NAIS - Conference Preview - December 5-7, 2008 - (Page 2)

welcome nais Welcome Welcome to the 2008 PoCC and SDLC! We at NAIS felt a strong pull to bring PoCC and SDLC to New Orleans, Louisiana — a city of so much historical, cultural, and artistic significance — particularly to support Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts. Rather than the usual pre-conference tours, the two days preceding the conference involve community service opportunities and visits to New Orleans independent and charter schools. We sincerely hope you will support New Orleans by taking advantage of these opportunities. The second year of a successfully redesigned PoCC will include keynote and featured speakers of color, most notably, Sir Sidney Poitier. These remarkable men and women will provide us with passionate, professional and personal narratives and expertise to challenge and inspire us. PoCC will continue to focus on an enhanced affinity group curriculum and cross-generational dialogue with SDLC’s independent school student delegates. Presenters and diversity practitioners from independent schools as well as presenters from higher education and nonprofit organizations will offer more than 60 workshops providing best practices in five themes in support of nurturing people of color in independent schools and building and sustaining inclusive independent school communities. Our goal is to give all PoCC and SDLC attendees experiences worthy of the financial and scheduling challenges many of you will face, particularly during these tough economic times. This year, we switched from a Thursday through Saturday format to a Friday through Sunday format. Let us know if this framework better suits you for future conference dates. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our generous city, state, and national corporate sponsors. We also owe a great debt to the meritorious work of the New Orleans co-chairs and local committee and their heads of school for their time, efforts, and boundless enthusiasm in assisting NAIS in planning this year’s PoCC and SDLC. See ya in Nawlins! Gene Batiste NAIS Vice President, Leadership Education and Diversity Pat Bassett NAIS President

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