Join NAIS Today and Receive 25% Off Your 2024-2025 Dues!
NAIS supports independent school leaders at all levels. When your school joins NAIS, every staff and faculty member—from teachers to trustees—gains access to benefits. Join now and save!
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Thrive 2025: Get Super Early-Bird Savings Through October 18!
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
2024-25 DASL Data Entry is Open! Enter Foundation Data by October 18
Have questions? Get tips and key information for data entry, watch video tutorials, and register for webinars that cover different stages of the 2024-2025 DASL data entry process.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.