| Boarding
Staff Conference at Milton Academy
 August 11–14, 2008
The complexities and demands of dormitory work and living offer substantial challenges to new or inexperienced teachers. The 32nd Annual Boarding Staff Conference will provide an intensive, comprehensive, four-day introduction to the practical and philosophical issues confronting the boarding school teacher. The 2008 conference will be held August 11-14, 2008.
Experienced dormitory personnel from independent schools and mental health professionals will lead eight major presentations and five role-playing sessions. Small groups led by conference faculty will meet seven times, allowing each participant the opportunity to discuss in detail issues presented in the formal presentations, to address individual concerns and question, and to find practical solutions.
Time to relax, meet new colleagues and socialize will include a cookout, an evening in Boston and daily opportunities for exercise.
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to learn more about the conference.
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 Milton
Academy Summer Institute for Science Inquiry
June 23—25, 2008
This institute is for science teachers interested in developing
inquiry-based curricula for their science courses, including the
modification of current teaching units to a more inquiry-based pedagogy,
and the development of new inquiry-based teaching units.
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The Independent School Diversity Seminar
July 7 - July 12, 2008
2008 Host School: Milton Academy, Milton, MA
The Independent School Diversity Seminar is filled for 2008.
If you want to be included on our mailing list for 2009, please
see our contact information below.
A National Program For School Leaders and Educators
Most independent schools have committed themselves to cultural diversity, presenting it in their mission statements, school publications, and student body. Many have developed standing committees on diversity and begun to recruit a diverse faculty, while others have also established diversity director positions. Despite taking these steps, schools often find themselves unable to sustain their original achievements or to make further progress toward their goals.
An experienced team of independent school professionals, who have successfully established diversity programs and applied diversity practices in their individual schools, as well as having spent over a decade assisting other independent schools nationwide, provide the leadership of the Independent School Diversity Seminar.
The Seminar team helps schools develop a common language to examine the personal, interpersonal, and institutional factors that can advance or impede a school’s diversity initiative, and gives participants approaches and methods to design systems, enhance climate, and ensure lasting progress.
The Seminar’s size and schedule is designed to allow each individual the opportunity to be heard and supported in both full seminar and small group sessions. Team leaders meet their small groups each day to discuss the large group experiences, exploring how the ideas and strategies being presented can be applied to their own schools. |
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Spelman College President,
Dr.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
2006 Workshop Participants
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For more information, please contact Diversity Seminar Founder & Director:
Christine Savini, Principal Consultant, Diversity Directions
617-333-0200
csavini@diversitydirections.com
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