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2025-2026 Early Career Heads Workshop Series & Cohort

Welcome to the SAIS Early Career Heads Workshop Series & Cohort. This 8-month series is tailored specifically for early career independent school heads. Stepping into a leadership role is both an exciting and challenging endeavor. We want to support you […]

Curriculum Review: Mission-Aligned Process & Planning (Fall 2023)

The fall 2023 program is now full. Registration for the winter 2024 offering is open here. This hands-on professional learning cohort is designed for program leaders who are beginning a curricular review journey and want to ensure the process is: […]

Learning to Depolarize: Helping Students & Teachers Reach Across Lines of Disagreement

Join this webinar to learn about causes and consequences of political polarization in our society, why schools must address the challenge head-on, bridge-building in the classroom, media literacy, and social emotional learning as tools for depolarization and partnering with parents […]

News – From SAIS President Debra Wilson – April 2023

Hello Friends! I write this as we are enjoying the Fundamentals Conference, an event we created for leaders and aspiring leaders to come together to learn some of the intricacies of school operations and take the opportunity to identify their […]

AI in Independent Schools

A four-session virtual workshop series presented by ATLIS Learn from experts in the field about the latest trends, tools, risks, and strategies for using AI in education. Over the course of four sessions, you will gain practical insights into how […]

News – From SAIS President Debra Wilson – March 2023

Hello Friends! Since the pandemic began three years ago, we have spent a lot of time thinking about and worrying about community. Over the past 18 months in particular, schools have been working hard to build back community that was […]

Feedback as Furthering: The Three C’s

Tired of acronyms, alliteration, and other attempts at attention-catching organizing principles like “The Three C’s?” Thanks for the feedback. We’re not aware of a single best approach to providing—much less making good use of—feedback; in fact, we’re convinced that what […]

Engaging Challenging Parents

This article is based on a workshop presented by Stephenson and Kronsberg at the 2023 NAIS Annual Conference. Originally created by Stephenson in 2009, the goal of the workshop is to widen the lens of the conflict situation and ultimately […]

Evaluating the Head of School

Articles and Information Why a 360-style evaluation is not the best choice and the recommended process for head evaluation An overview of the process including a timeline and guidance for setting goals Results from the National Leadership Evaluation Study, major […]

Reflect, Revise, & Recharge: Improving Parent Communications for Summer & Beyond

Summer brings well-deserved time off and key projects to tackle. But before we know it, school starts and it’s tempting to resume the same communication methods and patterns as the previous year. Now’s the right time to step back and […]