One-hour Workshops ONe-hour
Demographic Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability Financial Sustainability
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Mission and Metrics: Seeking Common Ground Room 603 Can you quantify leadership? Is it possible to measure the head’s effectiveness? Each school is different, but everyone will gain a better understanding of the issues to consider when constructing modern, innovative, and effective head of school goals, as well as appreciation of the evolving nature of metrics-based evaluation systems. PRESENTERS: Terry Macaluso, Eastside Preparatory School (WA); Skip Kotkins, Skyway Luggage Company (WA)
Leadership development The Evolving Role of Head of School: Words with Heads at Three Career Points Room 2a Join three heads of school — one in her first decade in the post, one in his third decade, and another who served as head of two schools before leaving the role — as they reflect on their sense of the changes in the demands and rewards of the work. Talk directly with panelists and take home recommendations for follow-up reading. PRESENTERS: Claudia Daggett, Elementary School Heads Association (MO); Chad Small, The Rumson Country Day School (NJ); Clay Stites, Resource Group 175 (MA); Angél Kytle, Saint Paul’s School (FL)
Folio: Faculty Evaluation Grounded in Honest Dialogue Informed by Real Data Room 2b Many school leaders seek a faculty evaluation system that leads to real growth. Learn how one school developed a web-based, datadriven process that streamlined its approach and inspired its board, administration, and faculty to create an evaluation system that other schools can easily adopt. PRESENTERS: Timothy Fish, Kirsten Adams, and Charles Britton, McDonogh School (MD)
Moving the Mountain: Changing Faculty Cultures from Within Room 4C – 3 How do school cultures of “faculty autonomy” survive in a world where education is changing rapidly? Look at how two schools, a K-8 school in California and a K-12 school in Virginia, developed clear, forward-thinking strategies that prepare students for the future while maintaining high levels of faculty autonomy and professional excellence. PRESENTERS: Alice Moore, Marin Country Day School (CA); David Colon, Collegiate School (VA)
NAIS Heads Equity and Diversity Seminar (HEADS) 2012 Room 619 HEADS is a generative opportunity for heads of independent schools, senior-level administrators, and teams of administrators to learn from each other about the important work of leading efforts to build and sustain inclusive and equitable school communities. Preview the 2012 HEADS’s focus on building knowledge and skills in leading individual and institutional cross-cultural competency work in independent schools. PRESENTERS: Katherine Dinh, Prospect Sierra School (CA); Elizabeth Duffy, The Lawrenceville School (NJ); Gene Batiste, NAIS (DC)
Management
Admission and Financial Aid Trends that Every School Leader Needs to Know Room 4C –2 To help ensure your school is on a successful enrollment management path, your admission and financial aid professionals should be well versed in national and regional trends. Join SSS by NAIS and SSATB representatives for a walk-through of some interesting and important trends we’re seeing nationally in financial aid and admission at our schools. PRESENTERS: Amy Hammond, SSS by NAIS (DC); Aimee Gruber, Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB) (CANADA)
Enrollment Management by the Book Room 4C – 4 Engage in a lively discussion with the authors of one of NAIS’s latest books, focusing on enrollment management at independent schools. PRESENTERS: Christine Baker, The Baker Group (MA); Monique DeVane, The College Preparatory School (CA); D. Scott Looney, Hawken School (OH)
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