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2016 CAIS National Leaders Conference

Westin Bayshore Hotel
1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6G 2V4

NATIONAL LEADERS CONFERENCE
Commences SUNDAY, APRIL 10.
Participants are encouraged to begin filling the Stanley Park Ballroom at 10:30am - we will begin PROMPTLY at 11am.
Concludes TUESDAY, APRIL 12 AT NOON.
(boxed lunch provided for participants)

CANADIAN BOARDING COLLECTIVE SUMMIT
Commences TUESDAY, APRIL 12 at noon with a lunch followed by afternoon sessions - Location: Westin Bayshore Hotel
School Tour and Dinner on TUESDAY at St. George’s School
Begins again at breakfast on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 followed by morning sessions and concludes at noon - Location: Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel (the Boarding Summit is open to members of the Canadian Boarding Collective).

DRESS CODE:
Business casual, including the dinners.

NOTE:
THIS PROGRAM IS CONTINUALLY BEING UPDATED. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.

8:00am PDT

Please Note: Catalytic Conversation Participant Lists are now FINAL Westin Please Note: Open Workshops will be filled on a first come first seated basis TBA

8:30am PDT

Registration Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

11:00am PDT

Conference Welcome Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom Opening Address - CAIS Presentation Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom

11:45am PDT

Accreditation 101FULL Westin - Arbutus Finance for Non-Financial LeadersLIMITED Westin - Cypress 2 Financial Sustainability: Past, Present and FutureLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2 Risk Communication: Managing Outrage and ApathyFILLING Westin - President (Tower Bldg) SAMR: A Pragmatic ApproachLIMITED Westin - Oak 1 The Head and Advancement: A Symbiotic RelationshipLIMITED Westin - Cypress 1 The HTS Learning Management SystemFILLING Westin - Director (Tower Building) Tinkering with TechnologyLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Wiring Your Brain for High Impact LeadershipFULL Westin - Chairman (Tower Bldg) Healthy Minds, Healthy School: A Journey to WellnessFILLING Westin - Oak 2

12:30pm PDT

Lunch Stanley Park Foyer/Ballroom

1:15pm PDT

Catalytic Conversations - Wellness - Wellness is a strategic priority for many of our schools - what’s working?FILLING Westin - Chairman (Tower Bldg) Catalytic Conversations - Leading in Complexity - What are the ideas that can change our schools and by what process can teams discover this?LIMITED Westin - Cypress 1 Catalytic Conversations - Maximizing Digital Engagement - How are the best schools engaging parent and alumni communities through web communications and new media strategies?LIMITED Westin - Oak 1 Catalytic Conversations - Professional Development - What does the ideal faculty PD model look like? Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Catalytic Conversations - Retention - What are the trends in enrolment management that are most effective? What experiences motivate students to stay?FILLING Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Catalytic Conversations - Technology as a Disruptor - How is technology changing our schools? How should it change schools of the future?FILLING Westin - Stanley Park 2 Catalytic Conversations - Trends on Tuition Assistance - How are schools using financial aid as a marketing and retention tool?LIMITED Westin - President (Tower Bldg)

3:15pm PDT

Break Stanley Park Foyer/Ballroom

3:30pm PDT

Admissions ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - Chairman (Tower Bldg) Advancement ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - Oak 2 Business ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Heads Westin - President (Tower Bldg) Human Resources ProfessionalsFILLING Westin - Arbutus IT ProfessionalsFULL Westin - Cypress 1 Junior/Middle School LeadersFILLING Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Marketing & Communications ProfessionalsFULL Westin - Oak 1 Senior School Leaders/Academic and Learning DirectorsLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2

5:00pm PDT

Market Place/Network Mixer Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

6:00pm PDT

Dinner - OFFSITE - Admissions Professionals OFFSITE

7:00pm PDT

Dinner - OFFSITE - Heads TBA Dinner - OFFSITE - Business Professionals OFFSITE Dinner - OFFSITE - Human Resources Professionals TBA Dinner - OFFSITE - IT Professionals TBA Dinner - OFFSITE - Junior/Middle School Leaders Pinnacle Hotel - Salon F Dinner - OFFSITE - Marketing & Communications Professionals TBA Dinner - OFFSITE - Senior School Leaders & Academic Leaders TBA Dinner - ONSITE - Advancement Professionals Westin - Cypress 2

10:00pm PDT

Hospitality Suite Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Westin - Stanley Park Foyer Registration Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

8:30am PDT

Keynote Speaker - Heather Staker Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom

9:45am PDT

Accreditation 101 - repeat sessionFULL Westin - Arbutus Blackbaud + Whipplehill PART ONELIMITED Westin - Oak 1 Building Bridges: The Transformational Architecture of LeadershipLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Customers and Competition: Today's Family and New Educational ChoiceLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Independent School Business Officer Transitions: Succession Planning, Timing, and SearchLIMITED Westin - Cypress 1 Networking and Social Media TrendsLIMITED Westin - Cypress 2 Online and Blended Learning Panel - A Call to ActionLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2 Pluralism and our Schools: Creating More Inclusive Communities Inside and Outside our WallsLIMITED Westin - Director (Tower Building) Strategies for Achieving High Performance LeadershipFILLING Westin - Oak 2 The HTS Learning Management System - repeat sessionLIMITED Westin - President (Tower Bldg) We have a job to do - Women in LeadershipFULL Westin - Prospect

10:45am PDT

Break Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

11:00am PDT

Pluralism and our Schools: Creating More Inclusive Communities Inside and Outside our Walls - repeated sessionFULL Westin - Director (Tower Building) Beyond the Seminar: Teaching and Learning through Collaborative DiscussionLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Character Assessment and Education in the 21st CenturyLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Embracing Change: Building Programs for SuccessFULL Westin - Arbutus How to Implement Online and Blended Learning in your School and Not Break the Bank!LIMITED Westin - President (Tower Bldg) Managing ChangeLIMITED Westin - Cypress 1 onCampus and onRecord: An LMS and SIS born to work togetherLIMITED Westin - Oak 1 Strategies for Achieving High Performance Leadership - Repeated SessionFILLING Westin - Oak 2 Tailoring the Parent Experience to Meet the Modern Expectation of Today's Families!LIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2 The Giving Journey of Parents, Alumni and the Community at LargeLIMITED Westin - Cypress 2

12:05pm PDT

Lunch Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

1:00pm PDT

Catalytic Conversations - Assessment – How are schools managing to align assessment with personalization? In what ways can various assessment strategies effectively support this alignment?FILLING Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Catalytic Conversations - Benchmarking - What are the national benchmarks that will most support and challenge our schools? Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2 Catalytic Conversations - Homestay - What is the impact of Internationalism on our schools?LIMITED Westin - President (Tower Bldg) Catalytic Conversations - Talent Management - How can we best recruit, engage and evaluate talent and develop future leaders?LIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Catalytic Conversations - Teacher Evaluation - What is the best way to provide feedback to teachers on their instructional practice and professional performance?FULL Westin - Oak 1 Catalytic Conversations - The 2051 Project - What are the best models of academic and business innovation that CAIS schools can examine?FILLING Westin - Cypress 1/2 Catalytic Conversations - Tuition, Pricing, and the Business Model for Independent Schools: Can our schools continue to operate with a business model that appears to be unsustainable? Westin - Oak 2

3:00pm PDT

Break Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

3:15pm PDT

Admissions ProfessionalsFILLING Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Advancement ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - Oak 1 Business ProfessionalLIMITED Westin - Cypress 1 Heads Westin - President (Tower Bldg) Human Resources ProfessionalsFILLING Westin - Prospect IT ProfessionalsFILLING Westin - Cypress 2 Junior/Middle School LeadersFILLING Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Marketing & Communications ProfessionalsFULL Westin - Oak 2 Senior School LeadersLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2

5:30pm PDT

Recreation Break TBA

6:30pm PDT

Reception Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

7:30pm PDT

Dinner Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom

10:00pm PDT

Hospitality Suite Stanley Park Foyer

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

8:15am PDT

Closing Keynote Speaker - Matching Instructional Credibility and Institutional Viability in a Changing World Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom

9:30am PDT

Break Westin - Stanley Park Foyer

9:45am PDT

Classrooms of the Future PanelFULL Cypress 1 Coaching: How to ‘GROW’ your teamFULL Westin - Oak 1 Come Fly with Me: The NMC Horizon ProjectLIMITED Westin - Cypress 2 Disrupting School Culture Westin - Oak 2 Gender Diversity & Promoting Safe School CultureLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Heads Panel: Can you spare some change?LIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2 Health and Wellness in Independent SchoolsLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Honing your craft - Creating a model for PD to guide your school and teacher growthLIMITED Westin - President (Tower Bldg) Working with Agents & ICEF Agent Barometer 2015 FindingsFILLING Westin - Prospect

11:00am PDT

Admissions ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 1 Advancement ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - Oak 2 Business Professionals AND Human Resources ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Heads Westin - Prospect IT ProfessionalsFILLING Westin - Oak 1 Junior/Middle School LeadersLIMITED Westin - Cypress 1 Marketing & Communications ProfessionalsLIMITED Westin - President (Tower Bldg) Senior School LeadersLIMITED Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 2

12:00pm PDT

Lunch - Canadian Boarding Collective Westin - Stanley Park - Salon 3 Lunch Stanley Park Foyer/Ballroom NOTE: National Leaders Conference ends at noon. If your school is part of the Canadian Boarding Collective your session continues the afternoon of April 12 through to noon on April 13. TBA

1:00pm PDT

Canadian Boarding Collective Summit- Opening remarks Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom 3

1:15pm PDT

CBC - 2015/16 Update and Future Intiatives Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom 3

2:00pm PDT

Rethinking the Structure of the Boarding School Experience Discussion Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom 3

3:15pm PDT

Break TBA

3:30pm PDT

Heads Panel Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom 3

4:30pm PDT

Rethinking Recruitment Westin - Stanley Park Ballroom 3

5:30pm PDT

Buses Leave for St. George's School OFFSITE

6:15pm PDT

Reception St. George's School - Social Commons

6:45pm PDT

Student Panel St. George's School - Social Commons

7:30pm PDT

Dinner St. George's School - McLean Hall

8:45pm PDT

Buses return to Westin Bayshore Hotel OFFSITE

9:00pm PDT

Hospitality Suite Westin - Cypress 1/2

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - Salon E Please note: Today's session (starting with breakfast) is at the Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - 1133 West Hastings Street ~ Vancouver, BC V6E 3T3 Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - Salon E

8:00am PDT

NABI Update Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - Salon E

8:45am PDT

NABI Follow up Discussion - The Canadian Direction Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - Salon E

9:30am PDT

Break Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - Salon E

9:45am PDT

Hot Topics Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - Salon E

11:30am PDT

CBC - Closing Summary Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel - Salon E