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National Small Schools Conference

June 16-18, 2010 at Falmouth Academy

Falmouth Academy will host the third annual National Small Schools Conference, June 16-18, 2010. The conference provides leaders of small schools opportunities for networking and working together on case studies and in breakout sessions. 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.


To register, visit the NSSC website. 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.”


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