NWAIS Spring Heads Meeting
May 13-15, 2024 Alderbrook Resort and Spa (Union, WA)
Registration is now open! Interested in Sponsoring the Event? Explore Sponsorship Opportunities Here
Conference OverviewJoin
Heads of School from across the Association and share experiences, build relationships and explore practices as well as trending themes in independent school leadership. Announcing Keynote Workshop  Both/And Thinking to Enhance Your School’s Performance In this workshop, Natalie will share the core ideas in Wendy Smith & Marianne Lewis’s Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems. Having worked for almost a decade with Wendy to study competing demands such as how to balance short-term and long-term goals, social and financial imperatives, and competitive and collaborative approaches, Natalie will take participants through hands-on exercises that move them away from making either/or choices towards applying both/and thinking for more creative, flexible and impactful decisions and better performance. Featuring: 
Natalie SlawinskiProfessor of Sustainability & Strategy and Director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation at the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria.
Dr. Slawinski earned her PhD from the Ivey Business School at Western
University in Canada. Her research focuses on how to navigate the paradoxes of
sustainability, place, and temporality in organizations and communities. Her most recent research examines these
themes in the context of social enterprise and community entrepreneurship.
Natalie serves as Adjunct Professor and Advisor to Memorial University’s Centre
for Social Enterprise and is a Research Fellow at the Cambridge University
Judge Business School’s Centre for Social Innovation. Her
recent book explores how engaging both/and thinking supports community
revitalization. Additional Workshops Include:
Working Together in Time of Crisis: Navigating
Difficult Conversations
In
moments of crisis, leaders in independent schools encounter a distinctive array
of challenges as they navigate and foster dialogues amidst diverse
perspectives, spanning realms such as religious, cultural, political, and
beyond. READ MORE HERE
Featuring:  Asheq Fazlullah, Director of the Leadership Institute of Interfaith Philadelphia, and Sara Zebovitz, Associate Director of Interfaith Philadelphia and
Relationship = Results: The critical importance of the
Head DEI Director Collaboration At a
time when belonging is increasingly critical to students and adults alike,
there is also increasing pressure on our school’s efforts to be increasingly
inclusive communities. READ MORE HERE Featuring: 
André Withers, 25-year independent school administrator, DEI expert and partner with Educators Collaborative Meeting Agenda Monday, May 13, 20242:30-3:00 Registration 3:00-4:00 Welcome and Reintroductions - Welcoming those new to the Association 4:00-5:45 Keynote Workshop: Both/And Thinking to Enhance Your School’s Performance with Natalie Slawinski, Professor of Sustainability & Strategy and Director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation at the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria. 6:00-8:00 Reception and Dinner to Honor Departing Heads
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 8:00-9:00 Breakfast 8:30-9:00 Business Meeting 9:15-10:30 Workshop: Relationship = Results: The Critical Importance of the Head & DEI Director Collaboration 10:45-12:15 The Executive Director Search Process 12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-5:00 Free Time 5:00-6:00 Reception 6:00-7:00 Dinner 7:00-8:00 Evening Program
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 8:00-9:00 Breakfast 8:30-9:30 Legal Update 9:45-11:45 Workshop: Working Together in Time of Crisis: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Asheq Fazlullah and Sara Zebovitz, Associate Director of Interfaith Philadelphia 12:00 Conference Conclusion
Registration
No payment is required to NWAIS at the time of registration. Your school will be billed after the event. Please register as soon as you know that you will be attending and no later than April 29, 2024.
Accommodations Accommodations can be made by contacting Alderbrook Lodge & Spa directly. NWAIS has contracted a special rate of $179 per night. A variety of rooms are available at the special rate, including cottages. Please make your reservation directly through Alderbrook by calling (360) 898-2145 and asking for the NWAIS Spring Heads Meeting rate.
Reservations will open January 8, 2024 Book early! Reservations must be made by April 9, 2024 to qualify for this rate.
NWAIS Heads Meeting Policies Annual Fall and Spring Heads Meetings are open only to schools affiliated with NWAIS.
All NWAIS Accredited and Candidate member schools are billed for a portion of the Heads Conference expenses whether or not the School Head attends. Travel expenses to and from the meeting are reimbursed, added to the meeting expenses, and shared among all accredited and candidate member schools. Hotel expenses are not covered by the Travel Share Policy. If the Head of School of an Accredited and Candidate member school cannot attend, they may send a representative in their place. Heads from Affiliate Members and Subscriber Schools will only be charged for the Heads Conference if they attend. They will be billed for a full share of the meeting expenses. They are however, responsible for their own travel expenses, and not responsible for any portion of the pooled travel expenses. Heads Meeting Guests are asked to register in advance. Guests that are attending the program sessions will be billed after the event for the cost of the meals only. They are not responsible for the shared travel costs or program expenses. Spouses or other guests who do not attend programming will be billed after the conference and will only be charged for the meals, which they register to attend. Only one attendee from each Accredited and Candidate member school is eligible for any reimbursement of travel costs through the Travel Share program. In the case that a guest of a Head of School is unable to attend, there is no cancellation fee until 4 days prior to the start of the meeting. After that point, all registrations are final, and guests will be billed regardless of attendance. Travel and Other Expenses Incurred Before Event Cancellation Typically, cancellations and postponements are very rare, however the pandemic has forced us to utilize these options more frequently. In the case that NWAIS needs to cancel, all registration fees will be refunded. NWAIS is however, unable to reimburse other expenses (such as travel) incurred by attendees prior to the event. NWAIS strongly recommends that attendees make travel arrangements that allow for some flexibility such as rescheduling, cancellation and/or future credit. Interested in Sponsoring the Event? Register as an event sponsor here or contact Jami Sheets for more information.
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