Invest in Your Personal Well-Being and Professional Growth
As a Head of School, staying focused on your school’s big-picture goals can be difficult when you’re navigating the daily responsibilities and pressures of operations. This challenge is what prompted us to create our Annual Head’s Retreat — a gathering that gives School Heads the time and space to step back and refocus, discuss emerging trends, and cultivate visionary leadership.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL LEADERS
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Develop new skills, gain confidence in your role, and lead with clarity. Be mentored by leaders who are experts in their field, many currently working in private schools today. Get hands-on experience, network with fellow school leaders, and walk away with an action plan you can use the minute you return to campus.
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Transforming Curriculum: Leading Change at a Traditional School
Date(s): 10/7/2026 ● Time: 3:00pm ET ● Status: Open
Hear directly from educators leading a major curriculum redesign at a 90-year-old, tradition-bound school. Their case study illustrates how they moved from a topic-based curriculum to one built on transferable skills and enduring understandings — and how they built the buy-in, capacity, and structures to make it stick.
$161.00
General
$0.00 For all members
Unified Advancement Leadership: From Silos to Strategy
Date(s): 10/14/2026 ● Time: 3:00pm ET ● Status: Open
Learn how a unified advancement approach aligns your admission, development, and marketing teams and strengthens your school’s enrollment, retention, and philanthropic support.
$161.00
General
$0.00 For all members
Design a Faculty Growth System That Works
Date(s): 10/20/2026 — 10/21/2026 ● Status: Open
Build a faculty culture where educators feel supported, accountable, and confident enough to take the risks that lead to meaningful professional growth.
$675.00
General & Silver
$540.00 Gold
$510.00 3+ Person
Govern AI Without Managing It: ISM’s Framework for Board Oversight
Date(s): 10/28/2026 ● Time: 3:00pm ET ● Status: Open
Learn how your Board can govern your school's AI vision and strategy — without stepping into day-to-day school operations.
$161.00
General
$0.00 For all members
Build a Sustainable Culture of Coaching and Growth
Date(s): 12/1/2026 — 12/2/2026 ● Status: Open
Learn how peer-to-peer coaching drives a structured, energized system for continuous faculty growth, year after year.
$675.00
General & Silver
$540.00 Gold
$510.00 3+ Person