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NOTE : This
registration is for participating in an individual
session as well as access to the session recording and materials. To register anyone
affiliated with your school for access to the whole
series (access to all sessions and recordings), please refer to the School Wide Registration page.
BUILDING BETTER BOARDS
Powerful Partnership: Skills and Tools for Effective Head/Board Collaboration
with Julie Faulstich, Principal of Stony Creek Strategy and Moira Kelly, President of EXPLO
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 3:00-4:30 PM PT
4:00-5:30 PM MT
Session Description
While boards and heads intellectually understand the concept of “lanes”—operations (the head) and fiduciary, strategic and generative (the board)—under strain from the many novel challenges schools face, these lanes can blur. In day to day practice, trustees are often genuinely unclear on their roles, especially when they are also current parents or alumni volunteers. Sometimes this manifests in taking up valuable head and staff time, getting too far into the weeds of operations. But when no productive outlet for trustee concerns or questions is provided, including access to meaningful, clear data, trustee frustrations can boil over, often with disruptive consequences for the school or trustees leaving the board. To truly lead a school forward, heads and boards need to go beyond “boundary reinforcing” governance training to learn skills and practices supporting a cooperative, trusting partnership with joint responsibility for the success of the school in their separate but interdependent roles.
To view session details for the rest of the series, please visit our Building Better Boards page. Meet Our Facilitators
 Julie Faulstich, Principal, Stony Creek Strategy
A former head of school with over 25 years experience, Julie has led successful major institutional change efforts in every area of school operations and managed a wide range of sensitive and complex communications challenges. Julie founded Stony Creek Strategy in 2022 to support school leaders in complicated times. With thousands of readers each month, her Talking Out of School newsletter provides consulting advice on communications and leadership directly to inboxes weekly. Before founding SCS, Julie served in a variety of school leadership roles including Assistant Head at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick MA and Head at the Westover School, Middlebury, CT. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.
 Moira Kelly, President, EXPLO
Moira Kelly is the president of EXPLO, a dynamic and innovative non-profit organization committed to joyful learning. The organization has run academic enrichment programs on 12 college and university campuses in the U.S. and the U.K. with 90,000 boarding and day students from 101 countries. As president, Moira expanded the Board; led significant Board Bylaw revisions; earned accreditation from the Middle States Association; designed college credit bearing programs; built a robust teaching and learning department that has trained 1000 early career teachers in experiential and project based learning; and developed partnerships with more than 250 organizations and companies. She also launched EXPLO Elevate, a consulting firm that has worked with more than 80 schools on strategic planning, governance, leadership development, scheduling, and new program design. Moira has served on the National Advisory Board for Bowdoin College Admissions, was Vice-President of the Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE), and currently serves as the chair of the governance committee of the Inly School. She began her independent school career at Northfield Mount Hermon School where she was a senior member of the admissions team overseeing student recruitment and publications/marketing, as well as a dean on the Mount Hermon campus. She’s presented at numerous conferences including AISNE, the National Democratic Institute, and the Education World Forum. From 2000 to 2024 Moira was Associate Producer for the Commission on Presidential Debates. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College and earned her J.D. from Boston University.
Series Overview
In this series of workshops, attendees will explore the role of trustee, and provide a space for board members to learn from national thought leaders, experienced board chairs, heads of school and association leadership.
Offered throughout the year, each workshop has a theme for board improvement and actionable steps to move your school forward. Previously this workshop was recommended for those new to the role, but feedback was that it was universally valuable. All independent school board members are encouraged to attend.
Making the Most of Building Better Boards
Attendees can register for individual workshops or your board can register for full access for the series. All registrations include access to session recordings. If you have registered individually, the recording is for your own reference and should not be shared. If you register as a board, you are welcome to share the recording with anyone affiliated with your school.
Registration
Registration is now open! This registration is for participating in an individual session. All registrations to individual sessions include access to the session recording and resource materials. Each registrant will receive emails before and after the session with access and resource links for their personal use. Access is non-transferable and
links should not be shared. If you would like full access to sessions and recordings for your school and board, please consider registering for School Wide Registration.
Pricing
Single Workshop Registration (Includes access to workshop, recording, and session materials*.)
Member Schools | $55 per session
Non-Members | $85 per session
* Links to recordings and materials will remain active until August 29, 2025, so they may be used and reviewed throughout the school year and summer.
Cancellation
Substitutions for registrations may be made any time prior to the session at no extra charge. Written cancellations received by 24-hours before the start time of the session are eligible for a refund after a $20 cancellation fee. Any cancellations received after the 24-hour window will be ineligible for refunds.
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