Events Calendar

This experiential two-day workshop is designed to upskill your practice and amplify your impact. Together, we’ll unpack the role of the advisor, tackle common challenges, and build a toolkit that promotes student belonging, connection, and success.

‍This multi-session, virtual, team-based workshop series designed for school teams to explore new and innovative financial aid practices and other tuition-discounting strategies. Using curated frameworks, data, and tools, the NAIS Strategy Lab team will facilitate your school’s work to generate new ideas for connecting your vision to your goals for access and affordability. Leave with a pitch deck and a concise, compelling story that outlines new strategic approaches for discounting tuition and leveraging financial aid. This experience includes a pre-session on October 20 and a post-session on January 13.

A two-day, intensive experience designed specifically for independent school leadership teams, the Blueprint Sprint helps you turn strategy into measurable progress.  Led by Dr. Brett Jacobsen, SAIS president, this high-impact workshop will give your team a structured blueprint and practical tools to bring a strategic priority to life—so you can return to your school ready to implement real change.

Attracting and retaining top faculty and staff is one of the most pressing challenges facing independent schools today. The Timely Challenge Conference brings together school leaders to explore innovative strategies for recruitment, retention, and workplace culture.

To meet the needs of K-12 students, Social and Emotional Learning can and must come alive within all subject areas. This experiential online course will provide techniques for integrating SEL into all teaching and learning.  Both practical and conceptual, this course offers participants the opportunity to collaborate with fellow attendees from a community of international educators from public, private, and IB Schools.

A two-day, intensive experience designed specifically for independent school leadership teams, the Blueprint Sprint helps you turn strategy into measurable progress.  Led by Dr. Brett Jacobsen, SAIS president, this high-impact workshop will give your team a structured blueprint and practical tools to bring a strategic priority to life—so you can return to your school ready to implement real change.

This student deliberative experience, hosted by NAIS, Close Up Foundation, and the Stanford University Deliberative Democracy Lab, invites high school students to critically examine the role of artificial intelligence in their lives and their future careers. Through expert panels, facilitated dialogue, and consensus-building exercises, students will gain the tools to lead meaningful conversations back at school and beyond. This runs concurrently with the 2025 NAIS Symposium on AI and the Future of Learning.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we teach, learn, and lead. As a forward-thinking school leader, you’re invited to this two-day summit designed to equip independent school professionals with the insights, tools, and connections to navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Join leading voices in education and technology to explore how AI can empower educators, strengthen school systems, and enhance student learning. Through expert-led sessions, collaborative discussions, and practical demonstrations, you’ll gain the knowledge and confidence to lead your school into the future—ethically, strategically, and creatively. This event runs concurrently with the 2025 Student NextGen Roundtable: From Classrooms to Careers: How AI is Shaping Our Paths, hosted by NAIS, Close Up Foundation, and the Stanford University Deliberative Democracy Lab.

This multi-session, virtual, team-based workshop series designed for school teams to explore innovative staffing models and analyze compensation structures. Using insights from the NAIS Salary Explorer, NAIS Data and Analysis for School Leadership (DASL), and other sources, as well as NAIS Strategy Lab curated frameworks and processes, your school team will work to generate ideas for connecting your vision of the future to optimizing staff size, quality, and retention. Leave with a pitch deck and a concise, compelling story that outlines new strategic approaches for your compensation and staffing model. This experience includes a pre-session on November 19 and a post-session on February 11.

 

This event brings together high school students from across the country to build knowledge, develop strategies, and hone leadership skills to make a positive impact. Through engagement with experts and collaborative inquiry into pressing national issues, students consider their individual and collective responsibilities and agency, identify best practices in community engagement, and develop vision statements and strategies to make a difference in their own communities. Students will present those plans to teachers, administrators, and other participants in the concurrent 2026 NNSP Annual Conference.