• NAIS Thrive

    Registration is Now Open for NAIS Thrive 2025!

    Join us in Nashville, February 26-28, for the NAIS annual conference, where independent school leaders come together to connect, explore, inspire, and recharge. This is your opportunity to gain new ideas, build meaningful connections, and leave ready to lead with joy and purpose.

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  • PoCC Registration

    2024 NAIS People of Color Conference Registration is Open!

    Join us at PoCC, December 4–7 in Denver, to explore the theme Meeting the Moment: Anchoring and Enriching Our Education Futures.

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  • Order the NAIS Trendbook

    Get Fresh Thinking on Future Trends in the New Trendbook!

    Delve into emerging issues and timely data with the redesigned 2024-2025 NAIS Trendbook. It’s your springboard for discussion at board, faculty, and staff meetings.

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  • NAIS New View EDU Podcast

    New View EDU Podcast: Building Academic Resilience

    Megan Kennedy, director of the University of Washington Resilience Lab, joins host Morva McDonald to talk about a systems-based approach to fostering resilience for students.

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  • What Leadership Looks Like

    What Leadership Looks Like

    As the leading voice for independent schools, NAIS exemplifies leadership by advocating for and delivering unparalleled insights to schools nationwide. Now, we are inspiring independent schools with a bold new brand.

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  • Revised and Expanded! The New Hopes and Fears

    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.

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  • NAIS Career Center

    Hiring Resources from NAIS

    Is your school hiring? Are you looking for your dream job? Use the NAIS Career Center to post and find great independent school career opportunities.

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Legal Tip of the Week: NAIS and NBOA Partner on COPPA 2.0 Advocacy

Legal Tip of the Week: NAIS and NBOA Partner on COPPA 2.0 Advocacy

Online data privacy and protection for children and teens is a hot topic, and Congress has taken notice. A small but critical issue within a recent bill could affect independent schools.

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Let’s Talk About Writing: Using Talk as a Pre-Writing Tool

Let’s Talk About Writing: Using Talk as a Pre-Writing Tool

Writing doesn’t always come easy. But what if we offered students a new process—or new processes—to gather and edit their thoughts?

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Independent School Health Check: Key Changes in High School Results

Independent School Health Check: Key Changes in High School Results

This report details the most significant changes between 2022-2023 and 2014-2017. These two sets of data offer insight into students’ well-being prior to and following the pandemic.

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Resources for Educators in an Election Season

Resources for Educators in an Election Season

This election season, educators likely will manage challenging conversations and be called on to model and teach civil discourse. NAIS has compiled this list of resources to help your school.

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Member Voices Podcast: Equipping Students in the Age of AI

Member Voices Podcast: Equipping Students in the Age of AI

Autumn Adkins Graves, head of St. Anne's-Belfield School (VA), shares the importance of curiosity around AI, and how her school created a portrait of a graduate with a futurist lens.

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Tips to Improve the School-Parent Partnership

Tips to Improve the School-Parent Partnership

Challenges will certainly arise throughout the year, but school leaders who take the extra step can start on the right foot and garner parent confidence, even in difficult times.

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Saying No to Parents: How Schools Can Set Better Boundaries

Saying No to Parents: How Schools Can Set Better Boundaries

Although with training and experience educators can gain confidence in managing conflict, it always calls for courage, especially when the stakes are high.

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Engaging with Parents: From Conflict to Care

Engaging with Parents: From Conflict to Care

"Parents are every bit as anxious about the future as their children are. And they’re looking to us for a little hope, a little reassurance that this whole thing is going to work out."

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Resources for Educators

Resources for Educators About the Conflict in the Middle East

We hope these resources can help school leaders and educators as they support their communities, restore a sense of security, guide students in understanding the conflict, and manage complex conversations.

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NAIS Career Center

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.

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