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o icag h or c f rse u r co u t yo r cha Join more than 3,500 of your counterparts at the NAIS Annual Conference in the Windy City of Chicago! Our 2009 theme, Schools of the Future: Sailing the Winds of Change, builds upon last year’s conference by challenging independent schools to embrace a new age in teaching and learning. While many leaders have accepted this challenge, we know that institutional change can be demanding. If independent schools are to remain relevant on the global stage, they must embrace the new realities of our flat world. How will we navigate using timeless traditions as buoys while harnessing the power of the winds of change? How can we transform our institutions by discovering new channels? At the conference, we have lined up some stellar “change navigators” to help answer those questions including Chancellor of DC Public Schools Michelle Rhee, entrepreneur and breakthrough thinker Guy Kawasaki, and best selling author Dan Heath. A special treat will be the world renowned media icon and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, who founded the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls to cultivate South African female leaders for the 2st Century. In addition to these remarkable speakers, the NAIS Annual Conference will offer more than 40 one-hour workshops, an interactive “Classrooms of the Future” demonstration center, and an entertaining networking event that will leave you inspired to sail with confidence into uncharted waters. Our schools are buffeted by squalls and surprise storms of economic turmoil, demographic troughs, and a more turbulent and interconnected world, with “safe harbor” seeming at times distant and unreachable. NAIS’s vision of independent schools leading the way to demographic, environmental, programmatic, global, and financial sustainability requires a broader definition of leadership from institutions. To that end, we suggest that heads bring along a leadership team in order to develop fellow explorers who will, alongside their captain, map a course. As famed underwater explorer Sylvia Earle noted: “Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.” In drawing the world map centuries ago, English mapmakers placed “here be dragons” at the edges of their known world in deference to the fearsome unknown. We invite you and your leadership team to confront those dragons in the Windy City so you can sail smartly ahead. PATrICk F. BASSeTT President HeATHer Hoerle Vice President of MeMber relations AMy P. AHArT director of the nais annual conference SATIrA BUSHell associate director of the nais annual conference

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