Events Calendar

Upcoming Events

Browse listings of NAIS opportunities as well as member-submitted events available to the broader independent school community.
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Date Event type Category Name Location
06/23/2025 Other Student Health and Well-Being, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning The Institute for Social & Emotional Learning Workshop: SEL Foundations: Building Core Competencies in the Elementary Classroom
This two-day workshop provides the framework and tools to start the year on a strong foundation of SEL. Learn effective lesson sequences and simple and profound practices to support social and emotional Learning.
Fort Worth Country Day School (Fort Worth, TX)
06/23/2025 Other Leadership, Management, Professional Development ISACS 2025 Leadership Academy
This three-day event, in partnership with the Northwestern University Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management, is for independent school leaders. This year's theme is Recenter Your School's Purpose: Communication Meets Innovation.
Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
06/23/2025 Other Curriculum, Disability, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning The Southport CoLab: Orton-Gillingham Associate Course 1
Dive into the foundational methods of the Orton-Gillingham approach. This course covers dyslexia, phonological awareness, structured lesson planning, and more. It empowers educators to support students in one-on-one and small group settings.
Online
06/24/2025 Other Teachers, Professional Development, Experiential Learning ISEEN Summer Teacher Institute: Experiential Education Pedagogy & Practice
This Independent Schools Experiential Education Network event fuses rigorous academic disciplines with deep thinking about the cognitive learning process through the experiential learning cycle. This professional development opportunity is for teachers who want to delve deeper into experiential education and reflective teaching practices while immersed in experiential and place-based activities on the front range of Colorado. 
The Dawson School (Lafayette, CO)
06/25/2025 Other Teachers, Diversity and Inclusion, Professional Development Montrose School's LifeCompass 2025 Summer Teacher Institute: Leveraging Character Education to Reinvigorate Teaching Race in the U.S.
What can character and classical educators contribute to reinvigorating the teaching about race in the United States during a polarized age? Hear speakers Angel Adams Parham (University of Virginia) and Karen Bohlin (Harvard University's Abigail Adams Institute), and participate in faculty workshops.
Montrose School (Medfield, MA)
06/25/2025 Other Leadership, Culture, Equity/Justice CATDC: Elevating School Culture in Contentious Times
This retreat is designed to offer dedicated time and space away from our everyday surroundings in order to ground and connect with what we really matters. The intentional setting is meant to inspire an interruption to routines and patterns so we can be more available to think creatively about our school communities and the power of culture and counter-culture.
Nevada City, CA
06/30/2025 Other Classroom, Facilities, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning CASIE Learning Environments for Tomorrow: Next Practices for Education Leaders and Designers
How can schools, classrooms, and other educational spaces be best designed to support deep and lifelong learning? How can architects, educators, and designers create places for learning that incorporate the latest research and innovative practices from around the globe? This institute convenes teams in an interactive and intensive 3.5-day studio format in which participants learn from leading experts and apply lessons to their active projects.
The Eliot K-8 Innovation School (Boston, MA)
07/08/2025 NAIS Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Innovation, Professional Development NAIS Emergent Design Lab (EDL): Legal Literacy: Designing for Inclusive Excellence in Today’s Education Landscape
EDL is a leadership and professional development experience that encourages participants to use and share design principles, action research, collaborative skill-building, and best and emerging practices. Using principles of emergent design, participants will work collaboratively to develop innovative solutions to address challenges and opportunities related to inclusion at their schools.
 
NAIS Headquarters, Washington, DC
07/08/2025 Other Curriculum, Professional Development CASIE International Baccalaureate Virtual Workshops
Facilitated by expert workshop leaders in 4.5-hour sessions over three consecutive days, these highly interactive virtual workshops take place over Zoom and feature an additional three hours of asynchronous work in Canvas required to earn a completion certificate.
Online
07/12/2025 NAIS Leadership, Heads of School, Professional Development NAIS Institute for New Heads (INH)
INH is a highly regarded program for incoming and second-year heads of school that will bring you the knowledge of seasoned heads, the understanding and support of fellow new heads, and the tools to thrive as a leader.
Emory Conference Center, Atlanta, GA