortable setting equipped with Sandoe & Associates and The Bene- a complimentary cyber café, refresh- dict Foundation for Independent ments, and massage stations designed to Schools, with funding inaugurated give you a private, relaxing experience by The Edward E. Ford Foundation. when you need to take a short break from The program includes workshops, the crowds. Sponsored by Sodexo leadership assessments, a mentor relationship, and a focused school project. Part of the programming takes place at the Annual Conference. You, too, can be part of a network of aspiring school leaders. For more information, visit www.nais.org/go/fellowship.

Too many good choices? Go to the NAIS Information Booth for suggested pathways.

13 FAMILIES fIRST PROGRAM Registration is required for this program. There is no fee. Sign up at the registration desk to participate as space is limited. Families First provides professional and personal support and programming for the partners of heads of independent schools. classrooms of the future: Lunch, Meeting and Cultural Tour: Gathering in Sodexo Lounge an interactive Explore Chinatown… Friday, 12:30–1:30 PM Handbags, History, and Food Nassau Suite a demonstration Wednesday, 12:00–4:00 pm Meet in the Sodexo lounge to discuss and learning Trianon Ballroom challenges you face as a member of center One-Hour Workshop: the First Family, network, and catch Clarifying a School’s up with old and new friends. Hilton, Mercury Rotunda Commitment to the First Family Families First Networking Sponsored by the Edward E. Thursday, 12:30–1:30 PM Breakfast with Rob Evans Ford Foundation Sutton South on “Family Matters” See page 31 for a workshop descrip- Saturday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Visit the Classrooms of the tion. Presenters: Trina Secor, Carney, Hilton, sutton Beekman Parlor Future, a place to experience Sandoe & Associates (MA); Eliza- pedagogy and technology that beth Miles and Chuck Harmon, York takes learning beyond the walls, School (CA); Aggie Underwood, Car- time, and space of the traditional ney, Sandoe & Associates (VT); Debra classroom. This area offers three Wilson, NAIS (DC) different experiences for attend- Gathering in Sodexo Lounge ees: Featured Workshops, the Thursday, 1:45–2:45 pm Demonstration Classroom, and the Nassau Suite a hands-on Exploration Station. Meet in the Sodexo lounge to discuss challenges you face as a member of Thursday the First Family, network, and catch 8:00–9:30 am up with old and new friends. about Rob Evans 11:00 AM–3:15 pm One-Hour Workshop: Robert Evans is a clinical and 5:00–6:30 pm Creating an Individualized organizational psychologist and Contract for the Head of School the executive director of The Friday Friday, 8:00–9:00 AM Human Relations Service in Wellesley, 8:00–9:30 am Sutton South Massachusetts. He is a former high 11:00 AM–3:00 pm See page 40 for a workshop descrip- school and pre-school teacher and tion. Presenters: Trina Secor, Carney, for many years has been a child Sandoe & Associates (MA); Eliza- and family therapist. He has served beth Miles and Chuck Harmon, York in independent schools for more School (CA); Aggie Underwood, Car- than 30 years. He is the author ney, Sandoe & Associates (VT); Debra of The Human Side of School Wilson, NAIS (DC) Change and Family Matters: How Schools Can Cope with The Crisis in Childrearing. 14 CLASSROOMS OF THE FUTURE an interactive demonstration and learning center

Featured Workshops Demonstration Classroom Exploration Station Mercury ballroom The Demonstration Classroom features You have heard the presentations and There will be six featured workshops eight scheduled demonstration sessions. seen the demonstrations. Now you can that take place in the Classrooms of the Each one includes a focused 20-minute personally experience 21st century Future. Designed for engagement, these demonstration of a single concept, method, technologies and pedagogies. The hands- workshops look at new ways of teaching tool, and/or theory related to teaching/ on Exploration Station surrounds the and learning. They will feature new tools learning in the 21st century. Following the Demonstration Classroom and consists and technology, examples of situated demonstration will be a 20-minute period of 10 interactive stations. Here you can learning, and theories related to learning of dialogue related to the information present create your first blog, add to an existing in the 21st century. These workshops will ed. The final 20 minutes are for serendipity. wiki or create your own, develop your be led by experts from our schools and in Bring your ideas, expertise, and experiences first podcast, or subscribe to RSS feeds the field. Please see the detailed program so we can all benefit from the collective specific to your interests. You can use for workshop descriptions. and practical wisdom of participants. web-based software to create your dream classroom or share your digital story with Thursday Thursday the world; experiment with interactive ■ 8:00–9:00 am Design Technology: ■ 8:00–9:00 am 1:1 in the 21st whiteboards, student response systems, Encouraging Synthesis-Making Century: Student and Teacher Tablet and video conferencing; and/or explore Connections PCs in the Classroom distributed learning through various ■ 12:30–1:30 pm Web 2.0 Revealed: ■ 12:30–1:30 pm Increasing Interac- learning management systems such as Exploring the Possibilities While tion through Interactive Whiteboards Moodle and Blackboard. Docents will be Keeping it Real and Student Response Systems on hand to assist you in your exploration. ■ 1:45–2:45 pm 21st Century ■ 1:45–2:45 pm 21st Century Literacy The Exploration Station is open anytime Communication Tools and the Skills: Presentation and Panel the Classrooms of the Future is open. School of the Future Discussion Drop in for a first-hand experience with ■ 5:00–6:00 PM An Introduction to a new technology, or come by to mingle, Friday Web 2.0: Where the Jobs Are, Where share ideas, and make connections. ■ 8:00–9:00 am Connecting with Kids Are, Schools in the Middle 21st Century Alums: Exploration of ■ 6:00–7:00 PM Share Your Story with Emerging Communications the World: Digital Storytelling with ■ 11:30 am–12:30 pm Can Gaming Simplicity Teach Us about Teaching and Learning? ■ 1:30–2:30 pm Wiki-mania: How to Friday Stop by the Teach and Learn in an Open-Source ■ 8:00–9:00 am Authentic Doing: Classrooms of Culture Student Production of Knowledge for a Global Audience the Future ■ 11:30 am–12:30 pm Bridging the in the mercury Gap — Using Technology to Archive rotunda. and Share Classroom Learning and Continue the Conversation ■ 1:30–2:30 pm Creative Explorations with Google SketchUp 15

workshop tracks The Annual Conference includes more than 140 one-hour conference workshops offered in six timeslots on Thursday and Friday.

We provide attendees two ways to search Leadership Development Sustainability for for workshops in the conference program Designed for heads, assistant heads, 21st Century Schools — by the element of sustainability the division heads, deans, and all other aca- The second way that we categorize workshop addresses and by the track into demic and administrative leaders, these the workshops is by the dimension of which the workshop fits. All attendees workshops focus on effective school lead- sustainability the workshop addresses. are invited to attend any workshop so the ership. Workshops may cover leadership In the program, each workshop will be categorizations are meant to be helpful, style and skills, technologies, policies, marked with an icon representing one rather than restrictive. and decisions that impact the school as a or two of the five areas of sustainability whole, and the enhancement of profes- NAIS believes schools need to address. Track sional and personal development We encourage you to read more about The first way that all workshops will be opportunities for all faculty members NAIS’s vision for sustainability at categorized is by the five tracks listed and administrators. www.nais.org/go/sustainableschools. below. Again, this serves to help organize content and audience focus. Management Designed primarily for business officers, Demographic Sustainability Communications and Advancement financial aid directors, division heads, Becoming more inclusive Designed for heads and trustees as well deans, and heads, these workshops and representative of the school-age as communication and advancement focus on the day-to-day management population and less unapproachable practitioners (working in the areas of of people, programs, and operations. financially and socially. public relations, government relations, The workshops may cover issues such as media relations, community relations, recruitment and retention, supervision Environmental Sustainability marketing, development, alumni rela- and evaluation, legal issues, financial Becoming more “green” and tions, admission, and diversity), these operations, and building and campus less wasteful. workshops address what it takes to management. ensure effective communication to — and Financial Sustainability relations with — all key constituencies. The Classroom Experience Becoming more efficient and Designed for all educators and academic less costly. Governance leaders, these workshops focus on design Designed for boards of trustees and and implementation of academic pro- Global Sustainability heads of schools in their role as liaisons grams. They may cover new research, use Becoming more networked inter- with the board, these workshops focus on of technology to support learning, case nationally and less provincial in outlook. all aspects of board governance, including studies, model programs for inclusive (but not limited to) strategic thinking, and innovative curriculum, education for Programmatic Sustainability financial responsibilities of the board, the “whole” student, best practices, and Becoming more focused on and effective board/head partnerships. trends in education. These workshops the skills and values the marketplace may also cover issues of school culture of the 21st century will seek and and climate, and the support for the reward — and less narrowly isolated overall well being of students. in a traditional disciplines approach to teaching and learning.

Daily Work of School Leaders While these workshops do not specifically address one of the five Use the planning worksheet on the opposite aspects of sustainability, they cover the page to plan your conference experience. day-to-day operational work of independent schools, as well as individuals’ development of leadership skills.

16 conference

Use this worksheet to plan your time. planning Record workshops you wish to attend during Worksheet the conference on Wednesday through Saturday.

WED, FEb 27 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Global Education Summit with Kwame Anthony Appiah and Kenneth Bacon

12:00 – 4:00 PM Families First Meeting and Tour

1:00 – 4:00 PM Optional Three-Hour Workshops

THUR, FEB 28 7:30 – 9:00 AM President’s Breakfast/Annual Meeting

8:00 – 9:00 AM Block 1 One-Hour Workshops Choose one of two options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Roland Fryer

9:30 – 11:00 AM Opening Session Featuring Patrick Bassett and Sir Ken Robinson, Radio City Music Hall

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Exhibit Hall Grand Opening and Complimentary Lunch in Exhibit Hall

12:30 – 1:30 PM Block 2 One-Hour Workshops Choose one of three options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Karen Kasmauski OR Featured Workshop with Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik

1:45 – 2:45 PM Block 3 One-Hour Workshops Choose one of three options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Ishmael Beah OR Featured Workshop with Faith Popcorn

3:15 – 5:00 PM General Session Featuring Pearl Cleage, Radio City Music Hall

5:00 – 6:30 PM Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall

FRI, Feb 29 6:45 – 7:45 AM Breakfast for Schools that Serve Children with Learning Differences

8:00 – 9:00 AM Block 4 One-Hour Workshops Choose one of two options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Simran Sethi

9:30 – 11:00 AM General Session: New York Welcome and Daniel Pink, Radio City Music Hall

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Block 5 One-Hour Workshops Choose one of three options for this timeslot. OR Diversity Leadership Award Honoring GLSEN’s Kevin Jennings OR Featured Workshop with Firoozeh Dumas

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

1:30 – 2:30 PM Block 6 One-Hour Workshops Choose one of three options for this timeslot. OR Featured Workshop with Reza Aslan OR Featured Workshop with Patrick Bassett

3:00 – 4:30 PM Closing General Session Featuring Mariane Pearl, Radio City Music Hall

SAT, MAR 1 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Teaching and Learning Symposium: Igniting the Renaissance @ Your School

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Families First Breakfast with Rob Evans

These events require pre-registration or tickets. 17 Wednesday february 27 Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

7:00 am–7:00 pm 1:00–4:00 pm From Healthy Governance W Registration and NAIS Annual Three-Hour Workshops 3 to Healthy Schools: Conference Information Five Steps for Sustainability Booth Open These three-hour workshops Room: Madison Suite Hilton, 2nd Floor Registration Area require a ticket. Space permitting, Effective governance is essential you may sign up at the registration desk if for sustainability. A school head 8:00 am–5:00 pm you did not pre-register for a workshop. and organizational consultant Exhibitor Move In All workshops take place in the Hilton. describe how to forge a solid Hilton, Rhinelander Gallery, head-trustee relationship; clarify school Americas Hall I & II mission; understand how bylaws reflect W 1 The Crisis Roundtable the school’s culture; recognize why trustee, 8:30 am–4:00 pm Room: green room faculty, and student diversity is crucial to sus- Global Education Summit In this three-hour dynamic tainability; and design a plan for increasing it. Hilton, Grand Ballroom, East workshop, we will focus on crisis Presenters: Lynn Friedman, Johns Join leaders of independent education case studies and best practices in crisis Hopkins University (MD); Eve Kleger, from around the world at the third NAIS education. This will be a sharing of Village Community School (NY) Global Education Summit (GES) for proven programs, what schools can do conversations on global issues and the now and what we can learn from other Head Transition and W development of global citizens. See page 4 schools. In order to allow time for Q & A, 4 leadership Succession: for a detailed schedule. case studies will be mailed in advance. Crisis or Opportunity? Presenters: Jane Hulbert, Crisis Room: Clinton Suite 12:00–4:00 pm Communications (IL); Jess Barrie and NAIS predicts that in the next Families First Meeting Ron Torrez, Albuquerque Academy (NM); seven years there will be a 70 and Cultural Tour Dirk DeLeo, Greenwich Academy (CT); percent turnover of school heads across Hilton, Trianon Ballroom Tom Palermo, Chapin School (NY) the U.S. This creates a time of opportu- Families First provides professional and nity or crisis depending on how a school personal support and programming for Beyond Strategic frames the transition. This workshop W the partners of heads of independent 2 Planning: The Case for highlights strategies to lead a successful schools. Integrated Planning head and board transition for optimum Room: Murray Hill B culture change and growth. When stretched to include Presenters: Debbie Freed, Debbie program, business, and facility Freed & Associates (CA); Lucinda Katz, issues, strategic planning can Marin Country Day School (CA); Buzz become frustrating and ineffec- Heinrich, Prospect Sierra School (CA) tive. Integrated planning offers a comprehensive framework, with elements differentiated by content, participation, and processes, for improved management and board oversight. You’ll take home process clarity, useful tools, and a workbook from this workshop. Presenters: Samuel Frank, Synthesis Partnership (MA); Judy Shelton, St. George’s Independent School (TN); Sheri Sweitzer, Moses Brown School (RI)

These programs require a ticket or registration. 19 wednesday Optional Workshops 1:00–4:00 PM

Supercharge Your Board: Developing “A Whole Comprehensive Planning W W W 5 Create a Five-Year Trustee 7 New Mind” at Your School 9 and the Independent School Training Plan Room: Concourse E Experience Room: Concourse D Writer Daniel Pink argues that a Room: Harlem Suite Research on effective boards is new world requires “a whole new Each independent school presents conclusive: Training is crucial mind.” The challenge is understanding, a unique student experience to board and school success — yet identifying, and implementing the according to its specific culture many boards find comprehensive, practical steps of developing “whole new and identity, needs and priorities. proactive training difficult to accom- minds” within our school leaders. Using The Millbrook School and Germantown plish. In this workshop, participants Pink’s “six senses” of design, story, sym- Friends School will provide case studies will explore achievable five-year plans phony, empathy, play, and meaning, we to demonstrate the purpose and applica- for trustee recruitment, orientation, and share our process for changing leaders’ tion of a sustainable campus master plan ongoing training key to their schools’ mindsets. and the critical steps towards developing strategic goals. Presenters: Jamie Baker and Tom a working document. Presenters: Ginny Christensen, Ginny Beazley, Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Presenters: Daniela Holt Voith, Voith Christensen, LLC (PA); Craig Sellers, School (TN) & Mactavish Architects LLP (PA); Del Derryfield School (NH) Shilkret, Millbrook School (NY); Putting Together a Richard Wade, Germantown Friends W Beyond Service Learning: 8 High-Quality Character School (PA) W 6 Toward a Mature Political Education Program Consciousness Room: East Suite Designing Financially W10 Room: Concourse H In this workshop, members of Sustainable Schools If we are serious about our CSEE’s Moral Development Room: Mercury Ballroom students becoming leaders of the Team will introduce participants Explore the trends impacting next generation, we must ensure to the research-based components pricing and financing independ that many of them choose to devote of top-quality character education pro- ent schools, including tuition setting, their lives and careers to the amelioration grams, as well as details for the second productivity issues, cost containment, of conditions such as poverty, disease, year of the awards program that is grant- new revenue streams, and other related genocide, and environmental degradation. ing $75,000 to independent schools this issues. We will present the NAIS Six Steps This workshop offers specific school year to develop or fine-tune initiatives to model for financial equilibrium. We will strategies on how best to achieve this goal. foster kind, ethical leaders. discuss the latest challenges and strate- Presenters: Peter Cobb, Cobb & Presenters: David Streight, Council gies for success in each step, including Associates (GA); Thomas Southard, for Spiritual and Ethical Education (OR); best practices in using the NAIS Online Shady Side Academy (PA) Adriana Murphy, Green Acres School Financing Schools Calculator as a tool (MD); Jonathan Rosenshine, The Buckley to quickly model alternative financial School (NY) futures for your school. Presenters: Corey McIntyre and Mark Mitchell, NAIS (DC)

These optional Wednesday workshops require a ticket.

20 Optional Workshops 1:00–4:00 PM

Laptops Unleashed: Talking Heads: Eloquent Mirrors: W W W 11 An Integrated Approach to 13 Continuing the Conversation 15 observation, Evaluation, 1:1 Computing Room: Murray Hill A and Professional Feedback Room: Concourse C Global Education Summit Room: Bryant Suite Led by a head of school and director participants and other school Adults in schools want to improve, of technology, this workshop leaders are invited to compare notes on but most do not get the regular provides an overview of a planning and global education in their schools. Schools professional feedback they need — and implementation process involving trust- with innovative programs or solutions our students ultimately pay the price for ees, administrators, parents, teachers, will have the opportunity to share what this neglect. Participants will focus on and students. Examples of classroom use works, how, and why. the rationale and practice of effective will be shown along with observations of Presenters: Dick Hall, NAIS Board approaches to observation and evalua- the impact of ubiquitous computing on Global Task Force (DC); Barbara Chase, tion, through individual reflection, small the teaching-learning process, school Phillips Academy (MA); John Strudwick, and whole group discussion, and video culture, and related school change issues. Lake Forest Academy (IL); Jack Creeden, analysis. Presenters: Howard Levin and Mark Providence Day School (RI); Paul Geise, Presenter: Stephen Clem, Association of Salkind, The Urban School of San Pine Point School (CT); Bill Christ, Independent Schools in New England (MA) Francisco (CA) Hathaway Brown School (OH); Claudia Gallant, Sewickley Academy (PA) Introduction to Education W Preventing and Responding 16 for Sustainability (EFS) W 12 to Harassment — Is Your World Class Math from Room: Gramercy B W School Prepared? 14 the World’s Math Classes In this interactive workshop, we Room: Midtown Suite Room: New York Suite will model an innovative, engag- Just the words “sexual harassment” An international working group ing, and replicable activity to help par- can raise the anxiety of any school of leading math teachers is spending ticipants develop a shared understanding administrator or employee. This work- several months exploring whether and vocabulary of sustainability and EFS. shop provides a general explanation of there are common best practices Participants will become inspired and harassment laws and court decisions as suitable for use in independent schools. hopeful about contributing to a sustain- well as practical guidelines on school The group will report its findings and able future and will receive resources to policies and procedures, prevention continue the discussion at the workshop. enhance the process. techniques, and responses to complaints, Presenters: Maarten Dolk, Freuden- Presenters: Jaimie Cloud, Maya including conducting an investigation. thal Institute (Netherlands); Stephen Agarwal, Karey Fuhs, and Lynn Schnarr, Presenters: Linda Johnson, McLane, Evans (England); Maria Koziebrodzka, The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Graf, Raulerson & Middleton (NH); Sidwell Friends School (DC); Xiao Enli, Education (NY) Doug Dickson, St. Paul’s School (NH) Fudan University (Shanghai)

21 wednesday Optional Workshops 1:00–4:00 PM

New Ways of Educating: Preventive Diplomacy Toward a True Global W W 17 A Story of Organizing 19 in Action: The “Whose W22 Classroom: Best Practice Curriculum for the 21st Century Jerusalem?” Case Study Merges with New Ideals Room: Gramercy A cancelled Room: concourse a Come learn about a school’s New initiatives in distance education move from a traditional approach Ready! Set! Integrate! are being designed purposefully W to an innovative, constructivist, and 20 Enhancing Your Science to address the values of community project-based approach to organizing cur- Curriculum with Technology and citizenship. Join us to learn riculum, inspired by the Reggio Emilia Room: Concourse B how the American School in London Approach. While our school focuses on Interested in integrating the latest and Zurich International School are the pre-primary grades, presenters will educational technology into your leveraging these technologies to bring use anecdotes and images to connect ex- science curriculum but not sure where to middle and high school students together periences in the school with supporting start? Participants in this workshop will — across the hall and around the globe. students for the 21st century. review the integration of various multi- Presenters: Michael Ehrhardt and Presenters: Ellen Hall, Alison Maher, media applications in the science cur- Madia Shivik, American School in London and Andrea Sisbarr, Boulder Journey riculum. Please bring your curriculum as (United Kingdom); Daniel Auger, Zurich School (CO) we will brainstorm possible technology International School (Switzerland); projects and try them out! Liz Pape, Virtual High School (MD) Out of the Closet and into Presenters: Eric A. Walters, Tanya W 18 the Classroom: LGBTQ Priber, Patrick D. Ashby, and Patricia Affinity Groups: W Themes in K-12 Curriculum Bauer, Marymount School of New York (NY) 23 Divisive or Unifying Room: Gibson Suite Room: Holland Suite This workshop is geared toward Teaching the Levees: Affinity groups for children and W those who are new to LGBTQ 21 What Kind of Country Are adults are often viewed as divisive. themes and those who are looking for We? What Do We Want to Be? Ours, at Bank Street School, have resources to diversify their curriculum Room: Concourse F taught us how important it is to in this area. Participants will take part An interactive session with hear the smaller voices within the larger in activities and discussions that can be members of Columbia University’s community. Participants in this work- modified for use with faculty and Teachers College who created the shop will have the opportunity to learn students in K-12 classrooms. Participants curriculum for Spike Lee’s award strategies to help their communities will receive a list of LGBTQ resources, winning film, When the Levees Broke. With create and maintain affinity groups that bibliographies, and syllabi. copies of the film/curriculum to use at support race, sexual orientation, adop- Presenters: Sandra Chapman and their own schools, participants will learn tion, and learning styles. Ileana Jimenez, Little Red School House to facilitate democratic dialogue struc- Presenters: Zenaida Muslin, Richard and Elisabeth Irwin High School (NY); tured to tackle issues, like race, often Lee, Maria Elena Richa, and Jaquetta Bus- Laura Stewart and Roxanne Leff, Ethical avoided in classrooms. tion, Bank Street School for Children (NY) Culture Fieldston School (NY) Presenters: David Boxer and Christina Morado, Windward School (CA); Judith Cramer, Teachers College, Columbia University (NY); Duane Neil, Chapin School (NY); Yom Odmatten, Kingswood- Oxford School (CT)

Go to www.nais.org/go/annualconference for workshop materials and presentations. 22 Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability Global Sustainability Optional Workshops Programmatic Sustainability 1:00–4:00 PM Daily Work of School Leaders

Understanding Learning W24 and Learners: A Neurodevel- opmental Approach Room: Concourse G This interactive workshop explores the neurodevelopmental approach to teaching and learning. Using the example of written expression and its cognitive demands, participants will learn to identify and apply targeted strategies to help students leverage strengths and manage weak- nesses to ultimately become successful learners. Presenters: Michael Taranto, All Kinds of Minds (NC); Anne Taite Austin, Forsyth Country Day School (NC)

Vision with Results: W25 real Learning Technologies for Today’s Students Room: morgan Suite A vision for the future — developing and supporting 21st century skills. This collaborative presentation will showcase specific learning tools/ environments enhancing creativity, innovation, and multidisciplinary abilities that allow students to reach their potential in a changing, competitive world. Presenters: Dotty Corbiere, Mike Kerwin, Matt Molyneux, and Barbara Vincent, Meadowbrook School (MA)

5:30–6:30 pm Exhibitor Reception (for Exhibitors) Americas Hall II, Third Floor

23 thursday february 28 Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

6:30 am-6:00 pm 8:00–9:00 am Avian Flu — Are You Prepared? Registration and NAIS Concurrent One-Hour Room: Concourse A Annual Conference Information Workshops, Block 1 This workshop will focus on Booth Open communication strategies and Hilton, 2nd Floor Registration Area preparedness in the event of an outbreak 8:00–9:00 am of Avian Flu. Schools should be thinking 6:45–7:45 am Featured Workshop with about their communication capabilities Coffee Break Roland Fryer and preparedness. Do you have letters Hilton, 2nd Floor Registration Area Grand Ballroom, West to parents, press releases, and dedicated Introduction given by Bruce Haines, website pages ready to go? This session 7:30–9:00 AM board chair, Westtown School (PA), will focus on what can be done in advance President’s Breakfast and member of the 2008 NAIS Annual to prepare. and Annual Meeting Conference Think Tank. PRESENTERS: Jane Hulbert, Communi- Grand Ballroom, East Book signing event cations Consultant (IL); Meredyth Cole, Madeira School (VA)

Communications Beyond the Stuff: A “New Mind” and Advancement (and Approach) for Strategic Communications A Gift of a Lifetime Room: Petit Trianon Room: Morgan Suite Is your school caught up in the All schools work hard to steward dizzying pace of producing print, donors, and we all dream of electronic, and web-based communica- receiving that “gift of a lifetime.” Learn tions that leaves your head spinning and how George School, a Quaker board- your budget reeling? This workshop will ing/day school in Newtown, PA, worked move beyond a tactical approach to com- with a donor to steward their extraordi- munications to examine messaging and nary $128.5 million “gift of a lifetime.” branding, segmentation of audiences, The workshop will also address steps the and venues that will not just inform but school took with the press to manage the engage people. message and capitalize on this opportu- PRESENTERS: Ronald Arena, Marts & nity to market the school, and the process Lundy (NJ); William Christ, Hathaway they put in place to determine how the Brown School (OH) funds would be used. PRESENTERS: Nancy Starmer, Anne Storch, and Odie LeFever, George School (PA)

All workshops take place at the Hilton. These programs require a ticket.

25 thursday Workshop Block 1 8:00–9:00 AM

Why Everyone Is Talking about Governance Financial Modeling within an Endowment Integrated Planning Process Room: Concourse G Affordability and Demand Room: Gramercy A This workshop addresses the for Independent Schools Ambitious plans require tools growing emphasis put on endow- Room: Rendezvous Trianon to explore the financial implica- ment fund raising at day and boarding Independent schools’ futures tions of alternative approaches schools. It includes a review of a study depend on how heads of schools (for both revenues and expend conducted in 2006 and a discussion of and boards of trustees understand the itures). This presentation will place why endowment will be increasingly dynamics of affordability and demand dynamic, real-time financial model- critical to schools. Ideas for making the for school services. A new NAIS book ing within a comprehensive planning case for endowment and for incorporat- scheduled for spring 2008 publication process and will demonstrate how one ing endowment into a school’s strategic will help schools understand such af- financial model works. plan are included. fordability and demand issues as pricing, PRESENTERS: Frederick Colson, Emma PRESENTERS: Daniel Boyer and Sandra cost containment, and revenue growth Willard School (NY); Samuel Frank, Drew, Marts & Lundy, Inc. (NJ); Murray strategies, and managing value. Four Synthesis Partnership (MA) Cohen, The College Preparatory School chapter authors will speak. (CA); Scott Nelson, Rye Country Day PRESENTERS: Mark Mitchell, NAIS Surviving the Search School (NY) (DC); Jeff Wack, JT Wack & Company Room: Bryant Suite LLC (CT); Robert Sedivy, Collegiate Three heads guided to new schools School (VA); Scott Looney, Hawken by the same search firm reflect School (OH) on their searches and effective practices from the perspective of those who have Executive Coaching for Heads recently and successfully endured a pro- and Leadership Teams cess that can be long, intellectually chal- Room: Trianon Ballroom lenging, and emotionally trying. There Executive coaching is an increas- are delicate balances, too, for the search ingly popular and widespread consultants who work for the school. way of improving leadership effective- PRESENTERS: Thomas Evans and Clay ness. We will review the state of the field, Stites, Resource Group 175 (NY); Fred including different models of coaching, Niell, The Salisbury School (MD); current research, and the latest data on Michael Schuler, Kent School (MD); how coaching is being used in our schools Kate Walsh, The Willow School (NJ) by heads, boards, and leadership teams. This session will feature the perspectives of a coaching practitioner and a new head researching coaching in our schools. PRESENTERs: Mark McKee, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School (CA); Fran Scoble, Westridge School (CA)

26 What Is the Work of the Board Hiring Teachers and Strategies for Developing a Parent and How Are We Doing with It? Administrators for the Body that Values Diversity Room: Murray Hill A Educational ReNAISsance Room: Gibson Suite A well-trained board is key to Room: Sutton North Parent co-chairs of Mirman school success. But how do we How can those of us who choose School’s Multicultural Parent provide good training in manageable future teachers and leaders for our Liaison Committee and the chunks? In this workshop, participants schools hire people with “a whole new school’s counselor facilitate a will engage in a simple activity they can mind trained in right brain thinking,” as discussion about how, in one short year, take home to their own boards. Based suggested by Daniel Pink? What process a parent-driven, administration- on the NAIS Principles of Good Prac- can we use to find those who will bring supported effort has bridged the cultural tice, this activity spotlights core board new ideas, who see the big picture, who divide by creating a weekly sanctuary for responsibilities, surfacing strengths as bring multiple lenses and viewpoints to parents of all colors to share experiences well as needs. the “Educational ReNAISsance?” with candor and unusual vulnerability. PRESENTERS: Irene McHenry, Friends PRESENTERS: Joyce Evans, The Town PRESENTERS: John West, Julie Tepper, Council on Education (PA); Ginny Chris- School, retired (NY); Rick Fitzgerald, Andrea Wiley, and Rozmin Timirzi, tensen, Strategy for Growth, LLC (PA) The Bentley School (CA); Joan Sokotch, The Mirman School (CA) The Town School (NY); David Trower, The Allen-Stevenson School (NY) Leadership Development Management Preserving the Small School A Peaceable Kingdom: Creating a in a Supersized Culture Bridging Affordability: Multicultural Community Room: Concourse B Providing Families with Room: Sutton Beekman Parlor In an age where the independent Creative Financial Solutions The Lawrenceville School’s Office school world is rightfully concerned Room: Concourse C of Multicultural Affairs, collabo- about runaway tuitions, how can How can independent schools rating with the Center for the we justify staying small and ignor- counterbalance the “affliction Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives and ing the principles of economy of scale? of affluence” in our schools? The key to the University of Pennsylvania’s Educa- Small schools must loudly pronounce the sustaining socioeconomic diversity is tion Department, uses backward design advantages that come with their small to attract and retain those middle and in a multi-year effort to reshape residen- size. Please join us in this conversation even upper-middle income families that tial, curricular, and co-curricular life to celebrating the successes of small school we fail to engage or risk losing annually prepare students better for an increas- education. due to a perceived lack of personal funds ingly globalized world. PRESENTERS: David Faus, Falmouth and/or need for financial aid. PRESENTERS: Wilburn Williams, Sam Academy (MA); David Provost, The Nan- PRESENTERS: Melissa Diana, Sage Washington, and Leucretia Shaw, The tucket New School (MA) Educational Resource Group (PA); Lawrenceville School (NJ) Barbara Kraus-Blackney, ADVIS (PA); Sally Goebel, The Baldwin School (PA)

Want to learn more about membership? Go to the NAIS Member Resource Center located in the exhibit hall. 27 thursday Workshop Block 1 8:00–9:00 AM

Confronting Climate Change: How Getting the Wrong People Take a Break from Traditional to Cut Carbon Emissions on Campus off the Bus: Mission-Appropriate Problem-Solving — Discover Room: Madison Suite Termination Procedures Appreciative Inquiry Global warming has become a Room: New York Suite Room: Concourse E critical challenge of our time. In his book Good to Great, Jim Solve a problem by NOT getting to This session will present concrete steps Collins talks about the importance the bottom of it! Appreciative to building a campus climate change of getting the “wrong people off the bus.” Inquiry is a radical change management initiative in areas such as physical opera- The question for private-independent approach used successfully around the tions, curriculum, mission and planning, schools is, “How can we do so — safely world since 1985. Hear how independent and community outreach. The session and legally, and in a way that is consistent school leaders are using this counter- will explore several school examples. with our mission, culture, and values?” intuitive, brilliantly simple approach Presenters will also describe the Green PRESENTERS: Liane Faermann, Sidwell from the boardroom to the classroom to Cup Challenge and the Green Schools Friends School (DC); Michael Brisciana, resolve conflict, build community, and Climate Commitment. Independent School Management (DE) create vision. PRESENTERS: Wynn Calder, University PRESENTERS: Christina Drouin, Center Leaders for a Sustainable Future (DC); Looking to the Future: for Strategic Planning (FL); Karen Feller, Jennifer Wilhelm, Phillips Exeter Acad- Where Are We Going? Donna Klein Jewish Academy (FL) emy (NH) Room: Clinton Suite ACCIS, the new national associa- Teacher Recruitment and Creating a Safe Environment tion of college counselors in indepen- Retention: What Really Matters for All Students: Proactively dent schools, offers a view of how schools Room: Murray Hill B Addressing Harassment, Hazing, can collaborate on issues larger than a Every school aspires to have a and Bullying college list. How can your school and its strong, skilled, and loyal faculty Room: Sutton South college counseling program benefit from that understands and is committed to the Studies show that harassment, ACCIS? Get involved and make a differ- school’s students and mission. This ses- hazing, and bullying in schools ence in your school. sion will present findings and analysis continue to be problems that can have far PRESENTERS: Martha T. Elkins, Groton from the recent NAIS Teacher Satisfac- reaching impact, not only on the direct School (MA); Rod Skinner, Milton Acad- tion Survey and suggest ways in which victim but to members of the entire emy (MA); Stuart Oremus, Wellington any school can use these results, com- school community. The session provides School (OH) bined with best practices from the field, an overview of legal issues and the types to tailor specific recruiting and retention of harassment schools face. Concrete strategies for building the best possible strategies to address and reduce harass- faculty. ment in schools through interactive PRESENTERS: Susan Booth, NAIS (DC); role-playing and discussion conclude the Peter Gow, Beaver Country Day School (MA) session. PRESENTER: Linda Johnson, McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton P.A. (NH)

28 Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

The Classroom Meeting Muslims in Eight 9:30–11:00 am Experience Steps — An Interdisciplinary Opening General Session Unit for Middle School with Sir Ken Robinson Design Technology: Encouraging Room: Concourse D Radio City Music Hall Synthesis, Making Connections In the 21st century — more than ■ Musical Performance given by stu- Room: mercury bALLROOM ever — it is important to educate dents of Greenwich Academy (CT). (CLASSROOMS OF THE FUTURE AREA) students to appreciate a variety ■ Remarks given by Patrick Bassett, The Design Technology program, of cultures. See how teachers of NAIS president, and Val Iwashita, a curriculum developed at the history, English, math, science, Spanish, headmaster of the Iolani School (HI) Holton-Arms School, provides art, dance, and religion collaborated to and NAIS board chair. young girls with hands-on experi- create a culminating project that dis- ■ Introduction given by Meg Moulton, ences in problem solving along with the played Islamic historical and cultural executive director of the National acquisition of basic engineering skills. achievements. Coalition of Girls’ Schools and mem- Now in its 11th year, the program com- PRESENTERS: Andrea Whitton, Michael ber of the NAIS board of trustees. bines technological skills with interac- Maida, Jennifer Thayer, and Kimberly Rais- ■ Remarks given by Sir Ken Robinson. tive learning, original thinking, and beck, Convent of the Sacred Heart (CT) Book signing event in the hilton critical reflection. PRESENTERS: Linda Caleb and Kathleen Show Them the Money: Chaney, The Holton-Arms School (MD) Educating Financially Literate 11:00 am-12:30 pm Student from K–12 Exhibit Hall Grand Opening and Gaining and Retaining Room: Sutton Regent Parlor Complimentary Lunch Girls in the STEM Pipeline This workshop will present the Rhinelander Gallery, Room: Gramercy B plan used at Marymount School in Americas Hall I & II How important is Science, New York for implementing a K-12 finan- Technology, Education, and cial literacy curriculum that is designed 11:00 am-6:30 pm Mathematics (STEM) education for girls? to make students financially literate, Exhibit Hall, NAIS Bookstore, Critically important, according to the prepare them for the complex financial and Resource Center Open National Academy of Sciences! Learn world, and provide them with the tools to Rhinelander Gallery, about a new initiative from the National achieve financial independence. Americas Hall I & II Coalition of Girls’ School, with support PRESENTERS: Stefan Cornelis, Amanda from Google and the Margaret Hall Foun- Alsheimer, and Kathleen McCarthy, dation, that identifies successful prac- Marymount School (NY) tices and brings a variety of resources to one comprehensive web portal. What Is Global Citizenship and PRESENTERS: Eric Walters, Marymount How Do We Teach It? School of New York (NY); Whitney Ransome, Room: Sutton Center National Coalition of Girls’ Schools (MA) How can our schools educate students to have the intellectual, moral, and temperamental capaci- ties needed to contribute to a dynamic, interconnected world? In this workshop, you will learn how Lakeside School is working to define global citizenship and to foster such citizenship among all its students. PRESENTER: Vicki Weeks, Lakeside School (WA)

29 thursday Workshop Block 2 12:30–1:30 PM

12:30–1:30 pm Demonstrating the Value of an Tired of Chasing Market Trends? Concurrent One-Hour Independent Education A Strength-Based Approach to Workshops, Block 2 Room: Sutton Beekman Parlor Sustainability Our school mission statements, Room: Sutton North websites, and viewbooks are filled One threat to sustainability, even 12:30–1:30 pm with information about the value-added for healthy schools, is false Featured Workshop with of an independent education. But how do competition. Are you tempted Karen Kasmauski we know we’re walking the talk? Learn to join “unwinnable” amenities Grand Ballroom, West about the trends and external challenges wars, overreact to Xer parents’ pleas, and Introduction given by David Chojnacki, that are shaping our institutional reality rush after market whims? Patti Crane executive director of the Near East South and what schools can do to better uses case studies to show how NOT to fol- Asia Council of Overseas Schools and articulate their value propositions. low the crowd, but to find and articulate member of the NAIS board of trustees. PRESENTERS: Myra McGovern and the key to your school’s sustainability Amada Torres, NAIS (DC) — right inside your own walls. PRESENTER: Patti Crane, Crane Meta- Heads, Trustees, and Marketing Ltd. (GA) 12:30–1:30 pm Chief Advancement Officers: Featured Workshop with Malcolm Renaissance Roles Web 2.0 Revealed: Exploring the Gladwell and Adam Gopnik Room: Bryant Suite Possibilities While Keeping it Real Grand Ballroom, East Schools of the future must be Room: Mercury Ballroom (Classrooms Presentation of the Klingenstein Award. sustainable in every way and of the Future demonstration area) Introduction given by Lou Salza, head of advancement will play a very important What is all the talk about Web 2.0? school at the Lawrence School (OH) and role in school sustainability. Boards, This practical session will remove member of the NAIS board of trustees. heads of school, and chief advancement the mystery and provide practical uses of Book signing event officers must understand the big picture Web 2.0 for education. All participants and their roles, and coordinate their will leave with the ability to produce a planning and actions. Learn about trends podcast along with powerful ways to use Communications and basic tenets in independent school blogs, wikis, and other tools of the social and Advancement advancement and take away some specific web in education. Join us as we explore ideas for the advancement program of the the web of the 21st century. Communication with Multicultural present and the future. PRESENTER: Chris Bigenho, Greenhill Families: Conceptual and PRESENTERS: Andy Spencer, The Lovett School (TX) Practical Approaches School (GA); Rocky Ford, Ford & Associ- Room: Morgan Suite ates (GA) \ Effective communication between school and home is even more critical as independent school communities become increasingly culturally diverse. Workshop participants will be introduced to intercultural communication theory as a tool to develop communicative strategies with multicultural families and will receive information about other resources. PRESENTERS: Joy Marean, Teachers College, Columbia University (NY); David Merkel, Washington International School (DC)

30 Governance Differentiating Demographics: Types of Boards: Continuing the Conversation Avoiding Patterns of Failure 21st Century Stewardship: Room: Madison Suite Room: Petit Trianon Overlaying Leadership, Govern This panel discussion covers At times all boards can be character- ance, and Philanthropic Support cultural competencies and ized by styles and behaviors that Room: Concourse C demographic sustainability. Bringing undermine healthy governance — Religiously affiliated schools diversity to a school is a strategic endeav- incident-based boards, factional boards, face a mounting challenge as in- or that requires commitment and follow boards lacking institutional memory, dividuals with greater religious diversity through. We encourage “the next step” reactive boards, narrow-interest boards, lead, govern, and support these schools. in diversifying schools and helping transition boards, boards mismanaging This presentation builds upon research administration, faculty, and families change, relational boards. This session of Friends schools to historically frame take action and be accountable for describes these risky patterns and how stewardship, explore case studies using school diversity. to avoid them. an evolved concept of stewardship, and PRESENTERS: Luis Torres and Cecilia PRESENTERS: John Littleford, Littleford discuss implications for NAIS schools. Calvo, Latino Student Fund (DC); Rosalia & Associates (LA); Stuart Grainger, PRESENTER: Ari Betof, George School/ Miller, National Cathedral School (DC); Trinity College School (Canada) University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Quanti Davis, Norwood School (MD); School of Education (PA) Abigail Wiebenson, Lowell School (DC); Karen Bradberry, Greenhill School (TX); Leadership Development Clarifying a School’s Commitment Mariama Richards, Georgetown Day to the First Family School (DC) Becoming More Intentionally Room: Sutton South International There are concrete ways that a NAIS Six-Steps Model Room: Concourse B school can provide support to the for Financial Equilibrium: For more than 40 years, Washington head’s family. This workshop will explore Trustee Overview International School (WIS) has various ways schools have handled con- Room: Rendezvous Trianon been at the forefront of international tractual issues affecting the first family, Successful financial planning education. WIS and other educa- such as recognizing family time, housing requires informed participation tional institutions remain diligent as we issues, school options, spousal compen- from trustees. In this workshop, we will enter the 21st century, convinced that sation, and more, as well as methods for discuss the financial challenges inde- we must prepare our students to become arriving at those agreements. There will pendent schools face today and provide critical thinkers in an ever increasingly be ample time for Q & A. some approaches trustees and schools global world. What is the best path to take? PRESENTERS: Chuck Harmon and can use to cope with them. We will pro- PRESENTER: Kate Meenan-Waugh, Elizabeth Miles, York School (CA); Debra vide an overview of the NAIS “Six-Steps” Washington International School (DC) Wilson, NAIS (DC); Aggie Underwood, model for financial equilibrium with an Carney, Sandoe, & Associates (VT); emphasis on the trustee perspective. Trina Secor, Carney, Sandoe, & Associ- PRESENTER: Corey McIntyre, NAIS (DC) ates (MA)

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31 thursday Workshop Block 2 12:30–1:30 PM

Diversity: The NYSAIS Perspective The “New” Constituency: AIM in Action: One School’s Room: Trianon Ballroom Welcoming LGBT Families Successful Implementation The presentation will cover three into Our Schools and Lessons Learned main topics: the New York State As- Room: Gramercy B Room: Murray Hill B sociation of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) This workshop will identify Join us for an interactive presenta- Diversity Committee’s goals, outreach ini- specific ways that schools can tion that focuses on one school’s tiatives, and annual events. The presenters support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and successful implementation of the will talk about the committee’s successes Transgender (LGBT) families. We will NAIS AIM (Assessment of Inclu- and struggles with taking on a leadership view a video of interviews with LGBT- sivity and Multiculturalism) process. role in diversity issues. headed family members and engage in Hear the lessons we have learned along PRESENTERS: Josephine Salvador, The brainstorming solutions to actual school the way and how we intend to use the Calhoun School (NY); Antonio Lee, The situations. Participants will leave with a results in the next strategic phase of the Dalton School (NY); Sandra Chapman, greater understanding of challenges school. Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin facing these families and a framework of PRESENTER: Clair Ward, The Phillips High School (NY) practical guidelines for use in their own Brooks School (CA) communities. Do Schools Have a Mind for PRESENTERS: Elaine Winter, Henry Facility Recycling: the Future? Street Settlement (NY); Terry Boggis, Saving Money and the Planet Room: New York Suite LGBT Community Center (NY) Room: Concourse E Schools of the future may look very much Our schools are increasingly faced much like schools of the past unless with the reality that new buildings we engage in honest and energetic dialogue Management are too costly and that our existing about change. This workshop lays out specific facilities may have to serve us well issues that will challenge participants to rethink A Summit of NAIS Schools into the future. This is the ultimate in educational assumptions. Open dialogue will for Gifted: Our Future in recycling. The presentation will provide be encouraged in the hope that everyone will the Educational Renaissance an overview of predicted educational leave with one idea that sparks talk at home. Room: Sutton Center practices, the facilities needed, and op- PRESENTERS: Stephen Kennedy, Trinity The goal of this workshop is to tions for achieving necessary renovations. School (GA); David Skillen, Independent provide a stimulating exchange PRESENTERS: Katherine Windsor, The School Counsel (GA) among NAIS schools with missions Sage School (MA); W. Page Dame III, for educating the gifted. Three Lyndon Institute (VT); James Barrett, Governance, Leadership, and School heads of NAIS schools for gifted students Drummey Rosane Anderson, Inc. (MA) Culture: Building Success through facilitate a discussion directed toward Collaboration the formulation of a network among these Handbook Guide Highlights Room: Murray Hill A schools, and the promotion of awareness Room: Gramercy A How does school culture set the and support for gifted students within The independent school lawyers of foundation for institutional suc- other NAIS schools. Venable LLP have completed their cess and sustainability in the achievement PRESENTERS: John West, The Mirman Handbook Guide, which can be found on of institutional vision? In this session School (CA); Laura Hathaway, The Pega- the NAIS website. The guide is a compre- three administrators and a former trustee sus School (CA); Diane Rosenberg, The hensive outline of the policies to include of Phillips Exeter Academy investigate Nueva School (CA) in an employee handbook, reasons for the the importance of understanding school inclusion of each policy, and examples to culture in developing sustainable models be considered. Hear the drafters review of management and governance. the highlights of this thorough document PRESENTERS: Tyler Tingley, Joseph Fel- and learn how to effectively utilize it to lows, James Rogers, and James Theisen, review your own handbook. Phillips Exeter Academy (NH) PRESENTER: Caryn Pass, Venable LLP (DC)

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Six Steps toward Sustainable Dining Creating Inclusion: Addressing Making the Laptop Disappear: Room: Gibson Suite Student Need for Belonging with Moving to Seamless Integration In 2004 the Lawrenceville School Empathic Advising Room: Concourse D started the process of “greening” Room: Concourse G What happens when we integrate the campus. As a result of this effort, Educators are asked to connect technology throughout the cur- the dining services began a sustainable with their students, help them riculum? Laptops require us to rethink food program with the initiative to serve grow, and feel included in school. strategies. This presentation explores environmentally responsible, healthy, Responsive advising addresses how to a series of paradigm shifts in schools and wholesome meals. This workshop listen empathetically, open to students’ resulting from changes in technology will outline the process of developing a stories and differences, so as to create a in general, and the impact of laptops in sustainable dining program through sense of being valued and belonging. particular. These changes impact organi- six steps. We’ll learn a form of listening that helps zation, communication, information, and PRESENTERS: Gary Giberson and Sam educators support all students with production. Kosoff, The Lawrenceville School (NJ) increased fluency. PRESENTER: Howard Levin, The Urban PRESENTERS: Ellen Porter Honnet, Stan- School of San Francisco (CA) ley H. King Counseling Institute (MA); The Classroom Jack Creeden, Providence Day School Teaching Teachers about Experience (NC); Kooheli Chatterji, The Pingry Teaching Leadership School (NJ) Room: Clinton Suite Between Two Cultures: Leadership is a life skill central A New Sustainable Campus to every student’s educational with a Global Outlook experience. Teachers need to Room: Concourse A develop the skills and awareness Located on the Big Island of to understand students’ behavior to help Hawai’i, Hawai’i Preparatory them become deliberate and dynamic Academy (HPA) draws students leaders. Learn how to help teachers from two very different cultures. identify and utilize teachable leadership Learn how HPA planned a new K-8 cam- moments that happen every day, to every pus with a natural global outlook. We’ll student, in every school. discuss academic programs that promote PRESENTERS: Jeremy LaCasse and cross-cultural integration, a board- JoAnn Deak, Fountain Valley School of ing model that supports diversity, and a Colorado (CO) “green” campus that is integrated into the academic curriculum. The Strengths Movement PRESENTERS: David Croteau, Flansburgh in Education Architects (MA); Will Hancock and Room: Sutton Regent Parlor Olaf Jorgenson, Hawaii Preparatory Positive Psychology, Right Brain Academy (HI) Rising, and an increasingly flatter world make the time ripe for a Strengths Revolution in our nation’s schools. You can help prepare students for what Daniel Pink calls the “Conceptual Age” by turn- ing your school into a School of Strength. Learn about a Leading Edge Program that has set out to change the conversation. PRESENTER: Jenifer Millard Fox, Purnell School (NJ)

33 thursday Workshop Block 3 1:45–2:45 PM

1:45–2:45 pm Data-Driven Admission Governance Concurrent One-Hour Supports Sustainability Workshops, Block 3 Room: Concourse G It’s a Crisis — As a Trustee, An admission process that What Is Your Role? contributes to school sustainabil- Room: Gramercy A 1:45–2:45 pm ity must meet both the enrollment goals Join in to discuss the trustee’s role Featured Workshop with of the school and the educational goals of when a crisis involves the head of Ishmael Beah the family. This data-driven process school or is significant enough to damage Grand Ballroom, West requires knowledge of the myriad data the school and attract media. We will Introduction given by Tony Featherston, needed by all constituents to fill seats/ talk about crisis management and your headmaster at Elmwood Franklin School beds (input) and to ensure that students role as a trustee: what to say, how you can (NY) and member of the 2008 NAIS and families benefit from the experience support the head, and your responsibil- Annual Conference Think Tank. (output). ity in helping to manage and maintain Book signing event PRESENTERS: Aimee Gruber, SSATB the school’s reputation. Included will be (NJ); Peter Gilbert, Salisbury School (CT) discussion of actual crisis situations including heads involved in chat rooms, the It’s Showtime! Strategic Thinking downloading of inappropriate Internet 1:45–2:45 pm and Your Performing Arts Center material, sexual harassment, the sudden Featured Workshop with Room: Concourse C death of the head, and other situations. Faith Popcorn A professional, public, performing PRESENTER: Jane Hulbert, Communica- Grand Ballroom, East arts series reaches admissions tions Consultant (IL) Introduction given by Linda Gibbs, head prospects, enriches students, of school at The Hewitt School (NY) reconnects alumni, builds com- Maximize the Success, and member of the 2008 NAIS Annual munity partnerships, and even creates Minimize the Angst of a New Conference Think Tank. financial growth. It also comes with Head of School’s Transition risks. Learn how to begin a high‑quality Room: Bryant Suite series, review a step-by-step checklist to How can the board and adminis- Communications ensure success, and hear about schools tration work together to avert and Advancement that created models to emulate. common problems in welcoming a new PRESENTERS: David Liebmann, Shady head? One team’s work will serve as a Build Your Advancement Staff Side Academy (PA); Tania Castroverde case study, and reflection on the present- from the Inside-Out Moskalenko, Germantown Performing ers’ experiences as trustees, heads, and Room: Petit Trianon Arts Center (TN) coaches/mentors during times of transi- Leverage existing talent from tion will also be included. Finally, action within your faculty to create Major Gifts: The Key to Fund- steps and topics for board reflection will top-notch advancement professionals. Raising Success be offered. What’s the best way to identify, assess, Room: Sutton Beekman Parlor PRESENTERS: Paul Bassett, Stoneleigh- and recruit potential development staff- The most productive development Burnham School (MA); Sally Mixsell and ers? How are these “in-house” resources programs focus on major donors Jean Lamont, eduINNOVATIONS, LLC (CT) likely to add the most value to the school’s and major gifts. The most effective fund advancement mission? Take an “inside- raisers work each day to identify and out” look at this unique pool of candidates. involve their top prospects, and to seek PRESENTERS: Starr Snead, Advancement their loyalty and support. Participants in Connections (SC); Patricia Danver, The this workshop will learn how to achieve George Washington University (DC) their school’s fund-raising potential through major gift philanthropy. PRESENTER: Helen Colson, Helen Colson Development Associates (MD) 34 Paying for Independent Tools of the Trade Developing “A Whole New Mind” at School Education Room: Murray Hill B Your School Room: Clinton Suite As a trustee of an independent Room: Rendezvous Trianon Based on the new NAIS booklet, school, you are called upon to per- Writer Daniel Pink argues that a Paying for Your Child’s Indepen- form a number of important duties such new world requires “a whole new dent School Education, the as selecting and evaluating the head of mind.” The challenge is understanding, booklet’s author will discuss school, planning strategically to ensure identifying, and implementing the practi- a step-by-step approach to helping the health and welfare of the school, and cal steps of developing “whole new minds” families successfully pay for an indepen- assuring that the board is organized for within our school leaders. Using Pink’s dent education, including information optimum performance. NAIS has a num- “six senses” of design, story, symphony, about recent tax law changes that affect ber of tools that can help you perform empathy, play, and meaning, we share our financing strategies. He will also discuss these duties more effectively, including process for changing leaders’ mindsets. affordable and effective ways in which various online assessment tools, a PRESENTERS: Jamie Baker and Tom Bea school officials can proactively address Demographics Center, and a system zley, Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School (TN) independent school affordability among through which to conduct pertinent existing and prospective independent market research. Attend this session to From Cinderella to Lil’ Kim: school families. learn how these tools function and how Combating New Images PRESENTER: Troy Onink, Stratagee.com (PA) to put them to use in your school. of Womanhood While PRESENTER: Donna Orem, NAIS (DC) Promoting Girls’ Leadership Sustainable Leadership: Using Room: Sutton Regent Parlor Leadership Assessments to As- How do we combat media that shrink sure Head/Board Chair Alignment Leadership Development everything into a two-minute sound Room: Gibson Suite bite glorifying thin, rich, and blonde Trustees and heads must take Change Leadership and as the only standards of beauty? By succession planning seriously well the Reinvention of Schools examining current cultural identifiers before a change of leadership occurs. for the 21st Century within the media for young girls and women, Reliance on governance-level intu- Room: Sutton South we will discuss ways to help them understand ition coupled with high quality search Reinventing education for the 21st the importance of self-advocacy and leadership guidance continues to be essential. century demands instructional for adolescent girls, especially girls of color. Sustaining powerful leadership will be leaders capable of adaptive school trans- PRESENTER: Tiffany Bridgewater, The advantaged by the use of assessments of formation. Learn about the efforts of an Potomac School (VA) leadership style for the board chair and HAIS-affiliated nonprofit and Harvard’s the new head. Change Leadership Group to develop The Director and the Consultant: PRESENTERS: Thomas Redmon, E. Pow- such leaders in Hawaii, the principles of Using External Resources ers & Associates (GA); Annette Smith, change leadership, and ways to encourage for Internal Change Hutchison School (TN) the process of reinvention at your school. Room: Sutton Center PRESENTERS: Robert Witt and Jennifer Come explore internal models for Higaki, Hawaii Association of Indepen- diversity staffing and programming; dent Schools (HI); Tony Wagner, Change when and why a diversity consultant Leadership Group (MA); James Koshiba, is appropriate, things to look for in a 3Point Consulting, LLC (HI) consultant, and how the director partners with a consultant to sustain change; and model programs resulting from internal- external partnerships (festivals, assem- blies, training, assessments, etc.). PRESENTERS: Rodney Glasgow, Worcester Go to www.nais.org/go/annualconference for Academy (MA); Liz Fernandez, LJF Con- workshop materials and presentations. sulting (NY) 35 thursday Workshop Block 3 1:45–2:45 PM

Management Sustainable Investing: A Strategy The Classroom for the 21st Century Experience 21st Century Strategies for Manag- Room: Morgan Suite ing and Enhancing Technology for How a school handles its invest- 21st Century Communication School Leaders ments is another opportunity to Tools and the School of the Future Room: Madison Suite show its commitment to the concept Room: Mercury Ballroom (Classrooms Five regional technology leaders of sustainability. Explore ways that of the Future Demonstration Area) provide strategies to make mission- “sustainable investing” integrates envi- In this discussion technologists based decisions that positively impact ronmental, social, and governance factors from the School at Columbia programs and students. Topics include into financial analysis and decision- University will look at the “other” transformation, management, profes- making. Learn concepts and multifaceted 21st century communication tools, sional development, students, and new strategies of this substantial investment including social networking, blogs, wi- paradigms in technology and education. approach. kis, Twitter, Tumblr, YackPack, Pownce, Participants will gain strategies to enhance PRESENTERS: Ann B. Alexander, SRI Twine, and more. They will demonstrate the role technology should play within schools. Consultant (NC); Michael Hanas, Carolina how these tools play out in the classroom PRESENTERS: Jill Brown, Albuquerque Friends School (NC) and in the schools of the future. Academy (NM); Howard Levin, The Urban PRESENTERS: Don Buckley, Jenny School (CA); Curt Lieneck, The University The Head’s Role Howland, Karen Blumberg, and Andrew of Chicago Laboratory Schools (IL); Denise in Advancing Diversity Gardner, The School at Columbia Musselwhite, Trinity Preparatory School Room: Murray Hill A University (NY) (FL); Antonio Viva, Worcester Academy (MA) Heads serve a unique and powerful role in advancing diversity. A New Semester Program for Now What? Current and Future Without a head’s full commitment, the Schools of the Future Legal Issues for Independent diversity initiatives of a school will stall. Room: Concourse B Schools Discover ways a head can frame the story Schools of the future must train Room: Trianon Ballroom of diversity as a tool for institutional new leaders: thoughtful activists, Every year schools have new legal excellence, a visible commitment to moral passionate social entrepreneurs, and issues to wrestle with. What is it courage, and an essential element of relentless humanitarians. The School for this year? HRAs and HSAs? Bullying by demographic sustainability. Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL), a e-mail? Subpoenas for electronic docu- PRESENTER: Christopher Marblo, The new semester-long residential program ments? Come to this interactive session to Town School (NY) in Washington, DC, offers an innova- learn about the latest legal issues facing tive curriculum that emphasizes ethical schools and hear what’s happening across thinking, leadership development, and the country. international affairs. Learn more about PRESENTER: Debra Wilson, NAIS (DC) SEGL, and how one independent school promotes semester programs such as this one. PRESENTERS: Noah Bopp, The School for Ethics and Global Leadership (DC); Rich DiBianca, Newark Academy (NJ)

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Social Norms — the Way Things The Day-to-Day Challenges 3:15–5:00 pm Really Are: A Means to Reduce of Teaching All of the Children General Session with Pearl Cleage Teenage Drinking All of the Time Radio City Music Hall Room: New York Suite Room: Sutton North ■ Musical Performance given by stu- This program will describe how Lou Salza examines how meeting dents from The Town School (NY). a group of secondary schools that the needs of diverse learners in any ■ Musical Performance given by The are members of the Independent Schools grade requires the use of proven practices Gay Men’s Chorus of Manhattan. of St. Louis banded together to employ the as well as strategic design and differentia- ■ Introduction given by Marcia Prewitt “Social Norms” approach to reduce the tion of instruction. Grading, homework, Spiller, head of The Children’s consumption of alcohol by teens within behavior management, and lesson design School (GA) and member of the NAIS their schools. Learn how they have in- need not be obstacles to be “accommo- board of trustees. volved schools, students, and the entire St. dated” if we employ common sense and ■ Remarks given by Pearl Cleage. Louis community in their effort. strategic design to honor diverse learners. Book signing event in the hilton PRESENTERS: Eugenia Newport, Inde- PRESENTER: Lou Salza, Lawrence pendent Schools of St. Louis (MO); Laura School (OH) Cannon, Avant Marketing (MO); Michael 5:00–6:30 pm Haines, National Social Norms Resource The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain A Faire to Remember: Center (IL); Sam Sciortino, Villa Room: Concourse A Renaissance Networking Duchesne Oak Hill School (MO) The latest brain studies have Reception in the Exhibit Hall demonstrated what many parents Hilton, Rhinelander Gallery, Stand and Deliver: and teachers already know: The teen- Americas Hall I & II Using Expositions to Create age years are a time of dramatic ups and Come see jugglers, Renaissance musi- Nodal Learning Experiences downs, characterized by mood swings and cians, and other live acts during our Room: Concourse E poor judgement. Join presenters as they cocktail party in the exhibit hall. Some of the most powerful lessons translate the latest brain research into All are welcome! in life come from significant expe- real-life understanding of what makes our riences. At our school, each eighth grade teenage students so darn “interesting.” student presents an exposition to the com- PRESENTERS: Mark Twarogowski and munity that synthesizes skills developed Hillary Haas, Denver Academy (CO) during these critical years and is the pin- nacle experience of the year. This work- Using Theater to Inspire Social shop will illustrate the process, skills, and Change in Our Schools value of this program. Room: Gramercy B PRESENTERS: Michael Jedre and Sally In an interactive workshop, we Dukes, Rocky Hill School (RI) will explore ways the arts can help move a school forward in terms of grappling with questions of identity. The facilitators will speak about experiences they have had in using theater (as well as dance and music) to address issues of diversity in their schools. Audience participation will be encouraged. PRESENTERS: Ann Klotz, Laurel School (OH); Edward Farraday , Pam Locker, and April Vogel, Miami Country Day (FL); Luc Hotaling, The Chapin School (NY)

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6:30 am-4:00 pm 8:00–9:00 am Connecting with Young Alumni Registration and NAIS Concurrent One-Hour through New Technologies Annual Conference Information Workshops, Block 4 Room: Mercury Ballroom (Classrooms Booth Open of the Future Demonstration Area) Hilton, 2nd Floor Registration Area Those who have grown up on a diet 8:00–9:00 am of digital content have developed 6:45–7:45 am Featured Workshop different information and consumer Coffee Break with Simran Sethi habits. They have grown accustomed Hilton, 2nd Floor Registration Area Grand Ballroom East to dynamic content in the voice of the Introduction given by Skip Kotkins, participant. They seek instant and ubiq- 6:45–7:45 am trustee of Lakeside School (WA) and uitous access to information. How can Breakfast for Schools that Serve member of the NAIS board of trustees. schools address the needs of these digital Children with Learning Differences alums? Participants in this session will All are welcome explore the world of social software Grand Ballroom, West Communications including wikis, blogs, and podcasts. We Independent schools that primarily serve and Advancement will discuss how these tools may be used students with learning differences will to keep 21st century alumni connected to come together to discuss issues particu- Advancement Essentials for their schools. lar to this community. They will plan for Small Schools and Small Shops PRESENTER: Chris Bigenho, Greenhill future development opportunities. Room: Murray Hill B School (TX) Getting a good philanthropy 8:00 am-2:00 pm program rolling in a small or new Public-Private Educational Exhibit Hall, NAIS Bookstore, school can be a tall order. In this session Partnerships: A Successful Model and NAIS Member Resource we’ll learn how to develop realistic fund- in Closing the Achievement Gap Center Open raising expectations and identify strate- Room: Bryant Suite Rhinelander Gallery, gies to put even the smallest shop at the Independent schools in Connecti- Americas Hall I & II top of its game. Come away with program cut and Colorado describe intensive ideas, less guilt, and more confidence to week-long academic and recre- move your school’s efforts forward. ational summer programs on their PRESENTERS: Starr Snead, Advancement campuses for low-income, inner-city Connections (SC); Shelley Cornish, The children. This model has the essential Sage School (MA) attribute that both public and private partners give — and both gain. Par- ticipants will be in a position to use this model, or to develop their own. PRESENTERS: Andrew McLaren and Lorna Smith, Horizons National (CT); Timothy Bazemore, New Canaan Country School (CT); Christopher Babbs, Colora- do Academy (CO); Jose Oromi, Horizons at Green Farms Academy (CT)

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The Communications Office and Board-Driven Planning: The Six Principles of Successful Technology Department in the Appropriate Participation Board/Head Partnerships™ 21st Century School for Effective Results Room: Gramercy B Room: Gibson Suite Room: Morgan Suite After implementing the Six When spin meets Skype? Let’s Strategic planning is a board Principles model, one head re- rethink the roles of the commu- responsibility and an opportunity ported an average increase in board con- nications office and technology depart- to develop board understanding tributions of $1,850 per trustee in 2005 ment. Join our discussion on how social and leadership. Two examples of and $10,250 per trustee in 2006 — a 550 media, crisis communications, electronic very successful planning processes ef- percent increase. Another head reported publications, bulk e-mails, and more are fectively engaging the board in different an average increase in board participa- shaping the future of these departments. ways will be put into context by a head, tion in governance activity of three hours Preconference and postconference notes trustee, and planning consultant who in 2005 and 26 hours in 2006 — an 850 will be available on School Computing wiki. will frame opportunities and pitfalls. percent increase. PRESENTERS: Lorrie Jackson and Bryan PRESENTERS: Samuel Frank, Synthesis PRESENTERS: Jonathan Schick, GOAL Berretta, Lausanne Collegiate School (TN) Partnership (MA); Sheri Sweitzer, Moses Consulting (TX); Mark Desjardins, Hol- Brown School (RI); Judy Shelton, St. land Hall School (OK) George’s Independent School (TN) Governance Creating an Individualized Beyond Political Correctness: Contract for the Head of School Cultivating Cultural Competency Room: Sutton South in the Boardroom Every head has different needs Room: Rendezvous Trianon regarding the job, coping with What is cultural competency? Why stress, and his/her future plans. In this does diversity at the board level session we will explore ways schools matter? What is the board’s role in have personalized the head’s contract to advancing awareness? How do cultural reflect individual requests, and we’ll dis- differences affect our interactions? We cuss some of the processes used to arrive will tackle the issues head-on to learn the at a finalized contract that respects the value of embracing diversity in organiza- requirements of both head and school. tions and the policy implications of There will be time for Q & A. board-level commitment to cultural PRESENTERS: Chuck Harmon and competency. Elizabeth Miles, York School (CA); PRESENTER: Vernetta Walker, Board- Debra Wilson, NAIS (DC); Trina Secor, Source (DC) Carney, Sandoe & Associates (MA); Aggie Underwood, Carney, Sandoe & Associates (VT)

40 Leadership Development Head Start: The First Management Year Leading a School A Whole New Faculty: Room: Sutton Beekman Parlor Highlights of Recommended Using Pink’s Principles for Faculty This workshop makes the case Practices in School Counseling Professional Growth for a paradigm shift about the first Room: Clinton Suite Room: Murray Hill A year of a headship — that it should be a Diverse school missions and Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New moving forward year rather than a stand- administrative structures, com- Mind presents educators with ing still year. Aspiring heads will find bined with counselors’ varied training, a series of innovative approaches and this particularly useful. make identifying best practices of student skills needed for 21st century thinkers. PRESENTERS: Don Grace, The Park counseling a challenge. NAIS has joined a In this workshop, two teacher/admin- School of Buffalo (NY); Ann Klotz, The pioneering school-university collabora- istrators will present ways to work with Laurel School (OH); John Barrengos, The tion to create recommended practices in faculty to integrate Pink’s ideas into our Independent Day School (CT) school counseling. This session features classrooms and our schools. Using Pink’s key topics like the counselor’s role in and six senses, we will share how we have The Six Secrets of the Wily Leader relationship with the school, legal hot- incorporated his principles of R-directed Room: Trianon Ballroom spots, and managing critical incidents. thinking in a faculty in-service and with Is leadership a set of skills to PRESENTERS: Deborah Youngman, Bos- a professional development group. apply, or a set of commitments to ton University (MA); Sarah McMillan, PRESENTERS: Andy Jones-Wilkins, The embody? Machiavelli and Myers-Briggs, The Fay School (MA) Community School (ID); Crystal Land, or Lincoln and Ghandi? Leaders try to Head-Royce School (CA) do the best of both; it’s a heavy burden. Keeping Secrets: Confidentiality Rob Evans shows how wily leaders take a Issues in Independent Schools Dialogue in Action lighter touch and pare these conflicting and Legal Implications Room: New York Suite approaches to a common-sense core that Room: Sutton Center Tired of dancing around difficult simplifies leadership and reduces stress. The privacy of students, parents, diversity conversations? Worn out PRESENTER: Robert Evans, The Human and employees must be protected. by treading the same old diversity ground Relations Service (MA) Confidential information is regularly and feeling like real change is still a long shared with parties that should not have way off? Participants in this workshop access to the information. Unknowingly, will engage each other using a model of employees create liability for them- honest dialogue around sensitive selves and their schools by breaching the diversity issues. Be prepared to be confidentiality of protected information. challenged, interactive, and self- Discussions in hallways, conversations reflective. with parents, and communication with PRESENTERS: Martha Haakmat, medical providers may all serve as pri- Packer Collegiate Institute (NY); vacy violations if not carefully addressed. Matthew Stuart, Town School (NY); This session will review the areas subject Erik Resurreccion, Allen-Stevenson to protection and discuss strategies School (NY) that schools can implement to avoid the breach of privacy and avoid legal challenges. PRESENTER: Caryn Pass, Venable LLP (DC)

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School Leaders’ Roundtable: Time-Saving Tips for Managing The Classroom Enrolling International Students the Small Business Office Experience through ASSIST Room: Concourse G Room: Concourse A Business officers of small schools Creating a Safe Environment School leaders will discuss the wear many “hats.” This interactive for All Students: Proactively benefits of enrolling international session will address issues that com- Addressing Harassment students, particularly those from monly arise in the small business office Room: sutton south cultures not typically represented and include suggestions for saving time Harassment in schools is subtle in our student bodies. As we build schools and resources. Participants are asked to and often overlooked, but it affects for the future, creating intentionally bring situations for which the group can victims as well as the entire school international educational communities brainstorm solutions. community. The session provides an will be critical to fully prepare our students PRESENTERS: Linda Dennison, National overview of legal issues and the types of to thrive in a flat, multicultural world. Business Officers Association (CO); harassment schools face. Concrete strategies PRESENTERS: Robert Stanley, ASSIST Sherri Melamut, Summit Montessori to address and reduce harassment in schools (CT); Richard Hall, Washington Interna- School (MA) through interactive role-playing and tional School (DC) discussion conclude the session. Trends and Issues in PRESENTERS: Carol Sheriff and Ron Sustaining Faculty Change: Financial Aid Management Torrez, Albuquerque Academy (NM) A Model for High Challenge Room: Sutton Regent Parlor and High Support Tuition growth patterns combined Girls at the Center: Innovation, Room: Concourse C with significant demographic and Enterprise, Opportunity In schools that openly embrace income shifts are increasingly pushing Room: Sutton North change as the norm, faculty must today’s independent schools to be more Girls’ schools have had to be become engaged in a continuous improve- strategic with funding and distribut- nimble and entrepreneurial — ment cycle that encourages reflection ing financial aid dollars. Engage in a to reinvent what it means to educate on performance, feedback, annual goal conversation of recent trends and issues young women for shifting roles setting, and targeted professional devel- facing schools as they address afford- and new opportunities. Three school opment. This workshop will present a ability challenges and enrollment issues heads will spotlight programs that are model to achieve this goal. through their financial aid programs. transformative in their educational PRESENTER: Kathleen Lintner, Culver See and discuss how the NAIS School intent and reflect the unique capabili- Academies (IN) and Student Service for Financial Aid is ties of girls’ schools to model innovation, evolving to meet the changing needs of enterprise, and opportunity. today’s financial aid administrators and PRESENTERS: Meg Moulton, National the realities of today’s families. Coalition of Girls’ Schools (MA); Marja PRESENTER: Mark Mitchell, NAIS (DC) Brandon, Seattle Girls’ School (WA); Joan Countryman, Atlanta Girls’ School (GA); Kathleen Ponze, The Young Women’s Leadership Foundation (NY)

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Global Sustainability: MOODLE: An Essential Tool for 9:30–11:00 am An Integrated Context the Student-Centered Classroom Opening General Session for Learning Room: Petit Trianon with Daniel Pink Room: Concourse B This session will provide an Radio City Music Hall Discover strategies and hands-on in-depth look at MOODLE. Used in ■ Musical Performance given activities that use sustainability 175 countries, MOODLE is a free, by students of Elisabeth Morrow for curriculum integration and open-source content/course man- School (NJ). to enliven school culture. We’ll agement system. MOODLE gives teachers ■ Welcome given by NYSAIS, CAIS-CT, look at Explorer West’s use of the concept and students many features for commu- and NJAIS executives. to enhance campus life and promote nication, collaboration, and individual ■ NAIS President Pat Bassett. learning. Participants will leave with a study. Moodle’s components include: ■ Introduction given by Dick Hall, process for introducing sustainability in online assignments, chat, forums, jour- member of the NAIS board of trustees. their schools, and a CD with grade five-12 nals, quizzes, wikis, and more. ■ Remarks given by Daniel Pink. curriculum. PRESENTER: Peter Richardson, Rutgers Book signing event in the hilton PRESENTER: Ben Wheeler, Explorer West Preparatory School (NJ) Middle School (WA) Students Explore Class and M.O.S.A.I.C.: A Classroom Wealth in Philadelphia Program to Move on Social Room: Gramercy A and Individual Change Zoe Greenberg, an 11th grade Room: Concourse E student at Springside School in Using video, pictures, and reflec- Philadelphia, will share her docu- tions, two middle school teachers mentary on class and wealth in will share their experiences of develop- Philadelphia, a movie that won her the ing a diversity program that builds self- Princeton Prize in Race Relations in 2007. awareness and community through PRESENTERS: Timothy Johnson and discussion and activities. The presenters Zoe Greenberg, Springside School (PA); will share how they implemented this Felice Yeskel, Class Action Sonia Bell (PA) program, students’ reactions to it, and why it has created positive change. PRESENTERS: Rae White and Juna Kim, Germantown Friends School (PA)

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11:30 am-12:30 pm Communications Governance Concurrent One-Hour and Advancement Workshops, Block 5 Environmental Sustainability: Promoting Complexity in Education Best Practices and Start-Up Room: Concourse B Strategies 11:30 am-12:30 pm Real diversity in the classroom is Room: Sutton Center Featured Workshop as complicated as it is worthy. How This workshop will examine with Firoozeh Dumas do you promote complexity in an educa- environmental sustainability Grand Ballroom West tional marketplace fixated on test scores through best practice examples from Introduction given by Rudy Jordan, head and other simplistic measurements? This several independent schools. The session of school, Bank Street School for Chil- talk draws on the speaker’s work at the path- is open to schools just starting to think dren (NY), and member of the 2008 NAIS breaking School at Columbia University, about environmental sustainability, as Annual Conference Think Tank. as well as her years in media companies well as schools with existing programs. Book signing event ranging from Time Inc. to Lifetime. PRESENTER: Joshua Hahn, Stone Bridge PRESENTER: Jessica Marshall, The LLC, Sustainability + Education Consul- School at Columbia University (NY) tants (NH)

11:30 am-12:30 pm The Art of Media Relations: Devel- Facts at Hand: Academic and Featured Workshop and oping a Positive and Productive Demographic Data in Assessment NAIS Diversity Leadership Award Relationship with the Press and Planning Featuring Kevin Jennings Room: Sutton Regent Parlor Room: Madison Suite Grand Ballroom East Whether you are publicizing a This presentation by an independent Award presented by NAIS President student event, seeking increased school head and assistant head Pat Bassett and introduction given by visibility for your school, or responding to examines academic and demographic Tiffany Bridgewater, director of diversity a media inquiry, this workshop is designed data in assessing curriculum, program, development and community at The to help you get better results. Learn how to and strategic planning. Directed towards Potomac School (VA) and member of set up an effective media relations program heads, division leaders, trustees, and 2008 NAIS Annual Conference Think without hiring a full-time public relations others who work with data to set agenda, Tank. This event is no longer a lunch and staff. This workshop offers tips for building the presentation outlines how complex no ticket is required. All are welcome. lasting relationships with editors and report- parameters are compiled, assembled, Book signing event ers that you can leverage for great publicity. and discussed. PRESENTER: Carlos Barroso, Saint PRESENTERS: John Rankin and David Andrew’s School (FL) Harman, Poly Prep Country Day School (NY)

Using Ethics Education to Enhance Academic Performance and School Community Room: Sutton Beekman Parlor We will demonstrate the importance of ethics education and show participants how their leadership in institut- ing age-appropriate ethics education in their school communities will improve the academic performance of students and help produce highly competent citizens of the 21st century. PRESENTERS: Bongsoon Zubay, Bzubay Inc. (CA); Lydia Geacintov, Pingry School (NJ) 44 Leadership Development Roundtable for New and Schools of Possibility: Developing Schools Moving Beyond Gender Challenges and Opportunities for Room: Concourse G Difference to True Discovery Independent School Leaders of Please join us for an open discussion Room: Sutton South the Future about what you have faced or are Girls and boys fashion their identities Room: Murray Hill B facing in developing an independent and their sense of what’s possible Independent school leaders — school. Bring your questions and con- on the basis of images and opportunities instructional and administrative cerns as well as lessons learned to share they encounter, particularly in schools. — must be prepared to manage differently with your colleagues. In helping both coeducational and in a changing world. In this session, PRESENTERS: Rhoney DuQuesne, single-sex schools to conduct deep participants will hear from leading faculty DuQuesne Solutions (CO); Starr Snead, studies of girls’ and boys’ experiences, from Columbia University’s Teachers Advancement Connections (SC); Jeff especially by utilizing teacher research College as they address anticipated changes McConaghy, Sierra Canyon School (CA); methodologies, the Center for the Study from an ethical, legal, financial, peda- Nancy Spillane, Lowell Whiteman Pri- of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives has come to gogical, and organizational perspective. mary School (CO) appreciate how perspectives grounded in PRESENTERS: Pearl Kane, Klingenstein students’ experience can generate new, Center for Independent School Education Scaffolding Leadership Change: more resonant and uplifting school (NY); Jay Heubert, Tom Sobol, Paula Wilson, Keys to Successful Head Search programs, viewing gender as a fluid Kevin Mattingly, and Mark Neustadt, and Transition resource rather than as a static category. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) Room: Sutton North PRESENTERS: Michael Reichert, Centers This session gives an overview of for the Study of Girls’ and Boys’ Lives Dynamic and Effective the search and transition pro- (PA); Sharon M. Ravitch, Graduate School School Leadership cess with an emphasis on maintaining of Education, University of Pennsylvania Room: Morgan Suite transparency and open communication (PA); F. Robertson Hershey and Ken Complex issues in schools require with all school constituencies. Guided by Risley, Episcopal High School (VA) adaptive leadership skills. Partici- best practices from NAIS and enriched by pants will discuss and learn how to find practical experience, presenters offer a the underlying issues, shift between the roadmap to a successful head search and Management action on the “dance floor” and the need transition process. to reflect thoughtfully from “the balcony,” PRESENTERS: Gregory Blackburn, The Developing the High Performance apply aspects of Good to Great to educa- Caedmon School (NY); Landis Green, Administrative Team tional settings, and develop emotional Wildwood School (CA); Wendy Borosav- Room: Concourse A intelligence for leadership. age, Debra Sullivan, and Carla Haith, The How do you sustain the energy and PRESENTERS: Michael Schuler, Kent Chestnut Hill School (MA) creativity of a diverse adminis- School (MD); Tom Shields, Jepson School trative staff that is prone to operate in a of Leadership Studies (VA) more territorial fashion than collaborative fashion because of job responsibilities and personality differences? This workshop will provide participants with the tools to enhance the quality of work of the administrative team. PRESENTER: Joseph Schmidt, Seabury Hall (HI) Want to learn more about membership? Go to the NAIS Member Resource Center located in the exhibit hall.

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The GSA: Leadership Solutions for StatsOnline: How Does Your The Classroom Global Climate Change School Measure Up? Experience Room: Gramercy B Room: Rendezvous Trianon Scientists say that to forestall How well do you pay your staff in A Comprehensive China Program unmanageable climate change, we comparison to your peer schools? Room: Clinton Suite need to become climate neutral by 2015 to What is the average parent participa- \ Punahou School’s China-related 2020. Inspired by the Allen-Stevenson tion rate of giving for schools in your programs prepare students for the School (NY), learn from the experts, geographic region? What is the average global world by educating for including Rob Watson, the founder of the tuition for schools that are part of your multiple intelligences and skills. LEED Green Building Rating System, regional independent school association? Participants will be introduced to a K-12 how the Green Schools Alliance (GSA) is Learn how to quickly obtain this data, program that encompasses curricular and empowering schools for success through and much more, to help you and your boards co-curricular service learning and global its Climate Pledge Initiative. make informed budgeting decisions. outreach. They will also find out how their PRESENTERS: David Trower, Allen- PRESENTERS: Monique Rush, NAIS (DC); schools can tap into this network of programs. Stevenson School (NY); M. Howard Marc Levinson, National Business PRESENTER: Hope Staab, Punahou Watson, Green Schools Alliance (NY); Officers Association (CO) School (HI) Rob Watson, The EcoTech International Group (NY) Student Interactions: Respect the Blue Skies, Marshmallow Clouds, Boundaries or Pay the Price and Van Gogh School-Wide Global Education at Room: Gramercy A Room: Gibson Suite Two Independent Schools This program addresses boundary Across the U.S. and in communities Room: Bryant Suite issues between students and around the world, children respond A researched model for school- faculty/administrators. The speakers to the wonder of nature. Teachers wide global education in inde- discuss numerous examples of seemingly collect and compare habitat pendent schools will be presented, and innocent behavior and show how mis- knowledge using community resources the heads of two independent schools takes in misjudging boundaries turn into to open fields of possibilities. Technology with long-standing histories with global liability. Participants receive concrete and hands-on projects inspire creativ- education will discuss the successes and guidelines on training their staff on how ity, thinking skills, and literacy across challenges their schools face in imple- to avoid liability. the curriculum. Learn to sow seeds and menting their school-wide global educa- PRESENTERS: Suzanne Bogdan, Fisher & harvest imagination in everyone. tion efforts. Phillips LLP (FL); Debra Wilson, NAIS (DC) PRESENTER: Carol Kniseley, Saint PRESENTERS: Robert Ogle, Pacific Ridge Thomas Episcopal Parish School (FL) School (CA); Paul Domingue, Verde Tales from the Front: Heads of Valley School (AZ); Eleanor Dase, The School Discuss Today’s Challenges Athenian School (CA) Room: Trianon Ballroom Heads of school from diverse regions and school types will discuss the challenges they face — in terms of enrollment, academic program, student life, finance, legal issues, personnel, governance, and more — in a changing environment. PRESENTERS: Archibald Douglas, The Montgomery Academy (AL); Ruth Glass, The Wesley School (CA); Mark Davis, St. Luke’s School (CT); Chuck Harmon, York School (CA)

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Building Boy-Friendly Learning Grace Exchange: A Middle School The Myth of the Level Playing Environments Model for Building International Field: Unmasking White Privilege Room: Murray Hill A Understanding in Schools This presentation outlines a reper- Room: Concourse C Room: Petit Trianon toire of strategies and approaches Our students grow up in the In the U.S. and in our schools, for teaching boys based on research insular culture of a world power. the playing field has never been on neurocognitive gender differences. The future requires the skills level. To be truly inclusive institutions, Two International Boys’ Schools Coali- of adapting to and appreciating we have to explore the ways unearned tion heads also tell how they build such other cultures. Grace Church School has power and privilege permeate and distort powerful boy-friendly learning environ- an exchange program for seventh and our schools. In this session we invite ments, and the relevance and importance eighth grade students. We will describe educators to share experiences and insights of this experience for educators commit- our model of two-week homestays and and to seek ways to bring white privilege ted to the success of boys in all schools. school visits in Japan, India, and China, out of the shadows and into the light. PRESENTERS: Christopher Wadsworth, as well as hosting students in New York. PRESENTERS: Stephen Clem, AISNE (MA); International Boys’ Schools Coalition PRESENTERS: George Davison, Eric Ralph Wales, The Gordon School (RI) (MA); Abigail James, Rockhouse Associ- Schneider, and Mark Weinsier, Grace ates (VA) Church School (NY) You’re on! — Performing Arts and the Educational ReNAISsance Can Gaming Teach Us about On Our Way to the Renaissance, Room: Concourse E Teaching and Learning? Are There Old Lessons That We Dance, drama, and music develop Room: Mercury Ballroom (Classrooms Can Leave Behind? conceptual thinking and provide of the Future Demonstration Area) Room: New York Suite a means of student expression The classroom of the future will be Is there a test for academic increasingly celebrated on inde- guided by the sociability of learn- obsolescence? What classroom pendent school campuses. The Millbrook ing and an emerging set of 21st century skills and habits of mind, even fond and School’s Holbrook Arts Center will literacies with design, innovation, and familiar ones, should go the way of Ro- provide a basis for understanding the system-based thinking at their core. man numerals and white chalk? These programmatic and technical require- Games strongly support a range of tra- are hard choices. This session will offer a ments using a sustainable approach to ditional and new media literacies and do framework for looking at this issue, and design for student theaters. so in a way that holds players accountable will offer some specific examples. PRESENTERS: Daniela Voith, Voith & for their own learning. This session will PRESENTER: Loring Coes, Rocky Hill Mactavish Architects LLP (PA); Rich explore games as learning tools and look School (RI) Roper, Malvern Preparatory School (PA); at their application in the design of a new Scott Crossfield, Theatre Projects Con- school based in NYC. sultants (CT) PRESENTER: Katie Salen, Institute of Play, Parsons the New School for Design (NY) 12:30–1:30 PM Complimentary Lunch in Exhibit Hall

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1:30–2:30 pm Communications Small School, Big Money: Concurrent One-Hour and Advancement Ambitious Fund Raising in Workshops, Block 6 Modest Circumstances Marketing Plan 101 Room: Gramercy B Room: Gibson Suite Limited budgets, many respon- 1:30–2:30 pm Schools often employ the “shotgun sibilities, an uncommon culture; Featured Workshop approach” to marketing, and these are just some of the issues develop- with Reza Aslan sometimes overlook important element officers at small schools face. As Grand Ballroom East ments to attract qualified candidates. competition grows, fund-raising success Introduction given by Jack Creeden, This presentation will outline the “basic is increasingly vital. Two fund raisers head, Providence Day School (NC) and components” of an independent school talk about shaping an ambitious develop- NAIS board member. marketing plan and walk participants ment program and exchange ideas about Book signing event through the necessary steps in establish- the big challenge of financing a little ing a comprehensive plan. school. PRESENTER: Dennis Guilliams, Chester- PRESENTERS: Timothy Monroe and field Day Schools (MO) Janetta Stringfellow, Commonwealth 1:30–2:30 PM School (MA) Featured Workshop Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Pat Bassett and Your School’s Website Grand ballroom west Room: Concourse B Governance The president of NAIS will present Learn how to use SEO and online a workshop on the theme of “right- marketing to improve online Creating Pathways to brained” creativity, rooted in ideas from interest in your school that will translate the Future: The Importance Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind, to inquiries and giving, and reinforce of Strategy Making exploring the implications for teaching your brand in a competitive market. We’ll Room: Sutton South and learning in 21st century schools. He give an overview of SEO and look at the This workshop will focus on new will examine the six core competencies process involved in developing a program models of strategy making. of our right-brained future and illustrate from research, implementation, ongoing Participants will learn how to exercises related to each: design, story, strategy, and analytics. preserve the essence of the school symphony, empathy, play, meaning. PRESENTERS: Travis Warren, Whipple- while readying the community to move The generative question to be addressed: Hill (NH); Peter McDonald, Eagle Hill forward. Challenges, resistances, and What will be the skills and values that School (MA); Francis McGovern, LT practical solutions will be offered to the 21st century will demand and reward, Search Partners (NH) maximize a successful outcome for and how will independent schools schools’ planning processes. teach them? PRESENTERS: Judith Schechtman and Marc Frankel, Triangle Associates (MO); Mary Fielder, Georgetown Day School (DC)

After the conference, tell us what you think! You will receive by e-mail a link to an online conference evaluation. 48 High-Performance Green School Governance: Facilities: Practical Lessons Who Is on the Decision- from Sidwell Friends School Making Team? Room: Sutton Regent Parlor Room: Sutton North Sidwell Friends School found that The daily running of a school the choice of green design has often requires the collective input changed the values, culture, and opera- and voice of many key people. Who are tions of the school. Using Sidwell Friends the “key people” and why are they critical as a case study, this presentation will to governance? Can independent second- explain how environmental sustain- ary schools use “legislative” government to ability can be approached cost-effectively achieve “success” and at what cost? When and in a way that makes “going green” is inclusion effective and when is it not? an important educational and broader PRESENTERS: Elizabeth Dolan, Phillips institutional asset. Exeter Academy (NH); Louise Morgan, PRESENTERS: Mike Saxenian and Frank MICDS (MO); Bruce Stewart, The Sidwell Newman, Sidwell Friends School (DC) Friends School (DC); Aimeclaire Roche, Groton School (MO) Independent School Governance in Australia: Lessons Learned Room: Concourse A Leadership Development U.S. and Australian independent schools have more in common Hyde: A Public-Private than you might think. The Independent School Process of Character Schools Council of Australia (ISCA) and Leadership Development recently completed a survey of 1,000 Room: Concourse E private schools that probed governance The 41-year Hyde experiment structures, common challenges, and explores the premise that every head-trustee relationships. Find out individual is gifted with a unique about lessons learned, implications for potential that defines a destiny; develop- Australian independent schools, and ment of moral and intellectual character; relevance to your institution. parental growth and family issues; and PRESENTERS: Bill Daniels, Independ intellectual, emotional, and spiritual ent Schools Council of Australia; Geoff potentials. It includes nine Hyde private Newcombe, Association of Independent and public schools serving 1,900+ Schools of New South Wale (Australia) students, 78 percent of whom are minority. PRESENTERS: Joseph Gauld, Hyde Schools (ME); Joanne Goubourn, Hyde- Bronx (NY)

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Prepare to Lead Schools Using Science and Personal Management of the Future Relationships to Reduce Room: Sutton Beekman Parlor Student Substance Use But It’s My Space! Technologi- Hear about special opportunities Room: New York Suite cal Legal Issues in Independent from alumni of the Klingenstein Research shows that students tend Schools Center at Columbia University, which to drink or use other drugs based Room: Trianon Ballroom awards over a million dollars annually on the false perception that all kids use. Technology has accelerated so to deserving educators, teacher leaders, The higher the exaggeration, the riskier much of independent school life, and administrators. Fellowships and the use. This workshop will discuss three sometimes in ways we never predicted. scholarships are available for begin- key components to reducing these false How do you wrestle with the trying issues ning teachers, mid-career educators, perceptions: researched-based surveys, of bullying, harassment, defamation, and and heads of school for enrichment and non-using upper school students, and other hot topics in the context of tech- degree programs. middle-schoolers. nology? Come to this interactive session PRESENTER: Pearl Kane, Klingenstein PRESENTERS: Renee Soulis, FCD Edu- to learn more about the law and what is Center for Independent School Education cational Services (MA); Kathy Wrenn, happening at schools across the country. (NY) Collegiate School (VA); Kathy Hodges, PRESENTERS: Debra Wilson, NAIS (DC); Savannah Country Day School (GA); Burns Jones, Heathwood Hall Episcopal Research Matters: Maurice Soulis, FCD Educational Ser- School (SC) Lessons in Inquiry vices (MA) Room: Morgan Suite Stop Shuffling and Start Tapping: A group of schools promotes Welcoming the LGBT How 21st Century Technology school-based research to shape Faculty in Your School Changed a School practice and enrich professional de- Room: Madison Suite Room: Concourse G velopment. The 2007 Teach Tech Award Studies show that one in 10 people Take an unbiased, non-technical winners will describe the process and are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or look at the facts about integrat- impact of their inquiry, an integrated transgender — this includes your school’s ing e-commerce, online data collection, study in Math, Science, and Physical faculty and staff. This panel will offer and e-communication into a school to Education. This award, from NALS: The personal stories, tested strategies, and increase profitability and effectiveness, International Association of Laboratory Q&A on the ways that you, as a colleague and to enhance communication. Hear and University Affiliated Schools and or an administrator, can make your from a school that has already made the Columbia University, honors innovative school a welcoming and safe place for the shift, including a case study of how this projects and applied research by teachers. LGBT faculty in your school right now. school was transformed. PRESENTERS: Elizabeth Morley, NALS PRESENTERS: Anne Steinert, CITYterm PRESENTER: Denise Musselwhite, Trin- and University of Toronto (Canada); at The Masters School (NY); Eric Temple, ity Preparatory School (FL) Richard Messina and Ben Peebles, The Carey School (CA); Ileana Jimenez, University of Toronto (Canada) Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School (NY); Frank Tipton, Philips Academy (MA)

50 Demographic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability Global Sustainability Programmatic Sustainability Daily Work of School Leaders

Understanding Your Market: Daring to Cross Boundaries Greening the Campus and Leveraging Demographic Room: Concourse C Curriculum: Next Steps Trends to Enhance Your This workshop focuses on how Room: Clinton Suite Enrollment Strategies teachers can prepare lower school As schools start to go “green,” we Room: Murray Hill A and middle school students to realize there is more we can do: Understanding societal and meet the global challenges of Hydrogen fuel cells, reduced CO2 emis- demographic trends is key to the 21st century. Teachers will provide sions, an integrated environmental helping your school thrive long into the students with tools to embrace cultural studies program. Hear from a school with future. In this workshop, you will learn diversity by learning how a family mem- these in place and another school whose how to run the different reports available ber dared to cross a boundary to make LEED building is just a first step. via the NAIS Demographic Center to the world a better place. Participants will PRESENTERS: David Liebmann, Shady obtain the demographics in your specific receive curriculum guidelines. Side Academy (PA); Willard Morgan, market. You will also learn how to PRESENTERS: Jennifer Hutchinson and Chewonki’s Maine Coast Semester (ME) interpret the variables and how to use Kim Lewis, Germantown Friends School them as part of your strategic planning. (PA); Jacqueline Whitney, Abington Student Leadership for PRESENTERS: Donna Orem and Friends School (PA) the Conceptual Age Amada Torres, NAIS (DC); Bob Katz, Room: Rendezvous Trianon Easy Analytic Software, Inc. (NY) Drugs, Alcohol, and Organizers of the Lawrenceville Self-Medication: Thoughts, School’s Student Leadership Questions, and Antidotes Program will lead an interactive session The Classroom Room: Murray Hill B discussing the main features of the pro- Experience Growing numbers of adolescents gram, demonstrating a leadership style are using drugs, not just for exercise, and discussing emerging trends A Preview of the Updated recreation, but as medication, putting in student leadership, based on Daniel NAIS Middle School Handbook themselves in harm’s way. How do we Pink’s book, A Whole New Mind. Room: Petit Trianon understand the extent of their use? What PRESENTERS: Elizabeth Duffy, Before the upcoming release of inadvertent roles do schools and parents Nancy Thomas, and Debra Larson, the quintessential resource for play? What steps can we take to help? A The Lawrenceville School (NJ) middle school educators, come get a veteran head and a psychologist provide preview of the changes made to the thought-provoking questions and helpful NAIS Middle School Handbook. Learn suggestions. how middle schools are incorporating PRESENTERS: Lynn Friedman, Johns creativity, empathy, media awareness, Hopkins University (MD); David Shapiro, sustainability, and globalization within Edmund Burke (DC) their programs. Educators will leave with new and creative ideas. PRESENTERS: Mark Stanek, Milton Academy (MA); Harry Finks, retired, Muckleshoot Tribal School (WA)

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Tackling Issues of Socioeconomic Teaching World Class Math 3:00–4:30 pm Inequality with Grades 7–12 Room: Gramercy A General Session Room: Bryant Suite A group of leading math teachers with Mariane Pearl Tackle the complex topic of socio- from around the world has spent Radio City Music Hall economic diversity and inequality 12 weeks talking online about better ■ Musical performance given by in your own school. This inter- ways of teaching mathematics. The group The Masters School (NY). active workshop will provide tools explored whether there are common ■ Introduction given by Doreen Oleson, for rethinking class as the “hand we’re best practices suitable for use in inde- head of Saint Mark’s School (CA), dealt,” simulating class stratification in pendent schools. The group reports its member of the NAIS board of trust- the U.S., predicting outcomes in a health findings and continues the discussion at ees, and member of the 2008 and crisis, and brainstorming action plans Wednesday’s three hour workshop. This 2009 NAIS Annual Conference for sustainable local and global change. workshop offers teachers a summary of Think Tank. PRESENTERS: Catherine Milligan and the findings. ■ Remarks given by Mariane Pearl. Kara Kutner, Marymount School (NY) PRESENTER: Maria Koziebrodzka, Book signing event Sidwell Friends School Note: This book signing event will Teaching Mandarin take place at Radio City Music Hall. Room: Sutton Center Wiki Mania: How to Teach and However, you must have purchased Come learn best practices for this Learn in an Open Source Culture your book in advance at the Hilton, foreign language, such as sources Room: Mercury Ballroom (Classrooms as we cannot sell books at Radio of curriculum, teaching materials, of the Future Demonstration Area) City Music Hall. teachers, resources. Learn things This workshop will discuss open to do and things to avoid. Those running source web content, or wikis, and programs and those about to start its potential in a 21st century them will learn what works and what independent school curriculum. doesn’t from Andy Corcoran, recipient Presenters will address the concept, of the 2008 NAIS Global Citizen Award, implementation, and assessment of open and Hope Staab, director of the Wo source content in multiple subjects, giv- International Center. ing participants an understanding of les- PRESENTERS: Hope Staab, Punahou son planning and group specific creation School (HI); Andy Corcoran, Chinese in the wiki format. American International School (CA) PRESENTERS: Christopher Dow and David Bill, Worcester Academy (MA)

52 53 Saturday March 1 9:00 am–12:00 pm Teaching and Learning Symposium featuring Ian Jukes Grand Ballroom, East See next page for more details.

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These programs require a ticket or registration. Join the online conversation and Teaching and Learning access symposium resources at Symposium http://NAISnet.ning.com. Igniting the Renaissance at Your School: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Landscape

NEW ! Teaching and Be prepared to spend a morning with Ian ABOUT Ian Jukes lEArning Symposium Jukes in answering these fundamental Ian Jukes has been a teacher, admin- with Ian Jukes questions. You’ll leave this energetic istrator, writer, consultant, university Saturday, March 1 conversation with many exciting ideas instructor, and keynote speaker. As the 9:00 AM–12:00 PM to implement when you return to your director of the InfoSavvy Group, he (Coffee/tea available at 8:30 AM) campus. In addition to the link to Jukes’ works extensively with school districts, Hilton, Grand Ballroom, East website with more than 1,000 pages of businesses, community organizations, this event is sold out. resources, you will leave with a menu for and other institutions to help shape a healthy “digital diet” that will serve as preferred futures. Jukes is the creator Calling all 21st century leaders and edu- a step-by-step guide to move educators and co-developer of TechWorks, the in- cators! Are you ready to spark a rebirth in forward in digital fluency. This sympo- ternationally acclaimed K–8 technology teaching and learning at your school? sium also includes a special post- framework; together with Anita Dosaj conference “ning,” an online network- was the catalyst behind the NetSavvy Saturday morning features a sympo- ing site that allows for conversation and and InfoSavvy information literacy sium culminating the conference theme: sharing of ideas. This ning will help series; and is a contributing editor for “Schools of the Future.” Educator/inno- carry the conversation forward and both the Audio Education Journal and vator Ian Jukes will engage participants provide support as you implement your Technology and Learning magazine. His with an interactive presentation and chosen digital diet! two most recently published books are conversation devoted to understanding NetSavvy: Building Information Literacy digital kids — especially in the educational Join us for this exciting event, and in the for the Classroom and Windows on realm. Come grapple with these issues: ning as follow-up, to: the Future. First and foremost, Jukes ■ How will your school change to ■ Network with like-minded educators; is an educator. His focus has consis- prepare these students for living and ■ Explore innovative tools; tently been on the compelling need leading in the 21st century? ■ Leave with concrete resources to to restructure our institutions so they ■ In what ways will you transform teach- move forward on renaissance- become relevant to the current and ing and learning in your institution to building; and future needs of children. As a registered reach students’ hearts and minds? ■ Follow up with online communication educational evangelist, his self-avowed to support your “digital diet.” mission in life is to ensure that children are properly prepared for their future rather than society’s past. Fasten your “Today’s kids are fundamentally different from the way seat belts and strap on your cerebral we were when we were kids…They are growing up in a flak jacket. Participants should come global, digitally-networked landscape filled with innovative, prepared to have many of their assump- interactive, and powerful communication technologies. tions about education challenged. For most of this generation, there’s never been a time when such technologies haven’t existed. They are ‘digital natives’ operating at ‘twitch speed.’ In fact, the younger they are, the more digitally fluent they are.” — Ian Jukes 55 s r ork ork

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Thursday, February 28 GRAND OPENING NAIS MEMBER RESOURCE CENTER 11:00 AM–6:30 PM Thursday, February 28, Featuring hands-on demonstration 11:00 AM–12:30 PM of NAIS tools and services Friday, February 29 Join NAIS staff, Annual Conference All faculty and staff of NAIS member schools 8:00 AM–2:00 PM participants, and exhibitors for the grand have access to NAIS products and services. opening of the 2008 Exhibit Hall. Stop by The Member Resource Center is a great Highlights for a complimentary lunch. way to learn more about these services. Visit with the NAIS staff and take advan- ■ Member Resource Center ReNAISsance Networking Fete: tage of one-on-one demonstrations on how ■ NAIS Bookstore A Faire to Remember you can reap the benefits available to you. ■ Global Village Thursday, February 28, NAIS’s online services include StatsOnline, ■ Cyber Café 5:00–6:30 PM the Demographic Center, the Survey Center, ■ Complimentary coffee breaks and All conference participants and the new Find a Colleague Directory. lunches on Thursday and Friday are welcome. More information is available on the NAIS ■ Networking Reception and Renais- Meet with old friends and new ones at website at www.nais.org. Stop by for a free sance Faire on Thursday evening NAIS’s own unique Renaissance Faire T-shirt. Limited quantities available. ■ Complimentary masseuse station and experience the live entertainment and interactive demonstrations. Join NAIS BOOKSTORE This year the NAIS Exhibit Hall will us for free food and drinks, strolling Visit the NAIS Bookstore to pick up books by inhabit three floors of the Hilton New minstrels, jugglers, and other Renais- many of the outstanding conference speak- York. Come meet more than 200 sance characters. Don’t forget to stop by ers as well as many NAIS books and issues vendors who represent the most up-to- the Member Resource Center for a free of the award-winning Independent School date products and services that are give-away. magazine. Save time by buying speakers’ designed to meet your school’s changing books ahead of time for book signings. needs in the 21st century. Each floor of the Hilton will host exhibitors, NAIS NAIS GLOBAL VILLAGE services, and complimentary meals. This area of the Exhibit Hall provides information and resources on global education and on NAIS global and environmental The Exhibit Hall is located programs such as Challenge 20/20, the on three floors of the Institute for Student Leaders (ISL), the China Connection Program, the Institute Hilton New York. for Leadership in Sustainability (ILS), and others. This year, the United Nations Millen- nium Development, Health, and Human Rights programs will be featured. Repre- sentatives from NAIS and from global education organizations will also be on hand to network with conference participants.

CYBER CAFÉ Cyber Cafés are available on all three floors of the Exhibit Hall and offer remote access to all conference participants so that they can stay connected to their schools and families while in New York City. 59 EXHIBITors

Visit the Exhibit Hall! Centerbrook Architects & Planners 2143 Furniture Options 2152 Learn about products and services CHA Sports 3132 GameTime 1147 designed for independent school ChinaSprout, Inc. 3125 GCA Services Group 3136 professionals. This list is subject CIEE Council on International George K. Baum & Company 3102 to change and is current as of Educational Exchange 3145 GeoVisions 2126 February 1, 2008. Classbook.com 1149 The Global Challenge 24 The Cloud Institute 3124 GLS Insurance Agency, Inc. 1132 3MRT 3115 Cloz 2134 Gourmet Dining, LLC 1134 Achieve Technology 1118 CLUB GETAWAY 2130 Grammarlogues 3126 ACIS Educational Tours 3107 The College Board 1107 Heifer International 3117 The Active Network — Thriva 3113 Community Counselling Hilb, Rogal and Hobbs Company 2113 Adams Book Company 1117 Service (CCS) 2112 HMFH Architects, Inc. 1146 ADT Security Services 2109 Community of Concern 23 Holbrook Global Field Expeditions 3127 AIFS 3106 Computer Explorers 1116 Hord Coplan Macht 2139 AISAP 3100 Concordia Language Villages 3128 Hunter Systems 3118 American Board for Certification of Council of International Schools 1152 Huston & Company 20 Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) 1120 CSD People Architecture 1150 Imagepath Communications 3108 American Express 3109 CulinArt 3123 Independent 529 Plan 2155 American Program Bureau 3151 Dennis Uniform 1124 Independent School Management 2135 Atlas Curriculum Mapping/ Design Ideas Group Architecture + infosnap inc. 1130 Rubicon International 3111 Planning, LLC 2124 inRESONANCE 3116 ATT Sports, Inc. 2151 Di Cara | Rubino Architects 13 International Baccalaureate 1139 Awesomely Organized, LLC 3134 Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. 3130 International Fund for AWG Dewar Inc. 2150 Discipline without Stress 2148 Animal Welfare 1142 Bank of the West Educational Discovery Education 3101 International Society for Institutions Banking Division 2120 Dome Technology 2114 Technology in Education (ISTE) 11 Blackbaud Inc. 2132 DRA Architects JCJ Architecture 1140 Blackboard Inc. 2117 (Drummey Rosane Anderson) 1121 JSTOR/ARTSTOR 1125 BoardSource 3146 Earth Foundation 2157 K & K Consulting Services Inc. 3142 Bolton & Company 1109 Earthwatch Institute 8 KeyBank 2140 The BOMA Fund, Cows for Kids 9 Educational Records Bureau 2149 Kimball Union Academy, Bowie Gridley Architects 1144 Educator’s Ally Inc. 3103 Summer Enrichment Experience 19 Breuer & Co. 3131 ELAN Publishing Co., Inc. 3139 Klingenstein Center/Teachers College 14 Bridge Volunteers 2138b Enslow Publishers, Inc. 3144 LaptopSchools.com Brock and Company 2141 ETR…Educational Technology and Lenovo 2133; 2138a BSA+A Buck Simpers Architect + Resources 1129 Learning Technologies, Inc. 2125 Associates, Inc. 2129 ETS 3110 Library Interiors Inc. 2122 Budgetext Corporation 3143 Eustis Chair 6 Longhouse Software 1133 Cambridge University Press 2 FACTS Management Company 2137 M Space Holdings, LLC 1135 CAMELOT PEWTER CO., INC. 2154 FCD Educational Services Inc. 1126 Magic Hour Communications 1143 CAMPWISE by RecSoft 1119 finalsite 1102 Malaria No More 3147 CASE 3152 Fisher & Phillips LLP 2104 Markel Insurance Company 2142 Cengage Learning 1106 Flansburgh Architects, Inc. 2153 MasterCard Worldwide 2156 Center for Learning and Flik Independent Schools by MBS Service Company, Inc. 2134 Behavioral Solutions, Inc. 3149 Chartwells 3105 McDougal Littell 2110

60 Mercy Corps 22 Senior Systems, Inc. 1103 Metz & Associates, Ltd. 2123 Silverpoint, Inc. 3119 Middlebury-Monterey Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP 2121 Language Academy 3 The S/L/A/M Collaborative 1145 MILLS, Inc. 2145 Smart Tuition 7 mimio 10 Snowman Software 3133 Moodlerooms, Inc. 1153 Spiezle Group, Inc. 2111 NACSCORP 3150 Sprinturf 2136 National Assessment of StaffExcel, LLC 3112 Educational Progress 2160 Stone House Group 1154 National Association of Sunshine School Fashions 1138 Episcopal Schools 1151 Sustainable Horizon 1128 National Meningitis Association 5 TADS Tuition Aid Data Services 2127 National Student Leadership TIAA-CREF 1127 Conference 1111 Top Ten Regalia 1148 NK Architects 2116 Touchstones Discussion Project 1 The Office of Michael Tri-C Publications, Inc 3141 Rosenfeld Inc., Architects 3120 True Grits School Uniforms 1114 One More Story, Inc. 2102 TSA Tours 2131 Orphanage Outreach 1131 Tulips Travel 2107 Outside the Classroom 3135 Union Institute & University 2115 Oxford University Press 2147 United States Bowling Parker School Uniforms 1141 Congress High School 2101 PCR Educator 1100 University of Miami Peapod Design 3129 Online High School 15 Pearson Prentice Hall 3140 University of West Alabama 12 Pennies for Peace 21 Venable LLP 1110 People to People Student VS America 1156 Leader Programs 3121 WhippleHill Communications 1115 Play & Park Structures 2118 William A. Berry & Son, Inc. 2144 prepGATE K-12 Education World Leadership School 3122 Loan Program 1105 Wright Risk Management Co. Inc. 2128 Productive Education LLC 2159 Wye River Group, Incorporated 1108 RenWeb School Management YourMembership.com 2103 Software 1112 Ziegler Capital Markets Group 2100 Rowland Reading Foundation 3137 SAFARI Montage by Library Video Company 2108 SAGE Dining Services 1137 SAGE Study Abroad 17 SANS Inc. 1123 Scandinavian Seminar/ISSAC 18 School Office Services 2105 SchoolDude.com 4 Sea Education Association (SEA) 16

61 Teacher and Administrative Placement Firms

These placement firms will Cal/West Educators be available at the following Placement New York Ballroom West — 3rd Floor times in the Sheraton New Wednesday, 1:00–6:00 pm York Hotel and Towers. Thursday, 8:00 AM–6:00 pm Friday, 8:00 AM–6:00 pm Saturday, 8:30 AM–12:00 pm lower level Cal/West Educators Placement special- izes in the placement of highly qualified

Conference Conference Room K Room L administrators and teachers (K – 12), including retained searches, in inde-

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regionally and nationally year-round to

fill current and future openings. We are Conference Conference Conference Room D Room E Room F Conference dedicated to helping schools and candi- Room C dates find “The Perfect Match.” (800) 390-4737 www.calwesteducators.com second floor Carney, Sandoe &

Empire Ballroom Associates East West Second Floor Lenox Ballroom Wednesday, 12:00–6:00 pm Elevators

Escalators Thursday, 8:00 AM–6:00 pm

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rs Saturday, 8:00 AM–12:00 pm Central Metropolitan Ballroom Central Park Carney, Sandoe & Associates is an Park East West East West educational consulting firm that provides recruitment, executive search, and strategic consulting services to independ Second Floor Third Floor ent and like-kind schools since 1977. third floor The Carney, Sandoe & Associates LINK@ NAIS NYC provides schools, teachers,

New York Ballroom and administrators the chance to inter- West view and network in a professional at-

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s register with Carney, Sandoe & Associ- ates on the second floor of the Sheraton

New York Hotel and Towers. (800) 225-7986 www.carneysandoe.com

62 The Education Group Independent School Manhattan Placements Conference Room E — Lower Level Placement Conference Room C — Lower Level Wednesday, 9:00 AM–5:00 pm Conference Room F — Lower Level Wednesday, 12:00–4:00 pm Thursday, 8:30 AM–5:00 pm Wednesday, 1:00–4:00 pm Thursday, 9:00 AM–5:00 pm Friday, 8:30 AM–2:00 pm Thursday, 9:00 AM–5:00 pm Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 pm Specialists in the people business of Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 pm Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM education, The Education Group provides Specializing in matching candidates to Premier placement company for teachers, faculty and administrative placement teacher and administrator openings in administrators and department heads in all subject areas as well as retained New York City area independent schools. serving New York and New Jersey inde- search services. The Education Group (212) 769-4600 pendent schools. We treat our candidates is poised to serve you this placement www.ispnewyork.com as individuals and are highly skilled. season. At NAIS in New York, we offer (212) 288-3507 individual meetings with our consult Independent Thinking www.manhattanplacements.com ants, interviews between schools and Conference Room D — Lower Level candidates, as well as the opportunity to Wednesday, 1:00–5:00 pm Southern Teachers Agency search our current listings and candidate Thursday, 8:00 AM–6:00 pm Conference Room K — Lower Level resumes. We welcome school representa- Friday, 8:00 AM–6:00 pm RECEPTION Wednesday, tives and candidates to come by and meet Saturday, 8:00–11:00 am 6:00–8:00 PM our team. Independent Thinking is a retained Thursday, 8:30 AM–5:30 pm (800) 369-9102 search and general placement firm that Friday, 8:30 AM–5:30 pm www.educationgroup.com focuses on administrators, including Southern Teachers Agency is the oldest heads of schools. We serve schools by teacher-placement service in America Educators’ Collaborative managing searches for administrative and the premier service for independent Conference Room L — Lower Level openings as well as providing traditional school faculty recruitment in the South. Thursday. 9:00 AM–5:00 pm placement services. Each member of the Since 1902, our personal attention both Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 pm Independent Thinking team has worked to schools’ needs and to candidates’ Educators’ Collaborative, LLC, founded in independent schools in administra- searches has enabled STA to help educa- in 1971, has conducted more than 300 tive roles and understands how time- tors find their niche in the South. head searches for schools across the consuming a search can be. We partner (434) 295-9122 country and abroad. Made up of 10 with schools to find the right match and www.SouthernTeachers.com partners and two associates, all of whom to eliminate much of the work for school are former heads of schools, Educators’ personnel. Collaborative is one of the leading firms (617) 332-3131 in the profession. EC partners double www.independent-thinking.com team all searches and work together col- lectively to take advantage of the firm’s extensive list of candidates and personal relationships with hundreds of heads of PLEASE NOTE: NAIS does not schedule schools across the country. Other ser- interviews for candidates so please vices include strategic planning; finan- contact the firms above for details and cial planning; transition management; support in this area. governance; institutional evaluation; and admissions, advancement, and senior management searches. (603) 469-3069 www.educatorscollaborative.com 63 Acknowledgements NAIS gratefully acknowledges the support of the sponsors of the 2008 Annual Conference.

Platinum Sponsors

Educational Records Bureau The Klingenstein Fund Sponsor of Daniel Pink Presentation Sponsor of Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik Presentation (212) 672-9809 www.erbtest.org Many thanks to The Klingenstein Fund for its sponsorship of Publisher of both traditional and online educational achievement the Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik presentation and programs for independent and suburban public schools, as well for its continued support of NAIS governance services and as admissions tests for independent schools for all grade levels. research.

The The Edward E. Ford Foundation Sodexo Education Edward E. Ford Sponsor of The Classrooms of the Future Sponsor of Mariane Pearl Foundation www.eeford.org Presentation and Club Sodexo The major objective of the foundation is to encourage and improve (413) 499-8434 www.sodexhousa.com secondary education as provided by independent schools holding Dining Services — Catering — Vending — Maintenance — full membership in the National Association of Independent Schools. Engineering — Landscaping — Custodial — Project Management.

Gold Sponsors

The American Board for Certification Discovery Education Of Teacher Excellence Sponsor of faith popcorn Presentation Sponsor of Roland Fryer Presentation (800) 323-9084 www.discoveryeducation.com (202) 261-2634 www.abcte.org Powered by the #1 nonfiction media brand in the world, Dis- Abcte is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to recruiting, cer- covery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers tifying, and supporting excellent teachers essential for student with engaging content and services that measure and improve success. The Passport to Teaching program is an alternative route student achievement. Explore the future on our website! to teacher certification for knowledgeable individuals who want to change careers and become teachers. The Preferred Employers Laptopschools.com program helps recruit teachers for private and charter schools. and Lenovo Sponsors of Cyber CafÉ The College Board (888) 662-6924 www.laptopschools.com (212) 713-8000 www.collegeboard.com Helping schools plan for, implement, and support ubiquitous The College Board’s mission is to connect students to college academic technology programs using Lenovo ThinkPad, success and opportunity. We are a not-for-profit membership IdeaPad, and Tablet Computers. organization committed to excellence and equity in education.

Bronze Sponsor

Bank of America www.bankofamerica.com Through dedicated, specialized client teams, Bank of America provides insightful solutions and unparalleled access to innovative financial products and services, including treasury management, investments, and financing.

64 in appreciation

NAIS would like to thank the Performing Groups: ■ Rudy Jordan head of school, Bank following organizations for their ■ Greenwich Academy (CT), and its Street School for Children (NY) generous support of our programs head of school, Molly King ■ Doreen Oleson head of school, Saint in 2007. ■ The Town School (NY), and its head of Mark’s School (CA) school, Christopher Marblo ■ Rick Schubart history department AISNE ■ The Elisabeth Morrow School (NJ), chair, Phillips Exeter Academy (NH) The Benedict Foundation and its head of school, David Lowry ■ Barbara Swanson associate director for Independent Schools ■ The Masters School (NY), and its head for professional development, New Cal/West Educators Placement of school, Maureen Fonseca York State Association of Independent Carney, Sandoe & Associates Schools (NYSAIS) Early Steps Consultants and Advisors: The Edward E. Ford Foundation ■ Chris Bigenho Classroom of the the 2009 nais Annual Conference finalsite Future coordinator, and director of Think Tank Members: The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation educational technology, Greenhill ■ Dennis Bisgaard head of school, Independent Thinking School (TX) Kingswood-Oxford School (CT) The Klingenstein Fund ■ Casey J. Hayes creative arts ■ Reveta Bowers head of school, Manhattan Placements department chair, The Hewitt School The Center for Early Education (CA) Robert Bosch Foundation (NY), and artistic director of The ■ Tiffany Bridgewater director of Sodexo Education Gay Men’s Chorus of Manhattan diversity development & community Stratégenius ■ Demetri Orlando Teaching and outreach, The Potomac School (VA) Learning Symposium consultant, and ■ Ted Farraday head of upper school, Thank you! director of technology, Battle Ground Miami Country Day (FL) The Annual Conference is the result of Academy (TN) ■ Michael Obel Omia head of the Hunt- an indepth collaboration, advice, and ■ Lou Uliano director of community ing Valley Campus, University School commitment of resources by hundreds relations and school safety, The – Hunting Valley Campus (OH) of individuals and numerous organ Hewitt School (NY) ■ Scott Looney head of school, izations in the independent school ■ Joy Womack Experient Hawken School (OH) community. NAIS wishes especially ■ Doreen Oleson head of school, to recognize the contributions of The 2008 nais Annual Conference Saint Mark’s School (CA) the following: Think Tank Members: ■ Maurice A. Watson trustee, ■ Tiffany Bridgewater director of di- The Barstow School, and attorney, state Associations: versity development and community Blackwell Sanders LLP (MO) ■ New York State Association of Inde- outreach, The Potomac School (VA) ■ Jill Webb director of professional pendent Schools, and its executive ■ Tony Featherston headmaster, development, Independent Schools director, Elizabeth Riegelman Elmwood Franklin School (NY) Association of the Central States (IL) ■ New Jersey Association of Independ ■ Jenifer Fox president, Purnell ent Schools, and its executive direc- School (NJ) our two nais Annual tor, Linda Moore ■ Linda Gibbs head of school, The Conference bloggers: ■ Connecticut Association Independent Hewitt School (NY) ■ Mike Downs head of school, Mounds Schools, and its executive director, ■ Bruce Haines board chair, Westtown Park Academy (MN) Doug Lyons School (PA) ■ Dane Peters head of school, Brook- ■ Steve Hinds headmaster, The Mead- lyn Heights Montessori School (NY) Workshop Presenters: owbrook School of Weston (MA) We thank the 500+ workshop presenters and all individuals who proposed workshops.

65 nais board & staff

NAIS Board of Trustees NAIS Staff Paul Miller director of global initiatives Val T. Iwashita chair, headmaster, Iolani Amy P. Ahart director of Annual Mark Mitchell vice president, school School (HI) Conference information services Marcia Prewitt Spiller vice chair, head Patrick Bassett president Donna Orem chief operating officer of school, The Children’s School (GA) Harold Eugene Batiste III vice presi- Theresa Porco database integrator/ Jacqueline Y. Pelzer secretary, executive dent, leadership education and diversity IT project manager director, Early Steps Incorporated (NY) Susan Booth director of products and Nancy Raley vice president, Agnes C. Underwood treasurer, man- services development communications aging associate for executive search, Jefferson Burnett vice president, Jay Rapp director of programs and Carney, Sandoe & Associates (VT) government and community relations team initiatives David Chojnacki executive director, Satira Bushell associate director Michael Rease manager of corporate Near East South Asia Council of Overseas of Annual Conference relations Schools (Athens) Janyce Bryant director of Scott Reisfield vice president John E. Creeden head of school, administration and facilities for marketing Providence Day School (NC) Vivian Dandridge-Charles managing Melvin Rhoden sales manager, Sarah Daignault executive director, Na- director of membership SSS products and services tional Business Officers Association (CO) Darlene Dove board administrator and John Rodrigues vice president, Edwin P. Gordon principal of lower executive assistant to the president information technology school, The Walker School (GA) Netty Ford accounts receivable manager Monique Rush director, StatsOnline Richard P. Hall retired head of Washington International School (DC) Martha Lucia Galindo senior statistician Amy Sechler director of legislative affairs Jerrold I. Katz head, The Park Crystal Gay director of information School (MA) resources Floyd Smith member services associate Kristi A. Kerins head of school, John Hawkins senior director of Shannon Spaeder director of marketing The Phillips Brooks School (CA) meeting planning Ioana Suciu associate director of Henry L. Kotkins Jr. trustee, Lakeside Heather Hoerle vice president, global initiatives School (WA) member relations Kitty Thuermer director of publications Meg Milne Moulton executive director, Edward O’Neill Hoyt editor of Amada Torres director of academic National Coalition of Girls’ Schools (MA) publications research William New trustee, Putney School (VT) Francois Innocent comptroller Leslie B. Vorndran associate director, Doreen S. Oleson head of school, Cameron Johnson web director financial aid services Saint Mark’s School (CA) Michelle Lyde database manager Debra Wilson legal counsel Lou Salza head of school, Lawrence Myra McGovern director of public Tina Wood director of team administra- School (OH) information tion and institute logistics Bruce B. Stewart head of school, Sidwell Corey McIntyre chief financial officer Friends School (DC) George Mendel senior network/systems Peter B. Tacy (CT) and telecommunications engineer Jeffery Wack president, JTWack and Company, LLC (CT) NAIS mourns the recent loss of one of our board members, Hank Payne, and we celebrate his contributions to his school, Woodward Academy in Atlanta, to NAIS, and to the independent school community at large. 66 2008 NAIS INSTITUTES

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Ways the Annual Conference Ways you can help us! is striving to be more ■ Bring back your NAIS environmentally sustainable: bag next year. ■ We encourage presenters to post Many of us receive more conference handouts online. bags than we need. We encourage you ■ We encourage online registration. to bring back this bag next year to the ■ We conduct evaluations online. NAIS conference. The NAIS book- ■ We put less printed materials in con- store offers plastic bags only to those ference bags. who ask for them and encourages ■ We do not allow exhibitors/spon- participants to make the most of their sors to distribute mass quantities of conference bag. printed promotional materials. ■ Reuse or recycle your badge. ■ We produce a bag that is not branded We encourage you to reuse your badge with this year’s conference so it can holders at events at your school. If you be reused. Make sure to bring back wish to turn yours in to NAIS to do- your bag next year! nate for reuse for next year, drop them ■ Our printed materials (preview, in recycling containers located next to program, and exhibitor guide) are the registration area. The badges are printed on partially recycled stock. cleaned out and neck cords replaced ■ We recycle the conference badges. each year. ■ All lunches in the Exhibit Hall ■ Give us your input! will be served on china and biode- What can we do to be greener and gradable materials. still provide a comfortable and user- ■ We partner with the Hilton Hotel, which: friendly experience for you at the An- Has fluorescent lighting nual Conference? On the conference throughout 90 percent of evaluation you’ll receive by e-mail its facility. after the conference, please answer Uses environmentally friendly the questions related to this effort. refrigerants in the chillers. Preheats hot water with steam condensate. Has occupancy sensors located in meeting rooms. Uses and promotes paperless technology. Purchases all food and beverage in bulk and works with other Hilton hotels to purchase from a centralized location, reducing transportation emissions. Offers a towel and linen reuse program. Donates leftover food to City Harvest.

68 The 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 think of 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 the 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.

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2009 NAIS Annual Conference February 25–28 Chicago, Illinois Schools of the Future: Sailing the Winds of Change

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