Events Calendar

This multi-session, virtual, team-based workshop series is designed for school teams who have previously completed AIM: The NAIS Assessment of School Culture. Through the NAIS Strategy Lab’s tried-and-true strategy-making model, this workshop helps teams continue to diagnose what your AIM insights reveal about your school and focus on areas of concern. Teams apply innovation frameworks and engage in thought exercises to generate exciting possibilities and plan for an effective implementation and rollout of new ideas. Leave with a pitch deck and a concise, compelling story that outlines how your AIM findings have led to innovative approaches to reach your larger community goals. This experience includes a pre-session on January 22 and a post-session on April 16.

This multi-session, virtual, team-based workshop series designed for boards to address what’s standing in their way when it comes best supporting their school and to generate innovative strategies to cultivate a thriving board structure and culture for the future. In this interactive experience, heads of school, board chairs, and governance committee leaders come together to identify their most pressing governance challenges and co-design strategies for strengthening board performance. Grounded in data and driven by collaboration, this workshop series offers structured frameworks for translating reflection into actionable next steps. Leave with an individualized professional development plan for your board, as well as a clear set of priorities and innovative approaches tailored to your school’s unique governance journey. This experience includes a pre-session on March 26 and a post-session on June 24.

How can schools, classrooms, and other educational spaces be best designed to support deep and lifelong learning? How can architects, educators, and designers create places for learning that incorporate the latest research and innovative practices from around the globe? This institute convenes teams in an interactive and intensive 3.5-day studio format in which participants learn from leading experts and apply lessons to their active projects—from modest redesigns of small settings to large school building renovations to ambitious new construction and campus planning projects.