The National Small Schools Conference

Falmouth Academy will host the third annual National Small Schools Conference, June 16-18, 2010. Our keynote speakers are Susan Moore Johnson and Arlene Joy Gibson.

Susan is the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. A former high-school teacher and administrator, she is examining how best to recruit, support, and retain a strong teaching force in the face of the nationwide aging of the teaching population.

Arlene’s career includes two headships – most recently at The Spence School in New York and before that at Kent Place School in NJ. She is the founding president of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools and serves as a trustee of Bryn Mawr College and Promise Academy of the Harlem Children’s Zone.

In addition, Kristen Power, NAIS’s New England regional representative, will present and lead a short discussion on NAIS’s new initiative: working with the small school.

Registration form attached. We expect a good turn out and will limit the conference to 80 participants.

This is the only conference to focus specifically on small-school issues, so please mark your calendar and tell your small-school colleagues. Sample comment from a previous conference: “Fabulous… informative & extremely well organized.”

Questions? Please contact tclark@falmouthacademy.org or dfaus@falmouthacademy.org.

Or view/print a registration form here.

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The 3rd Annual National Small Schools Conference
for small-school leaders to discuss best practices and issues particular to small, independent schools

June 16 - 18, 2010 at Falmouth Academy

Preliminary Program

Wednesday, June 16

12:30 pm         Registration begins at Falmouth Academy

  1:00 pm           Introductions and housekeeping

 2:00 pm            Susan Moore Johnson, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching & Learning at Harvard’s
Graduate School of Education

 

7:00–9:00 pm  Dinner in Woods Hole

 

Thursday, June 17

8:00 am           Coffee and fruit available at FA

9:00 – 10:00 am Kristen Power, NAIS’s New England regional representative:
NAIS’s new initiative on working with the small school

10:00 – 11:00 am & 11:00 – 12:00 noon BREAKOUT SESSIONS

 

Noon – 2:00 pm  Optional lunch groups organized by particular interests and/or school size

2:00 pm              Group discussion

6:30 pm           Reception with beer and wine and hors d’oeuvres

 

Friday, June 18

9:00 am           Coffee and fruit available at FA

9:30–11:00 am  Arlene Joy Gibson, retired head of the Spence School in New York.
“ Reflections on school leadership”

 

Adjourn at 11:45 am