2020 NAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE | FEBRUARY 26–28 | PHILADELPHIA | #NAISAC | ANNUALCONFERENCE.NAIS.ORG
PROGRAM See page 13 for details. for 13 page See Demand. On #NAISAC of part as available PCC, 125 Contribute to School Success Various Locations 119A/B PCC, Mirror and aWindow as Use Data Atrium Street Broad PCC, at Meet PCC, 118C Your School at Humanity of Legacy 110A/B PCC, 112A/B PCC, Registration Open UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. OTHERWISE UNLESS (PCC),PENNSYLVANIA CENTER CONVENTION IN THE TAKES PLACE PROGRAMMING ALL H Salon Ballroom Grand Downtown, Marriott Head aMid-Career as Resiliency Cultivating advance. Some events have on-site registration. on-site have events Some advance. in registered you if only event the attend can –6:00 PM 5:00 –5:30 PM 1:00 –4:00 PM 1:00 –4:00 PM 1:00 –3:00 PM 1:00 –3:00 PM 9:00 AM –NOON 9:00 AM –NOON 8:30 AM –6:30 PM 8:00 AM WEDNESDAY
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6:00 – 7:00 AM 6:00 – 7:00 AM Run Meet in the Marriott Downtown Hotel Lobby Run Meet in the Marriott Downtown Hotel Lobby Yoga Marriott Downtown, 409 Yoga Marriott Downtown, 409 HIIT Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon D HIIT Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon D
6:30 AM – 6:00 PM 6:30 AM – 1:00 PM Registration Open PCC, Broad Street Atrium Registration Open PCC, Broad Street Atrium
7:30 – 9:00 AM President’s Breakfast and Annual Meeting Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon H–J
8:00 – 9:00 AM 8:00 – 9:00 AM One-Hour Workshop Block 1 Various Locations One-Hour Workshop Block 4 Various Locations 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM NAIS Expo Open PCC, Hall E NAIS Expo Open PCC, Hall E
9:00 – 9:30 AM 9:00 – 9:30 AM Break in the NAIS Expo PCC, Hall E Break in the NAIS Expo PCC, Hall E
9:30 – 10:45 AM 9:30 – 10:45 AM Opening General Session With Jonathan Haidt General Session With Angie Thomas PCC, Terrace Ballroom PCC, Terrace Ballroom
10:45 – 11:00 AM 10:45 – 11:00 AM Break Break
11:00 AM – NOON 11:00 AM – NOON One-Hour Workshop Block 2 Various Locations One-Hour Workshop Block 5 Various Locations Speed Innovating: Schoolwide Edition Speed Innovating: Teachers’ Edition PCC, Arch Street Foyer PCC, Arch Street Foyer
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM NOON – 12:30 PM Master Class With Jonathan Haidt PCC, 126A Book Signing with Angie Thomas NAIS Bookstore NOON – 1:30 PM NOON – 1:30 PM Complimentary Lunch in the NAIS Expo Complimentary Lunch in the NAIS Expo
NOON – 3:15 PM Master Class With Michele Mattoon PCC, 126A 1:30 – 2:30 PM 1:30 – 2:30 PM One-Hour Workshop Block 3 Various Locations One-Hour Workshop Block 6 Various Locations NAIS AC Powered by PechaKucha PCC, 119A/B NAIS AC Powered by PechaKucha PCC, 119A/B 2:30 – 3:15 PM 2:30 – 3:15 PM Networking Break in the NAIS Expo PCC, Hall E Networking Break in the NAIS Expo PCC, Hall E Book Signing with Jonathan Haidt NAIS Bookstore
3:30 – 5:00 PM 3:30 – 4:45 PM General Session: Three Perspectives Closing General Session With Gretchen Rubin on the Future of Education PCC, Terrace Ballroom PCC, Terrace Ballroom
5:00 – 5:30 PM Book Signing with Irshad Manji and Yong Zhao NAIS Bookstore 5:00 – 6:30 PM President’s Welcome Reception PCC, Hall G 1 4 6
IMPORTANT REMINDERS CONFERENCE SPEAKERS 8 15
SPECIAL EVENTS SPONSORS 16 19
NAIS EXPO WORKSHOPS 80 88
EXHIBITORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Everyone is 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. WELCOMEWELCOME TO PHILADELPHIA!
We are thrilled you’ve joined NAIS and 5,000+ of your fellow independent school educators to explore the conference theme Your School, Your Legacy.
A legacy is something we inherit from past generations and pass to future generations. In your work at school, you certainly build on what came before. But every day you are improving upon that legacy—whether you try a new brain-science-based approach to teaching, implement a new program addressing student wellness, enhance your enrollment strategy based on the realities of today’s market, or pilot a new financial model to increase efficiency and access. Your work is contributing to the legacy of your school. Beyond that, the work of independent schools as a whole is contributing to a broader legacy, impacting the very nature of education. As schools work to propel each learner to success, we are contributing to a continuous cycle of improvement in our society.
At the NAIS Annual Conference, you’ll engage with a wide array of speakers, workshops, and special events. Beyond that, you’ll find energy and inspiration in connecting and reconnecting with your colleagues in the NAIS community. We hope you will head back to your school armed with both the national perspective and many practical ideas to put right to use. And we hope you’ll leave with a greater sense of your part in the legacy of independent schools.
Thank you for being with us!
DONNA OREM PRESIDENT JAY RAPP VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Connect to WiFi Nursing Mothers Room NETWORK: ISM2020NAIS This quiet, peaceful space to meet the PASSWORD: nais2020 needs of nursing mothers is always available SPONSORED BY ISM during the conference. The room includes a refrigerator, electric outlets, private spaces, Download the NAIS Events app and other accommodations. Find all the NAIS events you attend in one app! PCC, HALL E Foyer Simply download the NAIS Events app and then add the 2020 NAIS Annual Conference Speaker Ready Room to your list of shows. Once you’ve installed the If you are presenting a workshop, please stop 2020 NAIS Annual Conference show, you can: by this room to ensure that your presentation ➽ stay organized with up-to-the-minute and any audio/video clips work properly or to event, speaker, and exhibitor information; test any connection cables you may use. ➽ create a custom schedule by bookmarking the Wednesday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM events and workshops you want to attend; Thursday, 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM ➽ receive real-time communication from NAIS; Friday, 7:00 AM – 2:30 PM ➽ follow and join conference chatter PCC, 115B on social media; ➽ locate exhibitors you want to visit Emergency ➽ connect with your colleagues In the event of an emergency, please contact the at the conference; Command Station, via the beige house phone ➽ rate workshop sessions; located throughout the convention center, at ext. ➽ and more! 4911. Relay information to the Command Station. SPONSORED BY AWG DEWAR The Command Station will either contact the show EMS or the Philadelphia Fire Department Luggage Check Rescue Unit. It is important that you know where Friday, 6:00 AM – 5:15 PM you are so medical attention may be rendered as PCC, Broad Street Atrium quickly as possible.
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5 SPEAKERS GENERALGENERAL SESSIONSESSION SPEAKERS
ALL GENERAL SESSIONS TAKE PLACE IN THE PCC TERRACE BALLROOM.
THURSDAY 9:30 – 10:45 AM THURSDAY 3:30 – 5:00 PM THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND: THREE PERSPECTIVES ON HOW GOOD INTENTIONS AND BAD IDEAS ARE THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION SETTING UP A GENERATION FOR FAILURE Come hear three mini-keynotes from JONATHAN HAIDT is a social psychologist who IRSHAD MANJI, IDRISS ABERKANE, and YONG ZHAO is one of the world’s leading experts on the as they discuss their different perspectives psychology of morality. He is the author on education and our world. All three of The Righteous Mind and The Happiness speakers bring a unique point of view Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in to education, informed by their Ancient Wisdom. expertise in ethics, sustainability, and business, respectively.
FRIDAY 9:30 – 10:45 AM FRIDAY 3:30 – 4:45 PM THE HATE U GIVE: FINDING YOUR FOUR TENDENCIES: THE KEY TO ACTIVISM AND TURNING THE POLITICAL BETTER HABITS INTO THE PERSONAL GRETCHEN RUBIN is one of today’s most ANGIE THOMAS was born, raised, and still lives influential and thought-provoking observers in Jackson, Mississippi. Her award-winning, of happiness and human nature. She’s acclaimed debut novel, The Hate U Give, known for her ability to convey complex is a #1 New York Times bestseller and ideas with humor and clarity. She’s the major motion picture. Her second novel, author of the New York Times bestsellers On the Come Up, is on sale now. The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project.
7 SPECIAL EVENTS PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAMMING WEDNESDAYWEDNESDAY
ALL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS TAKE PLACE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA WORKSHOPS CONVENTION CENTER (PCC).
NEW! Reflect, Refine, and Renew: Klingenstein Seminar Series: Cultivating Resiliency as a Data Use as a Window and Mirror: The Mid-Career Head Call for Data-Driven, Evidence-Based Wednesday, 9:00 AM – NOON Leadership in Independent Schools Ticket Required: $95 Wednesday, 1:00–4:00 PM This workshop for heads of school with 5 Ticket Required: $25 to 15 years of experience will provide you In this hands-on seminar, explore the principles of with an opportunity to reflect on your data-driven leadership, and participate in a hands-on practice and examine research-informed simulation of an evidence-based, data-informed perspectives on educational leadership. improvement process in structured leadership PRESENTERS: Anne-Marie Balzano, NAIS; teams. You will also consider the ethical implications Scott Bauer, University of Colorado, Denver of data use in schools and reflect on how data- PCC, 112A/B informed leadership can serve as a window and a mirror in how independent school leaders NEW! Creating Momentum in Your School interrogate and challenge inequality in elite spaces. Wednesday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM PRESENTER: Kenneth E. Graves, Klingenstein Ticket Required: $150 Center, Teachers College, Columbia University In this workshop, you will participate in PCC, 119A/B leadership teams to explore tools and frameworks that will help you understand and NEW! Ensuring the Future: How Trustees accelerate momentum in your school. Please Contribute to School Success read Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph Wednesday, 1:00–5:30 PM to Accompany Good to Great before the Ticket Required: $95 conference if you plan to attend this workshop. Examine current trends in good governance and PRESENTERS: Tim Fish and Jackie Wolking, NAIS ways boards can become learning organizations PCC, 110A/B to better serve their schools’ missions. Explore how board culture informs strategic planning, Three-Hour Workshops the impact of change management on goal- Wednesday, 1:00–4:00 PM setting, and the importance of self-assessment. Ticket Required: $95 Note: This event is intended for people The three-hour pre-conference workshops currently serving on boards. you know and love will occur throughout PRESENTERS: Anne-Marie Balzano, NAIS; the conference center. Find workshop titles, Jack Creeden, Whitby School (CT); descriptions, and presenters starting on Barb Rosston, Independent Consultant page 20, online, and in the app. PCC, 125 9 PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAMMING WEDNESDAYWEDNESDAY
THINK OUTSIDE THE CONVENTION CENTER. LEARN SOMETHING NEW AND GET TO EXCURSIONS KNOW THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE.
NEW! School Visits Wednesday, 8:30 AM – NOON Ticket Required: Free Transportation will be provided from the Convention Center. Meet in the PCC Broad Street Atrium at 8:30 AM for pickup.
The Philadelphia School Friends Select School This prek-8 school of 475 students has multiage The only prek-12 Quaker School in Center classrooms that are all team-taught. This is a City Philadelphia, Friends Select believes that project-based school that uses the city and education can be fascinating. In addition to a country classroom to engage students in seeing the school’s innovative curriculum and citizenship and environmental stewardship. campus in action (including a rooftop turf field and STEAM lab), visitors will take a walking tour of Community Partnership School Philadelphia landmarks between the Convention and Revolution School Center and the school. Established in 2006 to provide children in low- income communities with an education that puts William Penn Charter School them on a path to lifelong well-being and success, As one of the oldest Friends schools in the world this school creates conditions that support healthy (founded in 1689), Penn Charter has a long history and happy children who are well-positioned to of educating students in the city of Philadelphia. make good on their dreams and aspirations. Things you might see include the work the school is Revolution School is a new high school where doing in the Center for Public Purpose (there may students co-create their unique academic journey. even be an opportunity for you to engage in some The founding class began in September 2019. work directly), the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Upper School Certificate Program.
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NEW! The Amazing Philly Race: Creating NEW! Beyond the Bell Tours a Legacy of Humanity at Your School Wednesday, 1:00 – 3:00 PM Wednesday, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Ticket Required: $40 Ticket Required: $150 Get acquainted with Philly as you learn This team scavenger hunt uses elements of about the people and places that are games, competitions, and design thinking to sometimes left out of the history books explore student and teacher engagement in on these two-hour, two-mile walking tours new ways, learn new tools for collaboration, in downtown Philadelphia. and reflect on our culture of rewards. Lunch MEET AT PCC, BROAD STREET ATRIUM is at Reading Terminal Market, and you have the opportunity to interview others and see ➽ The Philly Classic some wonderful downtown Philly sites. Hit all the main sites in historic Old City Please note: Be sure to wear weather- and Independence Park, but hear it all appropriate clothes and comfy shoes for from the perspectives often left out of this outdoor adventure! mainstream tourism. PRESENTERS: Matt Nink, Erin English, Ingrid Valdez and Roxanne Kruger, GYLI ➽ PHL 101: History of Activism Tour PCC, 118C Get the lowdown on Philly mayors, activists, artists, and more. Hear about the conflicts and conundrums that are forming the city to this day.
First-Time Attendee Welcome Reception Wednesday, 5:00 – 6:00 PM Ticket Required: Free Join fellow first-time NAIS Annual Conference attendees at a casual reception. Get to know each other and forge new connections as you begin your conference experience. MARRIOTT, GRAND BALLROOM SALON H
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Wellness Activities NEW! Master Class With Jonathan Haidt Thursday, 6:00 – 7:00 AM Thursday, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Friday, 6:00 – 7:00 AM Ticket Required: $95 Mental and physical wellness is an Educators in the Crossfire: Investigating important aspect of everyday life. The Conflict and Creating a Culture of Resilience 2020 NAIS Annual Conference gives you This session is aimed at administrators and teachers the opportunity to participate in early who sit in the crossfire of stakeholders who make morning yoga, a run group, or High Intensity conflicting demands. Topics include identifying your Interval Training (HIIT). purpose and crafting a moral narrative about your RUN MEET AT MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN LOBBY school that can anchor your policies and responses YOGA MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN, 409 to conflicts; identifying the various “moral matrices” HIIT MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN, GRAND and sacred values of various stakeholders; making BALLROOM SALON D “antifragility” a guiding principle of policies and pedagogy; and understanding the causes of teen President’s Breakfast and Annual Meeting anxiety and depression, investigating social media’s Thursday, 7:30 – 9:00 AM role in exacerbating issues, and inviting your Gen Z Ticket Required: $30 students to draft policies with you. Join other heads of school and leadership PCC, 126A team members for breakfast and a presentation by NAIS President Donna Orem and the NAIS NAIS AC Powered by PechaKucha Board of Trustees. The Annual Meeting for Thursday, 1:30 – 2:30 PM Members immediately follows the breakfast. Friday, 1:30 – 2:30 PM MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN, GRAND NAIS has adapted the exciting, rapid- BALLROOM SALON H–J fire format of popular PechaKucha presentations to the NAIS Annual Speed Innovating Conference stage. All presenters must adhere to Schoolwide Edition Thursday, 11:00 AM–Noon the 20 x 20 rule: They’re limited to 20 slides that Teachers’ Edition Friday, 11:00 AM–Noon advance automatically at 20 seconds per slide. Spend an hour hearing from some of the most Whether funny, sad, informative, or inspirational, all innovative independent school educators from presentations are concise and visual. Find all topics across the country in intimate, 15-minute mini- and presenters on pages 43 and 71. sessions. Thursday’s Schoolwide Edition focuses PCC, 119A/B on school transformations and is geared toward heads of school, school leadership teams, and President’s Welcome Reception trustees. Speed Innovating: Teachers’ Edition on Thursday, 5:00 –6:30 PM Friday focuses on exciting curricular innovations. All attendees are welcome to join us for a casual Participation is first-come, first-served.See the and fun reception. Food, drinks, and entertainment full list of schools and sessions on pages 34 and 61. will be provided. Meet new friends or connect with PCC, ARCH STREET FOYER current or former colleagues in this inviting space. PCC, HALL G 12 SPECIAL EVENTS
NEW! Master Class With Michele Mattoon NEW! Traveling Stanzas Friday, NOON – 3:15 PM Leave your mark on the legacy of this year’s Ticket Required: $95 conference by taking part in Traveling Stanzas, a Techniques for Building Belonging in the poetry project in partnership with the Wick Poetry Classroom Center at Kent State University and Hathaway Brown Research shows that students who feel a strong School (OH). You can take part in a couple of ways: sense of belonging among their peers and feel 1. Create a blackout poem. Use sharpies to block valued by their teachers are able to engage more out text—what you leave behind is your poem. fully in learning. However, a recent study indicates Your poem can be hung up and displayed at the that one out of every five students report that Traveling Stanzas exhibit in the Broad Street Atrium. they have a problem fitting in at school, and 2. Submit a stanza for a collective conference only half the students surveyed enjoy being at poem. Tap the icon in the conference app school. This master class will help you foster a or scan a QR code to submit your thoughts belonging mindset and learn more about the around the prompts shown. Some of the impact belonging has on students’ academic submitted language will be displayed around the achievement and general level of happiness. You conference and crafted into a group poem will leave with immediately usable activities and that will be read at the end of the conference. protocols specifically created for this purpose. VISIT THE TRAVELING STANZAS EXHIBIT PRESENTERS: Michele Mattoon, Luci Englert IN THE BROAD STREET ATRIUM. McKean, and Laura Beth Wayne, National School Reform Faculty PCC, 126A
12 Months On Demand Streaming #NAISAC ON DEMAND NAIS Members: $149 Nonmembers: $199 USB of All On Demand Sessions + 12 Months On Demand Streaming #NAISAC On Demand programming NAIS Members: $199 features 60 audio-synced slideshow Nonmembers: $249 workshop sessions and video footage of the PechaKucha sessions. Stop by the Playback Now booth Bring these dynamic, inspiring, and located in the PCC Arch Street Foyer educational sessions back to your for more information or to purchase school in one of two ways: your on-demand package.
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IF YOU COME WITH COLLEAGUES… Set a time in the morning when you and others from your school can plan how to spend your time at the conference and identify times and places to meet up to share notes and observations. Make sure you also find time to connect with your colleagues to do something fun while you’re away from school.
IF YOU ARE A TEACHER… Friday is all about you! Check out workshops in the Classroom Experience and the Student Experience tracks. Don’t miss Friday’s Master Class with Michele Mattoon and the National School Reform Faculty.
IF YOU WANT TO REFLECT AND RECHARGE… Head to the NAIS Expo to get a chair massage in the Wellness Zone. Relax and reflect in one of the indoor park spaces set up around the Expo—you can use this space to write, read, or just enjoy a break from the hustle and bustle. Visit the Study Hall space in the NAIS Expo to process and debrief with colleagues.
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION... Tweet using the hashtag #NAISAC to share your thoughts, photos, or what you’re doing at your school.
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE… Download the NAIS Events app to see everything that’s going on at the conference in one place. Just add “2020 NAIS AC” to your installed shows. Use the app to connect with colleagues you meet at the conference by tapping on the “Attendees” icon. You can also learn more by seeking out NAIS staff members around the conference—check out the Member Resource Center in the NAIS Expo.
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15 NAIS EXPO NAISNAIS EXPOEXPO THE NAIS EXPO IS LOCATED IN PCC, HALL E
NAIS EXPO HOURS COMPLIMENTARY LUNCHES 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM NOON – 1:30 PM THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
The NAIS Expo is your destination for hands-on activities, networking opportunities, and more. Mingle with more than 200 exhibitors who invite you to explore all the latest products and resources designed to meet your school’s needs. Find everything from classroom enhancements and marketing experts to up- to-the-minute technology designed to help you solve problems and innovate.
The NAIS Expo is your one-stop shop for the following: ➽ Complimentary lunches ➽ Networking breaks ➽ The NAIS Park ➽ Study Hall Don’t forget to stop by the Member ➽ The NAIS Makerspace Resource Center (MRC) or NAIS Bookstore to pick up your free copy ➽ The NAIS Member Resource Center of Independent School magazine! ➽ Startup Alley The hot-off-the-press Spring 2020 ➽ Complimentary headshots issue puts governance into focus and ➽ Wellness Zone provides the insights and context on key trends and issues that need to ➽ Charging stations be on your radar. Stop by the MRC ➽ Raffles,prizes, and giveaways! to share your ideas and meet some of the editorial staff who help make Independent School an unparalleled resource for our community.
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Networking Breaks NAIS Makerspace Join us for an afternoon snack break and Go on a journey through the world of making engaging conversations. Connect with in independent schools. exhibitors who will share their expertise and resources to address your school’s needs. Startup Alley Visit this special section of the Expo to hear from Member Resource Center startup companies from around the country. Get plugged into the NAIS community by As you look for new ways to merge education, connecting with colleagues and staff. Explore technology, and innovation, stop by to learn how relevant resources that can help your school these new companies can help your school. overcome challenges and find solutions. Complimentary Headshots NEW! Study Hall Start the next step of your own leadership Looking for a place to meet with colleagues journey by getting a professional headshot. to process conference learnings? Feeling overwhelmed with all the new ideas you’ve Wellness Zone heard? Visit our brand-new Study Hall space Take a break from the hustle and bustle to get a where you can grab a table and find some brief chair massage. Let your cares melt away! fun supplies. Study Hall is open during all Expo hours—don’t wait until Monday to start thinking about how to put your conference takeaways into action.
VISIT THE NAIS BOOKSTORE!
Find books by the amazing conference speakers to bring to book signings, and pick up the perfect NAIS publication for your role at school. The NAIS Bookstore has everything you need to build your library of professional development resources. PCC, BROAD STREET ATRIUM
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WITH MORE THAN 145 WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM, IT CAN BE OVERWHELMING TO SELECT THE ONES YOU WANT TO GO TO. USE THESE TIPS TO HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TIME AT THE CONFERENCE.
Follow the Tracks Browse Workshops Online COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Use our website to sort, search, and filter Designed for heads and trustees as well as all workshops in one place. Find the page communication and advancement practitioners, at annualconference.nais.org/workshops. these workshops address what it takes to ensure effective communication to—and Check Out PechaKucha relations with—all key constituencies. and Speed Innovating GOVERNANCE If you need a break from the one-hour Designed for trustees and heads of schools in their workshop format, check out NAIS role as liaisons with the board, these workshops Powered by PechaKucha and Speed focus on all aspects of board governance. Innovating. Both options are offered on Thursday and Friday, and both LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT will give you the chance to hear Designed for heads and all academic and from many different people and administrative leaders, these workshops perspectives in one hour. focus on effective school leadership and professional development. Use the App MANAGEMENT Download the NAIS Events app, and choose Designed primarily for heads, business officers, the 2020 NAIS Annual Conference. Once financial aid directors, division heads, and you’ve decided where you want to spend your deans, these workshops focus on the day-to- time at the conference, simply star (★) each day management of people, programs, finance, workshop in the app to add it to your schedule enrollment, the market, and operations. for easy reference. THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Designed for all educators and academic leaders, these workshops focus on the design and implementation of academic programs. These sessions may be of special interest to teachers. THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Designed for all educators and academic leaders, these workshops focus on the student experience, including equity and justice issues, bullying, student wellness, families, and character development. These sessions may be of special interest to teachers.
19 FEBRUARY 26 WEDNESDAY THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS REQUIRE WEDNESDAY PRE-REGISTRATION AND COST $95 TO ATTEND.
8:00 AM – 6:30 PM 1:00 – 4:00 PM OPTIONAL THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS Registration Open PCC, BROAD STREET ATRIUM W01. Advancement Essentials for Small Schools and Small Shops Making small school advancement make sense. 8:30 AM – NOON It requires vision, confidence, collaboration, School Visits creativity, efficiency, and action plans that are MEET AT PCC, BROAD STREET ATRIUM both meaningful and practical. What priorities should sustain your advancement plan? How can you structure and communicate your 9:00 AM – NOON advancement activities to keep the cart behind Reflect, Refine, and Renew: Cultivating the horse? In this session we’ll figure out the Resiliency as a Mid-Career Head best ways to combine these elements into a See full details on page 9. strong, sustainable, and cutting-edge program PCC, 112A/B for your school. PRESENTERS: Starr Snead, Advancement Connections; Shelley Reese, Park Street 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM School (MA) Creating Momentum in Your School TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT See full details on page 9. ROOM: PCC, 113C PCC, 110A/B W02. Building Innovation: New Models The Amazing Philly Race: Creating a Legacy for Independent Schools of Humanity at Your School Innovation and change are challenging but See full details on page 11. essential for today’s independent schools. PCC, 118C If you are considering new approaches to “doing school,” this workshop is for you. Join school founders from the Innovative Schools 1:00 – 3:00 PM Cooperative (ISC) in a highly interactive deep Beyond the Bell Tours dive into innovative schools designed for the See full details on page 11. future. ISC leaders will share what has worked— MEET AT PCC, BROAD STREET ATRIUM and some of what has not—in their bold attempts to reimagine school. You’ll get help designing and developing your own innovative learning 1:00 – 4:00 PM models and receive one-to-one feedback from Klingenstein Seminar Series experienced and successful trailblazers. Data Use as a Window and Mirror: The Call PRESENTERS: Thomas McManus, Revolution for Data-Driven, Evidence-Based Leadership School (PA); Andrew Ravin, The Workshop in Independent Schools Independent School (NY); Cate Han and See full details on page 9. Stacey Seltzer, Hudson Lab School (NY); PCC, 119A/B Doug Schachtel, Portfolio School (NY) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 117
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W03. Calm Is Contagious: Partnering W05. Educational Neuroscience With Parents to Create a Non-Anxious and the Future of School Innovation Environment for Students A growing body of educational neuroscience Neuropsychologist Dr. William R. Stixrud began research provides an underutilized lens through noticing that even high-performing students which teachers, school leaders, and trustees were coming to him for acute anxiety, feeling can elevate teacher quality, student outcomes, a lack of intrinsic motivation and complaining and the whole-child school experience. that they had no real control over their lives. This research and promising new strategies Based on the findings of Dr. Stixrud’s bestselling offer a pathway for schools to become more book, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and brain-friendly, inclusive, and innovative. After Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over participating in this workshop, you will return Their Lives, this workshop will address how we to your school with a science-based rationale can actively help our students sculpt brains that for why school innovation should align with are resilient, stress-proof, and eager to take what we now know about how the brain learns, on new challenges. You will learn the science works, changes, and thrives. behind the theory, participate in a strategy PRESENTERS: Glenn Whitman and Ian Kelleher, lab, and hear how The Archer School for Girls The Center for Transformative Teaching and made eliminating toxic stress among students a Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (MD) priority for its entire community. TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Bill Stixrud, George Washington ROOM: PCC, 120B University; Karen Pavliscak and Elizabeth English, The Archer School for Girls (CA) W06. Five Steps to Mastery: An TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Implementation Guide for Mastery- ROOM: PCC, 122B Based Learning at Independent Schools Mastery-based learning is a system where all W04. Designing In-House stakeholders (students, teachers, parents/ Professional Development guardians, administrators) know what Teachers are always thinking, designing, and students are expected to learn, have accurate discovering. We are the type of lifelong learners information about their current understanding we want our students to be. Why not tap into or skill level in relation to these targets, and— that learning? In this workshop, explore four through feedback—understand how to improve professional development structures that in order to hit these targets. In this workshop, affirm and make use of in-house expertise: the you’ll hear about Pilgrim School’s journey to workshop, the council, the toolbox share, and mastery-based learning in grades K–12. Learn the study group. Learn protocols that will enable the steps to take in your own journey, moving you to use these structures at your school. from idea to implementation. Explore how to create a schoolwide PD plan that PRESENTERS: Ryan Grady, Sheryl Cohen, Nora integrates the four structures, assess faculty and Kiely, and LaToya Franklyn, Pilgrim School (CA) staff members’ needs and strengths, and address TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE the vulnerability that peer-to-peer PD invokes. ROOM: PCC, 122A PRESENTERS: Lauren Porosoff and Jonathan Weinstein, EMPOWER Forwards TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 116
22 THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS REQUIRE WEDNESDAY PRE-REGISTRATION AND COST $95 TO ATTEND.
W07. Innovation and Transformation W09. Mastery Learning Journey for in Challenging Times Culturally Responsive White Leaders: Learn how bold action, brand clarity, and Measuring Position, Orientation, careful risk analysis enabled McLean School in and Rate of Change Potomac, Maryland, to grow enrollment by 35% As investment increases in professional over six years, becoming the fastest-growing development around diversity, equity, and independent school in the Washington, DC, inclusion, how are you assessing the skills and area. This growth reversed five years of readiness of your white leaders? How does enrollment decline. The school now enjoys your institution define culturally responsive enhanced brand strength, program breadth, leadership, metrics of success, measures of school spirit, and employee morale. In this accountability, and knowledge-to-skill transfer? workshop, Board Chair Steve Anthony and Explore how to leverage mastery learning as Head of School Mike Saxenian will use a case a capacity-building modality, use rubrics to study format, quantitative data, and participant assess evidence of skill acquisition and meaning discussion to explore the choices that drove making, and visualize the learner profile of a the school’s success. Lessons will be useful for culturally responsive white leader. Commit to schools struggling to adapt to the changing “walking the walk”; learn to track the impact industry landscape. of your white leadership footprint and inform PRESENTERS: Michael Saxenian, Jeff Berman, sustainable whole-school change. and Steve Anthony, McLean School (MD); PRESENTERS: Maria Graciela Alcid, Gann Valaida Wise, Johns Hopkins University Academy (MA); Jack Hill, Cambridge Friends TRACK GOVERNANCE School (MA); Kawai Lai, VizLit.org; Alda Farlow, ROOM: PCC, 115C Buckingham Browne & Nichols School (MA); Lilia Cai-Hurteau, Phillips Academy Andover (MA) W08. Insights to Action: Why Donors TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Give to Independent Schools ROOM: PCC, 120C Using an innovative research methodology known as Jobs-to-Be-Done, NAIS identified the key reasons why donors give to independent schools and why they choose to donate to specific campaigns. In this workshop, you’ll explore this research and the context, motivations, and outcomes behind donations. Learn practical strategies for turning these research insights into action as you enhance your advancement strategy. Join us for this session if you want to analyze cutting-edge research on donor decision-making and learn concrete ways to improve your outreach to prospective donors. PRESENTERS: Mark Mitchell and Joe Corbett, NAIS TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT ROOM: PCC, 126A
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W10. Origin Stories and W12. Tackling Grading: How Our Transformation: Leading Change Grading Can Be More Consistent While Preserving What Matters and Equitable Schoolwide Organizations are the lengthened shadows of Grades inform monumental decisions about their founders. All institutions have a Genesis our students—course placement, interventions, story, the myth and reality of why they were promotion and retention, athletic eligibility, called into existence and why that mattered. scholarships and financial aid, graduation, and The degree to which leaders fully understand college admission. They can also impact a student’s the “arc of history and culture” is the degree self-concept and psychological well-being. Yet to which any organization and its people grading practices in schools often vary widely from survive and thrive. In this workshop, three teacher to teacher and can be a source of intense school heads with three different school origin stress for students and families. Even worse, many stories will share their school narratives. They common grading practices, created during the will demonstrate the importance of preserving Industrial Revolution, are imbued with institutional what matters while leading change and and implicit biases that undermine our equity transformation. Organization/cultural consultant work. In this workshop, learn about more equitable Debbie Freed will present her “historical-cultural grading practices and how they have been mapping” storyboarding exercise to deepen introduced and embraced by teachers and schools. this highly interactive workshop. PRESENTERS: Joe Feldman, Crescendo Education PRESENTERS: Debbie Freed, Organizational Group; Debby Previna, Georgetown Day School (DC) Development Consultant; Mark McKee, TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Viewpoint School (CA); Mark Stanek, Shady Hill ROOM: PCC, 120A School (MA); Jim Eagen, Synapse School (CA) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT W13. The Legacy of Female Leadership ROOM: PCC, 118B in Schools: Finding and Being Mentors, Sponsors, and Role Models W11. Strategy Every Day: Launch “Agile The legacy of women in independent schools is still Teams” to Build Capacity, Develop being written. There are many opportunities to be a Leaders, and Execute With Power student of leadership at every level in your school. How can agile, cross-functional teams unleash Come to this workshop for honest conversation talent and strengthen your school? In this about ways women lead, cultivate a leadership workshop, you will explore an innovative approach style, and build teams. An experienced head of to cultivating diverse, high-potential talent as school, a new head of school, and two associate you advance mission-critical work. Learn how heads of school will share insights regarding what one school reorganized talent as a way to grow keeps us from our seats at the table, where to leaders, align work to strategy, and bring a vision look for mentors and sponsors, and how to model for learning to life inside the school community. female leadership for our students. Enjoy the Consider how your school might prototype new camaraderie and kinship of the work we do! ways of organizing people to get big work done. PRESENTERS: Ruth Bissell, San Francisco Day PRESENTERS: Stephanie Rogen, Greenwich School (CA); Nisa Frank, Prospect Sierra School Leadership Partners; Randall Dunn and (CA); Kathleen McNamara, The Seven Hills School Katie O’Dea, The Latin School of Chicago (IL) (CA); Colleen Schilly, Hillbrook School (CA) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 121B ROOM: PCC, 121A
24 THREE-HOUR WORKSHOPS REQUIRE WEDNESDAY PRE-REGISTRATION AND COST $95 TO ATTEND.
W14. Truth-Seeking Pods: Why Non- W15. Turning Wicked Team Problems Confirmatory Thinking Is the Tool You into Leverageable Solutions Need Now as a Leader While some issues are problems with a definite Based on the work of Leadership + Design and answer, the more challenging issues are Annie Duke, this workshop will build capacity, “polarities”—situations in which each side has its create conversation, and make connections benefits and drawbacks. Attempting to address with the pedagogy behind Truth-Seeking these issues with traditional problem-solving Pods. Truth-Seeking Pods are small cohorts of approaches only makes things worse. There is a leaders who gather weekly for three months to significant competitive advantage for a leader learn, laugh, and grow by utilizing exploratory, who can distinguish between a problem to not confirmatory, feedback protocols. Learn solve and a polarity to manage. In this session, the theory behind exploratory feedback and explore Polarity Thinking and how to use this practice it in a curated Truth-Seeking Pod. lens to effectively manage individual, team, Reflect on how this type of feedback could be and organizational challenges. Explore how to integrated into your school. Consider where find leverageable solutions to your team’s most we hold our colleagues capable and where critical challenges. we avoid the types of conversation PRESENTER: Marin Burton, Center for Creative that pushes one to grow. Leadership PRESENTERS: Ryan Burke, Leadership + TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Design; Jennifer Bowders, McDonogh School ROOM: PCC, 121C (MD); Brenda Leaks, Seattle Girls’ School (WA); Derek Krein, Tabor Academy (MA) 1:00 – 5:30 PM TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 118A Ensuring the Future: How Trustees Contribute to School Success See full details on page 9. PCC, 125
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Building a Community of Inclusion 6:00 – 7:00 AM Administrators representing three divisions RUN Meet in the Marriott Downtown Hotel Lobby from Lowell School in Washington, DC, will YOGA Marriott Downtown, 409 discuss how they have created and retained HIIT Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon D representation of faculty and staff of color, of LGBTQ identity, and of international identity in their school community. The presentation will 6:30 AM – 6:00 PM feature information and efforts to attract, honor, Registration Open and retain employees who represent various PCC, Broad Street Atrium identities in independent school settings. If you are working to build equity and inclusion in your community or you want to deepen and expand 7:30 – 9:00 AM the diversity representation at your school, this President’s Breakfast and Annual Meeting workshop is for you! Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon H–J PRESENTERS: Jason Novak, Michelle Belton, Stefania Rubino, and Kavan Yee, Lowell School (DC) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 8:00 – 9:00 AM ROOM: PCC, 120B BLOCK 1 WORKSHOPS Building Our Legacy Through Admissions and Communications: Culturally Responsive Leadership: Creating a Dynamic Partnership Leveraging the Capacities of The working relationship between the Three Administrators of Color communications office and the admissions What does it mean to be a culturally responsive office is critical. But all too often, these teams leader? Independent schools tend to focus are not in sync. In this session, you will learn on culturally responsive teaching, yet there key skills to build positive team dynamics and is little focus on the leadership approach. effective work-flow processes using NAIS’s Using research on culturally responsive school Jobs-to-Be-Done research and demographic leadership, we will share the components of this and psychographic data to build the admissions framework and the ways we have used it to be funnel and achieve revenue goals. culturally responsive leaders in our respective PRESENTERS: Lauren Castagnola and David roles as division directors and dean. Through Tuttle, Westover School (CT) case studies, you will learn how the presenters TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT have begun to shift culture by challenging ROOM: PCC, 109A/B dominant narratives and assumptions while centering the experiences and perspectives of historically marginalized students and families. PRESENTERS: Rochelle Reodica, Danny Scuderi, and Victoria Huerta-Miller, Marin Horizon School (CA) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 113B
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Capital Campaigns: How to 8:00 – 9:00 AM Create the Right Strategy and WORKSHOPS Tools to Ensure Your Success BLOCK 1 CONTINUED If you are in or planning a capital, endowment, or annual fundraising campaign, this session is Building Schoolwide Improvement With for you. Learn why need isn’t enough to stoke Long-Term Impact donor support and how to strike the right This presentation will give you an overview balance between rationale, urgency, and emotion of a high-impact initiative involving a sample for a campaign that catches fire. We’ll share of independent schools. The initiative best practices and case studies for attracting developed a sustainable approach to the attention and commitment of your current instructional leadership by building strong families and alumni, and we’ll show how your pedagogical knowledge through leveraging next campaign can benefit from a clear strategy existing expertise and networks within school and smart communications. You will leave with communities. Case studies highlight the key new ideas, handy tools, and plenty of inspiration variables in school reform: school leadership, to make your next campaign the best yet. effective teaching, and assessment that PRESENTERS: Patrick Coyle, Georgetown drives learning and supports schools to Preparatory School (MD); Jennie Winton, make measurable improvements in student Mission Minded outcomes. You will be provided with a range TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT of strategies and resources for transforming ROOM: PCC, 120A instruction at your school. PRESENTER: Lisa Ridings, Association of Connecting the Dots of Technology Independent Schools of New South Wales Ltd. Leadership: A Workshop in Leadership TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Structures ROOM: PCC, 118B Technology leadership in independent schools has evolved markedly over time. School leadership itself is changing, and the role that a technology leader should play is critical to the success of the school. In this workshop, you will explore the role that technology now plays in service of a school’s mission. In this workshop, which is geared toward heads and assistant heads of school, CFOs, and COOs, you will participate in a hands-on session to connect and collaborate as you consider your school’s organizational structures and how to leverage the impact of technology leaders. PRESENTERS: John Yen, Polytechnic School (CA); Tom Adams, Key School (MD); Eric Karkau, Columbia Academy (TN); Lizbeth Johnson, Professional Children’s School (NY) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 113A
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Constituent Boards of Trustees: De-Siloing and Design-Thinking: Faculty, Students, and Parents, Oh My! A Pathway to More Integrated In this session, you will analyze the challenges Decision-Making of the increasing trend of parent association Interdepartmental design-thinking committees members, religious organization members, bring together individuals from all parts of heads of school, faculty, and students serving the organization. Classroom teachers from all as trustees. We will discuss the pros and cons divisions, admissions associates, development and the legal considerations to take under team members, business office personnel, advisement before structuring an independent athletic directors, technology experts, and school board with such constituent trustees. facilities managers come together to solve You will consider the complexities of such real problems in the school by leveraging the trustees properly executing their fiduciary design-thinking process. This program forces duties and the inherent issues of confidentiality the “silos” we often work in to come down and and conflicts of interest. You will explore the increases empathy across the organization. You appropriate limits of such trustee involvement will gain an overview of the program (including as well as the use of executive sessions to its merits and the lessons learned from the pilot manage sensitive issues. run), practice with the process via mini-design- PRESENTERS: Donna Lazarus and Mark thinking challenges, and take some time to Brossman, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP reflect on the experience. TRACK GOVERNANCE PRESENTER: Alli Williams, AIM Academy (PA) ROOM: PCC, 112A/B TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 125 Creating a Culture of Sustained Professional Growth and Reflection Educators as First Responders: Within the Evaluation Process Mental Health in the Classroom By placing professional development at the Adults who work and live in schools are “on epicenter of its evaluation system, Loomis the ground” with students, supporting their Chaffee created a faculty culture in which wide range of social-emotional needs. In this growth is not only intentional but, more workshop for teachers, administrators, nurses, importantly, embraced. Encouraging and coaches, and residence life staff, you will discuss supporting faculty to pursue professional helping students with emotional challenges, growth are at the heart of successful including peer or family issues, anxiety, and educational institutions. In this session, you will depression. You will learn how to collaborate hear how one school overhauled its evaluation effectively with both colleagues and parents. system to incorporate and require yearly Following a formal presentation, we will shift to professional growth opportunities, creating a participant questions and “case studies” from culture of professional growth in which choice participants’ experiences in their schools. and voice are front and center. PRESENTER: Deborah Offner, Consulting PRESENTERS: Sara Deveaux and Andrew Psychologist Matlack, The Loomis Chaffee School (CT) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 123 ROOM: PCC, 121C
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I’m Coming Out of the Basement! 8:00 – 9:00 AM Academic Support in All Spaces WORKSHOPS for All Students BLOCK 1 CONTINUED Our schools are increasingly attracting neurodiverse learners. The days of isolated Grassroots PD: How to Create academic support in a quiet location of campus Programming Around Race and are long gone. In this workshop, you will explore Equity for White Faculty and Staff current research in supporting students, As educators, we know that the best learning best practices in ensuring equal access to all takes place over time. In this session, you will learners, and strategies that can be used by learn how to create a grassroots professional all educators for all learners. With the ADA development experience that spans the school as a guidepost, this session will address the year. To spark discussion, this session will use increasing percentage of students requesting the case study of AWARE, a group for white and accessing accommodations and how your faculty and staff to educate themselves around school can ensure that it is both meeting the race and equity. Through the case study, needs of its students and maintaining integrity you will explore structures, strengths, and in the accommodation process. challenges of the faculty-led PD model. The PRESENTERS: Kate Collins and Jackie session will culminate with time to brainstorm Bonenfant, Milton Academy (MA) and sketch a plan for your own grassroots PD TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE experience around race and equity or another ROOM: PCC, 121B important issue. PRESENTERS: Meg Johnson, The Klingenstein Independent Schools in the Times of Center, Columbia University; Julie Lutton, Tax Reform, Activism, and Budget Cuts Lakeside School (WA) It is a complex and ever-changing time for TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT nonprofits—including independent schools. The ROOM: PCC, 122A 2017 tax law resulted in new and unusual taxes for nonprofits. The political environment has prompted increased activism and polarization in equal measure, leading schools to question how they can stay true to their mission and values while following the laws regarding nonprofit political activity. In the face of all this, states and cities are increasingly turning to the nonprofit sector to raise revenue from tax-exempt organizations. In this session, you will learn the basics of independent schools as 501(c)(3) nonprofits and explore the challenges and opportunities in the current climate. PRESENTER: Whitney Silverman, NAIS TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 124
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Leadership for Human Schools #Metoo to #Howto: Empowering Teens Schools talk a lot about educating “the whole to Build Healthy Intimate Relationships child,” but when faced with the demands of Calls for consent, warnings, and consequences our national culture of achievement, market aren’t working. Research shows that cultures competition, and the pressures of the college that put forward healthy relationships and search process, they often favor the “academic caring conversations about sex see a marked child” when making decisions about how to reduction in risks and assaults associated with spend precious time and resources. In this sexual behaviors. Framed by the research of session, you will hear how one school has Lisa Wade (American Hookup: The New Culture successfully embarked on the path of being of Sex on Campus) and Gail Dines (Pornland: a “human school,” valuing the so-called “soft” How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality), this skills—dispositions and knowledge having to session will reflect on the way we currently do with emotions, relationships, and health— talk with girls about sex and relationships—and and spend some time thinking about how your how we can do better. school could as well. PRESENTER: Stephanie Ferri, The Archer School PRESENTERS: Matthew Byrnes and Christopher for Girls (CA) Pannone, Wooster School (CT) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 108A ROOM: PCC, 117 Navigating the Haze—How Schools The Marketing and Communications Cope With the Current Cannabis Culture Student Internship: Incorporating As schools struggle to keep up with current the Student Perspective Into research and trends regarding THC and CBD, Your Marketing Initiatives along with ensuring that their handbooks Who understands your school better than your are evolving with this exploding industry, students? Working with interns to generate the question of legacy and how schools are marketing content, manage social media, and writing, or perhaps rewriting, their history has document school life is a win-win for school become (or should be) a critical focal point. In marketing professionals and students alike. this session, you will learn about quantitative Students learn the fundamentals of marketing and qualitative research on current trends in and practice valuable workplace skills, while the teen cannabis culture, the impact these school marketers benefit from having access trends are having within independent schools, to students’ unique perspectives and voices to and, most important, what schools can do to help them articulate what makes their school educate leaders and faculty on how to deal special. In this case study, you will examine with this escalating issue. Sonoma Academy’s successful Marketing PRESENTERS: Jason Gregory, Vistamar and Communications Student Internship, a School (CA); Charis Denison, Prajna Consulting; leadership program that has touched over Nick Standlea, Test Prep Gurus 30 high school students since the program’s TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE inception four years ago. ROOM: PCC, 115C PRESENTERS: Lily Thompson, Janet Durgin, and Megan Malone, Sonoma Academy (CA) TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT ROOM: PCC, 111A/B
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Real Talk With Women Administrators 8:00 – 9:00 AM Join us for freshly brewed tea and real talk WORKSHOPS by a panel of women administrators from BLOCK 1 CONTINUED underrepresented backgrounds who will share their experiences in leadership in Re-Architecting Adolescence: independent schools. No woman should feel alone The Case for Play in the difficult yet rewarding work of leadership. Play is essential for the development of the You will hear how panel members found their adolescent mind, yet we routinely restrict way to leadership, the joys and struggles of opportunities for tweens and teens to being women leaders from underrepresented play when they may need it most. In this backgrounds, the challenges and successes of their groundbreaking session, you will explore what roles, and the power of having a personal “board of happens when a vanguard team of architects trustees.” Time for questions will be provided. and educational psychologists collaborate to PRESENTERS: Juna McDaid, The Potomac School research, design, and execute a new model to (VA); Shoba Farrell, San Francisco University meet the deep social and imaginative needs of High School (CA); Lori Cohen, Bright Morning adolescents at play. You will learn how play can Consulting Inc.; Tamisha Williams, Lick- be incorporated into a variety of environments Wilmerding High School (CA) and how one Philadelphia-area independent TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT school is reinventing recess by engineering a ROOM: PCC 108B megalithic playscape for gifted adolescents. PRESENTERS: Meredith Hafer, The Grayson State of the Independent School (PA); Brian Housand, University of North School Industry: Special Report Carolina–Wilmington; Brandon Clifford, MIT on Enrollment Issues and Trends TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE The goal of The Enrollment Management ROOM: PCC, 122B Association’s biannual survey of independent school admission directors is to determine the industry’s current state and future needs and, when applicable, to compare the results across survey years. This trailblazing research has provoked significant national dialogue on the changing conditions of, and expectations for, independent school admission and enrollment professionals. In addition, results have provided illuminating insight into the structure, process, and enrollment operations of the independent school admission office—as well as the significant challenges faced by many schools in their efforts to reach their enrollment goals. This presentation provides enrollment leaders with key findings and themes from our research. PRESENTERS: Christina Dotchin, The Enrollment Management Association; Kevin Plummer, Tampa Preparatory School (FL) TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 118A 32 FIND LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND MORE THURSDAY DETAILS ONLINE AND IN THE APP.
Tend the Rituals of the Schoolhouse Transforming the Narrative: From daily practices to annual celebrations, the One School’s Journey From rituals we enact play a profound role in defining Surviving to Thriving school culture. They have power greater Westover School has been the epitome of a than words to message what we believe and storied New England girls’ boarding school—a value. But because of their power, they merit rich history, beautiful campus, loyal alumnae, careful review. In this session, you will explore and a solid endowment—but in 2015, it was the impact of well-considered rituals and the at a crossroads. The school faced a deficit, danger of those we enact without thinking. You declining enrollment, a rising discount rate, will learn which rituals serve learning, which and $30 million in deferred maintenance. reinforce a status quo that needs disrupting, Under the leadership of a new head and senior which serve justice, and how a new ritual— team, the school undertook an ambitious plan whether small or large, individual or collective— to transform in four years to reach financial might offer the transformation you and your equilibrium and establish momentum by all school are seeking. key metrics. In this session, you will explore PRESENTER: Sheryl Chard, Sofia Center at key decisions, including a paradigm shift from Bosque School (NM) “school as family” to “school as community.” TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRESENTERS: Julie Faulstich, Thomas ROOM: PCC, 118C Gorman, and Benjamin Hildebrand, Westover School (CT) Three Reasons to Replace Department TRACK MANAGEMENT Chairs With Instructional Coaches ROOM: PCC, 120C Independent schools typically build middle- management structures in the mold of What’s Your School’s Future— higher education by separating teachers Survive, Thrive, or …? into departments and hiring a chair to Would you like more qualified applicants, do departmental oversight and general ways for faculty and your school to make administration. There are three primary reasons more money, better use of your facilities, to break away from this mold and move from substantive partnerships with universities and department chairs to instructional coaches. First, corporations, opportunities to get people over the department chair model does little to support 50 and not affiliated with your school to start faculty growth. Second, there is an effective sending you checks, and more visibility for alternative. And, third, it can save schools your school in the community? If your answer money by decreasing administrative costs while is “yes” to one or more of these questions, increasing faculty morale. In this workshop, you this one-hour workshop will be worth will learn how to start and develop a coaching considerably more than the cost to attend. model in your school and leave with next steps. PRESENTERS: Richard Odell, Heads Up PRESENTERS: Bradford Rathgeber and Lynnae Educational Consulting; Tim Viands, The Boudreau, One Schoolhouse (DC) New Grange School of Princeton, Inc. (NJ); TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Adrianne Finley Odell, Roycemore School (IL) ROOM: PCC, 121A TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 113C
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11:00 AM – NOON EXPO 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM BLOCK 2 WORKSHOPS NAIS Expo Open PCC, HALL E SPEED INNOVATING Schoolwide Edition Hear from some of the most innovative 9:00 – 9:30 AM schools across the country in intimate, Break in the NAIS Expo 15-minute mini-sessions. Thursday’s sessions PCC, HALL E are focused on school transformations. PCC, ARCH STREET FOYER
Increase Enrollment by Eliminating 9:30 – 10:45 AM Your AP Program OPENING GENERAL SESSION PRESENTERS: Matthew Byrnes and Chris Pannone, Wooster School (CT)
“Put It in the Box”—How Systems Thinking Can Make Your Meetings Effective and Efficient PRESENTERS: Laura Konigsburg and Courtney Baker, Turning Point School (CA)
Racial Autobiographies: How Unpacking for Clarity Helped Us Have a Courageous Conversation With Faculty JONATHAN HAIDT PRESENTERS: Jennifer Liu and Corbett Simons, Musical performance by Kwaya Marimba, Town School for Boys (CA) Friends School Haverford (PA)
Introduction by Lisa Sun, The Philadelphia Revisiting School Uniforms: School (PA) A Template for Deep Student PCC, TERRACE BALLROOM Engagement in Strategic Decisions PRESENTER: Heather Avery, Lakefield College School (Canada)
Using Systems Thinking to Reimagine 10:45 – 11:00 AM Student Support Programs PRESENTERS: Ben Ketchum and Jan Reeder, Break Riverside Presbyterian Day School (FL)
What’s in a Grade? A Lesson in Supply-Side Thinking PRESENTERS: Ryan Kelly and Sara Rubinstein, Carrollwood Day School (FL) 34 SESSIONS AVAILABLE IN AUDIO ON DEMAND. THURSDAY SESSIONS AVAILABLE IN VIDEO ON DEMAND.
An Advisory Program for Today’s Coaching in Independent Schools: Student: Social-Emotional Learning, A Roundtable Discussion Equity, Mindfulness, and Executive Over the past decade, coaching has gained Functioning Support traction in education because of its positive Are you looking for ways to update your impact on teaching practice, educator traditional advisory model to fit the needs of professional growth, student learning, and today’s adolescents? Are you curious about school culture. Indeed, a recent report calls how a shift in focus can be more responsive to coaching a “game-changer for schools.” In students’ social-emotional needs? In a world this workshop, you will attend a roundtable with constant motion, learn how to ground your discussion that showcases the ways four students for the day by creating a safe time independent schools are integrating coaching and space for them to gather their thoughts, into their learning communities. Panel members settle their bodies, reflect on issues beyond the will lead a conversation around the “Why, What, classroom, and feel a sense of connectedness. How, and So What” of coaching in schools. Reinvigorate your advisory by exploring issues PRESENTERS: Colleen Worrell, St. Mark’s School of equity and inclusion, using mIndfulness as (MA); Allison Schultz, The Episcopal Academy a stress management tool, and supporting (PA); Lou Scerra, Newark Academy (NJ); Chase students’ executive functioning skills. Mitsuda, Punahou School (HI) PRESENTERS: David Roth and Molly Love, TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT McLean School (MD) ROOM: PCC, 108A TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 120A
Boys and Responsible Sexual Citizenship Today Attention all educators of boys! Join us to learn how to make sure that the boys at your school have accurate and current information about sexuality—an essential topic for everyone in society. The workshop will discuss a new global study, “Responsible Sexual Citizenship in Today’s World: The Challenges Confronting Boys,” commissioned by IBSC and conducted by Professor Ada L. Sinacore at McGill University. Discover the right message to deliver to students and parents—and the best way to communicate it—so that boys will thrive at your school and into adulthood. PRESENTERS: David Armstrong, International Boys’ Schools Coalition; Hal Hannaford, Selwyn House School (Canada); Kim Hudson, St. Christopher’s School (VA); Sherry Rusher, St. Albans School (DC) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 113C 35 THURSDAY
Creating a Trusted Board Chair-Head 11:00 AM – NOON Partnership to Lead Effective School WORKSHOPS Transformation BLOCK 2 CONTINUED The relationship between the board chair and the head of school is one of the most critical Conversations That Replenish: Powerful factors for success in times of leadership Protocols for Women Heads of School transition and institutional change or to Renew Focus and Resolve Dilemmas transformation. Based on the presenters’ three- The role of the head of school has never been year real-world partnership as head of school more demanding, complex, litigious, or lonely, and board chair, this workshop will give you an and it is thus increasingly difficult to leave opportunity to learn practical techniques for the legacy of which we are capable. The six immediate application, natural pitfalls to avoid, presenters of this workshop, all current or and strategies for ongoing success. By listening former heads of school, have formed a group to the presenters’ story and reflecting on your that offers fellowship, support, problem- own, you will uncover direct actions that can help solving, resource-sharing, and, ultimately, you enjoy a positive and supportive partnership renewal. You will first observe and then use a based on trust and mutual accountability, transformational protocol wherein each head whatever the current or anticipated change brings a pressing dilemma and comes away initiatives or transitions at your school. with a newfound perspective and clarity. We PRESENTERS: Nishant N. Mehta, The Children’s encourage women heads of school to join us School (GA); Michele Reiner, Michele M. for a taste of the renewal we have discovered. Reiner Consulting PRESENTERS: Laura Danforth, The Masters TRACK GOVERNANCE School (NY); Tara Christie Kinsey, The Hewitt ROOM: PCC, 121A School (NY); Martha Haakmat, Haakmat Consulting LLC; Jenny Rao, Emma Willard School (NY); Allison Gaines Pell, The Wheeler School (RI); Meera Viswanathan, The Ethel Walker School (CT) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 118A
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Defying Gravity—The Story Equity and Inclusion: Bringing About of One School Facing the Reality Systemic Change From the Inside Out of Its Demise Head-On Since we know that the culture of a school Even more so than their larger counterparts, will trump what’s written in any strategic plan, small schools are at the mercy of fluctuations— this workshop focuses on how schools can in enrollment, voluntary giving, demographics, shift the adult culture. You will learn about the and the economy—exigencies that demand efforts of Lakeside School to shift culture by strategic preparation, adaptive leadership, adopting a distributed leadership model for our and tactical response. Just as the continued DEI work. Members of Lakeside’s DEI team will flight of an airplane depends on the forces provide a case study of distributed leadership, holding it aloft being greater than those examples of teacher-led professional pulling it down, the survivability of a small development, and new evaluation methods. school depends on factors ensuring that its You will leave with tangible ideas for how to sustainability is greater than those that conspire shift adult culture at your school. to close it down. In this session, you will learn PRESENTERS: Stephanie Wright, Bernie Noe, how one school faced this dilemma. Debbie Bensadon, and Merissa Reed, PRESENTERS: Katy Roybal, Trinity School (CA); Lakeside School (WA) Sarah Flowers, Ring Mountain School (CA) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 121B ROOM: PCC, 122A ERM Is Changing the Game: Values- Developing Agency and Based Risk-Taking at The Pingry School Purpose in Children In 2016, Pingry identified Enterprise Risk There has been much research around the Management (ERM) as a strategic priority and importance of helping students develop a began to build a formal program. Partnering sense of purpose and agency. How can you closely with consultants from Arthur J. integrate teaching a sense of purpose into Gallagher, the school built a robust process already busy school days? In this session, that enables it to look beyond the traditional you will hear about Compositive Primary’s definition of “risk” to identify and address model to achieve this, and you will learn about strategic business decisions. In this session, you developing inquiry arcs that integrate purpose will learn how Pingry intentionally integrated and agency into all facets of the curriculum. faculty and staff at every step along the way A sense of purpose can be instilled at an early in order to make ERM more valuable and age, and even the youngest students can sustainable. As a result, the process has been understand their role in the world and how driven from the bottom up. they can make a difference. PRESENTERS: David Fahey and Olaf Weckesser, PRESENTERS: Heather Mock, Meaghan The Pingry School (NJ); Dorothy Gjerdrum, Fitzgerald, and Amira Ababio, Compositive Arthur J. Gallagher Co. Primary (CO) TRACK GOVERNANCE TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 120C ROOM: PCC, 108B
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making, this session will provide you with 11:00 AM – NOON information, tools, and models you can use WORKSHOPS to guide and make overt how the leadership BLOCK 2 CONTINUED teams in your school make programmatic, strategic, and complex decisions. How To Create Your Own Feeder School PRESENTERS: Michael Walker, San Francisco Babies are big business. This session will Day School (CA); Wanda Holland Greene, explore the advantages of creating your own The Hamlin School (CA) feeder school to increase enrollment, improve TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT financial sustainability, and reengage with ROOM: PCC, 125 young alumni in a meaningful way. During this session, we will walk you through the Making Mastery Matter: hurdles—both real and perceived—of opening Empowering Educators to Learn programming for students and infants through and Teach in New Ways three-year-olds to create artistic renderings When it comes to school change, what does or a business model of the possibilities. You it look like to move from vision to action? This will leave with real data and a step-by-step workshop features the voices of leaders guiding process for determining whether your school their communities toward mastery learning. By should capitalize on the safety and security showcasing work completed by the presenters’ of its campus to invest in these programs. schools, the workshop will introduce you to This is a legacy worth exploring! a variety of practical, effective strategies PRESENTERS: Samantha Campbell and that empower educators to experiment with Katie Sibson, Saint Paul’s School (FL) new approaches and reimagine the student TRACK MANAGEMENT learning experience. This rapid-fire round of ROOM: PCC, 118B presentations will conclude with a Q&A and a brief strategy design activity. Institutional Decision-Making: PRESENTERS: Eric Hudson, Global Online Demystifying and Improving Academy; Hannah Nelson, Watershed an Essential Skill School (CO); Meghan Cureton, Mount Vernon Improving the decision-making of your Presbyterian School (GA); Stephen Dunn, leadership teams can have an immediate The Nueva School (CA) impact on the performance of your school. TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Demystifying how decisions are made based on ROOM: PCC, 113B a research-based rationale for your processes will improve outcomes and create increased support for the decisions you and your teams make. In this session, you will learn how two schools created models to guide and inform the decision-making of their leadership teams. Anchored in the neuroscience of decision-
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Managing Schoolwide Ethical The Power of Place in Defining Conflict in the Age of Identity Politics Your School’s Educational Niche In this workshop, led by a head of school and a In a crowded and competitive marketplace, member of the board of trustees, you will learn independent schools are constantly refining about the development and implementation their value propositions for families and seeking of best practices in crisis management to strengthen their unique identities. For many and communications when a school faces schools, the notion of “place” has become community-polarizing ethical conflicts. Schools central to institutional identity. The Gunston offer no shelter from the increasingly divisive School, Winchester Thurston School, and national atmosphere, making preparation for Friends School of Baltimore have successfully such crises imperative. Using a particular event embraced place-based education, community from The Steward School in Richmond, Virginia, partnerships, and experiential learning to as a case study, the session will explore what create unique programs within their schools happens when different values, which at one that support educational innovation, promote time coexisted, went unnoticed, or were not authentic learning, impact the community, articulated, come into conflict with one another. and correlate positively with enrollment. PRESENTERS: Dan Frank, The Steward Join us for an interactive and action-oriented School (VA); Paul Yoon, Virginia session, and leave with a place-based plan Commonwealth University for your own school. TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT PRESENTERS: Emily Beck and John Lewis, ROOM: PCC, 109A/B The Gunston School (MD); Adam Nye, Winchester Thurston School (PA); Matt Position, Population, and Micciche, Friends School of Baltimore (MD) Sustainability (or Why Net Tuition TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Revenue Is Not “the Only Number ROOM: PCC, 118C That Matters”) Running a school is like running a state: What resources do you consume in the present rather than conserve for the future? Join a panel of heads, trustees, and foundation representatives to discuss challenges and opportunities for crafting a sustainable economic model for your school—and all schools. This session will include an extended Q&A and performance analytics for 800 independent schools. PRESENTERS: William Kummel, Rational Partners; Dana Weeks and Joe Evans, Germantown Friends School (PA); Joe Davis, Malvern Preparatory School (PA); Clifford Haugen, BLBB Foundation; Dave Farace, McDonogh School (MD) TRACK GOVERNANCE ROOM: PCC, 113A
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The Virtuous Cycle of Branding 11:00 AM – NOON and School Excellence WORKSHOPS The benefits of branding extend well beyond BLOCK 2 CONTINUED improvements in enrollment and fundraising results. Branding can have a catalytic impact on A Proactive Approach to the excellence of the educational program and Student Sexual Misconduct: student experience, and that further enhances Policies and Procedures That a school’s brand. Through a number of case Empower the Community studies, you will learn how the relationship This session will address how to design student between branding and school improvement sexual misconduct policies that are legally establishes an upward spiral of excellence. compliant, consistent, and proactive. You will PRESENTERS: Chuck English, English Marketing learn about the laws that should be at the core Works; Brad Weaver, Sonoma Country Day of such policies, from mandatory reporting School (CA) to laws on sexting, as well as whether Title TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT IX may apply to your school. And you will ROOM: PCC, 111A/B consider the risks associated with inconsistent policy implementation. In addition, even with What May We Do and What Must strong, proactive policies, investigations into We Do? Responding to Common student sexual misconduct are inevitable; in Student/Employee Health Concerns line with our positive approach, you will explore This session is designed to identify the trusted techniques for conducting a thorough, four most common health-related issues compliant investigation. that schools need to address—mental PRESENTERS: Candace McLaren and health, medical marijuana and CBD Kathryn Beaumont Murphy, Saul Ewing products, emotional support animals, and Arnstein & Lehr LLP immunizations—and establish a framework TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE that schools can use to analyze each issue. ROOM: PCC, 123 You will review the relevant and current laws on the topics, as well as community and practical considerations that impact how schools address these important concerns. PRESENTERS: Ashley Sykes and Grace Lee, Venable LLP TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 122B
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Why Donors Give to Your People Are Your Legacy: Independent Schools Intentionally Crafting School Culture Using an innovative methodology known as Through Hiring Practices Jobs to Be Done, NAIS has identified the key Who you hire is arguably the greatest legacy reasons donors give to independent schools you leave as a school leader. Families come and why they choose to donate to specific and go, but independent school teachers campaigns. In this session, you will explore frequently stay on for their careers—shaping the context, motivations, and outcomes behind school culture in their classrooms every day, donations. This information can be brought and carrying that culture from year to year to back to your school to improve the solicitation generations of students. At this session, you process and help you communicate more will learn about tools and techniques that can effectively with prospective donors. help you assess every aspect of your hiring, PRESENTERS: Joe Corbett and Davis Taske, onboarding, and retention practices for their NAIS; Vince Watchorn, Ghana International ability to communicate your school’s values, School (Ghana) intentionally shape its culture, create a more TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT equitable and inclusive institution, and leave ROOM: PCC, 124 a lasting legacy. PRESENTERS: Jim Foley, Liz Perry, and Yin and Yang: Harnessing the Amber Berry, St. Luke’s School (CT) Admissions-Academics Partnership TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT to Build a Solid Future for Your School ROOM: PCC, 121C Admissions and academics are yin and yang: inseparable halves that must work in tandem Your Strategic Plan: Visualizing, to successfully secure the longevity of our Operationalizing, and Reporting institutions. In this session, you will explore Operationalizing a school’s strategic plan can the interdependent dynamics between these seem daunting. In today’s competitive climate, departments and how the two can forge boards want and need more information on a complementary partnership, break down the progress and completion of strategies silos, and establish an open and honest and action steps. Harpeth Hall has developed platform for critical information exchange. a strategic planning dashboard that serves You’ll receive helpful tools for student retention, as a bridge between the administrators and including ideas for creating a “high-touch” the board of trustees. In this session, you will culture that ensures that the experience from learn how this tool was developed and how the prospective student to current student is a school uses it. You will leave with a template to positive and cohesive one. adapt and use at your own school. This session PRESENTERS: Nija Meyer and Marcia Spiller, is designed for heads and leadership teams. Woodward Academy (GA) PRESENTERS: Molly Rumsey and Jess Hill, TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Harpeth Hall School (TN) ROOM: PCC, 120B TRACK GOVERNANCE ROOM: PCC, 112A/B
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Strategic Board Design 11:00 AM – NOON for a More Equitable Future WORKSHOPS When recruiting/considering new trustees, BLOCK 2 CONTINUED schools often target candidates with an eye towards the three Ts and Ws (time/work, talent/wisdom, treasure/wealth). In order FELLOWSHIP WORKSHOPS to better align our boards and governance Each of these 30-minute sessions is part with NAIS’s Principles of Good Practice for of the NAIS Fellowship for Aspiring School Equity and Justice, we must expand our Heads workshop series and is presented understanding of what makes a qualified and by the current cohort of fellows. All are effective governing body. Join us as we share welcome to attend. board composition data from NAIS member schools and offer considerations to build Sponsorship: Supporting Women boards that better reflect, represent, and in the Leadership Pipeline steward our rapidly changing and increasingly Schools understand the importance of diverse school communities. mentoring future leaders. However, few PRESENTERS: Krista Demas, Shady Hill School studies indicate the value of sponsorship in (MA); Lise Goddard, Midland School (CA); becoming a school leader. This session will Camille Seals, Agnes Irwin School (PA); provide suggestions for aspiring leaders in Cheryl Ting, Redwood Day (CA); Liz Willis, acquiring a sponsor and for current school Oakwood School (CA) leaders in becoming a sponsor by sharing TRACK GOVERNANCE survey data and common practices. ROOM: PCC, 110A/B PRESENTERS: Cyndy Jean, Hackley School (NY); Meredith Legg, Emma Willard School 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (NY); Margaret Lofgren, Foothill Country Day School (CA); Amy Torok Mendel, Master Class With Jonathan Haidt Kentucky Country Day School (KY); Cheryl Educators in the Crossfire: Nkeba, Gilman School (MD); Johara Tucker, Investigating Conflict and Creating Head Royce School (CA); Tambi Tyler, a Culture of Resilience Atlanta International School (GA) See full details on page 12. TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PCC, 126A ROOM: PCC, 110A/B
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Positioned for Transitions: Fostering Gender-Inclusive Schools 1:30 – 2:30 PM By combining academic research with my BLOCK 3 WORKSHOPS personal experience supporting my spouse through a gender transition, I present a roadmap to gender-inclusive schools. PECHAKUCHA PRESENTER: Kelsey Schroeder, The Hamlin PCC, 119A/B School (CA)
Come see these rapid-fire sessions in Removing Body Language the popular PechaKucha format: 20 slides, Cues to Strengthen Brainstorming 20 seconds per slide. and Problem-Solving Subtle body language cues can stifle How Schools Can Support Faculty collaboration. “Politeness” can interfere with Mental Health and Wellness efficient communication. Power imbalances This presentation will reveal how independent kill creativity. Here’s how to fix it. schools can prioritize faculty mental health and PRESENTER: Luci Englert McKean, National wellness, and why we must. School Reform Faculty PRESENTER: Meg Haston, The Savannah Country Day School (GA) The Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities of Verbal Affirmation in Education How to Meditate When You Praise is a powerful human weapon. Because Don’t Have the Time it imposes our own ideas onto others’ bodies, Mindfulness and meditation can be a valuable educators must be ethical and linguistically component of educator self-care. While it skilled in its application. isn’t easy, it is simple. It can be done any time PRESENTER: Liz Bruno, Hampshire Country and any place. School (NH) PRESENTER: Marc Balcer, The Shipley School (PA) So All May Learn: The Legal Arc of Inclusion Leading With Empathy to Diffuse We need to know the story of education in Conflict and Bring People Together America; otherwise the narrative of the fight Conflict is a fact of life. By taking steps to for equity and justice will be told by others. refine our sense of empathy, school leaders PRESENTER: Philippe Ernewein, Denver can diffuse conflict and find common ground. Academy (CO) PRESENTER: George Swain, New York State Association of Independent Schools
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The Board Chair-Head Partnership: 1:30 – 2:30 PM Lessons Learned in a Crisis WORKSHOPS The way in which a board chair and head BLOCK 3 CONTINUED of school partner in a crisis can mean the difference between success and failure. In this Benefits and Boundaries: Heads of session, you will learn how Branson School School Serving on Other Schools’ Boards managed a historic sex abuse investigation A head’s legacy is not necessarily confined to in a manner that achieved the best possible the school he or she led. Serving as a trustee outcome for the survivors, the current school for another school can create a significant and community, and the broader Bay Area lasting partnership that benefits all involved. community. The partnership between the chair Heads bring unique experience and expertise and head was well-established prior to the that can provide vision and a steadying influence crisis, and this proved invaluable in decision- in times of crisis, when creating strategic plans, making, implementing strategy, and working and in general advising. At the same time, those with the full board when the crisis hit. serving in that role need to be cognizant and PRESENTERS: Jim Hulbert, The Jane Group; respectful of appropriate boundaries. In this Chris Mazzola and Claudia Lewis, The Branson session, you will join two retired heads and the School (CA) two active heads on whose boards they serve TRACK GOVERNANCE to participate in a conversation addressing ROOM: PCC, 108B blessings and cautions. PRESENTERS: Ben Pettit and Ruth Glass, Sun Breaking the Bonds of Bias Valley Community School (ID); Joan Beauregard, in Hiring Practices Educators’ Collaborative, LLC; Eric Thuau, Our schools commit to being inclusive French American School of Puget Sound (WA) communities, but how do we reflect this TRACK GOVERNANCE commitment when hiring employees? How do ROOM: PCC, 111A/B we move beyond the established network to seek a broader pool of candidates? How do we Blowing Up the Model: A New retain employees from marginalized groups Paradigm for Small School Governance once they enter the school community? In this Strong governance has been shown to be workshop, you will explore examples of tools an important determinant of the success that help examine your own biases and increase of independent schools. However, the lack awareness of challenges to this goal. You will of research on governance in small schools learn about resources that lead to hiring for prompted the presenters to engage in research equity and inclusion, engage in activities for to determine whether the model for strong reflection on the personal work needed, and governance is different in small schools. In this review anticipated cultural shifts that help session, you will hear about present research move toward more inclusive schools. that presents a strong case for a redefinition of PRESENTERS: Deborra Sines Pancoe, Friends governance in small schools. Council on Education; Toni Graves Williamson, PRESENTERS: Valaida Wise, Johns Hopkins Friends Select School (PA) University; Brooke Carroll, Acies Strategies TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRACK GOVERNANCE ROOM: PCC, 118C ROOM: PCC, 121A
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Building Bridges: Practical Tips Confronting Hate in Our Schools for a Successful Head’s Transition In this workshop, you will explore a broad In an era of unprecedented turnover in range of scenarios increasingly experienced headship, schools are faced with a significant by schools and reported in the media across challenge to help their communities through the country, including the use of hate symbols, uncertainty. In this session, you will hear from an speech, and actions. We will talk about outgoing head of school, an incoming head of what each of us can do to help strengthen school, a board chair, and an association leader school communities where everyone feels who will share their insights and practical tips safe and valued. In this session, you will learn for setting up a head’s transition that is not only about the recent escalation in white nationalist successful but energizing for everyone involved. activity, why white nationalists recruit in You will reflect on your own school context, schools, and how school leaders can help as well as explore communication strategies, inoculate their communities against hate. event ideas, sample timelines, and other You will leave with tangible ideas and action considerations for ensuring strong governance items to take back to your school. before, during, and after a leadership transition. PRESENTER: Jessica Acee, St. Mary’s PRESENTERS: Julia de la Torre, Laurence Van Academy (OR) Meter, and Barbara Caldwell, Moorestown TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Friends School (NJ); Peter Baily, Association ROOM: PCC, 121B of Independent Maryland & DC Schools TRACK GOVERNANCE Data Analysis and Research ROOM: PCC, 122B Tailored to Your School’s Size, Budget, and Personnel The Challenge of Leadership in Data analysis and institutional research are Independent Schools: EE Ford increasingly helping schools inform decisions Foundation Study and Action Plan and drive strategy, but you don’t need to hire The EE Ford Foundation is extending its new staff or purchase new software to get efforts to fulfill its mission to improve started. In this session, you will learn from a secondary education and to encourage variety of leaders about how they cultivated promising practices beyond making grants different data and research programs at their to schools and associations to include the schools. The panelists include a school head, examination of challenges identified in the an institutional researcher, a director of data independent school world. The session’s topic, services, and a CIO. They will share their leadership challenges for independent schools, experiences on what motivated their schools is the initial focus. This workshop will also give to pursue research, the successes and you a brief introduction to the Foundation challenges they have faced, and the impact and its work, a description of the results of research has had at their schools. its efforts to date in this examination, and an PRESENTERS: Jamie Britto and Louis Fierro, opportunity to discuss related areas of interest. Collegiate School (VA); Eric Temple, Lick- PRESENTER: John Gulla, The Edward E. Wilmerding High School (CA); Tye Campbell Ford Foundation and Rachel Gorsky, Gilman School (MD); Jason TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Ramsden, Ravenscroft School (NC) ROOM: PCC, 117 TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 118B
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Emerging Trends in Global Education 1:30 – 2:30 PM New data from both the Global Education WORKSHOPS Benchmark Group and NAIS indicate a number BLOCK 3 CONTINUED of emerging trends in global education programs at independent schools. Come Disruptive Development: Coaching explore this useful and accessible data, and as a Tool for Culture Change discuss examples of how schools are tackling Instructional coaching, a practice grounded in the issues highlighted in these trends, including improving student learning, is a powerful tool off-campus risk management, international that can also be used to meet myriad needs student recruitment, global program beyond the classroom, from supporting equity administrative structure, and competency- work to helping teacher-leaders reflect on based program design. Together we can their own leadership practice. Lovett has used use these insights to better create, design, instructional coaching as a springboard to shift structure, manage, and assess our work to school culture around how both teachers and prepare students to be engaged citizens in an leaders grow, quickly moving from the seed increasingly interconnected and complex world. of an idea to a full-fledged coaching program PRESENTERS: Clare Sisisky, Global Education that has paid dividends well beyond what Benchmark Group (GEBG); Nishad Das, Groton was anticipated. In this session, you will hear School (MA); Joe Vogel, Old Trail School (OH); Lovett’s story and have time to consider ideas Ioana Suciu Wheeler, NAIS to take back to your own school. TRACK MANAGEMENT PRESENTERS: Teddi Bair and Stacia McFadden, ROOM: PCC, 113B The Lovett School (GA); Marsha Little, Carney, Sandoe & Associates Five Essential Steps for TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Conducting an Investigation ROOM: PCC, 113A Claims of misconduct abound. From allegations of harassment and bullying to cheating and sexual assault, schools are expected to assess and respond effectively to each claim. But more and more investigations themselves are being scrutinized. Rather than address the underlying misconduct, students and employees (and their attorneys) are taking issue with the school’s process. At this presentation, you will review a framework for conducting investigations that will ensure that the process a school follows is appropriate and that the focus remains on the conduct at issue and not the school’s response to it. PRESENTERS: Michael Blacher, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore; Kimberly Cole, United Educators TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 118A
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Free to Be You and Me AND Getting Strategic About Competitive for College Admission? Advancement and Enrollment Goals As experiential education and mastery-based Hillbrook School, a JK-8 school in Los Gatos, learning (and possibly transcripts) become California, increased annual giving by more more than just ideas and buzzwords, college than 60%, increased parent participation to counselors are tasked with finding the best fit 99%, and increased enrollment by 23% over for each student’s academic abilities, interests, the last four years. The school fostered this and college aspirations in a system that has growth by creating strategic plans for enrollment no established pathway. In this session, you management, development, and marketing. will explore topics related to progressive In this session, you will learn how the school education and college counseling, including implemented action plans that are rooted in recommendation letters, testing, profiles, the overarching strategy of the enrollment and relationships with colleges. management, development, and marketing PRESENTERS: Cristan Harris and Renee teams, including how to identify metrics to Bischoff, Hawken School (OH); Gavin Bradley measure progress and to pivot in real time and Paul Joffe Gallagher, The Nueva School to achieve goals. You will explore how to (CA); Dorothy Jones, The Bay School of San strengthen your own strategic efforts. Francisco (CA) PRESENTERS: Joe Connolly and Mark Silver, TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Hillbrook School (CA) ROOM: PCC, 113C TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT ROOM: PCC, 120A From Strategic Planning to Strategic Foresight: A Leaner, More Flexible Process The accelerating pace of innovation in this century has given rise to a new oxymoron: permanent change. Strategic plans that are marathons in size, scope, and process will impede responsive and flexible thinking and action. Google manages a three-year financial plan but operates with one-year strategic plans, having replaced traditional multiyear plans with a “culture of ongoing strategic thinking.” What would such a culture of ongoing strategic thinking look like in an independent school setting? In this workshop, you will explore the answers to that question and learn about models of strategic foresight that have been successful in recent years. PRESENTERS: Douglas Lyons, Connecticut Association of Independent Schools; John Fixx, The Country School (CT) TRACK GOVERNANCE ROOM: PCC, 109A/B
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Growing Capacity From the Inside 1:30 – 2:30 PM Out: Integrating Diversity, Equity, WORKSHOPS and Inclusion Into Your School Culture BLOCK 3 CONTINUED This presentation will outline the intentional steps of one institution to set the priorities that A Golden Moment for Women’s led to a strategic plan with concrete diversity Leadership in Schools and inclusion goals along with metrics. You will We are on the cusp of unprecedented new examine how this approach required both top- opportunities for women to make their mark down and bottom-up support in order to move as independent school leaders. Projections are toward an institutional model of professional that nearly 70% of current sitting heads will development that grows the cultural retire over the next decade, and competition for competency skills of faculty and staff, along outstanding school leaders will be increasingly with a measured approach to sustain long-term robust. Meanwhile, search committees are learning and inclusive change. already demanding more diverse candidates, PRESENTERS: Christen Tedrow-Harrison and and search consultants are eager to bring Heather Gray, Francis Parker School (CA) more women candidates to schools. Hear a TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE distinguished panel of women school heads ROOM: PCC, 115C share their leadership journeys and offer practical guidance from their experiences. Leave a Legacy as Unique as A search consultant will describe the search Your School: Powerful Strategies and application process. for Alumni Engagement PRESENTERS: Ann Teaff, Bill Christ, and Karen This workshop provides K–12 heads and Whitaker, Carney, Sandoe & Associates; assistant heads; trustees; and advancement, Kimberly Field-Marvin, Louise S. McGehee development, and communications School (LA); Wanda Holland Greene, The practitioners with strategies for effectively Hamlin School (CA); Marcia Spiller, Woodward engaging alumni in building and sustaining Academy (GA) a positive school community and a lasting TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT legacy. Using quantitative and qualitative data ROOM: PCC, 122A gathered from five NAIS regions (New England, East, Middle Atlantic, Southeast, and the West), the presenters will review trends and successful strategies that encourage alumni volunteerism, donations, and participation in schools with different demographic representations, history, and missions with the ultimate goal of building a lasting legacy. PRESENTERS: Melissa Myers, Sterne School (CA); Lisa Vardi, Bullis School (MD); Jennifer Landis, Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child (NJ); Elise London, Moses Brown School (RI); Lisa Oberstein, Hackley School (NY) TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT ROOM: PCC, 120B
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Multi-School Organizing: Distributed immersion, experiential, and workforce Leadership for Impacting School learning. In this workshop, you will explore Culture Change, Social Justice, and More unique approaches to the future of careers Professional learning communities are and work for today’s students. Two well- increasingly online, enabling educators to make established independent school programs meaningful connections beyond their locales. will be presented as examples of secondary Conversations about policies and initiatives programming that seeks to prepare students have benefited from platforms including for a dynamic post-collegiate world. Twitter, mailing groups, and Slack communities. PRESENTERS: Jeremy Goldstein, Episcopal In this session, you will hear from the presenters High School (VA); Matthew Gerber, who have achieved gains in social justice Western Reserve Academy (OH); Jefferson initiatives and facilitating school culture change Burnett, NAIS as they share stories and provide practical TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE tips that address the following questions: ROOM: PCC, 125 How can schools participate in discourse that extends beyond their walls? What brings virtual Putting Your Brand to Work: communities together and helps them thrive? How to Keep Your Message Alive How might independent schools leverage in the Marketplace shared knowledge to reimagine policy, cultural You’ve completed a branding exercise, and you challenges, and decision-making? have messaging that authentically represents PRESENTERS: Matthew Reininger, Trinity who you are as an institution. Maybe you’ve School (NY); JP Connolly, Avenues: The World even updated your viewbook, ads, and website, School (NY); Reshan Richards, New Canaan but now what? The biggest pitfall after you Country School (CT); Kenny Graves, Ethical have participated in a branding exercise is that Culture Fieldston School (NY); Erica Corbin, the work often stops there. In this session, Chaplin School (NY); Justine Fonte, Dalton you will learn creative ways to put your brand School (NY) to work and keep your message alive in the TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT marketplace in order to continually draw right- ROOM: PCC, 112A/B fit families and fundraising dollars. PRESENTERS: George Zeleznik, The Crefeld Preparing World- and Workforce-Ready School (PA); Nancy McDonald, Leapfrog Group Graduates—Immersion, Experiential, TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT and Workforce Learning in Our Schools ROOM: PCC, 120C The Fourth Industrial Revolution is radically changing the future of work. How do educators design creative and effective approaches to prepare students for this new world? Western Reserve Academy and Episcopal High School, two historically traditional schools, are meeting the challenges of preparing our students to be agile and continuous learners with innovative
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identifying growth-oriented candidates in the 1:30 – 2:30 PM hiring process, accelerating the organizational WORKSHOPS acculturation process through immersive BLOCK 3 CONTINUED onboarding, and leveraging technology to promote innovation in creative ways. School Policies: Aligning Your PRESENTER: Tim Schwartz, Whitby School (CT) Documents With Legal Trends, TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Best Practices, and Your Mission ROOM: PCC, 123 In this session, you will review key considerations when developing, updating, Where Are the Good Administrators? and auditing the universe of your school’s Cultivate Your Garden by Growing written policies, including employee and Leadership Capacity in Your School student/family handbooks, as well as stand- There’s a moment of panic when we learn that alone policies, such as those concerning a beloved school administrator has decided immunization. Such considerations will include to retire. How will we find someone as capable, developing legal trends, national practice who “gets” our culture, who will fit in with the trends, and practical tips for approaching school community and work well with our the development or review of your policies. administrative team? In this workshop, you By interweaving legal and practical trends, will explore the development of a leadership this session will also touch on some of pipeline in an independent school that begins the developing areas of law impacting the first week a new teacher is on campus. NAIS schools nationwide. The session will You will learn how one school has built conclude with a Q&A. leadership capacity within the community PRESENTER: Megan Mann, NAIS and discuss what could work at your school. TRACK MANAGEMENT PRESENTERS: Anita Tychsen and Lisa ROOM: PCC, 124 Ockerman, Pine Crest School (FL) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Seven Steps to Building Administrative ROOM: PCC, 121C Teams That Maximize Productivity, Spark Innovation, and Create Joy Your Leadership Wheel Where do the best ideas come from? How Use the Leadership Wheel to discover where do you create a culture where everyone feels you are strong and where you want to grow empowered to innovate? In this session, as a leader. With peers and on your own, you’ll you will get answers to these questions plus develop a personal plan for building your an overview of seven actionable strategies leadership savvy in a way that is just right that, when consistently applied, become a for you, your time, and your resources. Come tour de force for building highly productive get curious about the leader you can be! administrative teams that find joy in their PRESENTER: Mary Menacho, California work, uncover hidden value, and come Association of Independent Schools up with innovative ideas that advance the TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT organization. Walk away with strategies for ROOM: PCC, 108A
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FELLOWSHIP WORKSHOPS 2:30 – 3:15 PM Each of these 30-minute sessions is part Networking Break in the NAIS Expo of the NAIS Fellowship for Aspiring School PCC, HALL E Heads workshop series and is presented by SPONSORED BY TIAA the current cohort of fellows. All are welcome to attend.
Best Practices for the Use 3:30 – 5:00 PM of Non-Need-Based Aid GENERAL SESSION This workshop will present research focused on the effects of schools’ adoption of non- need-based aid as an enrollment management strategy. We will illustrate concerns that emerge from the use of this type of aid and recommend principles of good practice for schools that choose to use non-need-based aid. PRESENTERS: Kelley Nicholson-Flynn, Riverdale Country School (NY); Craig Cetrulo, THREE PERSPECTIVES ON THE St. Andrew’s School (FL); Carter Abbott, FUTURE OF EDUCATION The Pingry School (NJ); Amanda Hale, The Musical performance by The Haverford Lexington School (KY); Andy Zimmer, Emerson School Notables, The Haverford School (PA) School (MI); Jennifer Moore, Rabun Gap- Introduction by Rich Nourie, Abington Nacoochee School (GA) Friends School (PA) TRACK MANAGEMENT PCC, TERRACE BALLROOM ROOM: PCC, 110A/B
“You’ll Figure It Out”: Transitioning to Administrative Roles Independent school administrators often 5:00 – 6:30 PM start their careers as classroom teachers. Identifying and encouraging teachers to apply President’s Welcome Reception for administrative roles is a way for schools PCC, HALL G to acknowledge potential and retain talented faculty members. How can schools best support and mentor promising new administrators to maximize success in their new roles? PRESENTERS: Beth Choiniere, St. Johnsbury Academy (VT); Jonathan Downs, Millbrook School (NY); David Landis, Rabun Gap- Nacoochee School (GA); Sophie Lau, Shady Side Academy (PA); Joshua LeRoy, Cardigan Mountain School (NH) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 110A/B 51 FEBRUARY 28 FRIDAY SESSIONS AVAILABLE IN AUDIO ON DEMAND. FRIDAY SESSIONS AVAILABLE IN VIDEO ON DEMAND.
Avoiding Teacher Turnover: Using 6:00 – 7:00 AM JTBD to Attract and Retain Top Talent RUN Meet in the Marriott Downtown Hotel Lobby Using an innovative methodology known YOGA Marriott Downtown, 409 as Jobs to Be Done, NAIS has identified the HIIT Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon D key reasons teachers have for teaching in independent schools and why they choose to teach at specific schools. In this session, you 6:30 AM – 1:00 PM will learn about these reasons, exploring the Registration Open context, motivations, and outcomes teachers PCC, Broad Street Atrium seek within their profession and schools. You can take this information back to your school to improve the hiring process and to help you recruit and retain talented teachers. 8:00 – 9:00 AM PRESENTERS: Carol Bernate and Amada Torres, BLOCK 4 WORKSHOPS NAIS TRACK MANAGEMENT Active Assailant Risk Management— ROOM: PCC, 121B Strategies for Managing Your School’s Risk Beyond Making Money: The dramatic increase in school-related The Relationship Between School shootings and assaults has forced schools to Culture and the Bottom Line reevaluate and update their risk management Connecticut has fewer students these days. policies and procedures. In addition to The aging of the baby boomers is coinciding preventive safety programs, insurance products with Connecticut having the third highest rate to support this risk exposure are becoming nationwide of people leaving the state. Despite an integral part of schools’ risk mitigation this, Watkinson School’s star is rising, and this efforts. In this session, you will hear about momentum is impacting both admissions and best practices methodologies for establishing fundraising. Head of School Teri Schrader and school safety and prevention programs, as well Director of Communication Jenni French will as how active assailant insurance works and share strategies that have fueled Watkinson’s integrates with the school’s insurance and risk success. Meeting in small groups, you will management program. share how your school culture is—or isn’t— PRESENTERS: Ronald Wanglin, Jamie Gershon, benefiting admissions and fundraising success. and Cheryl McDowell, Bolton & Company; Lisa The presenters will compare select dilemmas Turchan, The Buckley School (CA); Chris Joffe, raised in the small groups to Watkinson’s recent Joffe Emergency Services success and suggest possible course corrections. TRACK MANAGEMENT PRESENTERS: Jenni French and Teri Schrader, ROOM: PCC, 120A Watkinson School (CT) TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT ROOM: PCC, 125
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Building Leadership 8:00 – 9:00 AM Capacities Within Schools WORKSHOPS Most, if not all, educators harbor strong BLOCK 4 CONTINUED leadership abilities. Being in front of a classroom requires teachers to draw on Build More Resilient and Gritty Kids strengths and leadership qualities publicly. by Implementing Growth Mindset Over time, many teachers will want to advance Do your students give up too easily? Are they in their careers. Newer administrators may also afraid to approach a difficult challenge because want to take on increased responsibilities. For they are worried that they might not “look schools to thrive, senior administrators and smart”? You will learn the difference between heads of school must always build teams of a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, how leaders and nurture leadership throughout the process praise can turn “pedestal kids” into faculty and staff. In this session, you will hear gritty kids, and the common language that from panel members who present research, can be adopted in a classroom to encourage tell stories, and lead interactive activities, a growth mindset and to teach students that spurring thought and action on how school failure is not a permanent condition. You will leaders can cultivate and inspire leadership. leave with many no-cost strategies that can be PRESENTERS: Philip Gutierrez, Mid-Peninsula implemented tomorrow and dozens of concrete High School (CA); Roger Bridges and Peggy ways to encourage more effort and build Procter, Echo Horizon School (CA); Crystal resilience in your students. Land, Head-Royce School (CA); Melinda PRESENTER: Mark Minkus, Community Day Tsapatsaris, Westland School (CA) School (PA) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 120C ROOM: PCC, 111A/B Courageous Conversations: Building Bridges for Change by Creating Brave Spaces to Talk Blending SEL With Academics About Challenging Topics When social-emotional learning (SEL) is Gun control? Race? Gender? Sexuality? integrated into the curriculum, it sets the stage Immigration? Students want to talk, and they for each child to tap into his or her full potential. want to listen. In response to student demand In this workshop, you will explore insights into for dialogue skills and a brave space to use how social-emotional learning and academics those skills, the presenters created Courageous can be fully integrated into a project-based Conversations, an after-school event that gives learning curriculum. In this hands-on, students an opportunity to discuss challenging interactive workshop, you will hear from topics and current events in a way that fosters presenters who share examples of projects active listening and productive participation. and curricular construction tools from Synapse This presentation will give you the tools to that reflect and support the goal of building a create a similar space in your own school. bridge between SEL and academics. PRESENTERS: Kerri Schuster and Kelly Weber, PRESENTERS: Katie Morgan, May Duong, and Sacred Heart Academy Bryn Mawr (PA) Stephanie Seto, Synapse School (CA) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 122A ROOM: PCC, 118A
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Digital Well-Being: An Innovative and The Evolution of an Institution’s Research-Based Approach for Schools Engagement With Racism Although digital tools hold great promise for By shifting from intellectual engagement transforming education, today’s students face about racism to a more holistic exploration a multitude of challenges, ranging from hate of the ways racism influences our emotions, speech and cyberbullying to social comparison, bodies, and minds, Lick-Wilmerding High that stem from being “always on.” In this School is moving our community toward age of unprecedented technological change, greater recognition of how racism shows up schools need an innovative approach such as in our school and in ourselves. Through group Digital Well-Being. This session will outline the dialogue and artistic expression, you will learn research and present an innovative framework strategies for engaging your community in to help students build the skills and dispositions ways that originate within and reverberate to manage their personal health, safety, and outward toward building meaningful relationships, as well as build their resilience relationships. The workshop will give you in digital settings. You will hear workshop space for personal reflection and a pathway leaders present guiding principles on how toward emotional resiliency. to implement a sustainable, schoolwide PRESENTERS: Eric Temple, Tamisha Williams, approach to Digital Well-Being. and Nikkia Young, Lick-Wilmerding High PRESENTERS: Scott Erickson, Phillips Brooks School (CA) School (CA); Linda Burch and Rebecca Randall, TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Common Sense Media ROOM: PCC, 108A TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 121C Finding the Balance: Supporting Students With Mental Health Engaging Challenging Parents: Issues While Simultaneously Tools for Teachers Supporting Everyone Else! Most parents of independent school students This session will help you determine when are supportive and easy to work with. However, and how your school can accommodate some parents, conversations, and topics students, communicate the need for can present challenges. At this interactive various accommodations to faculty and workshop, you will learn to reframe (most) other members of the community, and parental concerns and develop communication reduce the risks of litigation along the way. and problem-solving skills to help manage You will hear about some of the more challenging parents effectively. challenging scenarios that schools have faced PRESENTERS: Sara Stephenson and and where they might be able to draw the Carrie Singh, Ashley Hall (SC) line in cases where resources are limited. TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE PRESENTERS: Susan Guerette, Fisher & Phillips, ROOM: PCC, 124 LLP; Carrie Kries, Gladwyne Montessori (PA) TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 123
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Head of School Turnover: Insights 8:00 – 9:00 AM and Implications From the NAIS–UPenn WORKSHOPS Research Collaborative BLOCK 4 CONTINUED Over the last 18 months, NAIS has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania to better Gamification: The Expansion Pack understand the perceived increase in head of If you’re interested in gamification but have school turnover. In this session, you will hear been struggling to make it work, you don’t from members of the research team as they need to attend another workshop designed to share the findings of this multitiered study, as convince you that there is merit in gamification. well as potential implications for independent You want to master design techniques so school sustainability, governance, and you can increase classroom engagement on leadership resources. your terms. In this session, you will learn the PRESENTERS: Anne-Marie Balzano, Jay Rapp, underlying theories that make games work, and Margaret Anne Rowe, NAIS; Earl Ball and taking your gamification to a whole new level. Michael Johanek, University of Pennsylvania We will explore four basic concepts that can TRACK GOVERNANCE be easily incorporated into lesson planning ROOM: PCC, 122B to increase student engagement with course materials. As part of this presentation, we Immersive Learning Across Disciplines will evaluate the effect of these principles With Virtual and Augmented Reality on participant volunteers. Augmented and virtual reality are technologies PRESENTER: Joe Cox, Lutheran High School that are innovating teaching and learning South (MO) by engaging students through immersive TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE experiences, making content accessible, and ROOM: PCC, 112A/B providing emerging platforms for student- generated content. In this workshop, you will explore digital reality experiences and leave with lessons you can implement immediately, along with a framework for working with faculty through interdisciplinary collaboration. The presenters will share the story of how they’ve integrated these digital realities into the curriculum, reaching across disciplines to create learning experiences for students to access content, visualize complex and abstract ideas, construct knowledge, and generate new content. PRESENTERS: Mary Ann Stillerman and Cristi LeBron, The Walker School (GA) TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 113A
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Leading Across Schools: Co-Creating at San Diego’s High Tech High), practice a Competency Roadmap designing a project in collaborative groups, How might schools co-create roadmaps to brainstorm ways to apply this model in your evolve assessment practices that can be scaled own school, and receive resources to start and shared? In this session, you will examine your own Deeper Learning practice. how six school leaders joined forces to share PRESENTER: Christopher Buonamia, The best practices. You will learn how schools, Town School (NY) in different stages of evolving assessment TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE practices, are leading strategic change ROOM: PCC, 113B initiatives toward mastery-based teaching and learning. Initiatives range from creating A Legacy for All Students: Reimagining competency-based courses and matching Public, Private, and Community competency assessment with traditional letter Partnerships and Frameworks grades to piloting the Mastery Transcript and Grounded in the belief that we are all even creating a new ungraded high school. responsible for educating all children, this The session concludes with a moderated workshop session will challenge you to rethink panel exploring change leadership focused on and reimagine public/private partnerships. mastery learning. You will leave with protocols You will hear about a group of educators for developing cross-school conversations on who work across all educational systems to teaching and learning. transform education in Hawai’i. Facilitators PRESENTERS: Regan Galvan, Vistamar School will share examples of different public/private (CA); Mike Peller, The White Mountain School frameworks that leverage community and (NH); Derek Kanarek, Catlin Gabel School (OR); cultural resources, expertise, and knowledge. Julia Griffin, The Mastery School of Hawken After viewing artifacts of Hawai’i’s collaborative (OH); Zac Carr, The Nueva School (CA); Terry journey, you will have an opportunity to identify Yamamoto-Edwards, Punahou School (HI) potential partnerships and develop strategies TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT to maximize and leverage your community ROOM: PCC, 121A resources and strengths. PRESENTERS: Christel McGuigan and Leigh Learning That Sticks: Bringing Fitzgerald, Mid-Pacific Institute (HI); Evan High-Quality Project-Based Learning Beachy, Kamehameha Schools (HI); Kapono Into Your Classroom Ciotti, The American International School Classroom projects are nothing new, but they in Egypt (Egypt) are often relegated to the periphery of curricula TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE as extension work or take-home assignments. ROOM: PCC, 118B In contrast, project-based learning (PBL) is a rapidly growing approach to student- centered pedagogy that places projects firmly at the center of units of study. While there are numerous iterations of PBL, the Deeper Learning model provides a simple framework encompassing critical student competencies. In this workshop, you will gain an introduction to the Deeper Learning model of PBL (developed
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questions related to the Why? What? Who? 8:00 – 9:00 AM When? and How? of engaging with these WORKSHOPS issues. You will apply the concepts and BLOCK 4 CONTINUED language presented to school-based scenarios. Your school mission will be your primary Leveraging Accreditation to Identify reference point for this work. Bring humility, and Advance Strategic Priorities curiosity, and a sense of humor! If only this accreditation process could be more PRESENTER: Jennifer Bryan, Team Finch strategic! In this session, you will learn how one Consultants school masterfully harnessed what was learned TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE through drafting a self-study, analyzing the ROOM: PCC, 117 visiting committee report, and reflecting on the accreditation process as a whole to advance Personal Learning Groups: strategic initiatives in the school. You will Identify, Focus, and Build Your hear a head of school, a director of strategic School’s EDIJ Work initiatives, and a visiting committee chair share Schools need help knowing where to go their unique perspectives on both the process next in their equity, diversity, inclusion, and and the outcomes. As many schools move justice (EDIJ) work. The presenters provide an away from cumbersome, multiyear strategic empowerment model to meet colleagues at planning exercises to become more nimble their starting point and to develop personal and responsive to rapid cycles of change, the learning networks and the necessary resources potential for alignment is even greater. to go forward. This workshop will walk you PRESENTERS: George Swain, New York State through Part One (know your social identifiers— Association of Independent Schools; Paul which garner the most privilege and which bring Burke and Nikki Vivion, The Nightingale- the most bias) and Part Two (focus on your Bamford School (NY); JoAnn Douglass, Buffalo work at school, create your personal learning Seminary (NY) network, and receive targeted resources), and TRACK MANAGEMENT it will give you the scaffolding to engage in Part ROOM: PCC, 108B Three (“put your needs in front of the group”— use norms to ask colleagues for support and Navigating Gender and feedback). You will leave with models and Sexuality in PreK–12 resources for further progress. Students naturally explore a range of identities, PRESENTERS: Jennifer Adams, Harpeth expressions, and roles as they navigate the Hall (TN); Jen Cort, Jen Cort Educational social and academic world in PreK–12. This Consulting session provides (1) a conceptual model for TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE understanding biological sex, gender, and ROOM: PCC, 113C sexuality and (2) contemporary terminology for exploring these essential parts of human identity. You will be invited to generate
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Real Talk Done Right: Engaging Strategies to Develop Global Our School Communities in Critical Competence in Students and Educators Conversations to Foster Inclusion Research shows that global competence is vital The words “equity” and “inclusion” are in for students’ success in a changing world. But many mission statements, but few schools what exactly is global competence, and how do have programming that engages dialogue we know whether our students are graduating for equity and inclusion. In this session, with the skills necessary to thrive and flourish diversity practitioners from three independent in a globalized society? In this workshop, you schools in Seattle—Lakeside, University Prep, will learn about strategies to integrate global and Overlake—discuss their programs for education across the curriculum. You will conversations about race, class, and gender hear from an independent school about its that foster cultural competence. You will leave internationalization methods and partnership this session with a toolkit of lesson plans, with McKinsey and Company to develop an programs, and processes that may engage assessment tool for global competence. your community in school programming that PRESENTERS: Ioana Suciu Wheeler and promotes inclusion, counters implicit bias and Jefferson Burnett, NAIS; Trish Anderson, Pace stereotype threat, and empowers the adult Academy (GA) community to ensure that each student is TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE seen, heard, and valued. ROOM: PCC, 109A/B PRESENTERS: Debbie Bensadon and Stephanie Wright, Lakeside School (WA); E-chieh Lin, Up and Down: Two New Heads University Prep (WA); Mahtab Mahmoodzadeh, Talk About Their First Year The Overlake School (WA) In this session, you will hear two heads of school TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE discuss the surprises they encountered during ROOM: PCC, 116 their first year of a new headship, addressing these questions: (1) What did you expect; what did you find; why the disconnect; how has it mattered? (2) What were the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership team; what had you been prepared for and how did the reality differ; why, and what have you done about it? (3) What could have been done—by you, by the trustees, by the search consultant—to minimize the surprises? Trustees, search consultants, coaches, and current and aspiring heads are invited to join in the conversation. PRESENTERS: Terrence Briggs, Bowditch & Dewey, LLP; Kimberly Ridley, Fayerweather Street School (MA); Lisa Sun, The Philadelphia School (PA) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 120B
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8:00 – 9:00 AM FELLOWSHIP WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS Each of these 30-minute sessions is part of BLOCK 4 CONTINUED the NAIS Fellowship for Aspiring School Heads workshop series and is presented by Who Are We? Perspectives on Balancing the current cohort of fellows. All are welcome High School and the College Process to attend. Increasingly, independent schools are expected to “deliver” elite college acceptances for Educator Resilience in students, often in contradiction of thoughtful, Times of Rapid Change developmentally focused mission statements. What are the implications of bolstering The tension between school marketing and resiliency in educators? We hope to better expectations about college outcomes has understand how the capacity to bounce back never been a more profound challenge, and in the face of change and adversity might students are caught in the middle. How might impact teachers, staff, and administrators in a we begin to extract ourselves from this war of variable education landscape. expectations and reframe the conversation? PRESENTERS: Lisa Baker, Bancroft School (MA); In this workshop, you will interact with Betsy Doss, Keys School (CA); Megan Cover, experienced professionals to approach the Tower Hill School (DE); Carrie Steakley, St. question from different perspectives, hoping Mary’s Episcopal School (TN); Hillary Freeman, to unpack some of the competing variables as The Nueva School (CA); Kate Halsey, Phoenix you work to serve your students and families Country Day School (AZ) thoughtfully and with both personal and TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT institutional integrity. ROOM: PCC, 110A/B PRESENTERS: Archie Douglas, Bentley School (CA); Mark Davis and Sonia Bell, St. Luke’s Leader to Leader: Building School (CT); David Gleason, Private Practice Relationship at the Top TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE It is vital for an incoming head of school to ROOM: PCC, 115C develop effective relationships with the board chair and other trustees in their inaugural years so they can successfully lead the school community. We surveyed heads of school to discover effective strategies they used to build productive partnerships. PRESENTERS: Melinda Zacher Ronayne, Interlochen Center for the Arts (MI); George Russo, The Buckley School (CA); Christina Gwin, Castilleja School (CA); Sharon DuPree, Hope Partnership for Education (PA); Anna Carello, Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School (DC) TRACK GOVERNANCE ROOM: PCC, 110A/B
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11:00 AM – NOON EXPO 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM BLOCK 5 WORKSHOPS NAIS Expo Open PCC, HALL E SPEED INNOVATING Teachers’ Edition Hear from some of the most innovative schools 9:00 – 9:30 AM across the country in intimate, 15-minute Break in the NAIS Expo mini-sessions. Friday’s sessions are focused on PCC, HALL E curricular innovation. PCC, ARCH STREET FOYER
9:30 – 10:45 AM 10 Steps to Becoming Reading GENERAL SESSION Culture Influencers: How the English Department Spearheads a Love of Reading PRESENTERS: Sherry Forste-Grupp and Melissa Sullivan, The Baldwin School (PA)
A Class on Class: Facilitating Conversations About Class and Money in Independent Schools PRESENTERS: Andrea Pien and Zoe Bender, The Bay School of San Francisco (CA)
ANGIE THOMAS Decolonizing Education: An Musical performance by Baldwin Belles and Interdivisional Approach to Developing Baldwin Bronze, The Baldwin School (PA) Global Competence, Critical Literacy, Introduction by Michael Gary, and Relevant Curriculum Friends Select School (PA) PRESENTERS: Shaakira Raheem and Georgia PCC, TERRACE BALLROOM Warner, Sidwell Friends School (DC)
Ecological Art and Activist Artists PRESENTER: Marie Huard, Greene Street Friends School (PA) 10:45 – 11:00 AM
Break The Importance of Risky Play for Our Children: Inspiring Leadership in Elementary Grades PRESENTERS: Jay Parker and Sarah Crowley, Calvert School (MD)
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Approaching Resilience in 11:00 AM – NOON Independent Schools With Data WORKSHOPS Students at high-achieving schools are often BLOCK 5 CONTINUED particularly successful, but they may also experience the negative effects of stress, anxiety, and depression. At this session, SPEED INNOVATING CONTINUED you will learn about the modifiable aspects of student life that can be used to improve Learning and Memory Strategies—How well-being and how evidence-based methods to Embed Study Skills in Our Teaching of data collection have been used to inform PRESENTER: Cloey Talotta, Princeton Day school programs. You will explore a case School (NJ) study example of how school administrators have used data to improve student health, No Desks? No Kidding. Using Open consider the benefits of taking a data-driven Space and Questioning to Increase approach, and discuss the potential challenges Student Talk Time of program implementation. PRESENTER: Bertina Hsu-Miller, Germantown PRESENTERS: Suniya Luthar and Nina Kumar, Academy (PA) Authentic Connections; Lars Kuelling, The Harley School (NY) Politics Is NOT a Dirty Word: TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Promoting Civic Engagement Through ROOM: PCC, 122B Interdisciplinary Team Teaching PRESENTERS: Joe Croker and Ben Fulwider, Disabilities: Simplifying the Employee Harpeth Hall School (TN) and Student Accommodation Process Service dogs, emotional support animals, “There’s Never Time for Anything Fun!” learning differences, diabetes, anxiety, Alternative Math Classroom Activities ADHD, seizure disorder, surgeries, and PRESENTER: Josh Singer, The Madeira heart problems—today’s environment for School (VA) understanding and accommodating disabilities can seem daunting. This session will provide Why Teach Artificial Intelligence (AI) you with a workable process to help make sense and Machine Learning in School? of how to address these complicated issues. PRESENTERS: Tracy Rudzitis and Jaymes Dec, PRESENTERS: Suzanne Bogdan, Fisher & Marymount School of New York (NY) Phillips, LLP; Whitney Walters-Sachs, Pine Crest Preparatory School (FL) TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 121C
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Evaluate Your Affordability and endowment into a predictive model; and Build Your Prospects With (5) assesses financial alternatives for new NAIS Tools and Resources programs or capital projects; and (6) provides a See how Data and Analysis for School matrix to evaluate the long-term implications of Leadership (DASL) and MarketView, NAIS’s financial decisions as they impact the school’s premier data tools, can assist your school endowments to ensure financial sustainability. in building, maintaining, and ensuring your PRESENTERS: Albert Bellas, Stephen B. Wells, affordability. Starting with stories from your and Timothy J. Lindsay, The Solaris Group LLC; peers, you’ll see what issues they have wrestled Mary Carrasco, Sidwell Friends School (DC) with around affordability, how they used NAIS TRACK GOVERNANCE tools to get insight, what strategies came ROOM: PCC, 112A/B from that work, and how those strategies have played out for their schools. Whether From Idiosyncratic to Systematic: affordability is a focus because of concerns Architecting a More Disciplined about enrollment, inclusivity, or staying Faculty Hiring Process competitive, this session will provide practical The hiring process in independent schools—as tools and concrete next steps you can take. elsewhere—is often opaque; insufficiently PRESENTER: Hilary LaMonte, NAIS structured; and prone to unintentional TRACK MANAGEMENT redundancies, fruitless interviews, and explicit ROOM: PCC, 121A and implicit biases. This can result in strikingly different experiences for candidates and, more Financial Management for Developing important, problematic hiring outcomes. In and Enhancing a School’s Endowments this session, you will learn the process that The The endowment is the most important Pingry School undertook to identify and resolve asset in ensuring a school’s financial the tensions in its hiring process, and you will sustainability. Albert Bellas will discuss a take a deep dive into its smarter design, which financial management protocol that assists has accelerated the learning about candidates in developing, maintaining, or enhancing a through a consistent, comprehensive, bias- school’s endowment. After a discussion of sensitive, and information-seeking approach. current endowment misconceptions, you PRESENTER: Delvin Dinkins, The Pingry will learn how to create a comprehensive School (NJ) financial protocol that (1) defines the school’s TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT endowments; (2) identifies the basic financial ROOM: PCC, 113B challenges confronting all schools; (3) creates critical ratios necessary to assess the school’s current financial position and its peer group status; (4) integrates the school’s operating budget, new program needs, capital projects, fundraising capacity, financing alternatives,
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Howdy, Partner: 10 Tips for a Successful 11:00 AM – NOON Head-Board Chair Relationship WORKSHOPS The rate of headship transition appears to be BLOCK 5 CONTINUED on the rise. Often, the head’s exit is the result of a failed relationship between the head and How Innovative Schools Address Social- the board chair. In this session, you will hear Emotional Health and Social Media from two association executives, former heads Bring your device to this interactive talk as of school now serving as counsel to heads and you navigate the do’s and don’ts of complex boards, about the essential steps to take to social situations facing students. You will maximize the likelihood that the head-chair learn actionable takeaways for empowering partnership will be strong and enduring. You students, parents, and educators to navigate will learn about relevant national and regional social media and technology positively. After data, hear wisdom gleaned from experienced three years of working with 60 independent heads and independent school consultants, and schools, The Social Institute’s Laura Tierney contribute your own ideas in interaction with will share a digitized, gamified social media presenters and participants. Recommendations curriculum, created with 40,000 students, for further reading will be provided. that is reshaping the way students learn PRESENTERS: Claudia Daggett, Independent social-emotional skills. Co-presenters Schools Association of the Central States; Doreen Kelly (head of school at Ravenscroft), Mark Crotty, Northwest Association of Colleen Ramsden (associate head of school at Independent Schools Ravenscroft), and Kim Perlman (head of upper TRACK GOVERNANCE school at Gaston Day) lead this sustainable ROOM: PCC, 113A program at their respective schools. PRESENTERS: Laura Tierney, The Social Increase Student Engagement… Institute; Doreen Kelly and Colleen Ramsden, With a Question! Ravenscroft School (NC); Kim Perlman, Gaston Learn how an inquiry learning model is being Day School (NC) used to focus on the types of questions TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE teachers ask in the classroom and how they ROOM: PCC, 108A are enhancing teaching and learning at a Philadelphia independent school. In this session, you will learn how Catalyst@PennGSE and St. Peter’s School are teaming up to share the ways that questioning in the classroom can challenge, increase engagement, and drive students toward deeper-level thinking and learning. PRESENTERS: Will Nord, St. Peter’s School (PA); Rachel Ebby-Rosin, University of Pennsylvania TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 124
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Interest Circles: A Tool to Listen Up: Using Student Voice to Transform Parent Experience Improve Well-Being and Increase Over the past decade, schools have experienced Engagement in Learning a downward trend in parent volunteerism and What are your students saying that you haven’t involvement in traditional parent association heard (yet)? In this session, you will learn how activities. This has resulted in burnout for current to listen more deeply to students’ experiences volunteers and decreased parent investment in in order to make data-driven changes that the school. Poughkeepsie Day School alleviated increase well-being and academic engagement. this problem by launching Interest Circles, a This interactive workshop highlights one program based on shared interests that provides school’s journey to elevate student voice and an excellent opportunity for parents to dive authentically include students in the change deep into areas of the school they are passionate process. You will explore multiple methods about. This session will help you understand for collecting student voice data and using how to increase parent involvement at your it to engage all stakeholders to identify and school, with the added value of enhanced implement meaningful changes to school student programs, improved alumni relations, culture and instructional practices. The session and increased awareness of your school and its will be led by students and administrators from mission by the greater community. Kent Denver School and their partners from PRESENTERS: Christina Powers and Ben Chant, Stanford’s Challenge Success. Poughkeepsie Day School (NY) PRESENTERS: Eric Chandler, Emerson Damiano, TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT and Vanessa Chavez, Kent Denver School (CO); ROOM: PCC, 111A/B Jennifer Villeneuve and Jon Kleiman, Challenge Success, Stanford University Let’s Get Personal: Professional TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Learning to Support Teacher Growth ROOM: PCC, 125 In a time when our lives continue to become more personalized, our professional learning experiences for educators have not kept pace. In too many schools, teachers continue to participate in one-size-fits-all “sit-and- get” professional development sessions. In this session, you will explore innovative practices in professional learning to design more personalized experiences that empower teachers. Together, we will apply personalized learning principles of voice, co-design, social construction, and self-discovery to design personalized professional learning models. Planning tools, models, and collaborative time will be provided to leave you feeling empowered to put your plan into action. PRESENTERS: Jill Cross, TMI Episcopal (TX); Allison Rodman, The Learning Loop TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 120C 65 FRIDAY
No Grades? No Problem! 11:00 AM – NOON Inside a Gradeless School WORKSHOPS Whether you’re an administrator interested in BLOCK 5 CONTINUED exploring a gradeless future for your division or school or a classroom teacher looking to pilot Looking to Enhance Your Curriculum? a gradeless classroom, in this session, you will Take a Walk Through Your School’s learn how the middle school at Poughkeepsie Neighborhood With Us Day uses a multilayered and individualized Are you an educator who strives to create more approach to feedback in order to enhance experiential learning? Do you enjoy finding student agency, increase equity, and support ways to make content more relevant? If so, you student growth. Through the innovative are like us—two educators at Friends Select marriage of time and space, dynamic feedback, School—who enjoy pushing the boundaries of narrative reporting, and an emphasis on teaching and learning. Over the years, we have reflection, PDS has a system that works. The discovered a plentiful and priceless resource session will also cover the challenges the school that your school also has—a neighborhood. faced with this approach and the response to Whether urban, suburban, or rural, your those challenges. neighborhood provides powerful lenses PRESENTERS: JJ Morrissey, Jake Lahey, and through which you can teach. We have found Gabe Smiley, Poughkeepsie Day School (NY) our lens in the city of Philadelphia, and we’d like TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE to help you find yours too. ROOM: PCC, 122A PRESENTERS: Natalie Mayer and Margaret Smith, Friends Select School (PA) Out of Your Comfort Zone and TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE Into a New Kind of Classroom ROOM: PCC, 115C How do you make every class real-world relevant? Learn how one school thrust 400 students and 100 faculty into a new frontier of experiential learning. More than a travel program, The Hun School’s new three-week intensive semester took students out of the classroom and into the origins of the hottest cultural debates and global problems—in places like Arizona, Montana, Memphis, France, and Ghana. In this session, you will hear from the brave visionaries who launched NextTerm as well as the faculty and students who went from skeptics to believers in Year One. PRESENTERS: Ryan Hews, Davirah Timm- Dinkins, Ted Shaffner, and Devon Pasieka, The Hun School of Princeton (NJ) TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 113C
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The Pathway to a Long-Standing Through the Lens of Gender, Identity, Headship: Transformational Leadership and Sexuality Education: Prepare Growing data suggest that fewer school heads Your PK-8 Students for Their World these days experience a tenure lasting more When is it appropriate to start teaching than 10 years. The average tenure of school about sexuality? A family of a kindergartner heads is decreasing as turnover is increasing. is talking about their child’s gender identity— Short tenures limit the ability of heads to be what do we do? How do we mediate boy/ impactful in a consequential way. Schools girl conversations between students? How with long-term heads have more time and do we provide gender, identity, and sexuality opportunity to generate considerable success education consistent with our school’s during their tenure. In this workshop, you will mission? Belmont Day School has grown explore data collected from heads and trustees a comprehensive, dynamic, responsive regarding trends, practices, and characteristics Health and Wellness curriculum with a that support or detract from transformational developmentally appropriate PK–8 Gender, tenures. The research will bring fresh Identity, and Sexuality strand. In this session, perspectives regarding the characteristics that you will learn about our research, experience, sustain transformational leadership that cannot and process. Explore our lessons and walk occur in the short term. away with resources. We are happy to help PRESENTERS: James Hickey, Austin troubleshoot as you build a curriculum to fit Preparatory School (MA); Lawrence Sykoff, your own community! Ranney School (NJ) PRESENTERS: Liz LaRocque, Kate Oznick, TRACK GOVERNANCE Leesa Mercedes, Nancy Fell, and Blair Fross, ROOM: PCC, 120B Belmont Day School (MA) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Supporting Student Advocacy ROOM: PCC, 123 on Generational Justice Issues: A Case Study on Climate Action Have you been inspired by the School Strike for Climate/March for Our Lives events but want to do more with students than protest? Join two high school climate advocates and their sustainability educators as they outline a case study that examines a process through which student passion can be channeled to make a real and lasting impact on generational justice issues. In this workshop, you will learn how to empower students to make an authentic appeal to state and national elected officials. PRESENTERS: Kelly Castañeda, Nancy Metzger- Carter, Christian Hernandez, and Kate Rooney, Sonoma Academy (CA) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 118A
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Trends in School Crises: What 11:00 AM – NOON to Expect and How to Prepare WORKSHOPS What are the challenges most likely to crop BLOCK 5 CONTINUED up in your school in the next year? Are you prepared? Learn about the latest trends Timeless and Timely Messaging: in school crisis work so you can lay the How to Honor Where You’ve Been groundwork now to avert disaster and respond and Celebrate Where You’re Headed appropriately when problems do arise. Discover While history can serve as a powerful unifier key warning signs to look for and ways to for internal stakeholders who take pride measure the biggest issues of the coming year. in traditions, external audiences don’t feel You’ll leave with a framework for managing any the same nostalgic pull. To resonate with crisis and tools to help you address the biggest prospective families, you must authentically issues of the coming year. The session will frame history and tradition as powerfully conclude with an interactive tabletop exercise. relevant to today’s students. The Peck School PRESENTERS: Jane Hulbert, The Jane Group; of Morristown, New Jersey, melded a proud Myra McGovern, NAIS sense of tradition with vivid, of-the-moment TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT storytelling to meet admissions goals and ROOM: PCC, 118B support a wide array of institutional priorities. Join Andy Delinsky, head of school, and Shelly Trumped? When Culture and Strategy Peters of CRANE for big-picture strategies and Conflict, Which Trumps? hands-on tips you can deploy to honor your All of us—heads, trustees, administrators, school’s past while ensuring its future. and faculty leaders—have seen our carefully PRESENTERS: Shelly Peters, CRANE | Atlanta; thought-through plans wrecked when they Andy Delinsky, The Peck School (NJ) came into contact and conflict with a culture TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT within our school that sees every idea as a ROOM: PCC, 120A challenge. At this session, we will unpack the elements of planning to see what we can do to address these cultural issues effectively. PRESENTERS: Terrence Briggs, Bowditch & Dewey, LLP; Michael Walker, San Francisco Day School (CA); Debra Wilson, Southern Association of Independent Schools TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 109A/B
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We Admitted a Diverse Student Body, and maintenance of social power relations. Now What? Addressing the Needs of You will explore the concept of Counterstory African American Students as a framework for liberation and to promote Independent schools have worked to increase equity, inclusion, and social justice. the representation of students of color; yet PRESENTER: Cora Antonio, Bellarmine College less attention has been devoted to creating Preparatory (CA) culturally inclusive school contexts. In this TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE multimodal presentation, you will learn ROOM: PCC, 117 about findings from a qualitative study that examined the social and cultural experiences Wonder Workshops: An Opportunity for of African American students and families in Students of All Ages to Learn Together independent school settings. You will explore What do you wonder about? This simple the implications for working more effectively question is the driving force for learners. with culturally and linguistically diverse Using the most compelling evidence in Mind students and their families. This session will Brain Education, Wonder Workshops were include a PowerPoint presentation, a detailed created to provide students of all ages the model for promoting the socio-emotional opportunity to work together collaboratively and academic functioning of African American and actively on a variety of creative themes. students, and relevant resources. At this workshop, you will learn about one PRESENTERS: Norma Day-Vines and Valaida school’s journey toward living the “Think, Make, Wise, Johns Hopkins University Improve” philosophy. Student work will be on TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE hand to celebrate the challenges and joys of ROOM: PCC, 108B growing such a program. Resources will be provided and time given for a whole-group What’s Your Story? Teaching share of ideas, plans, and best methods in Power, Privilege, and Poverty multiage, multigenerational learning. Through Counterstory PRESENTERS: Hilarie Hall, Jordan Love, In this workshop, you will learn how to help and Justin Pyles, St. Andrew’s Episcopal students examine positions of power derived School (MD) from privilege in order to understand that TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE passivity and complacency are equivalent to ROOM: PCC, 116 active oppression. One way to effect change is through the application of Counterstory methodology in education; this is a tool for exposing, analyzing, and challenging the privilege and dominance subsumed by normative, socially dominant narratives— narratives of race, class, gender, and other core categories that underlie the exercise
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11:00 AM – NOON FELLOWSHIP WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS Each of these 30-minute sessions is part BLOCK 5 CONTINUED of the NAIS Fellowship for Aspiring School Heads workshop series and is presented You Want to Be a School Head? by the current cohort of fellows. All are What You Need to Know NOW welcome to attend. About Advancement Being a head of school today means being All of Us Here: Welcoming able to cultivate relationships with donors and Latinx Families ask for gifts. These are not necessarily skills Latinx currently represent the largest, you have learned as a teacher or administrator. youngest, and fastest-growing ethnic group This session will review the fundamentals of in the United States. This significant advancement work and provide suggestions demographic shift, however, has yet to about how you can start getting some manifest fully in independent schools, where hands-on experience now, either at your Latinx represent one of the smallest ethnic school or through other community demographics. This presentation will look organizations. You will leave the session into the barriers that inhibit Latinx with a professional development plan representation in independent schools. for gaining advancement experience. PRESENTERS: Ira Dawson and Rick Holifield, PRESENTERS: Kendall Cameron, West The Walker School (GA); Tim Lear, Nottingham Academy (MD); Christine The Pingry School (NJ); Paris McLean, Jefferson and Michael Gary, Friends Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart (NJ); Select School (PA) Jeff Morrison, Trinity School (GA) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 121B ROOM: PCC, 110A/B
Culture Is King: Setting Up New Head Success Due to the high turnover of heads in recent years, we investigated whether the culture of a board influences the success of a new head of school. We will add to the current research that NAIS is doing concerning this topic to help ensure that new heads find success. PRESENTERS: David Long, The Galloway School (GA); Andrew Bishop, The Alexander Dawson School (NV); Jason Kern, All Saints Episcopal School (TX); Jayme Johnson, St. John’s Episcopal School (TX) TRACK GOVERNANCE ROOM: PCC, 110A/B
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Invisible Habits: How Might We NOON – 1:30 PM Change the “Rules” of School? Complimentary Lunch in the NAIS Expo What rules do we follow that we don’t realize PCC, HALL E exist? There are these invisible forces that control us. How might schools reimagine learning? PRESENTER: Bill Selak, Hillbrook School (CA) NOON – 3:15 PM
Master Class With Michele Mattoon Lessons That Stick: Creating a Curriculum Techniques for Building Belonging That Includes Diverse Perspectives in the Classroom Here’s how to design a curriculum that accurately See full details on page 13. and effectively teaches students content that PCC, 126A includes the perspectives of people of color. PRESENTER: Aundrea Tabbs-Smith, Waterside School (CT)
The Magic of Letter-Writing in the Classroom 1:30 – 2:30 PM Whether having his students write letters BLOCK 6 WORKSHOPS of gratitude or writing weekly letters to his students, Will McDonough outlines the value of letter-writing in schools. PECHAKUCHA PRESENTER: Will McDonough, New Canaan PCC, 119A/B Country School (CT)
Come see these rapid-fire sessions in Making Good Trouble: Teaching the popular PechaKucha format: 20 slides, Subversive Arab Texts in a 20 seconds per slide. Western Context Ghada Al Abbadi reflects on teaching Arab An Inclusive History of the Study texts on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in two of Greco-Roman Classics high school courses: World Literature and This mini-unit is part of a Latin 3 Honors course. Arabic Literature in a Global Context. It explores race and the history of “Classics” PRESENTER: Ghada Al Abbadi, The Miami and classical education in America. Valley School (OH) PRESENTER: Melanie Subacus, The Episcopal Academy (PA) When You’re 40, What Will You Remember From Fourth Grade? The Invisible Gorilla What do you remember about lower Play, movement, mindfulness: These are school? Was there a teacher who left a essential human needs that can be met meaningful impact on you? How can you and designed for in schools. So why is it leave behind a legacy? hard to do so? PRESENTER: Annie Errickson, San Domenico PRESENTER: Chris Cunningham, The School (CA) Chestnut Hill School (MA)
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Am I Lost, or Am I Searching? Reflective 1:30 – 2:30 PM Exercises for Journeys of Transition WORKSHOPS If you’re embarking on a transition or just BLOCK 6 CONTINUED dreaming of “what ifs,” this workshop will help change those moments of doubt into fertile, After the Diversity Training: life-changing reflection when you ask searching Assessing, Supporting, and Sustaining questions that really matter: Who do I want Instructional Fidelity in the Culturally to be? What is my authentic voice? What Responsive Classroom truly calls to me? Drawing on the work and How do we bridge the gap between wisdom of educators and poets Parker Palmer, professional development offerings and Judy Brown, David Whyte, and even Confucius, the meaningful translation of theory and this workshop will use guided, personal research into innovative curriculum planning reflection in partnership with thoughtful, and inclusive pedagogy? In this session, you small-group conversation to help you listen will learn how one instructional leadership carefully to your inner self and shift your team is developing tools to formally establish mindset from “lost” to “searching.” cultural competency as a critical instructional PRESENTERS: Shu Shu Costa, Moorestown component, describe ideal practitioner Friends School (NJ); Deborra Sines Pancoe, implementation, and offer a framework to Friends Council on Education strategically document observable teacher TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT behaviors and deepen emerging proficiencies. ROOM: PCC, 118B You will gain familiarity with assessment tools and implementation strategies, engage in Creating an Effective Support self-reflection to identify both personal and and Evaluation Process for a New institutional strengths/growth areas, and work Head of School collaboratively to explore the potential impact In this interactive workshop, you will hear of instructional fidelity frameworks on your about the journey of The Philadelphia School school community. (TPS) to create a formal head of school PRESENTER: Penn Pritchard, AIM Academy (PA) evaluation process. In anticipation of the arrival TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE of a new head, TPS spent a year creating a ROOM: PCC, 121C process focused on the support, growth, and development of a new head. Learn how the board governance committee led the work in creating this evaluation process that includes creation of a head of school support and evaluation committee, interviews of direct reports, use of BoardSource’s Head of School Assessment for Independent Schools, and a head of school self-reflection. PRESENTERS: Lisa Sun and Derek Jokelson, The Philadelphia School (PA) TRACK GOVERNANCE ROOM: PCC, 120B
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Creating Inclusive Environments Digital Humanities Are the New for Transgender and Non-Binary STEM: The Marriage of Liberal Arts, Students in Middle and Lower School Technology, and Educational Design You consider your school to be an inclusive As the STEM trend slowly plateaus, humanities space, but you want to do better with teachers are the marshals of the new economy. supporting transgender and non-binary The liberal arts are in demand for college and students in your lower and middle schools. careers because Digital Humanities blend the Where do you start, and what can your school best of publishing, dialogue, and transliteracy. do to include students of all gender identities? Do schools really need a “tech integrator” What are the first steps, how do you educate or “computer instructor” anymore? Those your faculty and community, and what role titles rely on last-decade understandings can students play in these efforts? How can of how teachers actually use technology. A you respond effectively to resistance and digital framework of English and social studies pushback? In this workshop, the Friends sees integration, feedback, and sharing as Council on Education brings you a panel interwoven in student learning. In this session, of experienced Friends school educators to you will explore 20 examples of coding, share their extensive work in creating safe social media, and technological tools that and supportive environments. reimagine what liberal arts looks like in an PRESENTERS: Betsy Torg, Friends Council on always-on world. Education; Kiri Harris, Greene Street Friends PRESENTERS: Mercer Hall, Patricia Russac, School (PA); Kimberly Clarkson, Moorestown and Natasha Chadha, Buckley Country Friends School (NJ); Rachel Kane, Sidwell Day School (NY) Friends School (DC) TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 113C ROOM: PCC, 124 The Educator as Learner: Teaching Design Thinking in Early Childhood: and Leading in a School That LEARNS They Can Do It, Too! How do adults learn best? How does this The idea of tackling Design Thinking with learning impact how they develop as teachers? young children can make even a seasoned How do schools need to change in order to teacher sweat. But early childhood is a support educator-learners more effectively? natural time to encourage Design Thinking In this session, you will learn how to cultivate and innovation. This hands-on workshop and actively design a school that LEARNS. This will help you guide young students through workshop shifts from professional development design challenges to develop perseverance to a focus on professional learning. and problem-solving skills. Takeaways include PRESENTER: Nicole Furlonge, The Klingenstein sample lessons that offer an easy way to get Center, Columbia University started, with opportunities for expansion and TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT different pathways for solutions. ROOM: PCC, 108A PRESENTER: Leigh Keener, Episcopal Collegiate School (AR) TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 125
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Finally! Faculty Growth and 1:30 – 2:30 PM Evaluation That Works WORKSHOPS Every school must be able to answer the BLOCK 6 CONTINUED question, “How do we ensure that we have a great faculty to deliver our mission with The Enrollment Experience excellence and ultimately increase student Reimagined: From Admissions performance, satisfaction, and enthusiasm?” to Ex-Missions and Beyond Many schools use traditional teacher evaluation Enrollment extends well beyond signing a systems to accomplish this goal, but these contract and sending in a deposit. Are you methods often fail to accurately identify mindful of your families’ “enrollment effectiveness in the classroom or drive experience”? What strategies do you employ professional development. In this session, you to ensure that families feel valued throughout will learn about a new paradigm of evaluation the process, from admissions to ex-missions and and professional growth and leave with a beyond? How do you convey to your families new way to enhance student performance. that they are authentically important to you? In PRESENTERS: Mike Gwaltney, Rocky Hill this interactive session, you will receive specific School (RI); Barbara Beachley, ISM tools, all grounded in “customer service” and TRACK MANAGEMENT best practices, that will make a lasting impact ROOM: PCC, 118A on your families, increasing retention across grade levels in a sustainable way. Fostering Civic Engagement PRESENTER: Carrie Kries, Gladwyne in a New Generation of Students Montessori (PA) Many schools have recognized the critical TRACK MANAGEMENT need to foster a sense of civic engagement ROOM: PCC, 121B in our students. The Seven Hills School has introduced a series of annual Civic Engagement Equity and Inclusion Leadership Seminars that will immerse students in for the 21st Century exploring root causes and potential solutions The conversation about diversity in schools has to some of the most challenging issues facing changed over the past two decades. It is no our world today. This collaborative, hands-on longer just about food, fabric, and festivals—it workshop will give you a better understanding is about sustaining communities that value of the landscape of civic engagement initiatives inclusion, equity, and justice. This shift also in independent schools. You will leave with a means that the skills required of diversity toolkit of ways to effect programmatic change leaders have changed to be more data-driven, at your own school. scholarship-based, and managerial. In this PRESENTERS: Matthew Bolton and Nick Francis, session, you will learn about the skills that The Seven Hills School (OH) are needed for effective equity and inclusion TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE leadership and those that are needed to ROOM: PCC, 113B support equity and inclusion leadership. PRESENTER: Stephanie Bramlett, Phillips Exeter Academy (NH) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 120C
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A Healthy Approach to College Improv Comedy in the Classroom: Admissions: What Administrators, The Transformative Power of “Yes, And” Educators, and Trustees Need to Know This session is an immersive, hands-on The college admissions process can be a major workshop demonstrating how the techniques source of stress and anxiety for students and used in improv comedy can aid in classroom may contribute to overload and exhaustion. management, relationship building, project How can administrators, educators, and brainstorming, and much more. You’ll leave trustees support the work of the college this high-energy session with a toolbox of new counseling office to debunk unhealthy myths ideas that you can bring into your classroom about college outcomes? In this research-based or office right away. workshop, you will examine whether your PRESENTER: Tyler Benedict, The Miami Valley current school mission, values, and practices School (OH) align with the school’s messages about college TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE success. You will learn strategies to create ROOM: PCC, 122A a unified school culture that values student health, engagement, and a balanced approach Interim Head of School: An Emerging to the college search process that supports Need for Independent Schools student readiness for life in college and beyond. Transitions in the leadership of independent PRESENTERS: Gabrielle McColgan, Castilleja schools seem to be occurring with a regularity School (CA); Denise Pope, Stanford University that invites consideration of engaging an TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE interim head of school. An experienced interim ROOM: PCC, 120A head of 12 engagements will target two groups: trustees considering an interim head and heads How to Prevent (or Prevail in) Litigation of schools considering taking on the role. In With Difficult Parents: Head’s and this session, you will explore the challenges Legal Counsel’s Tips and Traps and benefits of having or being an interim Experienced school counsel Sara Schwartz and head, with the takeaway of understanding how Fay School Head Robert Gustavson will facilitate a year of interim leadership can provide an a lively, interactive session about lessons learned opportunity to inventory practices, personnel, from successfully prevailing in a multiple-year and procedures in preparation for naming a federal court litigation involving a student’s permanent head of school. alleged “wi-fi allergy.” Using a case study PRESENTER: Timothy Burns, The Tatnall approach, the presenters will outline strategies School (DE) for preventing (or prevailing in) litigation— TRACK GOVERNANCE whether based on a challenging student/ ROOM: PCC, 111A/B family complaint, alleged environmental hazard, demand for ADA accommodations, or alleged violations of the student handbook. You will learn the tips and traps for fostering a collaborative approach among the board, head, and counsel to engage in effective risk management. PRESENTERS: Sara Goldsmith Schwartz, Schwartz Hannum PC; Robert J. Gustavson, Jr., Fay School (MA) TRACK MANAGEMENT ROOM: PCC, 117 75 FRIDAY
The Planning Is Finished, Now 1:30 – 2:30 PM What? Aligning Strategy and Practice WORKSHOPS So much energy and capital are expended BLOCK 6 CONTINUED by boards and school heads on the creation of a strategic plan. Yet, many plans then Learning Walks—Connecting Teachers languish under their own weight, the daunting and Advancing Your Mission task of implementation falling prey to the Do your teachers feel disconnected from their day-to-day challenges in schools. In this colleagues? Are you trying to find ways to align workshop, you will focus on the management your curriculum and community expectations of plan implementation once the governance schoolwide? Learn how to implement a work is largely finished. Using case studies, Learning Walk or Educational Rounds program participants’ anecdotes, and research on best at your school. This workshop will give you practices, this workshop will provide you with an opportunity to imagine how connecting approaches for ensuring that aspirational teachers and administrators across divisions, strategic priorities in your school are realized. content areas, and grade levels can develop a PRESENTERS: Kendall Cameron, West culture of unity, transparency, and alignment. Nottingham Academy (MD); Vince Watchorn, You will be provided with templates, examples, Ghana International School (Ghana) and the logistical overview of a program that TRACK MANAGEMENT can be developed to meet the specific needs ROOM: PCC, 121A of your school. PRESENTER: Amanda Carter, Noble Revive… Don’t Reinvent: Revitalize Academy (NC) Your School’s Brand Without TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Revamping Its Culture ROOM: PCC, 112A/B Branding is about making emotional connections and telling compelling stories. It doesn’t have to feel like a blind leap from a cliff that requires you to leave behind the values, culture, and history of your school. It is entirely possible to redefine your unique school in a fresh, exciting, and distinctive way while remaining authentic to who you are and what you stand for. This workshop is not a step-by-step rebranding “how-to” but rather a collaborative approach to determining what your school expects from your rebranding and how to galvanize your community as ambassadors in the process. PRESENTERS: Laura Konigsberg and Courtney Baker, Turning Point School (CA) TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT ROOM: PCC, 108B
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Scaffolding Leadership Stories Matter: Using Literature Development in High Schools as the Catalyst for Meaningful Student leadership plays a critical role in and Mindful Student Activism our high school programs, but how do you What if students read and analyzed their local cultivate this skillset/mindset among students? communities the same way they read and In this session, you will discover how carefully analyze Shakespeare? What if they leveraged scaffolded experiences in the ninth through this critical analysis to brainstorm, develop, and 12th grades can foster critical skills and student execute purposeful solutions to neighborhood self-awareness. Come ready to assume the challenges? In this workshop, you will learn role of student and engage in self-assessment, about the New Community Project, a year-long interactive simulations, and thoughtful social impact course that uses the study of reflection. Together we’ll explore literature as the foundation for social activism. the ways we can teach leadership to high Along with reading traditional texts, students school students of all ages. We will model partner with a local nonprofit organization, activities and programming from our ninth which they analyze as a “living text.” By and 12th grade Peer Leadership Program and juxtaposing “living texts” with traditional texts, 10th grade leadership course. the New Community Project inspires students PRESENTERS: Meredith Godley and Christopher to learn, practice, and build solutions around Kimberly, Moorestown Friends School (NJ) the language of empathy. TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE PRESENTER: Chidi Asoluka, Horace Mann ROOM: PCC, 115C School (NY) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Somebody Else’s Shoes: Promoting ROOM: PCC, 123 Empathy in a Disconnected Age A substantial and growing body of research suggests that a child’s emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to accurately identify emotions and adroitly navigate emotion- governed interactions, strongly predicts success in a number of life areas, notably including school. In this session, you will participate in a lively dialogue about what every educator should know about the “anchor” EQ disposition of empathy—the ability to feel with another—and its development, expression, and viability in the digital age. You’ll leave with a renewed commitment to carefully tend to the empathic lives of learners and to employ empathic responses to strengthen relationships and improve academic and socio-emotional outcomes. PRESENTER: Bart Bronk, University Liggett School (MI) TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 122B 77 FRIDAY
Tech With Heart: Using Technology 1:30 – 2:30 PM to Bring Compassion Back Into WORKSHOPS the Classroom BLOCK 6 CONTINUED Academic-related anxiety is common in high- achieving and struggling classrooms alike. Sustaining Independent Schools Online How can teachers calm students’ fears and and On Campus in 2020 and Beyond empower them as learners? In this session, Demographic changes, affordability challenges, you will learn how to leverage technology and evolving family expectations mean that to empower student voice, ease anxiety, independent schools need to streamline their and create compassionate classrooms. By marketing strategies on- and off-line to stay intentionally integrating technology into competitive. At this session, you will join Pat lessons, teachers can create more time for one- Bassett and Jon Moser to learn the tools you on-one interaction, quickly see where students need for success with a look at trends driving are struggling, and give all students (even the changes in the classroom, in hiring, and in introverts and those who need more time to parent engagement. You will explore innovative process) the opportunity to share their voice. ideas for growing revenue; new ways to share This session will highlight how to embrace your value online with right-fit families; how edtech to humanize modern learning and help personalizing the family experience can set you all learners thrive. apart; and how marketing tools like inbound PRESENTER: Stacey Roshan, Bullis School (MD) marketing and artificial intelligence can boost TRACK THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE productivity and save your budget. ROOM: PCC, 116 PRESENTERS: Jon Moser, Finalsite; Pat Bassett, Heads Up Educational Consulting The Whole Child for the Whole Arc: TRACK COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVANCEMENT Seven Years From Skills to Mastery ROOM: PCC, 109A/B Believing that students learn and perform best when they work toward public demonstrations of what they know and what they love, Watkinson School has constructed a program of interlocking, developmentally appropriate exhibitions at grades 8, 10, and 12. In this workshop, you will learn about the school’s logical progression from middle school through high school graduation, in which students practice and hone their mastery of written self-reflection, digital design and execution, and verbal and nonverbal presentation skills. This arc moves students through skills-based demonstrations in eighth grade; metacognitive self-reflection in 10th grade; and individually designed, juried, hour-long senior exhibitions. PRESENTERS: Christina Bernbach and Ryan Reese, Watkinson School (CT) TRACK THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE ROOM: PCC, 113A 78 FIND LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND MORE FRIDAY DETAILS ONLINE AND IN THE APP.
FELLOWSHIP WORKSHOPS 2:30 – 3:15 PM Each of these 30-minute sessions is part Networking Break in the NAIS Expo of the NAIS Fellowship for Aspiring School PCC, HALL E Heads workshop series and is presented by the current cohort of fellows. All are welcome to attend. 3:30 – 4:45 PM CLOSING GENERAL SESSION Benefit Models and Faculty Retention and Recruitment Priorities Compensation and benefits are the leading costs for employers and, in independent schools, these costs usually account for 75% to 85% of operating expenses. See how the benefit priorities of multiple generations of faculty influence the structure and cost of benefits for independent schools. PRESENTERS: Kerry Adams, The Gregory School (AZ); Peter Behr, The Kinkaid School (TX); Joshua Pretzer, Culver Academies (IN); Christine Saunders, Friends Academy (NY); Jason Smith, GRETCHEN RUBIN Brownell Talbot School (NE); Brian Smith, Entrance music by: The Pennington School Steamboat Mountain School (CO) Jazz Combo, The Pennington School (NJ) TRACK MANAGEMENT Exit music by: Friends Select Lower School ROOM: PCC, 110A/B Orff Ensemble, Friends Select School (PA) Introduction by Julia de la Torre, The Change Management in Moorestown Friends School (NJ) School Leadership Independent schools have differentiated PCC, TERRACE BALLROOM themselves by providing mission-driven programs, student-centered learning initiatives, and competitive salaries and benefits. Is it enough? Through action research, we have gathered data on how school leaders are responding to immediate challenges with an eye on the long-term viability of their schools. PRESENTERS: Ryan Allen, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (IL); Mike Foley, Hilton Head Preparatory School (SC); Michael Hill, The Pembroke Hill School (MO); Marquis Scott, The Lawrenceville School (NJ); Chris Singler, Friends Select School (PA); Aaron Sundstrom, Ravenscroft School (NC) TRACK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ROOM: PCC, 110A/B 79 EXHIBITORS
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NAIS gratefully acknowledges the The NAIS Annual Conference following companies, schools, and is the result of in-depth foundations for their support of collaboration, advice, and Ken Aldridge our programs in 2018–2019: commitment of resources by Head of School, Wilmington Friends School (DE) A.W.G. Dewar, Inc. hundreds of individuals and numerous organizations in the Julia de la Torre CalWest Educators Placement independent school community. Head of School, Moorestown Carney, Sandoe & Associates NAIS wishes especially to Friends School (NJ) Community Brands recognize the significant contributions of the following: Stephen Druggan Crowell & Moring LLP All individuals who proposed Head of School, Springside Davis & Benedict or reviewed workshops for the Chestnut Hill Academy (PA) EduBoston 2020 NAIS Annual Conference Darryl Ford Educator’s Ally The 300+ workshop presenters Head of School, William Penn The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein The 200+ exhibitors Charter School (PA) Fund, Inc. All conference sponsors Michael Gary Independent School Management ADVIS Head of School, Friends Select School (PA) Manhattan Placements Chris Bigenho, Point Made Learning Makerspace Facilitator J. Samuel Houser Pollyanna, Inc. Cogent Communications Head of School, George School (PA) Resource Group 175 Core-apps, LLC Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP Experient, Inc. Eric Jones Head of School, Community SOS ThreeSixty Inc. Freeman Partnership School (PA) Strategenius LLC Friends Council on Education Barbara Kraus-Blackney TIAA Global Youth Leadership Institute Executive Director, ADVIS United Educators David Hassler Gary Niels KINETIK Interim Executive Director, PAIS Klingenstein Center Rich Nourie Michele Mattoon Head of School, Abington Nate Mucha Friends School (PA) National School Reform Faculty Linda Phelps OpenWater Marisa Porges Pamela Mathieson Multimedia Head of School, Productions LLC The Baldwin School (PA) Scott Parsons Deborra Sines Pancoe Pennsylvania Association of Associate Director, Friends Independent Schools Council on Education Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau Drew Smith Executive Director, Friends Pennsylvania Convention Council on Education Center (PCC) Personify A2Z Events Lisa Sun Head of School, The Philadelphia hotels Philadelphia School (PA) hosting attendees Playback Now Dana Weeks Head of School, Germantown Steve Schneider Friends School (PA) Gabe Schut George Zeleznik Eddie Selover, PechaKucha Head of School, The Crefeld Coach and Facilitator School (PA) 88 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2021 NAIS Annual NAIS Board of Trustees NAIS Staff Conference Think Tank Efrem Abate Bernie Noe, Chair Mike Cobb Laurie Adamson Lakeside School (WA) All Saints Episcopal School (TX) Emilia Ayon Anne-Marie Balzano Lisa Darling Randall C. Dunn, Vice Chair The Awty International School (TX) Latin School of Chicago (IL) Carol Bernate Caroline Blackwell Mark Desjardins Monique DeVane, Treasurer Joy Bodycomb St John’s School (TX) The College Preparatory School (CA) Wanell Boone Janyce Bryant Scott Griggs Joan Buchanan Hill, Secretary Jefferson Burnett ISAS The Lamplighter School (TX) Joe Corbett Chris Gunnin Robin Susan Appleby Scott Donaldson St Stephen’s Episcopal School (TX) The American School in London (UK) Tim Fish Joan Hill Netty Ford The Lamplighter School (TX) Fran Bisselle Andi Gabrick Hathaway Brown School (OH) Jessica Holt Matthew Rush Francois Innocent Allen Academy (TX) Ronnie Codrington-Cazeau The Evergreen School (WA) Arlene Kidwell Morgan Scoville Amelia Kurtz The Fay School (TX) Mark C. Davis Andrew Kurtz St. Luke’s School (CT) Mark Kurtzrock Patricia Swenson Beth Laking Duchesne Academy of the Penny Evins Hilary LaMonte Sacred Heart (TX) Collegiate School (VA) Megan Mann James P. Honan David Marsters These school groups have Harvard Graduate School Myra McGovern enlivened the conference of Education Corey McIntyre through their performances: George Mendel James McManus Mark Mitchell The Baldwin School (PA) McManus Consulting Link Nicoll Head of School: Marisa Porges Donna Orem Director of Handbells: Emily Nishant N. Mehta Jay Rapp Ballentine Erb The Children’s School (GA) Kristen Roberts Friends School Haverford (PA) Michael Nachbar Margaret Anne Rowe Head of School: Liza Ewen Global Online Academy Rebecca Scherr Music Specialist: Ed Nardi Miranda Selover Tekakwitha Pernambuco-Wise Zoe Sherlick Friends Select School (PA) Sea Crest School (CA) Whitney Silverman Head of School: Michael Gary Jennifer Simms Director of Lower School Orff J. Ross Peters Darylle Smoot Ensemble: Colleen Law St. George’s Independent School (TN) Madelyn Swift
The Haverford School (PA) Marguerite Roza Amanda Thompson Head of School: John Nagl Georgetown University Amada Torres Director of Notables and Upper William Umanzor James K. Scott School Music: Mark Hightower Claire Wescott Punahou School (HI) Ioana Suciu Wheeler The Pennington School (NJ) Eric Temple Stephanie Wilkinson Head of School: William S. Hawkey Lick-Wilmerding High School (CA) Jacqueline Wolking Director of Instrumental Music: Tina Wood Donald Dolan Mary Woodall Erica Zematis
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TERRACE BALLROOM R R GENERAL SESSIONS
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LEVEL 5
SALON A SALON L SALON F SALON G
SALON B SALON K GRAND BALLROOM
SALON C SALON J
SALON E SALON H
SALON D SALON I
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FRANKLIN FRANKLIN FRANKLIN FRANKLIN MEETING ROOM 5 6 7 8 415
MEETING ROOM 414 FRANKLIN A
FRANKLIN MEETING ROOM 9 413 FRANKLIN FRANKLIN 12 11 MEETING ROOM FRANKLIN 412 10 MEETING MEETING ROOM ROOM 410 411
R MEETING ROOM 405
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