Webinars

This online workshop helps you create a well-organized and responsive program that empowers you to engage and steward alumni. Discover how to plan and execute virtual and in-person alumni events, reunions, and fundraising initiatives.

Burn Bright: The Resilience Advantage is a scientific and application-based approach that helps leaders bring the best versions of themselves to all they do. This second session will focus on how leaders can create the conditions for the people in their communities to burn bright.

Join us to build your skills and rethink your systems toward a more equitable approach to observing classrooms, coaching faculty and staff members, and serving as a supervisor.

Join school leaders for a weekly webinar series every Tuesday at 1:00 PM ET. Each week the NAIS Legal Team, along with special guests, will provide an overview of the top issues facing independent schools. We will tackle some of the most frequently asked questions we’ve heard in the previous week, highlight trends, share strategies schools are using, and provide an overview of the evolving federal response to COVID-19, including legislative and regulatory updates.

Presenters: NAIS’s Megan Mann and Whitney Silverman

Attend this webinar to hear Brian Sith, executive director of marketing and admissions at Carmel Catholic High School (Mundelein, Illinois) describe how his school developed a strategy for recruiting summer camp attendees.

Hear Lauren Ledley and Tom McStravock from Princeton Day School share learnings from their search process, and how through careful planning and thoughtful change management they were able to start school year 20-21 with a new SIS.

Building on NAIS’s research about independent school parents, this webinar explores how international parent Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) are both similar and different from parents in the United States.

Please join us as we reconvene the three panelists from our June webinar “Student Health in a CV-19 World” where they will share lessons learned from the strategies they implemented this fall, as well as implications for the spring and beyond.  
 

In the final webinar in the NAIS Fall Leadership Series, we will review core elements and key strategies to implement or evolve your school’s risk management process. Taking a more comprehensive view of risk management—even amid a pandemic—can help ensure your school’s sustainability and make life more manageable day-to-day.

With many schools anticipating a budget deficit and significant increases in financial aid awards, advancement offices are being asked to close the gap. Attend this webinar to hear Graham Honaker and Jerry Logan, authors of The Cinderella Strategy: The Game Plan Behind Butler University’s Rise to Prominence, describe how Butler’s innovative and counter-cultural approach to fundraising grew the school’s endowment by $100 million, and nearly doubled its average annual giving.

Seasoned executive recruiters will share best practices and “behind the scenes” techniques for conducting successful administrative searches.

Join this online workshop to discover important leadership strategies that can help you bolster your school’s distance learning approach. Whether you’ve already been offering distance learning or are preparing for the uncertain winter months, you and your team can always implement new practices to positively impact student learning.

Talking about topics like identity, difference, and oppression can raise anxiety for many people, and yet we must have the conversation in our schools and our lives in order to be more inclusive and culturally competent. Join Rosetta Lee, consultant, educator, and activist, for a webinar to learn to participate in truly courageous conversations. You will identify barriers to overcome and frameworks for authentic and healthy group dialogue.

Learn how to customize and manipulate NBOA's Long-Range Financial Model, a powerful financial planning tool for your school in this online course through the National Business Officers Association (NBOA).

Experts in independent school online learning as well as risk management and compliance review both legal considerations and strategies and tools schools should implement to ensure their programs meet their missions and are safe and compliant.