THURSDAY ROOM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE A-1
ROOM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE E-2
What Would You Do? Preparing Your School for a Crisis How will you react when your school faces emergencies or crises? Hear sage advice from a panel led by a head of school, associate head of school, finance, and legal team about immediate steps to take. Explore strategies to help minimize liability risk and changes to policies and procedures that deal with these difficult situations. PRESENTERS: Suzanne Bogdan, Fisher & Phillips, LLP (TX); Nancy Greene, The Bolles School (FL); Steve Piltch, The Shipley School (PA); Debra Wilson, NAIS (DC)
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ROOM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE E-1
Dare to Explore Beyond the Campus Bubble: Leveraging the Community for Learning How can you foster meaningful community relationships? Discover how to leverage public, private, and nonprofit expertise to create powerful service learning, PBL, and design thinking. Learn how to cultivate partners, build sustainable networks, articulate your school’s value, and identify community needs. Leave with a guide for next steps. PRESENTERS: Chad Faber and George Zaninovich, Catlin Gabel (OR); Greg Bamford, Leading Is Learning (WA)
Is Your School in Employment Law Jeopardy? Taking a “quiz show” style approach, this interactive session invites you to test your knowledge of independent school employment law issues. Designed to be engaging and informative, the session also addresses common areas of confusion and mistakes regarding employment law in the independent school workplace. PRESENTERS: Heather Broadwater and Caryn Pass, Venable LLP (DC); Liane Faermann, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (PA) ROOM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE A-2
The Next Step in Embracing Diversity: The Transgender Student If your school has not dealt with this issue yet: Be prepared, it’s coming. Discuss the many practical and legal issues that can arise in handling gender identity issues. Examine considerations about use of restrooms; modifying policies, rules, and practices; confidentiality and student records; facilities planning; physical education classes; and intramural and interscholastic athletic activities. PRESENTERS: Linda Johnson, McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton (NH); Mary Carter, The Derryfield School (NH)
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Assessing the 4Cs in Schools of the Future: Independent and Public School Panel Join Ken Kay, founder of P21 and CEO of EdLeader21, along with school leaders from independent and public school members of EdLeader21, to explore how schools are embedding the 4Cs school-wide and using rubrics, performance tasks, and other exciting tools to assess students’ creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thought. PRESENTERS: Ken Kay, EdLeader21 (AZ); Josh Brody, Sequoyah School (CA); Kim Dockery, Fairfax County Public Schools (VA); Laura Deisley, The Lovett School (GA) ROOM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE A-4
Discovering Where Boys Are Thriving in Coed Settings Explore where boys are thriving in coed schools, despite the data of lower boys’ performance. Discuss strategies for engaging middle and upper school boys. Explore the role of digital devices in schools, leadership opportunities in and outside of class, and curricular practice that involves choice, relevance, performance, and competition. PRESENTERS: Melissa Soderberg, Columbus Academy (OH); AJ Colianni and Sarah Flotten, Breck School (MN)
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