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Community Conversation: Collaborating for Impact in Student Life

Nov 13, 2025 9:00AM—10:00AM

Virtual

This interactive Community Conversation invites deans and student life professionals to reflect on and share how they lead between the lines of formal authority and everyday relationships, addressing challenges as well as breakthroughs. Together, we’ll explore how small choices, language, and presence can shape culture and strengthen trust across our communities.

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Leading From The Middle: Managing Up, Down, and Across

Oct 29, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

This program is designed for leaders who want to navigate these complexities with greater confidence and clarity learning with and from a community of practitioners. Together, we’ll tackle the challenges that come with making tough decisions, leading effective meetings, supervising your peers, and giving feedback that builds rather than erodes trust.

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AI in STEM Education: Harnessing AI’s Power and Potential

Oct 28, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

Can AI tools be useful within science, engineering, and math classrooms, where objective scientific facts govern and logical reasoning dominates? Have AI tools been improved to hallucinate less frequently, less intensely, or less confidently? This intensive will provide participants with the opportunity to experiment with AI models using curated prompts, revealing both the power and potential issues with these tools. Together, we will examine best practices in a world where AI will soon be used to make major scientific discoveries.

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Human-Centered AI for Lower School Educators

Oct 28, 2025 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

In this virtual series for lower school educators we will explore the importance of human-centered approaches, share insights into the value of AI literacy, engage with AI tools, and examine supportive leadership frameworks and processes. This dynamic program will meet educators where they are in their AI journeys and build a learning community of educators grappling with the complexity of this work

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Finance & Sustainability in Independent Schools: A Practical Approach to Management and Innovation

Oct 22, 2025 2:30PM—5:30PM

Virtual

This 5-session program will help educators develop practical financial and risk management skills necessary for leadership roles in K12 schools, both day schools and boarding schools. Moving beyond the theoretical and foundational principles of finance, we will ground our work together in the practical tools that educators and schools can use to understand trends, articulate current and potential economic challenges, and develop strategic and action-oriented approaches to sound financial management and financial sustainability.

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Practical AI for School Leaders

Oct 15, 2025 10:00AM—11:30AM

Virtual

This session is designed for school leaders who want to better understand how to use generative AI to support their own work and goals. While they are often immersed in questions of philosophy, policy, and supporting students and colleagues, school leaders rarely have the opportunity to explore generative AI in practical terms: learning the skills and tools that will make them more effective users of this powerful technology.

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Foundations in Practice: Tools and Community for Assistant Teachers

Oct 14, 2025 8:30AM—10:00AM

Virtual

This virtual ongoing program offers practical tools and strategies to enhance the work of assistant teachers in the classroom, with a focus on effective collaboration, student engagement, and responsive support. In addition to skill-building, the ongoing sessions will provide a space for assistant teachers to share experiences, ask questions, and build a strong sense of community with colleagues throughout the state.

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Parent Communication Strategies: Academic Feedback and Narrative Reports

Oct 09, 2025 3:30PM—5:30PM

Virtual

Educators navigate increasingly complex parent and caretaker communication situations in person, over the phone, via email, Zoom, and during in-person school events. Please join facilitator Dr. Jawaan Wallace, Director of Enrollment Management and Collegiate Partnerships at Marlborough School to build your toolkit of effective, responsive, and nimble communication strategies.

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Making Sense of AI

Sep 24, 2025 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

This workshop offers educators relevant and practical entry points to begin the process of making sense of AI. We’ll cover three guiding principles and seven strategies for understanding AI’s impact on education and harnessing its power to support deeper learning and teaching.

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Department Chairs Institute

Aug 06, 2025 10:00AM—Aug 08, 2025 3:00PM

Virtual

The Department Chairs Institute will guide participants in exploring the multilayered challenges of this unique position and in developing the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to become effective department leaders.

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CAIS + CATDC Responsive Leadership Workshop: Upholding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Independent Schools

Aug 04, 2025 10:00AM—Aug 06, 2025 12:00PM

Virtual

This two-day virtual Summer Institute is designed for school leadership teams to meet the moment in upholding and sustaining DEI efforts. We will explore the legal landscape, assess institutional risks, and develop strategies that align with mission and values. Our purpose is to come together to reaffirm and strengthen our shared work fostering equity and inclusion.

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From Busy to Intentional: Leveraging Analog, Digital, and AI tools to Bring Balance to Your Work Life

Jun 16, 2025 2:00PM—Jun 18, 2025 4:00PM

Virtual

Take control of your time and shift from reactive to strategic in this interactive workshop designed to help busy educators work more efficiently. You’ll practice proven strategies for managing projects, email, and digital workspaces while integrating generative AI tools to streamline tasks. Led by Head of School Andrew Davis, this hands-on experience will equip you with practical systems to make your work more productive and rewarding.

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Parent Communication Strategies

Jun 13, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

Virtual

Educators navigate increasingly complex parent and caretaker communication situations in person, over the phone, via email, Zoom, and during in-person school events. Please join facilitator Dr. Jawaan Wallace, Director of Enrollment Management and Collegiate Partnerships at Marlborough School to build your toolkit of effective, responsive, and nimble communication strategies.

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AI and the Teaching of Writing: Design Sprint

Apr 14, 2025 3:30PM—5:00PM

Virtual

This two-part continuation of the “AI and the Teaching of Writing” workshop offers educators the time, space, and support to redesign a key writing assessment in response to generative AI.

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