2010 NAIS - National Association Of Independent Schools - Annual Conference

The NAIS Annual Conference is a yearly gathering of the independent school community, serving school heads and their leadership teams. The conference provides opportunities for invaluable networking and offers professional development on critical leadership and educational issues of the times. Increasingly the conference has become a means for breakthrough thinking, seeking to inspire school leaders to look ahead to big picture ideas and challenges faced by educators in this new century and to plan proactively for them. The 2010 NAIS Annual Conference is designed to support interests expressed by independent school leaders - all of whom face intrinsically difficult issues within their unique positions. In the climate of todays enormous and unsettling change, school heads, board chairs/trustees, admission directors, business directors, diversity directors, division heads and department chairs, associate heads, development directors, and teacher-leaders are called upon to do what sometimes seems impossible. At the 2010 Annual Conference, NAIS intends to model the power of divergent thinking by profiling unique success stories and by bringing together thought-leaders who are known for their resilience, adaptivity, and success in triumphing against the odds.