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WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION & TRAVEL WE INVITE YOU TO REGISTER FOR THE 2018 NAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND JOIN US MARCH 7–9 IN ATLANTA.

Take time to gather with more than 5,000 fellow independent school educators to explore the theme The Leadership Journey: Guides, Pathways, and Possibilities. Discover the possibilities of your own leadership journey, whether you lead as a head of school, a teacher, a trustee, or in multiple roles. In addition to grappling with a changing education landscape, we in the independent school community are faced with shifting mindsets about who leads and how. When NAIS was founded more than 50 years ago, the concept of leadership looked remarkably different than it does today. Although many of the building blocks of inspiring leadership remain the same, we now know there are countless styles, personalities, and skills that can help us lead effectively, whether in the classroom, at a board meeting, or in the office of the head of school.

Everyone is welcome to attend. NAIS has an institutional commitment to the principles of diversity. In Atlanta, we hope you’ll reflect on your own leadership In that spirit, NAIS does not discriminate in violation of the law on the basis of race, religion, creed, journey—both where you’ve been and where you’re going. color, sexual orientation, age, physical challenge, nation of origin, gender, or any other characteristic. Set aside some time to thank the mentors who’ve helped you along the way, and leave refreshed and ready to guide others on their paths. We’re all on this journey together.

DONNA OREM PRESIDENT JAY RAPP VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 THURSDAY, MARCH 8 FRIDAY, MARCH 9

11:00 AM – 6:00 PM 6 : 0 0 – 7 : 0 0 AM 6 : 0 0 – 7 : 0 0 AM Registration Open Wellness Activities Wellness Activities 6:30 AM – 6:00 PM 6:30 AM – 1:00 PM 1:00 – 4:00 PM Registration Open Registration Open Klingenstein Seminar Series: Successful Negotiations: Navigating Conflict, Collaboration, 7:00 AM – 3:15 PM and Difficult Conversations 7:30 – 9:00 AM NAIS Expo Open 1:00 – 4:00 PM President’s Breakfast and Annual Meeting Optional Three-hour Workshops 8:00 – 9:00 AM 8:00 – 9:00 AM One-hour Workshop Block 1 One-hour Workshop Block 4 1:00 – 5:00 PM Families First Tour: The Journey of Atlanta: 9:00 – 9:15 AM 9:00 – 9:15 AM From the Depths of Slavery to the Heights of the Break Break Modern Civil Rights Movement Tour: 1:00 – 4:00 PM 9:15 – 10:30 AM 9:15 – 10:30 AM Reception: 4:00 – 5:00 PM Opening General Session With Adam Grant General Session With Sisonke Msimang 10:30 – 11:00 AM 10:30 – 11:00 AM 5:00 – 6:00 PM First-time Attendee Reception Break and Book Signing With Adam Grant Break and Book Signing With Sisonke Msimang 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM NAIS Expo Open This Ticket Required symbol indicates you can 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM attend the event only if you registered in advance. Some events have on-site registration. One-hour Workshop Block 2 One-hour Workshop Block 5 Featured Workshop With Kathy Pearson Featured Workshop With Luma Mufleh This Video symbol indicates sessions that will be available as part of #NAISAC On Demand. See page Speed Innovating Families First Roundtable 10 for details. 12:15 – 1:15 PM 12:15 – 1:15 PM Complimentary Lunch in the NAIS Expo Complimentary Lunch in the NAIS Expo 1:15 – 2:15 PM 1:15 – 2:15 PM One-hour Workshop Block 3 One-hour Workshop Block 6 Featured Workshop With Wendy Mogel Featured Workshop With Sanford J. Ungar NAIS AC Powered by PechaKucha NAIS AC Powered by PechaKucha 2:15 – 3:15 PM 2:15 – 3:15 PM Networking Break and Meetups in the NAIS Expo Networking Break and Meetups in the NAIS Expo The National Association of 3:15 – 4:15 PM 3:15 – 4:15 PM Independent Schools provides General Session With Navi Radjou Closing General Session With Amy Cuddy services to nearly 1,800 schools and associations of schools in 4:15 – 4:45 PM the United States and abroad, Book Signing With Navi Radjou including 1,400 nonprofit, private 4:15 – 5:45 PM K–12 schools in the U.S. that are Welcome Reception in the NAIS Expo self-determining in mission and program and are governed by independent boards. For more THE SCHEDULE AND ALL CONFERENCE INFORMATION ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. information, visit www.nais.org. VISIT ANNUALCONFERENCE.NAIS.ORG FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION.

3 GENERAL SESSION ALL CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE IN THE GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

Share the learning and inspiration of the NAIS Annual Conference with faculty and staff at your school. NAIS members can livestream LIVESTREAM the General Session speakers from anywhere, free of charge. Learn more at annualconference.nais.org.

THURSDAY 9:15 – 10:30 AM BOOK SIGNING THURSDAY 3:15 – 4:15 PM BOOK SIGNING

ADAM GRANT is the co-author of Option B, NAVI RADJOU is an innovation and leadership the book he wrote with Facebook’s Sheryl adviser and best-selling author based in Sandberg about facing adversity, building Silicon Valley. His forthcoming book, The resilience, and finding joy. A professor at the Conscious Society: Reinventing How We University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Consume, Work, and Live, shows how to tap he has also written two other New York Times into your abundant inner resources—love, best-sellers: Originals and Give and Take. ingenuity, wisdom—to consciously direct human evolution toward a better future.

FRIDAY 9:15 – 10:30 AM BOOK SIGNING FRIDAY 3:15 – 4:15 PM

SISONKE MSIMANG tells stories about justice Social psychologist AMY CUDDY is a leadership and human rights. In 2008, she became the teacher at Harvard University, a New York executive director of the Open Society Initiative Times best-selling author, and a Young Global for Southern Africa. Msimang is now the head Leader at the World Economic Forum. She has of programs at the Centre for Stories, which taught thousands of people how to become collects stories about migrants, refugees, and more present, influential, and satisfied in their diverse people linked to the Indian Ocean Rim. professional and personal lives.

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An award-winning educator, KATHY Psychologist WENDY MOGEL is the author PEARSON teaches topics such as complex of two acclaimed parenting books: The decision making, strategic agility, Blessing of a Skinned Knee and The Blessing the enterprise mindset, stakeholder of a B Minus. In her work, she explores management, operational excellence, how over-protection, over-scheduling, and strategic execution. She is academic over-indulgence, and perfectionism director for many programs for mid- undermine children. Her forthcoming and senior-level executives. book will be a guide to the art of conversation in an age of distraction. BRONZE

FRIDAY 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM FRIDAY 1:15 – 2:15 PM

LUMA MUFLEH is the coach of a soccer team SANFORD J. UNGAR is director of the Free called the Fugees—short for refugees. Speech Project at Georgetown University. The players come from 28 war-torn An experienced journalist, he is the author countries, and most have endured or editor of six nonfiction books, including unimaginable hardship. Now, Mufleh is The Papers & The Papers: An Account of the Interested in becoming a sponsor or an exhibitor? Email Jessica building the Fugees Academy, which Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Holt at [email protected] for details about how to join serves children in grades 6-12 with an Papers, which won the George Polk Award. our community of 2018 NAIS Annual Conference supporters. intensive college-prep curriculum. He teaches undergraduate seminars on Free Speech at both Georgetown and Harvard.

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KLINGENSTEIN SEMINAR SERIES: WELLNESS ACTIVITIES Successful Negotiations: Thursday, 6:00 – 7:00 AM Navigating Conflict, Collaboration, Friday, 6:00 – 7:00 AM and Difficult Conversations Mental and physical wellness are important aspects Wednesday, 1:00 – 4:00 PM of everyday life. The 2018 NAIS Annual Conference Ticket Required: $25 will give you the opportunity to participate in early School leaders need to master the art and morning yoga or a fun run/walk/roll. science of negotiating a broad series of issues— from school policy to job responsibilities and PRESIDENT’S BREAKFAST from salaries to student and family issues. This AND ANNUAL MEETING skills-based workshop on essential principles of Thursday, 7:30 – 9:00 AM negotiation will help you strengthen your own Ticket Required: $25 leadership as well as your school community. Join other heads of school and leadership team Presenter Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin is a clinical members for breakfast and a presentation by professor of law at Cardozo Law School and NAIS President Donna Orem and the NAIS Board founding director of the Leadership Program at of Trustees. The Annual Meeting for Members the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance. immediately follows the breakfast.

FIRST-TIME ATTENDEE RECEPTION NAIS AC POWERED Ticket Required: Free BY PECHAKUCHA Wednesday, 5:00 – 6:00 PM Thursday, 1:15 – 2:15 PM Join fellow first-time Annual Conference Friday, 1:15 – 2:15 PM attendees at a casual reception. Get to know NAIS has adapted the exciting, rapid-fire format each other and forge new connections as you of popular PechaKucha presentations to the Annual begin your conference experience. Conference stage. All presenters must adhere to the 20 x 20 rule: They’re limited to 20 slides that advance automatically at 20 seconds per slide. Whether funny, sad, informative, or inspirational, all presentations are concise and visual.

NEW! PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP GALLERY

CRISSY CÁCERES Assistant Head of School for Equity and Social Impact Listen to reflections on leadership from your Georgetown Day School (DC) “For me, the work peers in independent education in our new Profiles only becomes honest in Leadership interactive gallery. Find out what when we’re able to leadership means to others in your field, and be vulnerable about the steps that we reflect on what leadership means to you. Visit have taken.” nais.org/profilesinleadership to browse the gallery.

9 #NAISAC SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS ON DEMAND

NAIS WELCOME RECEPTION Thursday, 4:15 – 5:45 PM Audio and video recordings of Ticket Required: Free Featured Workshops, PechaKucha Families First is a program for partners FAMILIES FIRST WORKSHOP #1 Connect with your colleagues and exhibitors sessions, and some of the conference’s and spouses of heads of school. Our thanks Thursday, 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM for a welcome reception in the NAIS Expo. compelling workshops are available to Shauna Betof, Boston University Synergy Between Public and Private Enjoy drinks, food, entertainment, and more for you to purchase for future use. Academy (MA), and John Suitor, Boulder Persona in an Age of Polarizing during this opening event. Bring these dynamic, inspiring, and Country Day School (CO), for their work Social and Political Climate educational sessions back to your school in programming Families First. School leaders and their families often find SPEED INNOVATING in one of two ways: themselves in the throes of conflict when Thursday, 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM FAMILIES FIRST TOUR: boards, teachers, and families hold different 12-month Online Access Following a “speed dating” format, spend an The Journey of Atlanta: From the values. Because the current national climate to All On-demand Sessions hour hearing from some of the most innovative Depths of Slavery to the Heights of has exacerbated this issue, heads and their NAIS Members: $149 independent schools across the country. These the Modern Civil Rights Movement partners or spouses find managing the Nonmembers: $199 intimate, 15-minute mini-sessions focus on Wednesday, 1:00 – 5:00 PM interplay of their public and private selves the schools’ innovation journeys, why they USB of All On-demand Sessions Tour: 1:00 – 4:00 PM increasingly challenging. This workshop embarked on their journeys, and some of the NAIS Members: $199 Reception: 4:00 – 5:00 PM explores effective ways for first families to lessons learned so far. Participation is first- Nonmembers: $249 Ticket Required: $50 maintain their personal values while leading come, first-served, so please be sure to show A local historian from Black Mecca of the the school through challenging discourse. Learn more at annualconference.nais.org. up early to snag a seat. No tickets required. South Tours will lead this comprehensive tour PRESENTERS: Ken Aldridge, Wilmington of historic sites around Atlanta. You will visit Friends Schools (DE); Rob Evans, psychologist; ART THROWDOWN the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jennie S. Knight, University of Virginia Friday, March 9, 7:30 – 10:00 AM the Sweet Auburn Avenue Historic District, the Come witness art in action! NAIS welcomes Alonzo Herndon Museum and Mansion, and FAMILIES FIRST WORKSHOP #2 you to the first ever “Art Throwdown” at the much more. The “journey of Atlanta” provides Friday, 8:00 – 9:00 AM annual conference. This fast-paced head-to- powerful lessons about diversity, equity, and Challenges in Board and head drawing contest will feature students inclusion. Nicole DuFauchard, head of The Head Relationships from NAIS schools racing against the clock CAREER PLACEMENT FIRMS Advent School (MA), will lead a discussion The relationship between the head and the to compete in three categories—portraits, about the tour and how first families can bring board can be uniquely fulfilling or destined to still life, and figure drawing. Watch art come Premier career placement firms will conduct these insights into their school communities cause hours of lost sleep. How are you building to life as students showcase their talent. interviews at the Omni CNN Center hotel. and help lead meaningful school change. the board relationship you need to support We will have judges on hand to award PLEASE NOTE: NAIS does not schedule your leadership? How do your interactions prizes to the top contestants at the end of interviews for candidates. Contact the firms FAMILIES FIRST ROUNDTABLE and decisions contribute to either a healthy the three categories. While you’re there, directly with questions or to schedule an Friday, 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM relationship or one rife with difficulty? How can take a look around the NAIS Art Gallery interview. For a full listing of participating Families First roundtable discussions are meant your spouse support or undermine your efforts? to see submitted works of art from local placement firms and hours of operation, for new and experienced heads of school and Join this interactive session to talk through independent schools. Sponsored by Holy visit annualconference.nais.org/program. their spouses, as well as those who will be scenarios with NAIS’s general counsel and Spirit Preparatory School (GA). moving into a headship in the upcoming year. your colleagues. You’ll examine key topics that NAIS CAREER CENTER LOUNGE can derail this relationship, including contract This new feature lets you network with negotiations, salary setting for staff, working other job seekers, pick up resources on with major donors, and more. participating placement firms, and learn PRESENTER: Debra Wilson, NAIS more about the NAIS Career Center.

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NAIS EXPO HOURS NAIS MEMBER RESOURCE CENTER Visit the Member Resource Center to learn about Data and Analysis for School Leadership 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (DASL), Inspiration Lab, NAIS Connect online THURSDAY, MARCH 8 communities, the NAIS Career Center, and more. Get all your questions answered, and participate in hands-on demonstrations. 7:00 AM – 3:15 PM FRIDAY, MARCH 9 NAIS INNOVATION KITCHEN The NAIS Innovation Kitchen fosters and incubates ideas to solve your school’s most pressing challenges Visit the NAIS Expo for exciting programming, while bringing schools together to better serve all hands-on activities, networking opportunities, children. Come to the Innovation Kitchen for: and more. Mingle with more than 200 exhibitors ➽ An NAIS recipe for innovation—in particular, who invite you to explore all the latest products the Magnetic Mountain framework and resources designed to meet your school’s needs. Find everything from classroom furniture ➽ An opportunity for you and your team to and school uniforms to up-to-the-minute tell your own innovation story technology designed to help you solve problems ➽ Inspiring conversations with future-wise and innovate. In the Expo, you’ll find: schools and thought leaders

➽ Complimentary lunches NAIS MAKERSPACE ➽ Networking breaks and Meetups Go on a journey through the world of making in ➽ The NAIS Makerspace independent schools. Drop by and make a custom ➽ The NAIS Member Resource Center electronic name tag, create a flying object, try your hand at soldering circuits, and more. ➽ The NAIS Innovation Kitchen

➽ Startup Alley STARTUP ALLEY ➽ Complimentary headshots Visit this special section of the Expo to hear from ➽ Relaxation Lounge startup companies from around the country. As you look for new ways to merge education, technology, ➽ Charging stations and innovation, stop by to learn how these new ➽ Welcome reception companies can help your school. ➽ Lots of prizes and giveaways NAIS HEADSHOT LOUNGE NETWORKING BREAKS AND MEETUPS Start the next step of your own leadership Join us for an afternoon snack break and journey by stopping by and getting a engaging conversations. Take this time to complimentary professional headshot taken. connect informally with fellow attendees in one of our Meetup Spaces. Connect with exhibitors RELAXATION LOUNGE who will share their expertise and resources to Take a break from the hustle and bustle to get a address your school’s needs. brief chair massage. Let your cares melt away!

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CHOOSE THE WORKSHOPS Browse Workshops Online THAT ARE RIGHT FOR YOU Use our website to sort, search, and filter all Your time at the conference is valuable, so one-hour workshops in one place. Find the we recommend planning which workshops page at annualconference.nais.org/workshops. you want to attend in advance. Here’s how to choose workshops that are right for you. Use the App Download the NAIS Events app, and choose Do a Deeper Dive the 2018 Annual Conference event within it. Get a comprehensive view of timely topics Once you’ve decided where you want to spend with our optional three-hour Wednesday your time at the conference, simply *star* each workshops. Workshops are listed in this workshop in the app to add it to your schedule Preview and on the website. for easy reference. The 2018 Annual Conference event will be available within the NAIS Events Follow the Tracks app in January. Choose from workshops across six tracks: The Classroom Experience, Communications and Advancement, Governance, Management, Leadership Development, and The Student Experience.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018

1:00 – 4:00 PM THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS REQUIRE PREREGISTRATION AND COST $95 TO ATTEND.

15 THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS REQUIRE PREREGISTRATION AND COST $95 TO ATTEND. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

W2. Create Your School’s Future THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS With Customer Insights and 1:00 – 4:00 PM Mission/Business Model Mapping

W1. Assessing Student Leadership: ➽ Discover how one school is bridging Taking the Guesswork Out of Teaching programmatic and business model innovation and Assessing Leadership to ensure its long-term financial sustainability. ➽ Experiment with a process to bring faculty, ➽ Envision what leadership development looks administrators, and trustees together to like and where it happens at your school. develop and apply customer insights. ➽ Explore examples of student work that ➽ Learn to use mission and business model demonstrate leadership skills, and engage mapping to expose or critique your business with tools to assess those skills. model and prototype and to test new ideas. ➽ Learn about the framework and resources to apply concepts, processes, and tools to To stay relevant, independent schools must your own school context. build on core strengths to advance programs while monitoring costs, seeking new revenue, Discover ways to encourage student leadership and expanding markets. Stakeholders vary as you find out how the E.E. Ford Foundation in their understanding of external context, can support your school’s efforts to meet its and conflicting priorities make it difficult to mission more effectively. This case-study-based challenge the status quo. One answer is to workshop takes you on an odyssey from vision bring diverse groups of leaders together to implementation. It’s led by veteran educators to focus on mission- and business-driven from Castilleja School and John Gulla, executive imperatives and co-develop ideas. In this design director of the E.E. Ford Foundation. Learn thinking workshop, learn processes to unite about submitting a proposal to the foundation faculty, administrators, and trustees in thinking and growing community and faculty support about your context, challenges, and future; for the proposal goals. Then explore and understanding customer and stakeholder offer feedback on the artifacts of Castilleja’s needs; and developing ideas with mission leadership development and assessment and business model mapping. program. PRESENTER: Maura Farrell, Winchester PRESENTERS: Karen Strobel, Nanci Kauffman, Thurston School (PA) and Stacey Kertsman, Castilleja School (CA); MARCH 7 John Gulla, E.E. Ford Foundation

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W4. Ethnographic Research as W5. Foundations of Risk Management: exercises, you’ll explore strategic design and THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS a Tool for Strategic Leadership Rising Above Uncertainty implementation, including the critical roles of 1:00 – 4:00 PM CONTINUED and School Management leadership and the board in this work. Then you’ll ➽ Identify and analyze urgent risks at your school. develop a game plan for what you want to do W3. Diversity in Governance: ➽ Understand the process and benefits of ➽ Learn practices, tools, and techniques next so you can lead this conversation once you’re Opportunities, Responsibilities, properly performed qualitative ethnographic to advance risk management. back at school. Expect to design and critique and Effective Practices research as it relates to independent schools. ➽ Engage your community in risk management. solutions with your workshop colleagues. It’s your ➽ Practice firsthand the process of properly chance to build your own learning community so ➽ Understand the business case for performed qualitative ethnographic research. Independent school leaders often see the value of you can share insights while moving forward. diversity from the trustee’s perspective. ➽ Assess uncovered insights and convert them proactively managing risk but struggle to achieve PRESENTERS: Stephanie Rogen, Greenwich ➽ Gain greater fluency in the lexicon of diversity. into actionable and effective initiatives. it. Although significant barriers exist to building Leadership Partners; Randall Dunn, Kirk Greer, and ➽ Acquire a framework for institutional risk management programs, United Educators Charlie Gofen, Latin School of Chicago (IL) responsibilities for diversity, equity, and Have you ever wondered why a specific and NAIS have conducted a joint research project inclusion, including the board’s role. family has chosen your school over your that identifies several common practices that W7. The Mentorship Journey: Essential competitor’s—or vice versa? Have you tried independent schools are using successfully. This Lessons for the Protégé and Mentor Although there’s abundant professional to understand how best to improve your workshop will introduce you to risk management development to support teachers’ consumer experience? Properly performed and provide practical guidance for committing ➽ Acknowledge the importance of mentorship responsibilities for diversity in the classroom, qualitative ethnographic research can help to a sustained process. It will also cover the in leadership development, for both the much less is available for trustees. This you get at what matters most and understand important role your school leadership and board mentor and the protégé. workshop offers a governance framework for the real reason people are making decisions. members play in effective risk management. ➽ Provide a framework for establishing diversity that’s useful for both trustees and This knowledge will allow your school to PRESENTERS: Eric Seaborg and Constance and sustaining an effective mentorship heads of school. You will identify the business focus on activities that will have predictive Neary, United Educators; Debra Wilson, NAIS relationship on both sides. case, develop a working vocabulary, learn efficacy, saving the staff time and the school ➽ Inspire other leaders to embrace mentorship about effective practices for boards, and money. After an overview and practice with W6. Implementing Your Strategic by providing support and a pathway for explore your board’s responsibilities and prerecorded research, you will use your new Plan: How Boards and Leaders prospective heads of school. opportunities to cultivate diversity and skills with live respondents to uncover insights Maximize the Odds of Success create accountability for equity in education. and develop a plan for effective initiatives. Why is effective mentoring noticeably absent You will emerge with language, effective PRESENTERS: Matthew Abbondanzio, Dan ➽ Explore how leaders and trustees create at our schools’ leadership levels? What can we practices, and a network of colleagues from Lenzen, and Brian Murphy, La Jolla Country conditions to successfully execute a do to spur mentoring for school leaders? What other independent schools—all of which Day School (CA) strategic plan. does effective mentoring look like for both the can help further your board’s mission-vital ➽ Build your school’s execution capacity; mentor and the protégé? These questions loom diversity work. learn how to inspire, lead, and measure large for school leaders and those interested PRESENTERS: Alison Park, Blink Consulting; what matters. in addressing the dearth of qualified leaders, Barre Fong, Lick-Wilmerding High School (CA); ➽ Assess progress, learn quickly, and particularly among women and people of Alex Wong, Town School for Boys (CA) adapt strategy in the face of change and color. Four leaders who span generations and unanticipated challenges. have enjoyed mentoring roles with each other will reflect on the value of having and being a Explore how to make leadership transitions— mentor. They will draw on their own experience, from strategic planning to executing the plan—in case studies, and the writings of others. ways that ensure a continuous and dynamic PRESENTERS: Marifred Cilella, The Howard approach to learning, assessment, and adaptation School (GA); Bob Shirley, Consultant; Kyle of strategy. Through stories and guided Pietrantonio, Holy Spirit Preparatory School (GA); Angela Robertson, Swift School (GA)

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W9. The Professionalization of School W10. School and Leadership in an program evolution in independent schools. In THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS Sports: New Challenges, New Strategies Age of Acceleration, Augmentation, this interactive workshop, you’ll explore how to 1:00 – 4:00 PM CONTINUED and “The Singularity” engage a more diverse community of teacher- ➽ Get help with macro-level coping, including leaders. You’ll also discover how this model can W8. NAIS Innovation Kitchen: Mini-hack how to set policies and expectations ➽ Manage the rapid rate of acceleration, establish trusting relationships and new creative regarding the role of athletics. and build human capacity to keep pace pathways within your school’s shared leadership ➽ Leave with a fluency in the Magnetic ➽ Learn how to enlist parents as partners. with change. team and between the core academic team and Mountain framework and how it can be ➽ Get help with micro-level coping, including ➽ Identify and practice leaders’ qualities, various departments and curricular teams. applied at your school. concrete ways to manage (and help coaches habits, and mindsets in this new age. PRESENTERS: Eric Walters, Marymount ➽ Understand the imperatives for change and manage) difficult conversations and ➽ Consider the implications of this new age on School of New York (NY); Don Buckley, begin to articulate your own imperative. situations with parents and student athletes. schools and on how you approach student Tools at Schools ➽ Be armed with a set of tools to create a learning and professional development. culture of innovation and manage change School sports grow increasingly complicated. W12. Schoolwide Innovation: at your school. Families are investing in out-of-school athletics. How can your school and its leaders prepare A 12-month Framework Their children play on club teams and work with for an age of acceleration, augmentation, and Come experience one of the NAIS Innovation special coaches at ever-earlier ages. Parents see intelligent machines? To adapt and respond to ➽ Discover clarifying questions and Kitchen’s “recipes for innovation”: the Magnetic athletics as key to college admission. Families are these new times, you will need a futurist mindset, deep-dive processes that will serve as Mountain (MM). The MM is a framework for how aggressive fans and advocates for their children. an optimistic spirit, and an improviser’s posture. the impetus for change. you can think about your school’s innovation As a result, schools feel pressured to hire outside In this hands-on, interactive session, you will ➽ Design student-strength-based paradigm journey, and the Summit Backpack toolkit will coaches and recruit talented athletes. All this think like a futurist by imagining the next decade. shifts that are a catalyst for programmatic help you imagine and implement a differentiated is changing the home-school relationship and Then you’ll consider the possibilities and ponder disruptive thinking. “summit” idea. Learn how to bring this framework threatening the core values of many schools. the big questions that will shape your work. The ➽ Deliver a strategic plan refresh by using and toolkit back to your school through new How can you respond? A school head, a vice workshop is your chance to explore and practice the d3 Framework. blended, online, and face-to-face resources. principal for athletics, and two psychologists will the leadership skills that will be necessary to This workshop is for NAIS members only. use case studies, discussion, and role-playing thrive in this new world. Students, pedagogical methods, and PRESENTERS: Tim Fish, Kawai Lai, and Jefferson exercises to outline ways to cope. PRESENTERS: Carla Silver, Leadership+Design; technology are changing rapidly. Schools that Burnett, NAIS PRESENTERS: Rob Evans, psychologist; Michael Christian Long and Sam Chaltain, Wonder by adapt will thrive. The d3 Framework is designed Thompson, psychologist; Rick Melvoin, Belmont Hill Design; Christian Talbot, Basecamp School (NJ) to be a 12- to 18-month program through School (MA); James Kakos, Punahou School (HI) which schoolwide innovation and paradigm W11. Schools as Laboratories shifts occur. Come to this workshop to learn for Leadership Change about one school’s journey. You’ll leave with an understanding of how to institute a schoolwide ➽ Explore ways to engage a more evaluation and make your own plans to diverse community of teacher-leaders implement the d3 Framework for a strategic in your schools. plan refresh for your school. ➽ Consider how you might transition from PRESENTERS: Timothy Viands, Grand River simple connections to trusting relationships. Academy (OH); Marc Frankel, Triangle Associates; ➽ Find out how to establish creative new Rich Odell, Heads Up Educational Consulting teacher-leader pathways.

The teacher-leader model is key to broadening the decision-making platform as well as

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W14. Unsafe or Uncomfortable? W15. “What You Permit, You Promote”: W16. Wild Leadership: Tending Rituals, THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS Encouraging Dialogues Across Differences Shaping Culture, One Fractal at a Time Setting the Stage, Embodying Play 1:00 – 4:00 PM CONTINUED ➽ Understand personal bias and cultivate ➽ Recognize the fact that “what you ➽ Reconnect with the larger purpose and W13. Supporting Transgender Students openness to the values and stories of others. permit, you promote,” and gain support passion of your work as a leader. Supports All Students: Performing ➽ Embrace and work through discomfort regarding how this principle manifests ➽ Develop your capacity to tend school culture a Full Gender Audit at Your School during contentious moments and itself at your school. through assessment of rituals, compelling conversations. ➽ Get help practicing what you preach by meeting design, and a playful mindset. ➽ Understand the unique needs of ➽ Explore pathways to empathy. creating and living shared attitudes, norms, ➽ Begin your Wild Leadership toolkit, which transgender and gender-expansive communication, processes, and structures. you can expand throughout the conference. students and adults on your campus. You have just been on the wrong end of ➽ Emphasize alignment and accountability ➽ Learn how to conduct a gender audit an offensive comment. Or a colleague between what you say and what you do. Leadership is a wild ride. It can be invigorating that is specific to your institution. reports overhearing an insensitive comment and exciting, or, on occasion, it can feel ➽ Take away three best practices that about race or sexual orientation. Or you Explicitly and implicitly, leaders give permission downright out of control—wild in the most will help you and your school better unintentionally say something and notice a for behaviors and actions that either undermine challenging sense. But “wild” is also defined as serve all students. colleague’s strong negative reaction. What do or contribute to living their organization’s going beyond the conventional and indicative you do in the moment? This workshop takes authentic mission. In this workshop, three of strong passion, suggesting ways of leading How can your school support transgender you through the steps to embrace tricky, and experienced heads will help you understand that push boundaries and do so with inspiration and gender-expansive students and staff? potentially uncomfortable, moments in schools what this means for your school. They’ll discuss and heart. Explore what it means to lead wildly— After establishing a common language and through productive, and sometimes difficult, the cultures they inherited, what they sought from designing great meetings to tending the understanding of gender-expansive identities, conversation. Join us to take an abbreviated to preserve, and the ways they contributed to schoolhouse rituals to making play central to this workshop will walk you through the basics version of ’s Dialogues shaping culture through times of transition, your leadership practice. Leave with a toolkit you of performing a gender audit at your school. Across Differences course. crisis, and stability. This session will demonstrate can expand throughout the conference. You will cover all areas of school life and PRESENTERS: Robert Munro and Pascale Musto, “Freed’s Systems Lens on Leadership,” applying PRESENTERS: Sheryl Chard, Sofia Center for share best practices. Then, after an overview Middlesex School (MA) “fractals” as case studies, emphasizing clarity, Professional Development at Bosque School of what a gender audit entails, you will take alignment, and accountability between what (NM); Tamisha Williams, Lick-Wilmerding a deep dive into your school’s policies and you say and what you do. High School (CA); Elsa Menendez, National documents. You can ask specific questions PRESENTERS: Debbie Freed, Debbie Freed and Hispanic Cultural Center of the presenters, who represent a range Associates; Landis Green, Wildwood School of school experience and gender identities. (CA); Clair Ward, Shore Country Day School (PA); Please bring access to any handbooks or Kathleen McNamara, Seven Hills School (CA) policies you’d like to critically examine. PRESENTERS: Mb Duckett Ireland, (CT); Alex Myers and Joanne Lembo, Philips Exeter Academy (NH)

22 23 SESSIONS AVAILABLE IN AUDIO ON DEMAND. FIND FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS SESSIONS AVAILABLE IN VIDEO ON DEMAND. THURSDAY, MARCH 8 AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES AT ANNUALCONFERENCE.NAIS.ORG/WORKSHOPS. Dialoguing to Understand: The New WORKSHOP BLOCK 1 England Youth Identity Summit Model 8:00 – 9:00 AM PRESENTERS: Lydia Maier and James Manyuru, Waynflete School (ME) Admissions Practices: Making THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE the Right Choices PRESENTER: Sarah Fay, Schwartz Hannum PC Dollars and Change: Leveraging MANAGEMENT Technology for Financial Strategy PRESENTER: Jess Gartner, Allovue Beyond In-service Days: Building a MANAGEMENT Center for Teaching and Learning PRESENTERS: Grace Limaye and Allison Schultz, East Meets West: Local and National The Episcopal Academy (PA) Legal Trends to Follow or Avoid LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Michael Blacher, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore; Susan Schorr, McLane Middleton Building an Engaging Middle MANAGEMENT School Using Transformative Teacher Leadership Effective, Enriched Faculty Evaluation PRESENTERS: Elizabeth Martin, Steve Mandell, by Integrating Peer Coaching and Angela Ringley, Pinewood Preparatory PRESENTERS: Lisa Oberstein, Tyler Jennings, School (SC) and Matthew Stuart, The Caedmon School THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE (NY); Honor Taft, Gill St. Bernard’s School (NJ) LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Committing to Inclusive Community in Independent Engage Millennials With Design Schools: A Few Building Blocks Teams to Grow the Next Generation PRESENTERS: Eduardo Martinez, Georgetown of School Leaders Day School (DC); Michael Robinson, Françoise PRESENTER: Emily Sanderson, Flint Hill Saint-Clair, Katy Saintil, and Shanique Pinnock, School (VA) The School at Columbia University (NY) LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Foster Greater Human Understanding Cyber Security Essentials for Across Our Planet: Homestay Solutions MARCH 8 Heads and Other School Leaders for International Students PRESENTERS: James Britto, Collegiate PRESENTERS: Louise Reaves and Michelle School (VA); Sarah Hanawald, Association of Campbell, The Cambridge Network; James Technology Leaders in Independent Schools; Hudgins and Michelle Hudgins, host parents; Bob Olsen, Compass Cyber Security Wenzhe (Charlie) Lu, student MANAGEMENT THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

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How to Terminate the Popular Out of Balance: Strategies for Student WORKSHOP BLOCK 1 Teacher or Administrator Well-being in the Heart of Silicon Valley WORKSHOP BLOCK 2 8:00 – 9:00 AM CONTINUED PRESENTERS: Susan Guerette, Fisher PRESENTERS: Yvonne Faisal, Matthew Lai, and 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM & Phillips, LLP; Cindy Nichols, The Brian Schlaak, Woodside Priory School (CA) Futurewise Leadership: Leveraging Episcopal Academy (PA) THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE FEATURED WORKSHOP Identity and “Tours of Duty” to Think MANAGEMENT KATHY PEARSON Strategically, Not Traditionally Preventing the Top-down Narrative: More information on page 6 PRESENTERS: Jeremy Birk, United Nations Leading for Innovation — What How to Cultivate Organizational International School (NY); Bill Hulseman, Annie Really Works Change as a Grassroots Effort Wright Schools (WA); Megan Howard Nellen, PRESENTER: Peter Dry, The Principia (MO) PRESENTERS: Stephanie Leung and Tessa SPEED INNOVATING The Walker School (GA); Ayisha Karim, The LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT McKeown, Mirman School (CA); Lauren Plant, More information on page 10 Galloway School (GA) Kadima Day School (CA) MANAGEMENT Learning From Corporate America LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT to Maximize Marketing Impact Authenticity in Listening: Creating Real Getting Out of Our Own Way: PRESENTER: Nija Meyer, Woodward Untapped Opportunities: Independent Relationships in Schools in Times of Hacking the Automatic/Unconscious Academy (GA) Schools and the Elementary and Stress and Challenge Mind to Build Better Schools COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Secondary Education Act PRESENTERS: Jack Creeden, Chadwick School PRESENTERS: Jennifer Cerny, Kurt Christiansen, PRESENTER: Whitney Silverman, NAIS (CA); Ellen Porter Honnet, Stanley H. King Kevin MacNeil, and Josh Pretzer, Culver Mission-driven Data Visualization: MANAGEMENT Counseling Institute Academies (IN) Compelling Dashboards That Transform THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Student Learning in Real Time Using Curiosity, Compassion, and PRESENTERS: Abby Brody and Julia Higdon, Connection to Embrace Difficult Better Together: Cultivating Admission, Global Success Stories Avenues: The World School (NY); Daniel Conversations Marketing, and Program Collaboration PRESENTERS: Shane Foster, The Barstow School Saniski, Webster Pacific (CA) PRESENTER: Nancy Leaderman, Shalom to Foster Unprecedented Enrollment (MO); Bram van Kempen, Knowledge Link THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE School (CA) Growth MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Joe Connolly, Christina Pak, and Multiply Your Trust Factor Colleen Schilly, Hillbrook School (CA) Growing Together: A Case Study Within Your Team Using Mindfulness Practices MANAGEMENT in Faculty Evaluation, Development, PRESENTERS: Kathleen Gibbons, Alta to Support LD Students and and Compensation Vista School (CA); Anabel Jensen, Teachers in the Classroom Board Governance: The Art of Asking PRESENTERS: Brooks Fleming, Betsy Synapse School (CA) PRESENTERS: Carole Chilton, Elizabeth the Right Questions Lewton, and Eric Johnson, Community LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Kriynovich, Jackie Middleton, and Joy Paul, PRESENTERS: Candace Sorensen and Nicole School of Naples (FL) Delaware Valley Friends School (PA) Sorensen, CS3 Law PLLC MANAGEMENT A New Pipeline to Leadership THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE GOVERNANCE PRESENTERS: Angela Garcia, The Fessenden Hardwiring Safety: How to Attract, School (MA); Rodney Glasgow, St. Andrew’s Vision and Mission: What Are They? Enroll, and Develop Safe Students Episcopal School (MD); Claire Leheny, Association And So What? PRESENTERS: Caryn Pass and Lauren of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE); PRESENTERS: Anne-Marie Balzano, George Stocks-Smith, Venable LLP Jalene Spain Thomas, St. Stephen’s and Mason University; Scott Bauer, University of THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE St. Agnes School (VA) Colorado, Denver LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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How Transparent Is Your School? New Leadership Through Innovative Preparing to Work Collaboratively WORKSHOP BLOCK 2 Expectations in School Communications Team Collaboration and Effectively With Your School’s 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CONTINUED PRESENTERS: Bryan Garman, Sidwell Friends PRESENTERS: Nija Meyer, Bryan Rutledge, and Board When Responding to a Crisis School (DC); Linda Johnson, McLane Middleton; Connie White, Woodward Academy (GA) PRESENTERS: Aimeclaire Roche, The Bishop’s Brand and Leadership: Leading Sandy Lish, The Castle Group LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT School (CA); David Wolowitz, McLane Middleton Your School Through a Rebrand COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT GOVERNANCE PRESENTERS: Katherine Dinh, Prospect Sierra Long-range Financial Planning Tools School (CA); Jennie Winton, Mission Minded Innovating From the Top: Essential for Trustees and Heads of Schools Rebranding Evaluations: How to COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Strategies of Technology and Innovation PRESENTER: Palmer Ball, Palmer Ball Promote Risk Taking and Collaboration Leadership for Today’s Heads Consulting, LLC in Teacher Assessment Data With Personality: See the Person, PRESENTERS: DuBose Egleston, Porter-Gaud GOVERNANCE PRESENTERS: Meredith Alford and Scott the Problems, and the Philosophy School (SC); Jim Foley, St. Luke’s School (CT); Spence, George School (PA) PRESENTERS: Don Buckley, Tools at Schools; Gabriel Lucas, Association of Technology Navigating the Landscape of LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Saber Khan, (NY); Alex Leaders in Independent Schools; Antonio Viva, International Fundraising Ragone, AltSchool Union Square (NY); Linda Walnut Hill School for the Arts (MA); Elizabeth PRESENTER: Robert Weston, St. George’s Sneak Peak: Preview the New Vasu, Sacred Heart (CT) Davis, The Synapse School (CA) School (RI) NAIS Strategy Handbook MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT PRESENTER: Christina Drouin, Center for Strategic Planning Employment Contracts, Letters, and The Law of Sacrifice: How Committing to NWAIS Futurist Fellows Explore New LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Other Options: What’s Best for Your Who You Aren’t Illuminates Who You Are Models for Independent Education School and Leadership Style? PRESENTERS: Lisa Clapper, The Yay Collective; PRESENTERS: Richard Kassissieh, University Spirituality and the New PRESENTER: Heather Broadwater, Potomac Frances Hoover, The Philadelphia School (PA) Preparatory Academy (WA); Cary Kirby, Open Science for Thriving Law Group COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Window School (WA); Lina Rose, The Evergreen PRESENTER: Kirk Wheeler, St. Thomas School (WA) MANAGEMENT School (WA); Katie Walters-Krohn, University THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Leadership Branding in Independent Child Development School (WA) Getting Ready to Get Ready: How to Schools: The Critical Role of Authenticity MANAGEMENT Student Abuse Prevention and Implement a PK-5 Sexuality Curriculum PRESENTERS: Gene Batiste, St. John’s School Response: The Task Force Overview PRESENTER: Deborah Roffman, The Park (TX); Raymond J. Yu, Blake School (MN) Perspectives on Leadership: Dynamic PRESENTER: Debra Wilson, NAIS School of Baltimore (MD) LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Pathways and Shifting School Cultures MANAGEMENT THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Ayanna Hill-Gill, Atlanta Girls’ Leadership Succession Planning: School (GA); Matt Levinson, University Prep (WA); FAMILIES FIRST WORKSHOP Fail to Plan? Plan to Fail! Irene Mortensen, Gill St. Bernard’s School (NJ); Synergy Between Public and Private PRESENTERS: Ronnie Codrington-Cazeau, Jennifer Phillips, Far Hills Country Day School (NJ); Persona in an Age of Polarizing Evergreen School (WA); Siri Akal Khalsa, Chris Cunningham, The (NJ); Social and Political Climate Northwest Association of Independent Schools; Beth Pride, The Lexington School (KY); Jill Webb, PRESENTERS: Ken Aldridge, Wilmington Michael Murphy, Seattle Country Day School (WA) The Wellington School (OH) Friends Schools (DE); Rob Evans, psychologist; GOVERNANCE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Jennie S. Knight, University of Virginia

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(Almost) Everything You Need to Character and Admission: The Coming WORKSHOP BLOCK 2 WORKSHOP BLOCK 3 Know About Leading School Change Revolution in Student Selection 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CONTINUED 1:15 – 2:15 PM PRESENTERS: Anne-Marie Balzano, PRESENTERS: Meghan Brenneman, The George Mason University; Scott Bauer, Enrollment Management Association; Teens, Technology, and Suicide: FEATURED WORKSHOP University of Colorado, Denver Ray Diffley, Association of Independent Understanding Causes, Effects, WENDY MOGEL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT School Admission Professionals; David Holmes, and “The ‘Bullycide’ Myth” TM More information on page 6 The Institute on Character and Admission; PRESENTERS: Joanne Harpel, Coping After Better Understand How Well You Meet Bob Massa, Drew University Suicide, LLC; Frederick Lane, Mathom Your Mission: Calling All (Aspiring) MANAGEMENT Enterprises, LLC NAIS AC POWERED Independent School Researchers BY PECHAKUCHA THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Jennifer de Forest, California Educator, Advocate, or Activist: More information on page 9 Association of Independent Schools; Jeneen Challenges for Schools, Classroom Ten Years Later: 2008 New Heads Reflect Graham, St. Margaret’s Episcopal School (CA) Teachers, and School Leaders on a Decade of Leadership and Change Aspiring: When the Leadership LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Jack Creeden, Chadwick School PRESENTERS: Mark Fader, Williams School (CT); Flame Flickers (CA); Marcia Prewitt Spiller, Woodward Wanda M. Holland Greene, The Hamlin School PRESENTER: William Stribling, The Hill Blazing the Path: Creating Powerful Academy (GA) (CA); Scott Kennedy, Norfolk Collegiate School School (VA) Professional Development for THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE (VA); Christopher Post, The Boys’ Latin School Emerging Leaders of Color of Maryland (MD) Becoming Leaders in Our Own PRESENTERS: Noni Thomas Lopez, Ethical Fearless Head Transition LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Lives From the Inside Out Culture Fieldston School (NY); Eric Osorio, PRESENTERS: Donna Bellew, Seattle PRESENTER: Jacob Sargent, Hyde School (ME) Swift School (GA); Antonio Williams, William Academy of Arts and Sciences (WA); We’re All in This Together: Penn Charter School (PA) Rafael del Castillo, Bertschi School (WA) Collectively Managing Risk Blending Old and New: Innovating LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GOVERNANCE PRESENTERS: Dave Farace and Nancy Greene, at a Traditional School The Bolles School (FL) PRESENTER: Basil Kolani, Ridgefield Changing Nature of Volunteerism: Following Our North Star: Mission-driven MANAGEMENT Academy (CT) Meeting Parents Where They Are and Substance-abuse Risk Management Using Them to Engage Alumni PRESENTERS: Kiersten Hewitt, FCD When Boards Go Rogue: Turning I Love to Laugh: Creating a Culture PRESENTERS: Kathleen McNamara and Amy Prevention Works; Debra Wilson, NAIS Bad Situations Into Opportunities of Humor in Our Schools Walters, The Seven Hills School (CA) THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Kendall Cameron, Cameron PRESENTER: Thomas Taylor, Breck COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Educational Strategies; Robert Cotter, Friends’ School (MN) Central School (PA); Vince Watchorn, Providence Country Day School (RI) Mini Term, Maximum Results GOVERNANCE PRESENTER: Emily Lent Hemingway, The Bement School (MA)

The Scars That You Don’t See PRESENTER: Justin Cerenzia, St. George’s School (RI)

Why Forrest Gump Can Change America PRESENTER: Wendy Horng Brawer, 14000hours.org

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Leadership Team: Negotiations Plan for the Unexpected: The Student-athlete in 2018: WORKSHOP BLOCK 3 on an HOS Contract That Strengthen Top Crises in Our Schools High Risk, High Reward 1:15 – 2:15 PM CONTINUED Bonds Between Board and Head PRESENTERS: Jane Hulbert, The Jane Group; PRESENTERS: Timothy Heaphy, Hunton & PRESENTERS: Terrence Briggs, Bowditch Myra McGovern, NAIS Williams LLP; David Lourie, St. Anne’s-Belfield Head/Shrink: Mastering the & Dewey, LLP; Arch McIntosh, Charlotte COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT School (VA) Psychological Challenges of Leadership Latin School (NC) THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Rob Evans, psychologist; Laura GOVERNANCE Policy and Practice: Leading the Way Konigsberg, Turning Point School (CA) in Supporting Transgender/Nonbinary Toeing the Line With Digital LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Leading and Learning With Boys Today Students in Independent Schools Leadership: Website, Blogs, Social, PRESENTERS: David Armstrong, International PRESENTERS: Maria Alonso, Westtown School Inbound Marketing, and More How to Teach Positive Use of Boys’ Schools Coalition; Kerry Brennan, (PA); Jason Craige Harris, PRESENTERS: Pat Bassett, Heads Up Technology and Digital Legacy, The Roxbury Latin School (MA); Brad Gioia, (NY); Rachel Kane, Sidwell Friends School (DC); Educational Consulting; Jon Moser, Finalsite and Prevent Digital Abuse Montgomery Bell Academy (TN); Byron Edna-Anne Valdepeñas, George School (PA); COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT PRESENTER: Richard Guerry, The Institute Hulsey, Woodberry Forest School (VA) Betsy Torg, Friends Council on Education for Responsible Online and Cellphone THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Understanding and Working With Communication International Student Agents THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Managing a Movement: Bringing the The Role of Human Resources in the PRESENTERS: Brittany Goodman, ICEF; Kevin Mastery Transcript Consortium to Campus Development of a Healthy School Culture Merges, Rutgers Preparatory School (NJ); The Human Side of Crisis PRESENTERS: Eric Hudson, Global Online PRESENTERS: Pauline Bailey and Jim Scott, Ioana Wheeler, NAIS PRESENTERS: Wanda M. Holland Greene, Academy (WA); Patricia C. Russell, Mastery Punahou School (HI); Bernie Noe and Sara MANAGEMENT The Hamlin School (CA); Chris Joffe, Transcript Consortium Skinner, Lakeside School (WA) Joffe Emergency Services LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT Who Needs Meetings? LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Ronnie Brown, John The Odyssey: The Board Chair’s Journey Sharing Professional Dialogue McWilliams, and Jay Spencer, The Is an Independent School to Transformational Leadership in a Department of One Montgomery Academy (AL) Education Worth the Tuition? PRESENTERS: Abigail DeLessio and Marc PRESENTERS: Cheryl Fricchione, Rodeph LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTER: Douglas Lyons, Connecticut Frankel, Triangle Associates; Benjamin Sholom School (NY); Katherine Gruzynski, Association of Independent Schools Robinson, Providence Day School (NC) Belmont Day School (MA); Patricia Kepler, Working Efficiently and Effectively COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT GOVERNANCE The Greenwich Country Day School (CT); With Your School’s Legal Counsel Megan Zink, The Pike School (MA) PRESENTERS: David Hanson, Phillips Personalizing the Path to Leadership LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Exeter Academy (NH); David Wolowitz, and Professional Growth McLane Middleton PRESENTERS: Ben Ketchum, Riverside Stewardship With a Human Touch GOVERNANCE Presbyterian Day School (FL); Laura Krentel, PRESENTERS: Shelley Reese, Esperanza Westminster Schools (GA); Tara Montague and Academy (MA); Starr Snead, Sean Nolan, National Presbyterian School (DC) Advancement Connections LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT

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FAMILIES FIRST WORKSHOP WORKSHOP BLOCK 4 Challenges in Board and 8:00 – 9:00 AM Head Relationships PRESENTER: Debra Wilson, NAIS Accio Community: How We Built K-12 Houses That Look Nothing Co.Design in the Classroom: Like the British System Students as Curriculum Leaders PRESENTERS: Kenneth “Kabe” ErkenBrack and PRESENTERS: Don Buckley, Tools at Schools; Julie Schlossinger, Vail Mountain School (CO) Eric Walters, Marymount School (NY) THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE

Avoiding the Spotlight: Investigating, Collaborative Internship Cohort: A Addressing, and Eradicating Sexual Pathway to Teaching Excellence Misconduct in Independent Schools PRESENTERS: David Banister, The Fessenden PRESENTERS: Barbara Jones, Glen Kopp, School (MA); Kathy Coen, The Park School and Kristin Smith, Bracewell LLP (MA); Brendan Largay, Belmont Day School LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (MA); Justin McLean and Alethea White, Meadowbrook School of Weston (MA); The Buck Stops Here—and Here: Michael Coppola, Chestnut Hill School (MA) A Collaborative Approach LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT to School Leadership PRESENTERS: Timothy Horner and Ronald Engaging Challenging Parents: Smyczek, University Lake School (WI) Tools for Teachers GOVERNANCE PRESENTERS: Michelle Bederman, Emory University; Sarah Spannagel and Sara Building a Culture of Leadership Stephenson, University School (OH) From the Ground Up THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Elizabeth Davis and Jim Eagen, Synapse School (CA) A Friend Is the First to Know: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Making Every Student a Leader in Preventing Suicide Business Model Innovation: What This PRESENTERS: Leilani Ahina, Sarah Slater, and Means for Independent Schools Bennett Valencia, Punahou School (HI) MARCH 9 PRESENTER: Marc Levinson, Independent THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE School Solutions MANAGEMENT Generous Orthodoxy: Organizational Stewardship and Institutional A Car for the Common Man: Assembly Evolution Framed by Malcolm Lines in the Elementary Classroom Gladwell and Hans Wilhelm Frei PRESENTERS: Sarah Clark and Susan PRESENTER: Ari Betof, Boston University Schneider, Tower School (MA) Academy (MA) THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE GOVERNANCE

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Leadership Pathways: Successes, Private-public Partnerships: WORKSHOP BLOCK 4 Challenges, and Insights From Four Designing Shared Experiences WORKSHOP BLOCK 5 8:00 – 9:00 AM CONTINUED Heads in Their Second Year PRESENTERS: Michael Magno and Ryan Welsh, 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM PRESENTERS: Laura Konigsberg, Turning Providence Day School (NC); Barry Sherman, Get Your Act Together—Body, Mind, and Point School (CA); Mervan Osborne, Bruns Academy (NC) FEATURED WORKSHOP Heart: An Executive Function Curriculum Beacon Academy (MA); Meera Viswanathan, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LUMA MUFLEH PRESENTERS: Shannon Fruge and Paula Majeau, The Ethel Walker School (CT); Michael More information on page 6 Episcopal School of Acadiana (LA) Wirtz, (NY) Secrets vs. Privacy: THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Confidentiality Within Schools PRESENTERS: Meryl Heyliger and Amy Killy, 10 Things That Don’t Belong GROW: How Teacher-directed Leading With Data Georgetown Day School (DC); Malikkah Rollins, in a School of the Future Professional Development Nurtures PRESENTERS: Keith Evans, Westminster Schools Lowell School (DC) PRESENTERS: Mike Cobb and Jason Kern, Growth and Builds Community (GA); Cathy Hall, Noble and Greenough (MA); THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE All Saints Episcopal School (TX) PRESENTERS: Kelly Causey, Matt Micciche, T.J. Locke, Episcopal Academy (PA); Michael LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Jennifer Robinson, and Amy Schmaljohn, Nachbar, Global Online Academy (WA) Students and Trustees: Possibilities for Friends School of Baltimore (MD) LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Collaboration and Real-world Learning Are Your Admissions Processes LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Casey Clark, Glenmede; Emily Compliant With ADA and Similar Laws? Managing Up, Managing Down: How Jones, The Putney School (VT) What Are the Risks? How to Win Students and Women Leaders Need to Navigate the THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Suzanne Bogdan, Fisher Influence Parents Waters in Our Schools & Phillips, LLP; Amy Clemons and Steve PRESENTERS: Aimee Gruber, The Enrollment PRESENTERS: Kathleen McNamara, Seven Hills Using Creative Communication, Piltch, The Shipley School (PA) Management Association; Kevin Plummer, School (CA); Colleen Schilly, Hillbrook School (CA) Virtual Reality, and Social Media to MANAGEMENT Tampa Preparatory School (FL) LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Amplify Students’ Media Reach COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT PRESENTERS: Jennifer Graycheck, Building a Faculty Culture of Growth Mind the Gap: Leading Your School in Episcopal School of Acadiana (LA); and Innovation Through Coaching and International School Global Closing the Gap Between Aspirations Brett Landry, DRKHRSE Collaboration Developments—Past, Present, and Current Practice THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Marsha Little, The Lovett and Future Demographics PRESENTERS: Julia Griffin and Kim Samson, School (GA); Cynthia Sabik, Stone Ridge PRESENTERS: Richard Gaskell, International Hawken School (OH) You Can Attract Great Teachers, School of the Sacred Heart (MD); Connie Schools Consultancy (ISC Research); LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT But Can You Keep Them? White, Woodward Academy (GA) Ioana Wheeler, NAIS PRESENTERS: David Berthold, The Kinkaid LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT Mission-based Grading: Assessing and School (TX); Charles Kraus, Fort Worth Reporting the Learning That Matters Country Day School (TX) Combating “Fake News” and Leadership for a Diversity- PRESENTERS: Annie Barton and Wendell LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Misinformation With Information Literacy responsive Community Thomas, Rowland Hall (UT) PRESENTERS: Lindsay Horbatuck and Laurie PRESENTERS: Stella Beale and Meghan Tally, THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Sears, Landon School (MD) Windward School (CA); Roger Bridges and THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Peggy Procter, Echo Horizon School (CA) The New Relevance: More Student LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Engagement, Less Homework PRESENTERS: Peter Brooks, Lincoln School (RI); Peter Gow, Independent Curriculum Group THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

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Ethical Choices: Developing Marketing Independent Schools Pop-up Courses: Flexible, WORKSHOP BLOCK 5 21st Century Leaders PRESENTERS: Heather Hoerle, The Enrollment Modern Learning Design for 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CONTINUED PRESENTERS: Eva Lazar and Karen Rezach, Management Association; John Katzman, Digging Into Real-world Issues Kent Place School (NJ) Noodle Education PRESENTERS: Tina Bessias and Jason Current and Coming Legal Issues THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Cummings, Global Online Academy (WA); PRESENTER: Debra Wilson, NAIS Nelson Graves, News-Decoder MANAGEMENT Infusing Social and Emotional MOOCs for Professional Development: THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Education Into Daily Instruction: What We Want Every Teacher to Know Designing and Improvising Integrating—Not Adding On PRESENTERS: Pearl Kane and Kevin Mattingly, Responding to Historical Collaborative Leadership PRESENTERS: Lisa Ockerman and Krista Teachers College, Columbia University Allegations of Sexual Assault, PRESENTERS: Emily Carrara, Matt Scully, and Promnitz, Pine Crest School (FL) LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Sexual Harassment, and Child Abuse Ryan Welsh, Providence Day School (NC) THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Darryl Ford, William Penn LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Parents Who Insist Their Charter School (PA); Leslie Gomez, Innovation and Transformation Child Is Being Bullied (Despite Maureen Holland, and Gina Maisto Smith, The Digital Experience: Developing in Challenging Times Evidence to the Contrary) Cozen O’Connor 21st Century Leadership Skills PRESENTERS: Steve Anthony, Eric Greenberg, PRESENTERS: Daisy Pellant, Breck School GOVERNANCE in Today’s World and Michael Saxenian, McLean School (MD) (MN); Michael Thompson, psychologist PRESENTERS: Josie Ahlquist, Florida State GOVERNANCE THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Rethinking Compensation: A Community- University; Jennifer Dane, The Ohio State wide Effort to Improve Agency, University Is There a Tuition Bubble? Macroeconomics The Pathway to Headship: Accountability, and Transparency THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE and Independent Schools Stories and Strategies From PRESENTERS: Kyle Barriger, Christina Gwin, and PRESENTERS: Greg Hagin, CCS; John Lewis, Women and People of Color Rebecca Sherouse, Castilleja School (CA) Eliminating Sidewalk Talk: An Online The Gunston School (MD) PRESENTERS: Roger Bridges and Peggy LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Parent-teacher Feedback Form MANAGEMENT Procter, Echo Horizon School (CA); Phil PRESENTERS: Ryan Burton and Lee Hark, Gutierrez, Mid-Peninsula High School (CA); School Climate and SEL Durham Academy (NC) Learning Through Design Crystal Land, Head-Royce School (CA); Measurement Tools and Trends: MANAGEMENT and Action: Engaging Youth Melinda Tsapatsaris, Westland School (CA) A Foundation for Well-being in Redesigning Their School LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Scott Beszylko and Elizabeth Engagement and Impact: Design PRESENTERS: Gregory Benedis-Grab and Ali Mendelsohn, Winston Prep Schools (NY); Thinking for Social Justice Iberraken, Packer Collegiate Institute (NY) Jonathan Cohen, National School Climate Center PRESENTERS: Ara Brown, Cranbrook Kingswood THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Schools (MI); Nola-rae Cronan, Columbus School for Girls (OH) Social Justice Through Student- THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE centered Learning PRESENTERS: John Bouton and John Daves, The Pennington School (NJ) THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE

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Activating Inquiry-based Leadership: Engagement, Empathy, and WORKSHOP BLOCK 5 WORKSHOP BLOCK 6 Practices for Change and Empowerment Equity in Action: A Journey to 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CONTINUED 1:15 – 2:15 PM Across School Constituencies Enact Transformative Vision, PRESENTERS: Noa Mendelevitch, Synapse Curricula, and Learning Stories From Headship: “Why the Hell FEATURED WORKSHOP School (CA); Mike Orlando, Helios School (CA) PRESENTERS: Allen Broyles, Kelly Lyn, Todd Wass, Would You Want This Job?” SANFORD J. UNGAR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT and Sally Wood, The Children’s School (GA) PRESENTERS: Mark Davis, St. Luke’s More information on page 6 THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE School (CT); Archie Douglas, Bentley School Authenticity, Purpose, and Customer (CA); Ruth Glass, Lake Tahoe School (NV); Experience: One School’s Journey Ever Forward: Upshifting Chuck Harmon, York School (CA) NAIS AC POWERED to Full Enrollment From Allies to Accomplices LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT BY PECHAKUCHA PRESENTERS: Greg Bamford and Mishel PRESENTERS: Bea Garcia and Martha Neubert, More information on page 9 Gantz, Watershed School (CO) Northfield Mount Hermon School (MA) Students, We Want You to Run It: COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT How Do We Get Out of Your Way? But You Don’t “Look” Like a Leader? PRESENTERS: Steven Nowack and Mya Sullivan, PRESENTER: Vernice Veranga-Mulcahy, Coming Down the Mountain: Finding Common Ground Through Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School (GA) Church Farm School (PA) Moving From Idea to Identity Differences: Building Relationships THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE PRESENTER: Tim Fish, NAIS and Authenticity Through Color Outside the Curriculum LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Asynchronous Relationships Visual Arts at the Intersection PRESENTER: Le’Aqua Shoates, The PRESENTERS: Leilani Ahina, Punahou School of Progressive Education and Alexander Dawson School (NV) Constructing Servant Leaders: and Global Online Academy (HI); Lauren Future-facing Maker Initiatives A Blueprint for Developing Gehman, Metairie Park Country Day School PRESENTER: Cheryl Capezzuti, Fanny Edel Does Making Matter? Transformative Service Learning and Global Online Academy (LA); Priya Falk Laboratory School (PA) PRESENTER: Mike Matthews, Katherine PRESENTERS: Margot Moses, Carolina Day Singhvi, Greenhill School (TX) THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Delmar Burke School (CA) School (NC); Isaac Rankin, Christ School (NC) THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Why Can the President Ish: Breaking Through the Binary The Future of Social Media Education Say It, But I Can’t? PRESENTER: Tashon McKeithan, The Diversity Coaching Model: A Tool for PRESENTERS: Susan Perry, Jason Ramsden, and PRESENTER: Shanelle Robinson, Friends Center for Early Education (CA) Reshaping Curriculum and Practice Colleen Ramsden, Ravenscroft School (NC); Academy (NY) PRESENTERS: Ramón Javier, The Trinity Laura Tierney, The Social Institute THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Learning From the Leaders: School (NY); Joseph McCauley and Semeka THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE It’s Elementary Smith-Williams, Packer Collegiate Institute (NY) PRESENTER: Hilarie Hall, St. Andrew’s THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Episcopal School (MD)

Why All Teachers Should Blog PRESENTER: David Cutler, Brimmer and May School (MA)

The World Is Our Classroom; The Kitchen Is Our Lab PRESENTER: Christopher Mullis, The Hybrid Learning Consortium

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The Journey Toward an Engaged Measuring and Communicating Study Abroad: Model Practices WORKSHOP BLOCK 6 and Generative Board the Classroom Experience With for Independent Schools 1:15 – 2:15 PM CONTINUED PRESENTERS: Tommy Battle, Virginia Evidence-based Dashboards PRESENTERS: Laurie Black, CET Academic Episcopal School (VA); Hank Berg, Highland PRESENTER: Scott Erickson, Phillips Programs; Melissa Brown, Holton-Arms Genders and Sexualities Alliances (GSAs): School (VA); Betsy Hunroe, Virginia Association Brooks School (CA) School (MD); Liz Gregor, Webb School (TN); Sites for Social Justice and Facilitating of Independent Schools; David Lourie, St. THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Caroline White, NAFSA: Association of Equity-minded Student Allies Anne’s-Belfield School (VA); Michael Groves, International Educators PRESENTERS: J.J. Kahle, The Blake School (MN); Oak Hill Academy (VA); Scott Kennedy, Norfolk The Neurology of Decision Making: MANAGEMENT J.B. Mayo Jr., University of Minnesota Collegiate Academy (VA); Elinor Scully, The Understanding and Improving an THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Langley School (VA) Essential Skill Set Taming the Homework Monster GOVERNANCE PRESENTER: Michael Walker, San Francisco PRESENTER: Kelley King, San Diego Jewish Honoring the Student Experience: The Day School (CA) Academy (CA) Power and Potency of Student-centered Lab Atlanta: Designing, Disrupting, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Practitioner Research and Changing Lives PRESENTERS: Cara Henderson, The Emery/ PRESENTERS: Laura Deisley, The Lovett School Neuroscience, the Daily Grind, Turning the Tide on the Weiner School (TX); Brendan McGrail, Dwight- (GA); Mike Pardee, Lab Atlanta (GA) and College Admission: Redesigning Student-leadership Experience Englewood School (NJ); Kelsey Schroeder, THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE the Upper School Schedule PRESENTERS: Jason Coady and Ellen Deitrich, Roland Park Country School (MD); Jackson PRESENTERS: Kay Betts, Bettstrategic (PA); Debra E. Johns, Yale Collins, Prep for Prep Leadership That Delivers: The Power Group; Patty Montague, Marist School University THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE of Financial Aid, Institutional (GA); Kelley Lips, Emory University THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Sustainability, and Inclusion THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Incubating and Co-working: Building PRESENTERS: DaRel Christiansen and Jennifer What Is a B+, Anyway? Replacing Innovative School Programs and Moore, Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School (GA); Peer Mentors: Creating a Grades With a Mastery Model Partnerships Beyond Your Campus Christopher Tompkins, The Tatnall School (DE) Wellness Leadership Program PRESENTERS: Tim Bazemore, Catlin-Gabel PRESENTER: Jeremy Goldstein, Episcopal MANAGEMENT of Students for Students School (OR); Regan Galvan, Polytechnic School High School (VA) PRESENTER: Erin Nordlund, Chadwick (CA); Michael Peller, The Nueva School (CA) MANAGEMENT Let the Kids Do It: From Student School (CA) THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Centered to Student Driven THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Inspire Your Leadership Journey: PRESENTERS: Karen Brown, Eileen Dieck, What’s Next in DASL: From Data Optimize Growth Through Reflective Matthew Ives, and Matthew Kammrath, Resilience: Avoiding Victimization and Analysis to Insights and Action Practice and E-portfolios The Masters School (NY) Through Social Problem Solving PRESENTERS: Joy Bodycomb, Wanell PRESENTERS: Genevieve Hoppe and LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT and Emotional Self-regulation Boone, and Hilary LaMonte, NAIS Priscila Torres, The North Broward PRESENTER: Sameer Hinduja, Florida MANAGEMENT Preparatory Schools (FL) Atlantic University LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

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