Helping Your School Community Recover After Tragedies and Traumatic Events
To help you assist students and other members of your school community who may need support, NAIS has compiled several resources.
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Register Now: NAIS AI Events for Educators and Students
Join us in Houston in December for two transformative, concurrent events: the 2025 NAIS Symposium on AI and the Future of Learning (for educators) and From Classrooms to Careers: How AI Is Shaping Our Paths (for students). Get the insights, tools, and connections you need to navigate the evolving AI landscape. -
Independent School Magazine: Teachers
The Summer 2025 issue explores multiple dimensions of the teaching experience, including health and well-being, professional development, leadership development, and hiring and retention. -
NEW! Help Board Members Grasp Finance Fundamentals
Give them The Trustee’s Guide to Finance Basics. This concise book explains everything they need to understand—from balance sheets to board-level issues. -
Revised and Expanded! The New Hopes and Fears
Get fresh perspectives plus empathic advice on partnering with parents. Even if you read the first edition, you’ll gain new ideas about restructuring the home-school relationship in a changed world.
NAIS Strategic Planning Project
The NAIS staff and board have launched a long-range strategic planning process. With so much change in the educational landscape and wider world, we’ll focus on how to best serve our member schools moving forward. Get details on how to engage in this process here.
There's Still Time to Reserve Your Spot for Leadership Academy Events
Don't miss out! Spots are still available for Leadership Through Partnership and the Institute on Leading Systems for Teacher Learning.
Member Voices: Connecting Through Curiosity
Patricia Sasser, former assistant head for academic affairs at Saint Mary’s School (NC), shares how her early experiences shaped her curiosity, empathy, and people-first approach to leadership.
Insights for Navigating Adolescent Friendships
Expert takeaways to help administrators and teachers support students and their parents through the complicated landscape of middle school friendships.
Legal Tip of the Week: School Choice Tax Credit
Find out what independent schools need to know about the new scholarship tax credit program included in the tax reform package passed by Congress and signed by the president on July 4.
What Star Wars Gets Right About Leadership
"To create something better, whether leading a team, a classroom, or a hallway, we must shift from managing chaos to conducting strategic focus—not with fear or force, but with clarity."
NAIS Research: 2023-2024 Faculty Satisfaction Survey Report
Get insights from key findings that focus on focusing on faculty satisfaction with aspects of their job, workplace relationships, teaching environment, and organizational culture.
Using Peer-to-Peer Coaching to Prioritize Faculty Well-Being
Learn how one school created a program to help teachers feel heard, supported, and equipped—and strengthen retention and school culture.
Hiring & Retention: Staying Competitive Amid the Lure of Remote Work
As independent schools strive to remain competitive in a workplace defined by flexibility and autonomy, they are in a prime position to elevate the teaching profession and attract talent.
Find the Best Talent
Talented teaching and administrator candidates are waiting to apply for jobs at your school. NAIS members can post jobs and browse resumes for free; nonmembers can purchase job postings.