ISANNE Newsletter - April 2017

I want to give a "shout out" to all of the ISANNE members who help make our events work. Your leadership shines in many ways. Whether you serve on one of the conference committees, host a school visit, respond to emails asking for speaker suggestions or discussion topics or even step up to lead a round table topic discussion, your help is invaluable. Shared leadership enhances the fundamental purpose of ISANNE. As we articulated in our 2015 strategic plan, ISANNE is "passionately committed to cultivating the leadership needed to ensure the sustainability, vitality and relevance of independent education in Northern New England."

Your willingness to share your time and enthusiasm with other schools cultivates leadership skills for your school and models it for others. You lead when you show up and jump in.

The power of leadership and teams working together was in evidence through all of our spring conferences. Teams attended Gould Academy's session on Design Thinking, the Admissions Conference on data, marketing and fit, the Student Life conference featuring Christine Miller's presentation on anxiety and depression in adolescents and the Academic Leaders unConference at Holderness School. The heads heard from Dr. Chris Jernstedt on "Learning and the Brain", the admissions professionals worked on case studies focused on student profiles and school fit and student life participants pondered the impact of gender and brain development. All of the programs combined new information, group discussion and collaboration. As one Student Life attendee wrote, "I really liked working with other schools and gathering ideas to take back - I felt like I was not in the trenches alone." Participants arrived ready to dive into the issues and left eager to apply their new ideas on campus.

Thanks to everyone for showing up, jumping in and making good things happen.

Laurie

Executive Director

Together in Our Independence

ISANNE unites, supports and promotes its diverse member schools in a changing world.

ISANNE Member Views

This month's Member View comes to us from Geoff Wagg, Head of School at Waynflete in Portland, Maine and a member of ISANNE's Board of Directors. You can find a link to all Member View blogs on ISANNE.org.

Why the School One Chooses Matters

The thirteen years of school between kindergarten and senior year should prepare a student well for college. And yet, in the United States, only 37% of high school graduates are prepared to take college-level courses. Fewer than that, only a quarter, are prepared to take college-level mathematics. Read more.

Geoff Wagg,

Head of School, Waynflete

Sign up for ISANNELEADS 2017

Please join us for ISANNELEADS 2017! With the help of the EE Ford Foundation, we launched our first cohort in the summer of 2012. This year will mark our sixth year of the program - with over 110 participants and 38 schools represented. The scope of this comprehensive program includes individual and introspective experiences, followed by group work with experts, and culminating with a one-on-one mentorship.

There is still time to apply! Your participation is an investment in yourself and in your school. Attendees call it one of the most important professional development experiences of their careers. Click here for the application.

St. Paul's School Symposium: Empathy, Intimacy and Technology

More than 140 school administrators and educators from across the US convened at St. Paul's School in Concord, NH to discuss the impact of technology on the emotional health and development of youth during a three-day symposium titled, "Empathy, Intimacy, and Technology in a Boarding School Environment," Participants came from 50 different schools including public, independent, boarding, and single-sex secondary and middle schools, as well as higher education, to form recommendations on best practices to foster healthy interpersonal relationships among students, as well as adults, within school communities, and create ways to decipher the real-time and digital identities of youth. Read the full symposium report here

Sant Bani names new Head of School

The Board of Trustees of Sant Bani School (SBS) in Sanbornton, NH, has named Hans Mundahl as its second head of school effective July 1, 2017. Hans will succeed founding head Kent Bicknell, who is retiring after 44 years of exceptional leadership. Hans is well known to ISANNE schools as a former teacher, administrator and presenter. From 2001 to 2014, Hans was on the faculty of New Hampton School where he served on the administration as Director of Experiential Learning and then Director of Technology Integration. Recently as a consultant, Hans has worked with more than 40 independent schools and associations around the country, helping with staff training, content marketing, and strategic planning.

Hans and his wife Sarah live in Sanbornton with their two children, Olivia (7th) and Ben (4th) who attend Sant Bani.

Member and Corporate Partner Events

ISANNE Member Events:

May 15 - BerryDunn presents Recharge 2017: Not-for-Profit Educational Session from 8am-3pm at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel. Register here

June 12 - Bernstein Shur presents Sexual Misconduct Response & Investigations Training for Secondary Schools at their office at 100 Middle Street, Portland Maine. RSVP here

June 19-20 - LLI New England brings educators together June 19-20 at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH to explore social and emotional learning in our schools.

June 25-30 - SPS/UPenn Conference on Teaching and Learning at St. Paul's School to discuss cognitive and adolescent development and active learning practices.

June 27-30 - Gould Academy's Field Guide - a four-day program to learn the fundamentals of design thinking. Gould Academy, Bethel, Maine.

Corporate Partners

Welcome to our newest Corporate Partner, PC Construction headquartered in South Burlington, VT. And thank you to all of the ISANNE Corporate Partners who supported our April conferences with their sponsorships! McLane Middleton for their sponsorship of the Spring Head's Conference, ThreeW, School Admin, Blackbaud, Summit Achievement and Graphic Details for their sponsorships of the Spring Admissions Conference and Summit Achievement for their sponsorship of the Student Life Leaders Conference. Sponsorship support helps make ISANNE Conferences possible! See all ISANNE Corporate Sponsors here.

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