Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront 225 East Coastline Drive Jacksonville, Florida 32202

! Welcome !Dear FCIS Member Schools and Colleagues, The regional schools of northern Florida join us in welcoming you to Jacksonville for the FCIS Fall Convention on November 20-21, 2014. From the earliest days of planning, it has been our goal to present a convention that explores with school leaders and classroom educators the myriad and exciting opportunities for expanding learning environments in transformative ways. Obviously, information technology and global educational connections present incredible opportunities to transcend the traditional classroom environment; however, our theme Beyond Walls additionally seeks to encourage a forum for examining with colleagues creative !methods for stimulating authentic student learning. This year, we will have a Wednesday pre-conference offering, Schools That Matter, utilizing the expertise of Independent School Management (ISM). Our Thursday program will feature Dr. Yong Zhao from the University of Oregon and Ms. Donna Orem of NAIS. Dr. Zhao is an internationally known scholar, author, and speaker. His research examines the implications of globalization and technology for education. Ms. Orem’s luncheon presentation will focus upon what the trending data is indicating about the global reach of education. Ms. Hilary Lamonte from NAIS will provide a specific session on the new DASL data interface that will benefit each FCIS school. In addition, Thursday’s breakout sessions have been designed to appeal to targeted interests, with a special !emphasis on serving the needs of school boards of trustees during Thursday morning. Friday’s keynote address will feature John Hunter, whose project-based, instructional “World Peace Game” is nationally renowned. Mr. Hunter’s book, World Peace and other 4th Grade Achievements, will provide the focus of his presentation. Our luncheon speaker, Dr. Grant Lichtman, will explore educational innovation with conference attendees. Dr. Lichtman’s books, A Roadmap to the Future of Education and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School, encapsulate his research into creative !educational thought and practices. Again this year, our FCIS Convention is replete with topical sessions and offerings designed to engage educators and educational leaders for FULL days. Our regional Steering Committee is convinced that the wide array of offerings provides a rich professional development opportunity in an extremely cost-effective manner. Please carefully consider this year’s engaging program. We trust !that all FCIS schools and educators will value the opportunity to gather with colleagues at this year’s convention. We hope to see each of you November 20-21 as we share convention time together moving Beyond Walls to further transform !classrooms and methodologies previously shaped by the needs of the 1900’s into settings relevant for contemporary challenges. Palmer Bell, Head Martha Milton, Head Cathy Hardage, Retired Head Riverside!!!!! Presbyterian Day School Beaches Episcopal School St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School The Florida Council Of Independent Schools The Florida Council of Independent Schools was founded in Jacksonville in December 1954. From the small handful of schools and correspondingly low student population that comprised the original group, the Council has grown to become one of the largest independent school organizations in the United States. FCIS begins the 2014-2015 school year with 158 member schools. Member schools are located throughout the state, extending from Pensacola in the northwestern panhandle to Key Largo in the southeast. While most schools are coeducational and day, there are schools with boarding programs and others which admit only girls or only boys. Some enroll only elementary school children or only secondary school children, while others offer combinations of levels. Many of the schools are strictly college preparatory, but other member schools serve students with learning difficulties. Schools range in size from fewer than 50 students to over 2,500 students. Indeed, one of the Council’s strengths is the variety of schools making up its membership. In this way, not only does the Council provide an alternative to public school, but also within its membership, it provides still further alternatives to parents who are looking for exactly the right type of school for their children. All FCIS schools have racially nondiscriminatory admission policies. The Florida Council of Independent Schools is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and an affiliate of the Council for American Private Education (CAPE). FCIS is a founding member of the Florida Association of Academic Non-Public Schools (FAANS). FCIS Mission: The Florida Council of Independent Schools promotes the highest standards for PK-12 education through its accreditation process, professional development programming, and advocacy efforts. ! The Florida Council of Independent Schools 1211 N. Westshore Blvd., Suite 612 Tampa, FL 33607 Phone: 813.287.2820 Fax: 813.286.3025 Dr. Barbara Hodges, Executive Director www.fcis.org FCIS Board of Directors ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! David Mahler, President Kevin Plummer, Treasurer Martha Milton Joe Seivold The Out-of-Door Academy Tampa Preparatory School Beaches Episcopal School Berkeley Preparatory School 444 Reid Street 727 W Cass Street 1150 Fifth Street North 4811 Kelly Road Sarasota, FL 34242 Tampa, FL 33606 Jacksonville Beach, Florida 32250 Tampa, FL 33615 941-349-3223 813-251-8481 904-246-2466 813-885-1673 [email protected] [email protected] mmilton@ [email protected] ! ! beachesepiscopalschool.org ! Craig Maughan, Tane Bonham ! Dr. Mike Sligh Immediate Past President Christ Church School Mike Murphy Lakeland Christian School Trinity Preparatory School 4845 NE 25 Avenue Shorecrest Preparatory 1111 Forest Park Street 5700 Trinity Prep Lane Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 School Lakeland, FL 33803 Winter Park, FL 32792 954-771-7700 5101 First Street NE 863-688-2771 407-671-4140 [email protected] St. Petersburg, FL 33703 [email protected] [email protected] ! 727-522-2111 ! ! Nammie Ichilov [email protected] Robert Stephens Tony Paulus, Vice President Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy ! St. John’s Episcopal Parish Canterbury School 3261 North Military Trail Cindy Moon Day School 8141 College Parkway West Palm Beach, FL 33409 Park Maitland School 906 South Orleans Ave Fort Myers, FL 33919 561-686-6520 1450 South Orlando Ave Tampa, FL 33606 239-481-4323 [email protected] Maitland, FL 32751 813-849-5200 [email protected] ! 407-647-3038 [email protected] ! Dr. Dana Markham [email protected] Palmer Bell, Secretary Pine Crest School ! Riverside Presbyterian 1501 NE 62nd Street Ginger Sauter Day School Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33434 The Village School 830 Oak Street 954-492-4100 6000 Goodlette Road Jacksonville, FL 32204 [email protected] Naples, FL 34109 904-353-5511 ! 239-593-7686 [email protected] ! [email protected] ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! Convention Steering Committee

Convention Chairs Technology Directors Convention Planners, cont. Palmer Bell, Head of School, Riverside Paul Fitzgerald, Holy Comforter Episcopal Madison Nichols and Kurt Dugan, Christ’s Church Presbyterian Day School School Academy Phyllis Rouse, Amelia Island Montessori School Martha Milton, Head of School, Beaches Matt Wilson, Jacksonville Country Day School Pat Walker, Jacksonville Country Day School Episcopal School ! Charley Zimmer, Episcopal School of Jacksonville Cathy Hardage, Retired Head of School, Friday Program Committee Robert Zlockie, Greenwood School St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School Beverly Connell, Greenwood School, Inc. ! Ed Ellison, St. Johns Country Day School Convention Program ! Bonnie Esser and Sally Hazelip, North Florida Thursday Program Committee Lorie Shvets, Hendricks Day School School of Special Education Alison Carlson, Florida Council of Independent Beville Anderson, Karen Lee and Cathy Linda Johnson and Shane Tripp, Hendricks Day Schools Hardage, St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School School ! Kim Bednarek, Discovery Montessori School ! Exhibitors Stephanie Kowald, Grace Episcopal School Episcopal Schools Breakfast Tam Nguyen, Florida Council of Independent Lori Menger, San Jose Episcopal Day School Lori Menger, San Jose Episcopal Day School ! Schools Bill Stewart, Beaches Episcopal School ! Door Prizes Convention Registration Sharon Steedley, Riverside Presbyterian Day Kim Bednarek, Discovery Montessori School Melissa Alton, Alison Carlson, Keara Danger and School ! Tam Nguyen, Florida Council of Independent ! Convention Logo Schools Admission Martha Milton, Beaches Episcopal School Convention Coordinators Brad Reed, The Bolles School ! Alison Carlson and Carol Lee Curtis, Retired, Convention Ads Florida Council of Independent Schools ! Dallas Skornia, Beaches Episcopal School ! Business ! The "Beyond Walls" Steering Committee deeply Nancy Greene, The Bolles School Convention Art Show appreciates the support of Carol Lee Curtis in Todd Zehner, St. John’s Country Day School Bill Stewart, Beaches Episcopal School planning this convention, as well as her legacy of ! service to professional development within the ! Convention Planners Development/Advancement FCIS community. We wish you well-deserved rest Nancy Alberts, Seven Bridges School and refreshment in the years ahead, C.L.! Missy Ketchum, Episcopal School of Kevin Conklin, St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School Jacksonville Ed Ellison, St. Johns Country Day School ! ! Julie Giardino, Providence School College Counselors Brad Johnson, The Bolles School Ryan Riggs, Episcopal School of Jacksonville Stephanie Kowald, Grace Episcopal School Lori Menger, San Jose Episcopal Day School ! James Milford, Maclay School Guidance Counselors ! Natalie Gettemy and Cindy Ramski, ! Providence!!!!! School ! ! ! ! ! Floor Plans !

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!!!!! Pre-Conference Speaker ! !Wednesday, November 19 Simon M. Jeynes, IAP-L, Senior Consultant and Director of Business Development, Independent School Management (ISM) Simon Jeynes brings 28 years of independent school experience to ISM. He founded a girls’ boarding school as Head of School and was also Head of School for a K-12 coed day school. Simon has taught a variety of subjects during his career and was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History. He has also gained experience as dormitory master in a boys’ boarding school, Dean of Academics, Kitchen Manager, Assistant Headmaster and Acting Headmaster. For many years, he helped develop and operate extensive Outdoor Education programs. Simon writes for ISM publications in areas of board management, school leadership, food services, and various management areas. Simon earned an MA from Oxford University in England and a BEd from the University of Lethbridge in Canada. He has taken additional coursework at Athabasca University, Prairie Bible Institute, and the !University of Western Ontario, all in Canada. Keynote Speakers

Thursday Morning Keynote Speaker Dr. Yong Zhao, Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute of Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, and Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership Dr. Yong Zhao is an internationally known scholar, author, and speaker. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He has designed schools that cultivate global competence, developed computer games for language learning, and founded research and development institutions to explore innovative education models. Dr. Zhao has published over 100 articles and 20 books, including Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. He is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and was named one of 2012’s ten most influential people in educational technology by Tech & Learn Magazine. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy for Education. His latest book, World Class Learners, has won several awards, including the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2013), Association of Education Publishers’ (AEP) Judges’ Award and Distinguished Achievement Award in Education Leadership (2013). Until December 2010, Dr. Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Keynote Speakers, cont. ! Thursday Luncheon Keynote Speaker Donna Orem, Chief Operating Officer, National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) As the Chief Operating Officer for NAIS, Donna Orem manages organizational strategic planning, provides vision for new organizational endeavors, and manages the day-to-day operations of the organization. She also oversees NAIS services for school trustees. She is the author of numerous monographs and articles on how external trends affect independent schools and presents around the world on these topics. Donna joined NAIS in 1998 as the vice president for educational leadership. In this role, she was responsible for the NAIS Annual Conference and numerous workshops and online programs to help educational leaders at independent schools. Previous to NAIS, she served as the vice president for products and services development at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). In her 15 years at CASE, she also managed all services for the independent school advancement community, including the annual CASE/NAIS Conference. Donna also has served as associate director for the American Association of University Women, where she managed all member foundation programs, and as a director with the National Training and Development Service, a nonprofit organization serving state and local governments. She has served on numerous independent school boards and chaired one.

Friday Morning Keynote Speaker John Hunter, Teaching Fellow at The Martin Institute of Teaching Excellence, Filmmaker, Author, Inventor of the World Peace Game A native Virginian and graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, John Hunter is an award-winning gifted teacher and educational consultant who has dedicated his life to helping children realize their full potential. Employing his background as a musician, composer and filmmaker during a three-decade career as a teacher, John has combined his gifted teaching and artistic talents to develop unique teaching programs using multimedia software programs in creative writing and film courses. During his university years, John traveled and studied comparative religions and philosophy throughout Japan, India and China. It was while in India, the cradle of Gandhian thought, John, intrigued by the principles of non-violence, began to think of how his profession might contribute to peace in the world. Knowing that ignoring violence would not make it go away, John wondered how he could teach peace in an often-violent world. Accepting the reality of violence, he would seek to incorporate ways to explore harmony in various situations. This exploration would take form in the framework of a game – something that students would enjoy. Within the game data space, they would be challenged, while enhancing collaborative and communication skills. In 1978, at the Richmond Community High School, John led the first sessions of his World Peace Game. Over time, in a synchronous unfolding with the growing global focus on increasingly complex social and political conditions, the game has gained new impetus. As John succinctly explains, “The World Peace Game is about learning to live and work comfortably in the unknown”. (www.worldpeacegame.org) Keynote Speakers, cont. Friday Luncheon Keynote Speaker Dr. Grant Lichtman, Senior Fellow of The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence, Author, Consultant, Speaker Grant Lichtman is a nationally recognized thought leader in the drive to transform K-12 education. He speaks, writes, and works with fellow educators to build capacity and comfort with innovation in response to a rapidly changing world. He works with school and community teams in both public and private schools, helping them to develop their imagination of schools of the future, and their places in that future. His most recent book, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education, chronicles more than three years of research and visits with more than 70 schools on a solo tour of the United States to find how schools are successfully moving off of the assembly-line model of education. Grant is also the author of The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School based on his high school seminar in strategic and creational thinking. Grant is currently Senior Fellow of The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence, a growing national organization focused on transforming education through professional development for teachers and administrators. Prior to that he was a senior administrator at an independent school in California for almost 15 years. (learningpond.wordpress.com)

!Featured Speakers Liz Cherry, Founder, President, Cherry + Company Founded in 1981, Cherry + Company is an integrated marketing and communications firm. Liz Cherry works with educational institutions, publicly-traded corporations, privately-held organizations and not-for-profit enterprises helping them effectively communicate their message to targeted audiences. In 2003, she added the educational division that integrated brand marketing with educational consulting, providing innovative and comprehensive marketing, development and student enrollment solutions for the independent school and university market. Today, the company’s educational client list includes more than 300 schools and universities across the globe. Clients also include both !national and international educational associations including FCIS, ACSI, FACCS, IACCS and AACSB. Janice Crampton, Executive Director, Association of Independent School Admission Professionals (AISAP) Janice Crampton brings thirty years of experience in school and university work to her current position as Executive Director of AISAP, a global association whose mission and vision is to support and advance those involved in admission and enrollment management in their responsibilities for advancing institutional mission and financial sustainability. AISAP is the primary resource and leading advocate for the community of independent school admission and enrollment management professionals. Janice has spent her 30-year professional career in admission both in Higher Education as well as Prekindergarten through Grade 12 Independent Schools. She has also served with the State of !New Jersey Department of Higher Education, working for the Assistant Chancellor. Tim Cost, President, Jacksonville University Tim Cost became Jacksonville University’s 12th President in 2013, coming full circle from his time spent at the school decades earlier as a student-athlete. In assuming a leadership role, he realized a personal and professional dream to apply the skills he began acquiring with his liberal arts education at JU to help lead and develop people at his beloved alma mater to their fullest potential. Building on the education he received at JU, Tim crafted an impressive background as an experienced business leader, adding to his academic credentials along the way with an MBA in Finance and Economics from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester. Tim’s 30 years at several FORTUNE 500 companies helped refine his approach to leadership, capitalizing on the strengths of diverse teams to maximize talent, trust, connections and performance. Featured Speakers, cont.

Stephanie Holmes, Ph.D., Director, Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System Dr. Stephanie Holmes received her B.S. in Psychology from Bucknell University and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in School Psychology from Oklahoma State University. While in Oklahoma, Dr. Holmes worked as a Response to Intervention (RtI) Specialist for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, and assisted school districts in implementing a data-based decision-making model for meeting students' academic and behavioral needs. Dr. Holmes completed her pre-doctoral internship at Florida State University's Multidisciplinary Evaluation and Consulting Center. Dr. Holmes' professional experience and interests include Autism, ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and learning disabilities. Dr. Holmes is currently provides a range of services for families, including psychological assessment, behavioral treatment, and !school consultation. Lee J. Kaplan, Actor, Writer, VoiceOver Artist, Producer Lee J. Kaplan has performed Bully for more than 8,000 people since premiering the show in November 2012. Recently, he shot the lead role in a new web series entitled "Work, in Progress" and the lead role in a short film entitled "Finding Bob". Recent commercial work includes national television voiceover work for Baskin-Robbins and national radio work for Nissan and Pep Boys. Stage credits include Penny Penniworth (off-Broadway debut). Samples of acting and voiceover work available at: www.leejkaplan.com.

William T. Krizner, Owner and Operating Partner, The Krizner Group The Krizner Group is a full service law firm that concentrates its practice in assisting organizations both before and after disputes arise. Bill Krizner’s background includes extensive experience in client counseling, employment law litigation, and governmental investigations. He founded The Krizner Group after working for the national law firm of Fisher & Phillips, LLP. Bill has published dozens of articles relating to various employment law topics including: hiring, proper termination procedures, employee monitoring, and the dangers imposed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act. Bill also regularly speaks to state and national associations on varying

Hilary LaMonte, Vice President, Data and Analysis for School Leadership (DASL), National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) For the past twenty years, Hilary has built online environments and tools designed to network successful practice and build professional effectiveness across the K12 education sector. Most of this work has found its home in national-level associations serving teachers, administrators, and school boards. Currently, she leads the team at NAIS building online data repositories and tools to assist independent school leaders in making effective decisions with meaningful information. Hilary holds a B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature from Stanford University, an M.Ed. from the University of Virginia (UVA) in Social !Foundations of Education, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Research, Statistics and Evaluation at UVA. Jason Lasnetski, Regional Director, Educational Records Bureau (ERB) Jason Lasnetski brings 18 years of experience in education to his role as Regional Director for ERB. Throughout his career, Jason has focused on helping schools meet their digital learning goals. As an Educational Consultant and Curriculum Specialist, he has worked hand in hand with teachers, administrators, and school district personnel to implement digital learning assessments and interventions for Pre-K through 12th grade students. Jason currently lives in Miami and supports schools in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Featured Speakers, cont.

Marc Levinson, Executive Director, Mid-South Independent School Business Officers (MISBO) Prior to accepting this position with MISBO, Marc spent four years as a Director with the National Business Officers Association (NBOA). Marc managed the live and web-based programs at NBOA. During the past six years, Marc has presented at nearly 100 state, regional, national and international independent school conferences. Marc spent six years as the Business Manager at Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette, CO. MISBO is an association serving over 300 independent schools in the Southeast US with a robust purchasing consortium as !well as professional development and resources serving the business operations of these schools. Joe Markham, Executive Director of Security and Support Services, Pine Crest School Joe Markham oversees the safety and security of approximately 1,800 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. An EMT and self-defense tactics instructor, Joe is a frequent presenter, trainer, and consultant on school security with a particular focus on strengthening emergency preparedness through partnerships with local law enforcement agencies and schools. He began his law enforcement career as a police officer before taking on positions as a K-9 officer and sheriff’s deputy. He was a commander for the volunteer fire department and assistant emergency management director in Dyer County Tennessee. Prior to joining Pine Crest School, Joe spent 14 years as the Director !of Transportation and Safety for Dyer County Schools. In 2012, he was elected to serve on the Broward County Sheriff's Advisory Board. Shannon Miller Knagge, Psy.S., Certified School Psychologist, University of Florida’s Developmental Pediatric Center, FDLRS, and CARD Shannon’s experience with adolescents is extensive. Prior to her role at UF-Jax Development Pediatrics, she served as a middle school !intensive reading and intensive math teacher, special education teacher, department chair, RtI leader, and school psychologist. Ted Powell, Managing Partner, Stop at Nothing, Inc. Ted Powell is an expert consultant and facilitator with more than a decade of experience with Stop At Nothing’s High Impact Leadership Seminars, Trust & Relationship Selling and Peak Performance seminars, leadership team development, and individual executive coaching. On the corporate team building side of his practice, Ted helps empower groups to realize they can create a healthy, active, and productive environment. Prior to joining the firm, he was vice president of new product development at AT&T’s credit card subsidiary, AT&T Universal Card in Jacksonville, FL. He also worked in establishment services marketing for American Express in NewYork. Ted holds a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Virginia. (http://stopatnothing.com)

Jeff Shields, Executive Director, National Business Officers Association (NBOA) Jeff Shields began serving as the Executive Director of NBOA in March, 2010. He was employed by the National Association of College and University Business Officers for almost ten years and served most recently as the Senior Vice President and Chief Planning Officer. Jeff, an active member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation in !2002 and was selected as an ASAE Fellow in 2008. ! Pre-Conference Workshop Wednesday, November 19 | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM !Schools That Win | Simon Jeynes, ISM Senior Consultant !Our schools face the stiffest competition they ever have. Our parents are more vocal and demanding than they have ever been. Our students have more choices than at any other time in history. We are educating for a future we can’t know. And your school is still in charge of its enrollment and its finances. That’s what this workshop is about – thinking about the future, sustaining great numbers in both the classroom and !the accounting office. !Come with your team and carry out the following four tasks: 1. Ask provocative questions and be challenged in your academic program. Note the ways in which public schools are challenging us and hear suggestions as to why tuition driven schools can still offer something better than free. Can your Academic Division Heads stay competitive and lead their faculty in a powerful direction? What might that be and how would it fulfill the mission of your school? 2. Define your school from a financial point of view, see where you are and what flexibility you have as you move forward. Create the two key numbers that Trustees must understand (and your Management Team) and see what questions/opportunities these metrics suggest. 3. Define your school from an enrollment and development point of view. What are the key factors that impact how many students you have? What are the key factors that impact your ability to inspire philanthropy and make your next capital campaign more successful than your last? Be energized by the control you have and assess your current plans by key metrics. 4. Define your leadership strengths as a team. Increasing the capacity of the adults in your community is the 1st job of a school leader in 2013. ! Engage with your team to look at where you are in terms of continuous improvement. What can you do and what should you do? Hear ISM’s cutting edge research and use it to engage with your team. Look at your current plans and talk about how to take them to the next level. Expect to be given useful metrics that you can take back and use in your school as you continue delivering your mission with excellence to your students. Expect your outcomes to be practical, realistic, believable and doable. Those outcomes will be based on your school’s own !data so the more information you come with, the better will be your outcomes. Come to work, to collaborate, to discuss, to do. !As a result of participation and engagement in this event attendees will: 1. Understand the core aspects of the Sustainability & Affordability discussion. 2. Understand the primary elements that drive organizational viability and ability to deliver the mission with excellence to the students over time. 3. Develop a consistent vocabulary and process that you and your team members understand and become conversant with. 4. Develop the skills and tools necessary to analyze where the school is today and what needs to happen to move the school to where you want it to go. 5. Break down departmental silos and work as a team, gaining buy-in for implementation back at school. 6. Increase your self-efficacy by focusing on the things you can impact !7. Be on the same page at the same time with your team and save time back at the school. This workshop is open to: Heads of School, Business Officers, Admissions Directors, Directors of Advancement/Development, Academic Deans, and Division Heads. Welcome & Keynote Address Thursday, November 20 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Grand Ballroom 5-8 Yong Zhao, Ph.D. Author, Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon and Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership Leading the Paradigm Shift: Educating Globally Competent, Creative, and Entrepreneurial Students Schools have followed the traditional paradigm to prepare homogenous, compliant, and locally oriented employees. But this paradigm is no longer adequate because globalization and technological advancement have transformed our world. In this new world, old lines of jobs have been increasingly replaced by technology or offshored to other locations. To meet the challenges of this new world, we need creative and entrepreneurial citizens who are capable of creating new jobs and opportunities for themselves and others around the globe. Cultivating globally competent, creative and entrepreneurial citizens requires a new educational paradigm instead of fixing the old one. In this presentation, Professor Yong Zhao contrasts the two paradigms and explains the essential elements of a new paradigm of education. Thursday Program - Session I !9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Please note that ALL sessions are open to all registered attendees. Notations indicate that the session may be of particular interest to those groups. City Terrace 4 Walking the Tightrope with a Piano: Employment Law in Independent Schools • Heads William T. Krizner, Attorney at Law, The Krizner Group • Prospective Heads With record litigation and a dramatic increase in governmental audits impacting independent schools, come join • Business Officers us for a fun, interactive look at the areas that are most likely to create costly legal exposure at your school. • Human Resource Topics to be covered will include key points of risk throughout the employment life cycle, common mistakes Professionals involving employee leave, often missed wage and hour violations, and managing sensitive issues of alleged sexual abuse and misconduct. This session is a cannot miss for Heads, Chief Financial Officers, and Human Resource Professionals alike!

City Terrace 5 Board Service and the Effective School: Steps and Measures Boards and Board Members Must Take to • Heads Allow the Schools They Serve to Thrive • Prospective Heads Joseph W. Seivold, Headmaster, Berkeley Preparatory School • Trustees Headmaster Seivold will lead an informative, engaging, and inspiring conversation focused on proper Board function and role and provide specific action steps that attendees can take back to their schools for immediate implementation. Thursday Program - Session I, cont. 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

City Terrace 6 A Unique Virtual On-Line Consortium • Heads Craig Maughan, Headmaster, Trinity Preparatory School and Denise Musselwhite, Director of Technology, • Administrators Trinity Preparatory School • Technology Directors Trinity Prep is a member of the Malone Schools On-line Network (MSON) that began in 2013-14. This program utilizes an immersive technology center with HD video conferencing equipment and offers classes to students around the country. Classes are synchronous with real-time interaction and blended learning that replicate the intimate independent school environment online. This session will also discuss other uses of HD video conferencing capabilities for professional development, interviews, and special presentations.

City Terrace 7 Thriving, Not Surviving • Heads Rich Odell, Headmaster and Vice President, Student Affairs, IMG Academy • Prospective Heads Are you planning for your school’s future beyond 2016? Have you listened to the education futurists? Are • Trustees parents making your love of leading an educational institution questionable? Are you looking forward to school vacations more than work? Is patience with people, programs, philosophy, kids, facilities, and budgets getting you down? If any of this resonates with you, join us for a thought-provoking presentation and discussion about getting your mind and school to a much healthier place.

City Terrace 8 From the Seat You Sit • Admission Directors Janice Crampton, Executive Director, AISAP • Marketing Directors Being overly school-centric, rather than customer-centric, may be impacting your enrollment management success. This presentation looks at why our schools need to focus on identifying the problem and the purchasing style of the “customer” as a way to enhance their enrollment management success.

City Terrace 9 Leading Through Change – Part I • Heads Ted Powell, Managing Partner, Stop at Nothing, Inc. • Prospective Heads In a dynamic and engaging manner, the speaker will lead the audience through each of the 4 quadrants, enabling • Administrators the audience to recognize their own experiences with the journey of change. This presentation will be peppered with stories and case studies relating typical human reactions to change, both positive and negative. Throughout the presentation, the audience will have time to reflect on how they have experienced their employees’, and their own, different responses to change – the good, the bad and the ugly. Audience members will be provided with a copy of the model, in addition to a step-by-step process for using the model with employees to shape agreements on how the team will most effectively embrace and drive the change. The process also allows the team to anticipate and avoid some of the common “pot holes” teams can fall into if they do not have the required emotional intelligence and self-awareness. Thursday Program - Session I, cont. 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

City Terrace 10 Best Practices in Web Engagement • Heads Rob DiMartino, Founding Team Member/Director of Business Development, Finalsite • Prospective Heads In this day and age of digital recruitment, enrollment management, alumni engagement, and flipped classrooms, • Administrators we need to make sure the on-campus experience matches the on-line experience. Transparency is key to • Admission Directors showing the value of a private education. In this session, we will explore strategies on Search Engine • Marketing Directors Optimization, High Definition Experiences, Storytelling, and Mobile and Social trends. Join Rob DiMartino, recovering board member, father of four, and Founding Team member of Finalsite, as he shares tips for increasing the ROE or “Return on Engagement”. City Terrace 11 Beyond the (Board Room) Walls: What Advancement Officers Wish Trustees Knew about Fundraising • Heads Panel: Holly Wilbourn, Director of Advancement, Holy Comforter Episcopal School, Tallahassee; Peter • Development Officers Gallo, Associate Head of School for Advancement, Saint Andrew’s School, Boca Raton; Joy Riddle, • Trustees Director of Advancement, Oak Hall School, Gainesville This session will be a panel discussion that will address specific actions trustees can take to help advancement efforts (and many do not require asking anyone for money!), how to set realistic advancement goals, and more.

City Terrace 12 Implementing the Common Sense Media Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum at Your School • Technology Directors Bradley Meyer, 21st Century Learning Specialist, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy • Admission Officers Technology Directors are often called upon to help schools implement internet safety and digital citizenship training at their schools. In this session, we’ll discuss the free K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum available from Common Sense Media and how Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy implemented the curriculum across multiple grade levels.

Orlando Riding the Tuition Revenue Roller Coaster: Reconsidering Tuition Strategies to Build a Sustainable • Business Officers Business Model • Heads Bobby Stewart, VP for Institutional Advancement, Converse College; Amy Tibbals Morales, Alumnae • Admission/Financial Aid Board Past-President and Director of Alumnae Relations, Converse College Officers What are the key components of sustainability for the business office in an ever-changing and more • Trustees competitive marketplace? Mr. Stewart and Mrs. Tibbals Morales, from Converse College, will address what they feel are the hallmarks of a healthy business plan for independent schools post Great Recession and discuss key organizational considerations in terms of tuition strategies in building a sustainable business model. They will share details about a tuition re-set at Converse announced in September 2013, which cut tuition by 43% this fall for all undergraduate students. The discussion will address all aspects of the Converse tuition journey, including: identifying and capturing key data plan development, financial aid considerations, internal and external rollout strategies, and public and media relations. Thursday Program - Session I, cont. 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Boardroom 1 Social Networking Safety • Guidance Counselors Shannon Miller Knagge, Psy.S., Certified School Psychologist, University of Florida Developmental • Deans Pediatric Center, FDLRS, and CARD Social media is such a big part of an adolescent lifestyle. It offers so many opportunities to reach out and connect with family and friends. Social networking, however, is not without danger, and many teenagers fail to realize the long-term repercussions of poor choices made through these sites. This presentation will highlight the advantages and risks of social media, as well as provide tips to protect oneself from common pitfalls of social networking.

Boardroom 2 Florida State Certification and Master In-service Training • All Keara Danger, Director of Business and Operations, FCIS Learn how to get your teachers Florida State Certified and how to earn Master In-service for your certified teachers. Bring your questions!

Boardroom 3 The New SAT and What it Means for Your Students • College Counselors Ree Zeigler, College Board Representative Come and hear a detailed discussion of the new SAT that will debut in the spring of 2016. The speaker will highlight the reasons behind the redesign, as well as the specifics of the changes themselves. Highlights include the partnership with Khan Academy for preparation for the test, how classroom teachers can help their students and the eight key changes to the test itself.

Treat Oak, Downtown Jacksonville Thursday Program - Session II 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM City Terrace 4 Joy and Pain: Social Media in Today’s Independent Schools • Business Officers William T. Krizner, Attorney at Law, The Krizner Group • Administrators In a matter of a few short years, social media has revolutionized independent school culture. When navigated • Deans properly, its power can be harnessed to further entrench healthy student, faculty, and parent relationships and • Heads best convey the immense attributes of a quality school to existing and prospective families. However, when • Prospective Heads ignored or mismanaged, social media can also create extensive and crippling liability. This highly interactive breakout session will explore a multitude of topics including the limitations imposed by the National Labor Relations Board when addressing faculty and staff posts, best student intervention strategies related to social media bullying, and essential policies and practices regarding faculty, student, and parent interaction on social media outlets.

City Terrace 5 Administrative Cracker Barrel Session – Part I • Administrators Bill Stewart, Assistant Head of School, Beaches Episcopal School, Lead Facilitator Here’s a great opportunity to collaborate on issues that are important to you! Many schools have asked for specific time for “like” schools’ administrators (i.e. all boarding schools, religiously affiliated schools, etc.) to have discussions about issues that pertain specifically to their schools. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss issues that affect all administrators in independent schools. Please email your proposed topics to: [email protected].

City Terrace 6 Photography for School Marketing: Is Your Photography Helping or Hindering? • Development Officers Bob Thompson, Thompson Studios Photography • Marketing Directors Independent Schools spend thousands of dollars every year to reach and connect with prospective parents • Administrators looking for the perfect independent school for their children. Photos are the centerpiece of these advertisements • Admission Directors and websites, and the first thing that a prospect senses about your school. Are your photos creating an instant emotional connection with your viewer? Come learn why some ads or websites don’t ever get read or noticed and see which ones do in this interactive, entertaining workshop that will open your eyes to the impact of powerful imagery in your school’s marketing efforts.

City Terrace 7 Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets: People, Programs, and Property • Heads Nancy Greene, Associate Head/Finance and Operations, The Bolles School • Trustees A practical approach to risk management: one school’s journey and experience with addressing Enterprise Risk • Business Officers Management. This presentation includes a global approach to change the culture of an entire school as it relates to risk management and to give confidence to the Board and its constituents that risks have been identified and are being managed, to the best of anyone’s ability. Tools and timelines will be shared. This is an ideal program for heads of school, business officers and trustees. Thursday Program - Session II, cont. 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

City Terrace 8 Standing Out From the Crowd • Admission Officers Janice Crampton, Executive Director, AISAP • Development Officers This presentation looks at the reasons why establishing your brand and value proposition should be the first step • Heads in your marketing efforts. • Prospective Heads

City Terrace 9 Leading Through Change – Part II • Heads Ted Powell, Managing Partner, Stop at Nothing, Inc. • Prospective Heads This session will be a follow up to Part I. This breakout session will allow audience members the opportunity to • Administrators share their change management challenges using the model and tools introduced during Part I. They will be able to leverage ideas and experiences of others and have a chance to ask the speaker more in-depth questions tailored to their specific situation.

City Terrace 10 New Admission Options for Schools and Applicant Families • Admission Officers Elizabeth Mangas, Vice President, Admission Testing, Educational Records Bureau and Jason Lasnetski, Regional Director, Educational Records Bureau From PreK through Grade 12, ERB is excited to offer admission options to meet all of your school’s and applicant family’s needs. In this session, we will introduce the Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners (AABL), an online, child-friendly assessment of a child’s development in verbal and quantitative reasoning, early literacy, and mathematics for applicants from Pre-Kindergarten/Junior Kindergarten through Grade 1. You will also learn about the Independent Schools Entrance Exam (ISEE), ERB’s Grade 2 through 12 long-standing assessment tool that has been the admissions choice of leading independent schools across the country and abroad. Discover new options for the ISEE that include online administration, primary grade testing and Prometric testing site locations.

City Terrace 11 Reigning in Rogue Fundraising • Development Officers Erika Dale, Director of Student Activities, Episcopal School of Jacksonville; Missy Ketchum, Director of Institutional Advancement, Episcopal School of Jacksonville; Joy Riddle, Oak Hall School This session will discuss how to eliminate or streamline campus fundraising – whether by student clubs, parent organizations, yearbook staffers, or corporate sponsorships – to eliminate multiple asks to the same exhausted parent body and the community at large.

City Terrace 12 Mobile Device Management • Technology Directors Matt Wilson, Director of Technology, Jacksonville Country Day School and Paul Fitzgerald, Director of Technology, Holy Comforter Episcopal School This session will focus on best practices and challenges for mobile device management. It will also be an open forum to discuss other options and to exchange ideas and collaborate. Thursday Program - Session II, cont. 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Orlando Independent School Leadership Transition: The Fifth Pillar of Sustainability • Heads Marc Levinson, Executive Director, MISBO • Prospective Heads Strong, thoughtful, visionary leaders are critical to the success and the sustainability of any • Business Officers independent school (any organization). A successful leadership transition is critical to the long term • Administrators sustainability of our schools. What are the consequences to our schools as the average length of service of a Head of School (HOS) continues to decline – is this good or bad? What does the search process look like? Is this process appropriate? Are there alternatives to consider – especially in light of the increasing cost and the commitment of time and energy from the school’s board and leadership? Interviews with recently appointed Heads, Search Committee Chairs, and Search Consultants provide the basis of this presentation. Through a series of case studies this session will explore these topics and help inform the conversation for independent school leaders looking to ensure the viability (relevancy) of our industry’s future.

Boardroom 1 Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety • Guidance Counselors Stephanie Holmes, Ph. D., Licensed Psychologist, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Department of Pediatrics Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System (FDLRS) Anxiety disorders are among the most common of mental health conditions. The symptoms of various anxiety disorders of the DSM-5 will be presented, cognitive errors commonly made in children with anxiety will be examined and parent/teacher friendly strategies will be discussed. Goals of this session include 1) psycho- education of anxiety disorder symptoms and 2) empowering adults to assist in improving children’s and adolescents’ anxiety.

Boardroom 2 Chairing an FCIS Evaluation Visit: New Standards and Procedures • FCIS and FKC Chairs only Robert Stephens, Head of School, St. John’s Episcopal School and Tony Paulus, Head of School, Canterbury School This session is for current and former FCIS/FKC Board Members and Evaluation Academy graduates who serve as Chairs of FCIS/FKC Evaluation teams. Topics will include: the opening meeting Orientation Power Point, new documents on team and standard assignments, FKC revised 2012 Standards, use of Google Docs and Five Year Review vs. Five Year Full evaluations.

Boardroom 3 Admission to our Florida SUS Schools: This Ain’t Your Momma’s UF/FSU/UNF/UCF • College Counselors Pat Herring, University of Florida; Hege Ferguson, Florida State University; Gordon Chavis, University of Central Florida; John Yancey, University of North Florida Admission to our state university system universities gets more challenging every year. Hear from these admission leaders about what’s happening now and what the future holds for the SUS. Luncheon & Speaker !12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Grand Ballroom 6-8 Leading in an Age of Disruption •! Ticket Required Donna Orem, Chief Operating Officer, NAIS With so much change on the education landscape, leaders are faced almost daily with disruptive challenges. Forecasters say that the rate of disruption is likely to accelerate in the years to come. Whether you are a teacher, school administrator, or trustee, you need to embrace disruption and understand how it can be used to drive positive change at your school. We will examine some specific disruptions and look at new ways to deal with your market, the changing workforce, and school culture and structure, and discuss how to plan more effectively for a disruptive future. Thursday Program - Session III 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM ! City Terrace 4 A Businessman’s Perspective on Higher Education • Heads Tim Cost, President, Jacksonville University • Administrators Tim Cost, President of Jacksonville University, spent his entire professional career in senior executive ranks at worldwide corporations such as PepsiCo, Bristol-Meyers, Squibb, Kodak, Pfizer/Wyeth, and Aramark. He became the twelfth president of his alma mater, Jacksonville University, in February 2013 and has driven progress at the private, liberal-arts university at a pace previously unseen in the university’s 80-year history. In this presentation, he will review his assessment of the pace of progress in higher education, the key metrics to creating real advances, and the similarities between Fortune 100 corporations and private, liberal arts universities. City Terrace 5 Administrative Cracker Barrel Session – Part II • Administrators Bill Stewart, Assistant Head of School, Beaches Episcopal School, Lead Facilitator Here’s a great opportunity to collaborate on issues that are important to you! Many schools have asked for specific time for “like” schools’ administrators (i.e. all boarding schools, religiously affiliated schools, etc.) to have discussions about issues that pertain specifically to their schools. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss issues that affect all administrators’ in independent schools. Please email your proposed topics to: [email protected]. Thursday Program - Session III, cont. 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

City Terrace 6 Online/Blended Learning Models for Independent Schools • Heads Craig Wilson, J.D., Ph. D., Head of School, University of Miami Global Academy and Associate Dean, • Administrators Division of Continuing and International Education, University of Miami As online learning continues to grow in popularity, independent schools increasingly face decisions about which online/blended model best fits their mission, faculty, and students. During this presentation, participants will be introduced to several learning models and discuss ways to plan, partner, and implement each.

City Terrace 7 Planning and Building 21st Century Learning Spaces • Heads Nehemia “Nammie” Ichilov, Head of School/CEO Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy • Administrators With unprecedented change taking place in methods of teaching over recent years, educational environments have barely kept pace. Today we are faced with flipped classrooms, blended learning, Project/Problem-Based Learning (PBL), cooperative-learning groups, inquiry-based learning, and many more examples of the change from “sage on the stage” to “guide on the side” teaching. Additionally, with the shift toward advancing faculty professional development through professional learning communities from the antiquated one shot in-services or one-day training programs, teacher workspaces need to support and compliment this change. This session will present a survey of the advances in teaching methods that validate the need to renew the current assumptions about learning environments and how one school’s building design committee traveled the US to identify how these changes were being addressed and then built its 21st Century campus in response to their findings.

City Terrace 8 Standards & Competencies for Admission and Enrollment Management • Admission Officers Janice Crampton, Executive Director, AISAP This presentation will explore the reasons why standards and competencies for admission and enrollment management are important. How do they impact the work we do, both short and long term? How can we develop these Standards and Competencies in our staffs and ourselves?

City Terrace 9 School Security: Preparing for the Unexpected • Heads Joe Markham, Executive Director of Security and Support Services, Pine Crest School • Administrators With the rise of unfortunate incidents here and across the country, most independent schools realize that they • Business Officers should take the time to reassess their emergency preparedness. With a strong background in law enforcement, security consulting and risk and threat assessment, Mr. Markham will outline the basics of conducting a school risk or threat assessment and the creation of a school emergency preparedness plan. He will discuss the importance of building relationships with your emergency responders (police, fire and rescue) and best practice guidelines for communicating with your emergency responders in the event of an incident. Thursday Program - Session III, cont. 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

City Terrace 10 Use Data From DASL to Dazzle • Heads Hilary Lamonte, Vice President, Data and Analysis for School Leadership (DASL), NAIS • Prospective Heads As an independent school leader, you need accurate and reliable data to inform key decisions about your school’s direction. In 2014, FCIS joined 33 other state and regional associations and NAIS to build Data and Analysis for School Leadership – DASL. The platform facilitates data collection, reporting, and benchmarking for any independent school that contributes data to it. Take a tour of the system, learn how we are working to keep the data clean and tell us your needs for continued development and improvement.

City Terrace 11 Your School’s Brand in Theory and in Practice • Development/Marketing Liz Cherry, President, Cherry & Company; Ilene Hackett, St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School; Jeremy Directors Canody, Berkeley Preparatory School • Heads Join Liz Cherry, President of Cherry & Company, as she answers the top questions schools bring to her about branding. Ilene Hackett, Director of Marketing and Communications for St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School and Jeremy Canody, Director of Communications for Berkeley Preparatory School, will add to the discussion by addressing the challenges marketing/communications practitioners face in implementing and maintaining a brand. How do you get all of your constituents to reinforce your brand, how do you fund it and how do you know when a good idea is not working? Bring your questions and join the conversation.

City Terrace 12 21st Century Skills • Technology Directors Holli Scharinger and Amy Waller, Tech Coordinators and Educational Technology Coaches, Holy • Administrators Comforter Episcopal School One of Holy Comforter's highest goals is to meet the needs of our 21st Century learners. To help meet this goal, Holy Comforter has implemented several 21st Century initiatives and strategies. With the implementation of a ground-breaking STEM program, Holy Comforter has paved the way for its students to learn the skills necessary to thrive in the 21st Century. The HCES adopted 21st century skills are: Creativity and Innovation, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Information Literacy. Attendees of this session will learn tips and tricks for implementing a successful 21st century program, how to help teachers implement technology standards in their lessons, and how to create and implement a STEM program for your school. Thursday Program - Session III, cont. 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Orlando Financial Sustainability: Both Sides of the NBOA Spectrum Project • Heads Jeff Shields, President and CEO, NBOA and Genevieve Madigan, Director, Research and Member • Business Officers Resources, NBOA • Trustees What if we took the matched pair research methodology popularized by Jim Collins in GOOD TO GREAT and applied it to the financial health of independent schools? That’s exactly what NBOA set out to do with the Spectrum Research project. Based on data collected from over 300 schools nationwide, this one-of-a-kind research project takes on the task of identifying the financial and leadership characteristics that distinguish a financially healthy independent school from one that is not. What are the financial ratios that correlate strongest to financial health and what are the cultural traits of schools that excel financially? This is an ideal program for heads of school, business officers and trustees. The Spectrum Research Project was made possible with the generous support of TIAA CREF. Boardroom 1 Maximizing Student Potential: Deans and Guidance Counselors Working Together • Guidance Counselors Ann Korahais, Director of Counseling and Guidance and Bill Rothe, Interim Head of Middle School, • Deans St. Johns Country Day School • Administrators Developmentally, adolescents and teens are primed to test boundaries. Student well-being can be compromised when outside stressors are added to the challenges of adolescence. When students respond through negative behavior, who steps in? Do adolescent behavioral issues always require discipline? Please join this collaborative discussion to better understand how guidance counselors and deans can work together to address behavioral accountability and emotional support in order to foster real change and growth in students.

Boardroom 2 Panel Discussion for Prospective, New and Nearly New Heads • Prospective, New, Facilitator: Kevin Plummer, Tampa Preparatory School Nearly New Heads Bring your concerns, questions, and experiences’ to this informal discussion.

Boardroom 3 The Revised Common Application, Year 2: Working out the Kinks • College Counselors Steve Soud, The Bolles School; Vicki Englehart, Lake Highland Preparatory School; Carey Thompson, Rhodes College Learn how the Common Application bounced back from adversity to remain the most widely used tool for applying to college and how high schools are using the Common App to help their students. Exhibits | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Exhibit booths are open throughout the day. Please use this time to visit. Thursday, November 20 | 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Friday, November 21 | 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM Thursday Program - Session IV 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Grand Ballroom 6-8 FCIS: The State of Our Association • All Dr. Barbara Hodges, now in her fifth year as Executive Director of FCIS, will share observations on the state of our association by reflecting on our past and current accomplishments and projecting plans for the future to make sure that FCIS remains one of the top state accrediting associations for independent schools, as recognized by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

City Terrace 10 Division Director’s Role in Driving Enrollment • Division Directors Jenny Knight, Lower School Director, Miami Country Day School and ISM Adjunct Consultant • Heads Shifting demographics, a tepid economy, and rising tuitions are often cited as reasons schools are experiencing • Admission Officers declining numbers. This decrease is often most significant in the early-childhood grades. Applying a different mindset, one centered on purposeful and creative leadership, your school enrollment can grow. You will leave this workshop with proven techniques that will help you forge a leadership strategy that is focused on driving your faculty culture. Your faculty will share the stories of students so inspiring that your parents will share them instinctively and joyfully. This strategy will reduce your attrition and increase your enrollment simultaneously. There is nothing so powerful in the world of independent school marketing than a story that spreads from one passionate parent to another.

City Terrace 12 Going Google: How Ravenscroft Leveraged the Cloud to Change Its Culture • Heads Jason Ramsden, Chief Technology Officer, Ravenscroft School • Administrators Learn how a school leveraged the power of the web and took a chance on a newly offered device no one • Technology Directors at the time understood on its way to changing not only its technology foundation but the school's culture as well. In this session, Jason Ramsden, Chief Technology Officer at Ravenscroft, will share how the school leveraged the power of Google Apps for Education, third party Marketplace apps, and Chromebooks to be one of the first independent schools in the country to go cloud-based 1:1 in grades 7 through 12 in 2011.

Orlando Exploring Auxiliary Programs: Discovering Possibilities in Uncharted Territory • Business Officers Jeffrey Malloy, Director of Summer Programs, Oak Hall School • Heads With economic uncertainty, schools seek alternative revenue sources and methods to build community relations. Auxiliary programs can be your compass. Participants will get a view of what falls under the Auxiliary Programs umbrella, discuss the benefits of an Auxiliary Program, discover what Auxiliary Programs mean to private independent schools, and look at some different models of Auxiliary Programs. Thursday Program - Session IV, cont. 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Boardroom 1 Developing a New Advisory Program • Guidance Counselors Scott Campbell, Advisory Director, Oak Hall School and Laurie Gehler, Upper School Counselor, Oak • Deans Hall School • Administrators In this session, we will share the changes we have made to our US Advisory Program, our expanded content meant to stimulate students, and the ways we have incorporated Advisory into our new Power Hour lunch system. Ample time will be provided for others to share their programs and ideas as well.

Boardroom 3 Field Trip to University of North Florida • College Counselors If you have not seen UNF in the last 3 years, then you have not seen UNF! Take a specialized tour of the new academic buildings, athletic buildings, and residence halls and hear from the admissions leaders there about the exciting changes taking place at one of Florida’s fastest growing universities. The tour will end at Moxie, a wonderful local restaurant for refreshments.

Downtown Jacksonville Welcome & Keynote Address Friday, November 21 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Grand Ballroom 5-8 Preparing Children to Lead into the Unknown John Hunter, Filmmaker, Author, Inventor of the World Peace Game John Hunter, teacher and inventor of the World Peace Game, prepares students for the unknown by creating a rich practice field where children can lead, explore, collaborate, conflict, negotiate, and solve problems guided by the objectives and structure of the game. The World Peace Game offers a place for students to engage in open inquiry that is purposeful, allowing them to build competence is dealing with ambiguities, misinformation, conflicting ideas and other elements of the unknown. John Hunter will share how the World Peace Game reinforces the idea that today's students are tomorrow's leaders and that giving students practice in complex problem solving and complicated communication issues is good practice for their challenges and opportunities as adults. Friday Program - Session I !9:45 AM - 10:30 AM Please note that ALL sessions are open to all registered attendees. Notations indicate that the session may be of particular interest to those groups.

City Terrace 4 Full STEAM Ahead • Elementary Kelly Salmons, Tish Tarpley, and Leanne Scullin, The Village School • Middle Come see how our teachers use the concepts of “backward design” to build integrated cross-curricular lessons • Upper that provide experiential and project-based learning units. We will share templates of our STEAM lesson plans on The Middle Ages and The Victorian Era, including how math, science, history, and language arts meld together for a seamless higher-level learning experience.

City Terrace 5 Let’s Get Growing: Bringing Math, Science and Language Arts into the Garden • Early Childhood Shonna Brady, Temple Beth Sholom School • Elementary Find out what you need to get growing! From learning about grant opportunities and fundraising to curriculum connections, we’ve got the details! The session will be question and answer format as well as sharing ideas about how to make learning outside productive, fun and not any more work than learning inside. Find out about current research and learn how we can engage students while learning about where our food really comes from through garden experiences. Friday Program - Session I, cont. 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

City Terrace 6 Coding Across the Curriculum: Everyone Should Learn Programming • Elementary Mike Speer, Berkeley Preparatory School • Middle For students of any age, and in almost any discipline, computer programming is a way to gain confidence dealing • Upper with complexity, learn persistence when facing difficult problems, increase tolerance for ambiguity, and improve teamwork skills. Based on foundational research in the 1970s, writing across the curriculum is, today, established practice in schools across America. The opportunities and challenges of the 21st century lead us to do for programming what we long ago did for writing. City Terrace 7 Classroom Video Tools • All Brad Meyer, Holy Trinity Episcopal An overview of how using video can transform your classroom and your students’ learning experiences. Everything from the science and research behind it, to the tools to create, share, and evaluate video projects will be discussed. This is a cross-platform session covering Windows, Macintosh, iMovie, YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive and a wide range of popular formats and devices.

City Terrace 8 Building a Global Education From Your Backyard • Middle Susan Alexander, Buck Johnson and Jennifer Martin, Berkeley Preparatory School • Upper Wondering how to get your students interested in the world around them? Look no farther than your own backyard as you introduce basic and inexpensive documentary techniques that allow your students to create original projects exploring social and cultural movements. Interviews are conducted both locally and through video conferencing programs like Skype. Where to start, whom to contact, and what to assemble will all be explored through this hands-on workshop. City Terrace 9 Critical Connections for Student Achievement • All Lynn Wade, Florida College Academy The training is researched based. Attendees will learn why certain students are engaged and why others are not. The attendees will be introduced to the critical steps of how to engage students and how to identify the step in the Spiral of Futility. Students from Kindergarten through High School have been turned around from hostility and the acceptance of failure to success by using the critical connection scale and strategies.

City Terrace 10 Geocaching Quest: An Animated Journey of Pensacola – Where Florida History Begins • Elementary Bridget Fluegge and Heather Debuse, Episcopal Day School • Middle Is Pensacola America’s forgotten first European settlement? That is the question our 4th-6th grade students at Episcopal Day School had to answer. In a team collaboration, combining geocaching, using augmented reality tools and a great deal of research, the students created an animated geocaching quest connecting local historical landmarks, overlays of rich information and hidden clues to answer the question. The end result––an enriching and interactive journey making Pensacola history come alive. Friday Program - Session I, cont. 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

City Terrace 11 Visible Thinking Strategies to Inspire Creativity and Understanding • All Jason Shaffer, North Broward Preparatory School Visible Thinking routines, as developed by the members of Harvard’s Project Zero, can help students in all disciplines and grade levels gain a deeper understanding of the topics being taught in class. This presentation will seek to explain the importance of using a set of Visible Thinking routines in the everyday practice of teaching in order to allow students the chance to think independently and also as a collaborative group. Throughout this presentation, attendees will gain exposure to ten routines as well as suggested readings in this field. Having used Visible Thinking routines in my classroom River Terrace 1 Teaching Future Leaders • All John Hunter, Filmmaker, Author, Inventor of the World Peace Game John Hunter, teacher and creator of the World Peace Game, will share the core principles of his game, explaining how open-ended, overwhelming, ambiguous, and complex problems are good learning opportunities for students to learn to think critically, connectedly, and creatively. The World Peace Game reinforces the idea that today's students are tomorrow's leaders and that giving students practice in complex problem solving and complicated communication issues is good practice for their charge as adults. River Terrace 2 Got Code? Powerful Curriculum to Fuel the Future • Elementary Terry Kent and Debbie Rogers, Riverside Presbyterian School 2014 Winner of the DeWitt E. & Vera M. Hooker Fellowship Award This presentation will provide a step-by-step coding curriculum, including twenty weekly lessons designed to teach elementary students unplugged and plugged basic coding. The curriculum includes various engineering and design extensions focused on the power of coding as a way to learn life-long problem solving and collaborative critical analysis skills. Come join us and discover how to teach Coding to your students. Code is the fuel of the future!

River Terrace 3 Paperless Grading • Middle Nikki Morrell, Lake Mary Preparatory School • Upper As more schools move towards a 1:1 learning environment and attempt to reduce the amount of paper used on campuses, teachers seek new options for assessing student work digitally. Come explore paperless grading, with sites such as Turnitin.com, and learn how to create valuable written and spoken feedback for your students from anywhere. St. Johns Giving Up Control to Earn Control • Upper Kelly Leslie and Vanda Harvey, The First Academy Students coming from the middle school environment that is heavy with rules and rigidity are eager to spread their wings into the freedom of high school. Use this opportunity of personal student advocacy to maintain management and success in your classroom without a posted list of rules to be followed. Friday Program - Session I, cont. 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Orlando Tinkering Towards the Growth Mindset • All Lori Maschke and Matt Jansen, Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart 2014 Winner of the DeWitt E. & Vera M. Hooker Fellowship Award Where are your students? Are they in a fixed mindset, a growth mindset or in transition? During this session, we will demonstrate how the use of “tinkering stations” can foster the transition from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. Across all levels and disciplines, these ”tinkering stations” present an environment where students can try out and practice a series of tinkering challenges throughout the school year, providing students the opportunity to encounter, experience and develop a growth mindset in order to enhance academic and social performance. Clearwater PowerPoint is Dead! Long Live Digital Storytelling! • All Dr. Joan McGettigan and Jennifer Brachfeld, North Broward Preparatory School Aren’t you tired of your students using the same old method to present their learning? Wouldn’t you rather eat sawdust than deliver another boring PowerPoint to your students? Come learn how you can engage students at a whole new level through our Top Ten Digital Storytelling tools! Prepare to be amazed. We’ll share tools that work for any curricular area and that serve to elevate learning to a new level. Daytona Reaching the Reluctant Learner: Alternative Strategies, Assessments and Arts Integration • Middle Gale Sheaffer, Judy Kent, Kelly Rodowsky, and Debra Reed, Academy at the Lakes • Upper History, Math and English teachers will share lesson plans and strategies to reach the students who are “reluctant” because they have difficulty reading high school material and finishing traditional assessments. Arts integration allows these students to be active participants in the classroom and see positive results in their understanding of difficult material. A framework for how this teaching strategy supports and builds better students will be provided by the Director of Curriculum and Instruction. Boardroom 1 Interdisciplinary Blogging in Ancient Rome • Middle Christina Danielle Hayward, Debbie Waterman and Joanne Barrett, The Out-of-Door Academy This session describes an interdisciplinary blogging project, which brought Ancient Rome to life for our students. In their history and Latin classes, students role-played as characters from an historical fiction novel by conversing in their “virtual” Ostia blog. This project integrated creative writing, historical research, geo-spatial skills, and technology. Students were able to interactively experience the time period by blogging as characters from the novel, thus making it their own through their reading and research. Boardroom 2 Technology Project-Based Learning Integrating Reading and American History • Elementary Joni Mandel and Marlene Yanelli, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School We will share several successful projects that we have developed for grades 4 and 5 that involved reading, research, organization of materials, and presentation to a group using technology. Some of the projects are individual ones and others involved cooperative learning and collaboration in a group. They all involve using either computers or iPads to spark creativity and individuality. Friday Program - Session I, cont. 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Boardroom 3 Making a Connection: The Value of Faculty Mentorship in School Culture • All Danielle Marcantuono-Polstra, Courtney Beitler, Susan Alexander, Kem Doby, Christine Ortega, Raequel Majeski, and Dr. Chris Leonardo, Berkeley Preparatory School Representatives from the Mentoring Committee at Berkeley Preparatory School will educate attendees on the power of mentorship among teachers. Mentors, mentees, and program overseers from the Upper Division will share insights about the creation and evolution of a mentoring program designed to support not only new but veteran faculty through a non-evaluative model based on peer-to-peer interaction and encouragement. Research and experience will show attendees how to implement a mentoring program at his/her school. Boardroom 4 Preparing Your School for a Joint FCIS Evaluation with SACS (AdvancED) and/or SAIS • All Melissa Alton, Director of Accreditation, FCIS This session is for schools preparing for an FCIS or FCIS/FKC full or review evaluation in the 2014-2015 or 2015-2016 academic year. Topics will include the differences between a full evaluation and a review evaluation, how schools are selected for review evaluations, how to prepare for the visit, what happens during the visit, and a review of important standards and standards that have changed since 2011. Schools with evaluations during the next two school years should send a representative. Schools doing FCIS or FCIS/FKC only evaluations should attend Preparing Your School for an FCIS Five Year Full or Review Visit instead of this session.

Jacksonville Beach Fishing Pier Friday Program - Session II 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

City Terrace 4 Teacher Leadership: Making a Difference in Independent Schools for the 21st Century • All Elizabeth Brennan, University School of Nova Southeastern University If your team leaders and department chairs are struggling with the concept AND the responsibilities of teacher leadership, this session will promote the development of professional learning communities and highlight the best mechanisms for enabling real teacher leaders. The rationale for this experiential workshop is to facilitate participants’ integration of seemingly opposing ideas of school change. This workshop will evaluate and examine the roles of teacher leaders and the establishment of those roles in today’s independent schools so that participants can identify best practices. Using these established concepts, each participant will begin the development of a systemic plan to accomplish teacher leadership as a powerful component of school change and improvement. City Terrace 5 Anticipatory Set: Get Students Engaged! • Elementary Ann Cashen and Kim Rostick, Corbett Preparatory School of IDS How do you get students REALLY engaged in the lesson? Third and fourth grade teachers from Corbett Preparatory School of IDS will share multiple ways to capture student interest, using a variety of techniques including simulations, graphic organizers, songs, KT movements and other creative and inspiring ideas to engage students’ heads and hearts. Watch as they share easy to implement applications that grab students’ curiosity in math, reading, writing, social studies and science lessons. You will be inspired! City Terrace 6 Fostering Creativity and Stewardship Through Science Projects • Middle Brad Bullington and Rad Murphy, The Bolles School • Upper This session will illustrate student-led projects used in Marine Biology classes and Environmental Stewardship summer programs at The Bolles School. See how students learn and have fun as they get to see how their projects are used in real world scenarios, and how they can work as a team to build their education. Bring your brains and we will storm how to apply these techniques to other disciplines. City Terrace 7 Classrooms You Can Sink Your Boots Into • Middle Diane Krug, Greenwood School and Christina Dembiec, Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens • Upper Expand your teaching environment. Diane Krug (Greenwood School) and Christine Dembiec (Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens) explore the unlimited possibilities of Environmental Education (EE) and outdoor teaching. Through partnerships with the Zoo and the St. John’s River Keeper and in collaboration with a 90+ member cohort through Cornell University’s EECapacity Project, Diane and Christina offer strategies, lesson plans and support to the aspiring environmental and outdoor educator. City Terrace 8 Engineering an Amazing Science Experience for Young Minds • Elementary Carolyn Houston and Jennifer Moore, The Bolles School Explore 21st century tools that bring the lower school science classroom alive! Come find ideas to help integrate science curriculum with current technology. Promote the engineering design process and the scientific method through hands-on materials, such as aquaponics, hydroponics, LittleBits, Lego We-Do Robotics, computer programming, apps, and other web-based materials. Friday Program - Session II, cont. 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

City Terrace 9 The Collaborative, Multi-Sensory, Language-Based Classroom Experience • Early Childhood Cheryl Wilson, Annemarie Johnston, Marla Angell, and Kathleen Zahner, The Cushman School • Elementary This presentation provides an overview of the benefits of a collaborative, team-based, and process-driven approach to teaching in the classroom. This is achieved with a developmental, experiential, highly engaged, and interactive focus. Our team of teachers, an Early Education teacher, a Special Education teacher, an Occupational therapist, and a Speech therapist, work together to bring expressive and receptive language skills, narrative language development, movement, and multi-sensory pre-academic and academic skills into fun and enriching theme-based learning. City Terrace 10 Going Digital: Writing a Textbook with iBooks Author • Middle David Jackson, Oak Hall School • Upper This presentation will take the audience through the process of writing a textbook with iBooks Author software. The presentation will chronicle the development of the textbook from scratch all the way to publication. Although my textbook is a Latin language resource, the presentation will be useful to any educators who are interested in digitizing their curriculum. City Terrace 11 Personal Branding and Digital Citizenship • Upper Jason Shaffer, North Broward Preparatory School Complying with ISTE standards, the high school Personal Branding & Digital Communication course embeds 21st Century tools (blogs, social media, web design, Google+, video editing, podcasts, tools and more) so that a student can incorporate the necessary steps to build a "brand," to learn how to communicate properly using digital tools, and to create and utilize a digital portfolio in a new way. Additionally, the Personal Branding class serves as a vehicle for students to present themselves to real world audiences, such as colleges when applying for special programs or scholarships, and internships, and to begin to build a digital presence for future employment. River Terrace 1 Seamless Integration and the Why’s of Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom • All Sally Altrocchi, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School SEL shouldn’t add to your plate; it is your plate…a foundation for modeling and teaching. • SEL today––an update on insights and best practices for embedding SEL into your curriculum • Latest research––better academic performance, increased student focus and improved behavior • Relationship to character education––why has it shown to be more effective then anti-bullying programs? • Cultural contexts––relationship of SEL to universal values and virtues • Creating a culture of kindness, optimism and respect River Terrace 2 Inspiring Ethics in Education • Early Childhood Miriam Engel, Donna Klein Jewish Academy • Elementary All too often, we create and recreate curriculum for teaching character development and ethics. Students know • Middle the catch phrases, prompts and rules but don’t seem to internalize them and put them into practice. This is a practical and inspiring session to guide our students to want to consider change. Friday Program - Session II, cont. 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

River Terrace 3 Math and Movement • Elementary Danelle Evans, The Parke House Academy Math and Movement is a program that incorporates math concepts with kinesthetic learning. This program helps motivate and encourage students who tend to struggle in mathematics. During this workshop teachers will actively participate in math and movement games. These games include: Multiplication Twister, Measure Darts, and Geo Says Geometry. Teachers will also view many playground games incorporating math and movement. These games include: Baseball Math, Human Circle Measurements, and Greater Than and Less Than Race. St. Johns Using Technology to Unleash the Power of Self-Directed Learning • Elementary Laura Macias-Simoes and Debra Allard, Pine Crest School Technology has revolutionized every aspect of education, especially choices students are making regarding their own learning. Thanks to technology, access to educational content is more immediate and less expensive than ever before. Technology has immense potential to provide educators with the tools to differentiate instruction and to move the learning experience towards a more flexible and personalized model. This presentation will show educators how technology can empower lifelong, self-directed learning beyond the traditional classroom. Orlando Think Tank: A Critical Thinking STEAM-Focused Class & Innovation and Creativity Space • Elementary Christina Liu, Lake Mary Preparatory School 2014 Winner of the DeWitt E. & Vera M. Hooker Fellowship Award Think Tank is a K-5 class and learning space that stimulates critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork skills in students using unique, out-of-the-box methods. Initially built on a framework inspired by Odyssey of the Mind, the Think Tank has developed and evolved in its first year to include specific STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) units. The Mission of Think Tank is first and foremost to teach students to employ critical thinking in all aspects of what they do and to engage students with a variety of learning styles. In this talk, we will share some of the many hands-on, problem-based activities we have done in Think Tank. In addition, as a recipient of the Hooker Grant from FCIS, we have been able to purchase “Cubelets” robots, which has allowed us to incorporate robotics into not only Think Tank (from Kindergarten–5th grades), but also at the middle/upper school levels in a STEM-based club after school called “Coders and Tinkerers”.

Clearwater NFSSE Berry Good Farms: From the Farm to the Cafeteria Table • All Bonnie Esser, Ellen Hiser, Tim Armstrong and Roberta Mahon, North Florida School of Special Education Attendees will learn the nuts and bolts of a farm to school project and starting an urban garden. Instruction includes the production of organic produce for use in healthy nutritious school lunches along with micro greens, veggie starts and wheatgrass for wholesale and retail sales. The goal of Berry Good Farms is to teach horticulture to NFSSE students ages 6-22+ while providing the community with a valuable service through local enterprise and entrepreneurship. Friday Program - Session II, cont. 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

Daytona MAKERSPACE MAKEOVER • All Dorothy Smay and Courtney Walker, Shorecrest Preparatory School 2013 Winner of the DeWitt E. & Vera M. Hooker Fellowship Award You have heard the buzz words, now learn how one school library, Early Childhood-Grade 12, transformed their space into a Maker Space where students can create, invent, design, explore, develop their curiosity, problem solve and think for themselves. You will learn how to add new elements that are a combination of tactile, low-tech materials and high-tech digital tools so students can have a variety of exploratory challenges and styles of making. Boardroom 1 Building an Award-Winning Programming Team • Middle Matthew Parets, Montverde Academy • Upper Programming is the modern super power. With a smart phone in every pocket and a tablet in every hand, it is hard to understate the importance of understanding how computers work. This session will discuss the steps needed to go from zero with Computer Science program and build it up to a level where the students are eager learners and win glory at state and university competitions. Boardroom 2 Making Connections: Using Art Works to Teach the Big Ideas • All Dana DeYoung, Creative Learning Academy Discover how to employ object-based teaching strategies to engage student learning in Language Arts, Social Studies, Math and Science. Utilize works of art to promote discussion and interdisciplinary investigation. Gain knowledge about where to find and how to adapt museum resources for the classroom. Expect to leave with new insight, numerous examples, and applicable knowledge. Boardroom 3 Music for Fun; Music for Excellence • All Rebecca Kasang, LCC Day School Learn how to build a music program that is respected and loved within your community, even at the smallest of schools. Offering a thorough music program can be challenging at an independent school, but with some creative thinking, teamwork within your staff and help from outside the school walls, any school can feature a music program of lasting quality and students that will want to continue their music studies long after graduating from your school. Boardroom 4 Serving on an FCIS Team • All Melissa Alton, Director of Accreditation, FCIS FCIS schools experience evaluation every five years. One of the best ways to prepare for an evaluation is to do an evaluation. In addition, team members cite that serving on a team is one of the best forms of professional development. Learn the responsibilities and duties of a team member, and what a visit looks like from the other side. At the conclusion of the session, participants may sign up to be in the evaluation team member database. Luncheon & Speaker !11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Grand Ballroom 6-8 Grant Lichtman, Author, Consultant, Speaker • Ticket Required On The Road to the Future of Education The rate of change in the world demands that we re-imagine and restructure the foundational learning relationship between students, teachers, and knowledge. Independent schools must define and develop a clear value proposition in order to meet the challenges of this rapidly changing world. This will involve changes in program and pedagogy, alongside an institutional commitment to the best practices of organization-wide, value- driven innovation. In September 2012, pursuing a decades-long passion for transformational education, Grant packed up his Prius and set off on a three-month, nation-wide research tour of 64 schools to learn how they are educating students for an unknowable future and how successful schools are making those changes. He will summarize the unique lessons he learned from this journey that form the core of his recently published book, #EdJourney. Friday Program - Session III 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM ! City Terrace 4 Lead With Honor: Promoting Quality of Character in Students • Elementary Deena Sobel and Cynthia Kanai, Palm Beach Day Academy • Middle The session will share best practices from a school-wide initiative established to encourage students to Lead with • Upper Honor. Character traits such as trust, empathy, integrity, responsibility, respect, and grit are woven into the dialogue of all members of a school community. Through small group advisory discussions and intergrade level activities, students not only value the traits needed to Lead with Honor, but also begin to embody these qualities themselves.

City Terrace 5 Full STEAM Ahead: Integrating Curriculum Across the Content Areas • Early Childhood Kim Dyer and Ana Rodriguez, University School of NSU • Elementary Our presentation will share how 21st Century skills can be part of the daily curriculum through the development of a STEAM approach. Creating and implementing Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math activities across the Early Childhood curriculum. Through collaboration 21st Century skills will be incorporated into the curriculum while supporting students’ academic and emotional growth, such as developing their creativity, cooperative learning, communication, and critical thinking skills. Age appropriate learning objectives are the focus of the curriculum every day. We will discuss how to put a plan in place to be successful in creating a STEAM approach in your classroom too. Friday Program - Session III, cont. 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

City Terrace 6 Piloting Alice in the Upper School • Upper Chari Distler, North Broward Preparatory School Piloting Alice in the Upper School shows and explains the logistics for starting an Alice program in your school. This workshop is intended for all audiences. Teachers from all academic areas as well as administrators will benefit from this presentation. Alice can be implemented as: a class, a unit in computer class, enrichment class/ club or adding it to existing academic curriculum. Alice is a fun and easy way to learn computer programming for students using drop and drag techniques to create 3D storytelling or interactive worlds. Learn where the best resources can be found for teaching Alice. Students exposed to Alice learn computational, logical, and sequential thinking skills while creating animations, stories, interactive stories and interactive games in a fun and exciting way. City Terrace 7 Differentiation in the Primary Classroom: Creating Personalized Learning Experiences • Early Childhood Rachel Paggio, Berkeley Preparatory School • Elementary This session will provide the opportunity to learn more about differentiated learning experiences for the primary classroom. Creating and using flexible grouping during literacy instruction will be demonstrated. Using various grouping formats to meet individual needs and strategies for instructing groups of different abilities will be discussed in relation to all academic subjects. This session will show classroom management techniques that allow teachers to raise the bar by meeting each student’s needs. City Terrace 8 STOMPing Skills • All Chelsea Weise, Hendricks Day School Everyone knows that keeping the Arts in school is important, but why is it important? Yes, students need time to escape from the normal academic time but there are huge benefits that come with it as well. Studies have shown that teaching students music and rhythm builds language skills, math skills, and even creates abstract thinking. Having a STOMP-like class is both amazing and fun. Students gain confidence after learning rhythmic routine and performing in front of their peers. STOMP also ties in with Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. Come see how learning STOMPing skills can change the way students learn! City Terrace 9 Taking Your Class to the Cloud • All Joanne Barrett, The Out-of-Door Academy Blended learning, MOOCS, and online learning are all on the rise for independent school educators. What does it really take to teach online? Last year, our traditional introductory Programming Course was offered as an online course. Borrowing from all the models, the students and instructor had a great learning adventure. This session will examine what tools and modifications it took for a successful online course rollout. City Terrace 10 Breaking Down Walls and Building Culture: Video and News Show • All Steven Gilbert and John Bragg, Montverde Academy This program will explore the importance of communicating and connecting with students through video storytelling and a news show to share the human experience. The latest technology and techniques will also be !shared with examples of completed work. Friday Program - Session III, cont. 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

River Terrace 1 Integrating and Enhancing Your Curriculum in the Classroom Using Technology • Elementary Melissa Garlinghouse and Michelle Sado, St. Johns Country Day School • Middle Our session will include using technology to ENHANCE your classrooms, methods for creating a blended classroom • Upper with child-centered learning, encouraging collaborative learning globally and within your classroom, grade, and school. For a more interactive experience, bring an iPad.

River Terrace 2 Accommodations without Modifications • Middle Shannon Padilla and Maureen Kesselring, Montverde Academy • Upper The students in our classrooms are all different, including their learning styles and needs. How do we adjust tests, assignments, and projects without affecting the content we want them to learn? This session will provide information to middle and high school teachers on how to provide accommodations that do not modify curriculum or standard expectations.

River Terrace 3 Scaling Walls With Robotics: Expanding Innovation and Building Community Partnerships Through • Elementary Robotics Kevin Conklin, Head of School, St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School and Mark McCombs, Executive Director of Renaissance Jax, Inc. St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School and Renaissance Jax are working to break down walls in a partnership fueled by students’ inclinations toward all things digital, and their intrinsic love of problem solving, while supporting the community development of Jacksonville. We will share the possibilities that stretch across demographics and cultures for students age 5-18 when competitive robotics is facilitated at a high level. Students engineer solutions to real world problems and in many instances, student team solutions go on to become patented. This workshop will focus on developing a robotics program in a school, including equipment, faculty/coach training, time commitment, sustaining a school program, and the ways a school can create partnerships to enrich the life of the school and strengthen its place in the community. Kevin draws on over 26 years of independent school experience !and Mark has 12 years of robotics experience, driving partnerships with Vistakon, Clay County, and others. St. Johns Flipping Success Stories and How to Get Started Yourself • Middle Christopher Kub and Marcus Wells, Episcopal School of Jacksonville • Upper Two Chemistry and Algebra II teachers will discuss how they have flipped their classrooms and the successes that they have had. They will discuss how having students watch videos at home in replacement of some lecture time, and replacing that lecture time with problem solving and review allows for improved learning and more engaged students. They will discuss the details of flipping, including how to make videos, where to post videos and how to manage class time. Friday Program - Session III, cont. 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Orlando Teacher to Director: Reflections from Year One to Year Ten • All Shannon Graves, Admiral Farragut Academy and Andrew Forrester, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Join veteran Shannon Graves (Admiral Farragut Academy) and rookie Andrew Forrester (Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School) for reflections, insight, and fears into channeling your teaching expertise into effective school leadership opportunities. After five years as Division Head and Assistant, both are running divisions in the Tampa Bay area. Explore the vast difference in role from teacher to administrator whether you are considering becoming a Director or have just begun and are wondering: “What now?”

Clearwater Classroom Management for the Most Challenging Behaviors • Early Childhood Gayle Wilson and Cindy Ball, Jacksonville Country Day School • Elementary More frequently, teachers are handling socially inappropriate and severe conduct problems in their classrooms. Parent support may not be strong, and it falls on the teacher to manage the behavior in an effective way. Learn the tools for increasing positive behavior in your classroom with even the most difficult students. Target the desired behaviors and create a behavior plan for the individual child that has not responded to your overall classroom behavior management plan.

Daytona Igniting the Creativity in Our Students • Early Childhood Suzanne Otero, The Weiss School • Elementary “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” ––Clay P. Bedford The philosophy of S.T.E.A.M. education highlights the natural integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math curriculum areas. It is a philosophy that believes the best way to teach key concepts, ideas and standards is through a seamless integration across subjects, in an effort to teach students in a manner that is most like the world, rather than teaching subjects in isolation. During this session, integrated projects that exemplify the possibilities in a classroom through innovation and creativity will be introduced. Uncover the opportunities that arise when you motivate students and teachers by giving them the room to unleash their potential. Learn why and how schools can provide their school communities with an environment that fosters creative risks. Discover step-by-step projects that can be completed in any elementary program. In addition, outlines of how you can implement these projects in your classroom will be handed out.

Boardroom 1 Using the Environment as a Third Teacher • Early Childhood Christy Maurer and Missy Melba, Jacksonville Country Day School • Elementary The environment can be a valuable teacher if it is comfortable, clean, inviting and engaging. Come find out how to transform the spaces around you and your students in a way that promotes learning and encourages positive relationships. Practical solutions and tips will be shared so that you can go back and start the transformation right away! Friday Program - Session III, cont. 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

Boardroom 2 Pre A.P. Prep • Middle Pedro Montes de Oca, The Bolles School • Upper Who says Integrated Skills are just for A.P. students? Using students’ written and oral compositions to determine language proficiency, this session will focus on the acquisition of integrated skills sequentially. Presenting unique methods and techniques beginning with lower levels of Spanish en route towards the A.P., attendees will be able to evaluate and assess the progress and mastery of students in the target language. Interactive audience participation is encouraged, and a tutorial brochure is distributed at the end of the session. Boardroom 3 Using Technology Tools to Streamline the Research and Writing Process • Middle CD McLean and Matt Jacobs, Berkeley Preparatory School • Upper Learn how a simple, cloud-based, technology tool can be used in any discipline to streamline the research and writing process. This tool can guide both teacher and student from the creation of topics, to keyword and thesis statement generation, researching sources, citation, creating notecards, taking notes online, drafting an outline online, and then combining all this work into a research paper. Everything can be graded and viewed online and can be submitted through Google docs. Boardroom 4 Computer Programming with Scratch • Elementary Gary Lutins, The Parke House Academy • Middle It is said that today’s students are lacking certain skills needed to compete in today’s global computer age. By learning computer programming with Scratch, children will learn problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills, and have fun with cross-curricular creations. Scratch, a free software program issued by MIT, has a visual programming environment that empowers children ages 8 and up to design and program their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.

Downtown Jacksonville Friday Program - Session IV 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM City Terrace 4 Get Energized • Middle Peter Blay and Marti Baugh, Hendricks Day School Hands on exploration of multiple forms of energy directed to educators that teach 6-8th graders. Movement through: electrical circuits, heat/thermal energy and mechanical energy. Teacher demonstration that incorporates ideas on lesson plans and class projects. City Terrace 5 Weaving Character Lessons into the Daily School Experience for Students and Parents • Early Childhood Andy Hamilton and Beth Gardner, Berkeley Preparatory School • Elementary Learn how two school leaders and their inspirational teachers weave intentional and authentic character development lessons into daily all-school gatherings, weekly multi-age groupings, endless teachable moments, and themed parent coffees. Facilitators will share how school-wide core values guide the year, many of their favorite resources and lessons, and tips for making connections for the whole school family as well as individual students. City Terrace 6 Pre-Kindness: Character Development in Pre-K • Early Childhood Amanda Spencer, St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School Explore opportunities for character development in Pre-K, where Random Acts of Kindness are created with a purpose. See examples of projects and get ideas on how to engage our youngest learners in serving others. City Terrace 7 The Art and Practice of Student Leadership Development • All Bill Rothe, St. Johns Country Day School and Ryan Jordan, Berkeley Preparatory School Do your students see themselves as leaders on your campus? What is leadership? Does your school value student leadership? When can we start the leadership conversation with students? Please join this collaborative discussion to learn how to initiate or improve student leadership development at your school. This session will help you to identify and nurture student leadership skills and to promote a positive leadership culture at your school. City Terrace 8 Battle of the Classes: A Day of Fun and Camaraderie • Elementary David Richardson and Scott McDaniel, Oak Hall School • Middle Annually Oak Hall Middle School has enjoyed a day when normal academic pace and rigor is exchanged for the • Upper fun and excitement of Battle of the Classes. Each grade competes in a collection of games, activities, mental challenges, and goofy escapades. It is a day of fun for students and teachers! Join us to learn how we plan the day, what we do, and perhaps take home a new adventure for your school. City Terrace 9 Battle Bots Hover Craft Engineering Challenge • Middle Sam Lindsay, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School • Upper In the STEAM arena, engineering challenges exist for students that require innovation, creativity, and out of the box thinking. This Battle Bots Competition offers a limited list of supplies to create radio controlled HOVER CRAFT, which compete against other craft, with a variety of goals. Students learn about physics, electricity, weight & balance, and project management. They also enjoy the process and competition. The final event has media event potential. Friday Program - Session IV, cont. 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM City Terrace 10 A Picture Can Speak Volumes…Though Some Pictures Speak Louder • All Michael Porter, Jacksonville Country Day School A good photograph is an important element of marketing and communications to current and potential families, because nothing sells our schools better than our students. However, it is not always possible to hire a professional photographer to document special events and our daily successes. We will look at ways for teachers and staff to produce better images for print and electronic media, using equipment you may already own. City Terrace 11 Voices from the Inside • Upper Joshua Stone, Ransom Everglades School; Kathie Klarreich, Exchange-for-Change, inc. This session will introduce participants to a life-changing writing program that pairs independent school students with students currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. The presentation will trace the program from its inception to its completion and will share some of the profound results that transformed participants in both classes. Conference participants will hear directly from the facilitators themselves and will learn about Exchange for Change, the fledgling, non-profit organization that not only enables this program to exist, but that may have the potential to work with other schools as well. River Terrace 1 Bully • All Lee J. Kaplan, Actor, Writer, VoiceOver Artist, Producer In this powerful new production inspired by entries in his sixth-grade journal, Lee returns to the scene of the crime, calling to the ring those who subjected him to unrelenting bullying attacks. It is the fight of his life: a story about finding the will and a way to finally stand up to the bullies. Since September 2013, "Bully" has been performed in theaters and schools up and down the east coast for more than 8,000 people. The show won accolades and awards as part of the New York International Fringe Festival and the Washington, D.C. Capital Fringe Festival and the response from press and audiences alike has been spectacular. (http://standuptothebully.com/presskit.pdf) River Terrace 2 Project-Based Global Studies: Looking into Latin America Using Technology • Elementary Darron Blanchard and Iliana Leonard, Jacksonville Country Day School • Middle In this session you will be guided through an integrated global study unit of Latin America. Your students will have the opportunity to research countries utilizing various disciplines such as music, art, dance, and technology. Children will learn how to make and present Keynotes (PowerPoints), design souvenirs, write postcards, and Skype. As a culminating activity, our students transformed the classroom into a “Latin Expo” and shared their projects with the school. River Terrace 3 Digital Portfolios for Students in 22nd Century Classrooms • Upper Amanda Brooke, Donna Klein Jewish Academy Connecting ecurriculum content to real world situations transforms our students into 21st century “Global Digital Citizens” who take ownership of their own learning. Teachers facilitate this learning process; students execute it. Learning through their interests encourages student initiative. Student work includes designing websites with embedded content. Students’ digital portfolios document their work. Meaningful data gathered using Google Education software and digital assessment software/apps drive curriculum decisions. Friday Program - Session IV, cont. 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

St. Johns Using iPads to Provide Quality Writing Feedback • Middle Amanda Holender, Pine Crest School • Upper It is a well-known fact in education that teaching students to write well is difficult and that grading that writing is even more difficult. While this session does not promise to make either process a breeze, it does offer educators a way to improve the quality of feedback in order to help students improve their writing. Participants will learn how to use specific applications on the iPad to provide specific, detailed feedback for student writers. Orlando The One Essential Screen of iPad Apps • All Dr. Joan McGettigan, North Broward Preparatory School Too many apps spoil the focus! Learn how to reduce your iPad app inventory down to the one essential screen of apps that works across curricular areas. Reduce the noise and confusion of too many apps and increase your students’ productivity by using the most effective and flexible apps. Learn about designing an effective workflow in your class, quality rules, not quantity! Clearwater Capturing Authentic Assessment, iPad & Beyond • Early Childhood Alexis Cobo, North Broward Preparatory School • Elementary For all educators, creating authentic student assessments is an integral part of designing effective curriculum. In many classrooms, educators are moving towards helping students become 21st Century digitally fluent learners who can authentically integrate technology into their every day learning. This session helps attendees think outside the box of ordinary assessments and focus on capturing student learning, which highlights digital fluency skills through the use of the iPad. The session will feature the apps Book Creator and Explain Everything as the main resources used to help students create a Digital Reflection Journal. The sample lessons featured during the presentation are from Kindergarten – 5th grade classrooms, but are easily translatable for learners of all ages. These skills and lessons are invaluable in helping students make their thinking visible as well as authentically capturing their learning to show growth and reflection over the course of the school year.

Daytona Apps to Effectively Differentiate Instruction • Elementary Debbie O’Brien and Caitlin Hampton, Pine Crest School In this session three iPad apps are presented that are indispensable for teachers differentiating instruction for their students, Spelling City, Chronicle and iDoceo. Increasing efficiency in keeping track of homework, assessments, conferencing, and student progress in the elementary classroom. Boardroom 1 An Architecture of Wonder: Building Arts Integration into Your Curriculum • All Jan-Marie Cook and Scott Thompson, Palm Beach Day Academy Are you looking to infuse your classroom with life and learning? Come explore ways to develop a community in the classroom by engaging in meaningful sharing of work through multiple mediums. You will acquire a set of practices, tools, and activities for integrating the arts meaningfully with language and literacy development in your educational setting, and leave with a clear structure for transferring the experience directly to your specific grade- level and/or educational context. Friday Program - Session IV, cont. 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM Boardroom 2 Brain Break Energizers • Early Childhood Virginia Dickert, Jacksonville Country Day School • Elementary Everyone needs to take a break, right? Your students do, too. Come have fun learning several brain-based activities to wake up your students and keep them energized while in class. Come away with a handout full of activities. Appropriate for Pre/K thru 6th classroom teachers as well as music specialists Engaging Students Through Fun, Free, and Easy to Grade Technology Boardroom 3 Luz Marina Engel-Penaloza and Rich Pyrczak, Berkeley Preparatory School • Middle Today we find so many free technological resources out there. Thus, the focus of this presentation is to give the • Upper world language teachers ideas on how to use some of them. Teachers will be able to leave our presentation with concrete ideas on how to apply them in their lesson plans: Today’s Meet, GOAnimate, QR Codes, Padlet, Blabbarize, Polleverywhere, etc. Let’s keep today’s students engaged through free, fun, and easy to grade technology! They will love these resources, and you will, too! Please bring your laptop, iPad, and/or cellphone.

Boardroom 4 Preparing Your School for an FCIS Five Year Full or Review Visit • All Melissa Alton, Director of Accreditation, FCIS This session is for schools preparing for an FCIS or FCIS/FKC full or review evaluation in the 2014-2015 or 2015-2016 academic year. Topics will include the differences between a full evaluation and a review evaluation, how schools are selected for review evaluations, how to prepare for the visit, what happens during the visit, and a review of important standards and standards that have changed since 2011. Schools with evaluations during the next two school years should send a representative. Schools doing joint evaluations with SACS or SAIS should attend Preparing Your School for a Joint FCIS Evaluation with SACS (AdvancED) and/or SAIS instead of this !session. !

Marineland Beach Special Thanks !Episcopal Schools’ Eucharist & Breakfast The Reverend Stephen C. Britt, Rector, San Jose Episcopal Church and Day School ! Thursday Luncheon Invocation Mrs. Karen Feller, Head of School, Donna Klein Jewish Academy !Mrs. Helena Levine, MSW, High School Principal, incoming Head of School, Donna Klein Jewish Academy Friday Luncheon Invocation The Very Reverend Katherine B. Moorehead, Dean, St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral ! Photographer Kenny Brooks, Tin Roof Photography Door Prizes !Many thanks to the following schools and hotels for their generous contributions: ! !The Bolles School, Jacksonville !Oak Hall School, Gainesville !Discovery Montessori, Jacksonville Beach !Providence School, Jacksonville !Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Jacksonville !Riverside Presbyterian Day School, Jacksonville !Grace Episcopal Day School, Orange Park !Robert F. Munroe Day School, Quincy !Greenwood School, Jacksonville !San Jose Episcopal Day School, Jacksonville !Hendricks Day School, Jacksonville !St. Johns Country Day School, Orange Park !Holy Comforter Episcopal School, Tallahassee !Mission Inn Resort !Jacksonville Country Day School, Jacksonville !Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront !Maclay School, Tallahassee !Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort & Spa Millhopper Montessori School, Gainesville St. Augustine Courtyard Marriott Special Thanks To Our Generous Underwriters ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Independent Colleges and Universities ! ! Benefits Association ! FCIS Board of Directors’ Dinner ! The River City Brewing Company ! ! Contributions to the Admission Directors’ ! and Business Officers’ Dinners ! ! Southern Teachers Agency & ! Independent School Management ! Co-Sponsors of the Independent Colleges and Universities President’s Reception Benefits Association & Balfour ! Co-Sponsors of the Welcome Reception ! ! ! ! Smart Tuition: Financial Solutions for ! Schools and Parents ! Contribution to the Business Officers’ ! Dinner ! Educational Records Bureau Zaner-Bloser & Fujitsu Intel ! Admission Directors’ Dinner ! Contributions to morning coffee ! FCIS Exhibitors

3 Aladdin Food Management Services 64 Envisio Solutions, Inc.

32 AlternaScapes, Inc. 84 ERB

59 American Time 6 FACTS Management Company

77 AscendSMS 48 FAST-PASS Visitor Management by SISCO

7 & 8 Balfour Yearbooks 34 FAU/Pine Jog Environmental Education Center

55 Blackbaud + Whipplehill 27 Finalsite

26 Camp Invention 20 First Investors

15 Carney, Sandoe & Associates 35 Flik Independent School Dining

50 Carroll Consultants, Ltd. 19 Florida Independent Schools Recruitment Fair

69 CCS 65 Flynn O'Harra Uniforms

62 Cherry and Company 75 GA Foods

86 Circle F Dude Ranch Outdoor Education Center 79 GeoMotion TV

40 ClassBook.com 38 George K. Baum & Company

45 CLOUD9WORLD 29 Grand Classroom

72 Contrax Furnishings 41 Guardian Defense

33 Dennis Uniform 12 HNM Architecture

44 Disney Youth Programs 56 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

16 Dwight Darby & Company 9 Independent Colleges & Universities Benefits Association (ICUBA)

57 EA Tours 1 & 2 Independent School Management (ISM)

13 EDUCATIONAL TOURS, FLORIDA 17 InSource

23 EF Education First/International Educational Tours 53 Intel/Fujitsu FCIS Exhibitors, cont.

82 ISA High School 76 School Aids

31 Jacksonville University 42 Seacamp Association, Inc.

70 Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens 21 Senior Systems

60 Kahn-Carlin & Company Inc. 83 Sheldon Laboratory Systems

66 Lands' End School Uniforms 14 Smart Tuition

18 Library Interiors of Florida, Inc. 80 Smiley's Audio-Visual, Inc

30 MBS Service Company 4 Southern Teachers Agency

5 Metz Culinary Management 39 Steelcase

49 MobileMe I.T. 22 Step Up For Students

25 Nature's Academy 58 Summerbook Company

74 North Carolina Outward Bound 28 Superkids by Rowland Reading Foundation

11 Northwest Evaluation Association 68 The Schultz Center

36 Pathfinder Outdoor Education 37 Think Shade LLC

63 QuaverMusic.com 61 Thompson Studios Photography

85 Rediker Software, Inc. 52 United Data Technologies

10 RenWeb School Management Software 54 VALIC

46 Risse Brothers School Uniforms 24 Valley Services

73 Sadlier 43 Vista Higher Learning

51 SAGE Dining Services 87 WonderWorks

78 School & Student Services by NAIS 47 Zaner-Bloser Educational Publishers !