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January/February 2008 Newsletter
02/15/2008
Reinventing Girls'
Education: New Models, New
Paradigms
See
the Updated Schedule for This Year's NCGS Annual Conference
We hope you've reserved
space on your calendar for the 2008 NCGS Annual Conference, June 25-27 at the
Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland, Ohio. We've posted a preliminary schedule
showing the various program features, including: details of a new NCGS research
project... professional development seminars... expert panel discussions...
Best Practices workshops... opportunities for networking and socializing. Schedule »
NCGS Celebrates
Engineers Week
The National Coalition of Girls' Schools, its member schools and its supporters
are marking National Engineers Week with new web-based resources, in-person
events and classroom tools.
Register Now for
First-Ever NCGS Heads Summit
Join your colleagues for discussions led by three nationally recognized experts
on strategic thinking, education programming & marketing, and demographic
analysis. Includes preliminary findings from NCGS' latest research project.
See You Next Week at
the NAIS Conference In NYC
NCGS Co-Executive Directors Meg Milne Moulton and Whitney Ransome will be among
the presenters at the 2008 NAIS Annual Conference in New York City.
NCGS Members: Full
Data Trends Report Now Online
The complete NCGS Data
Trends report examining enrollments, fundraising, financial aid and other key
statistical pointers is now online in our Members Only section. Administrative
contacts at NCGS Member Schools -- generally Heads of School and Admissions,
Public Relations and Development Directors -- may log in to access the report. No log-in
is required to view the report highlights.
Need password help? Please send an e-mail to news@ncgs.org
Research
Opportunity: Electronic Survey of Prospective Families
NCGS is once again
offering its members the opportunity to subscribe to three web-based,
electronic surveys of prospective families. These web-based surveys are an
inexpensive, highly effective way to arm your school with data that will fuel
strategic marketing decisions, fine-tune school messages, and understand family
decision-making.
Student Leadership
Conference 2008: Achieving the Impossible
Rebecca Adelsheim of
the Ellis School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Jyotika Banga of the Marymount
School in New York City report
on their experience representing NCGS at the Student Leadership Conference in
Perth, Australia.
The Secret of
All-Girls Public Schools: Latina Teens Benefit
From the Irma Rangel
School in Dallas, Texas to the Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem,
New York -- which helped touch off the latest resurgence of all-girl public
schools -- single-sex education demonstrates particularly profound benefits for
Latina girls and young women.
NCGS Member School News
Girls' Prep. Students Present $60,000 Check For Girls'
Schools in Afghanistan
Girls' Preparatory School students set a school record as they raise funds for "Pennies for Peace" and present check to author and activist Greg Mortenson.
STEM Think-Tank a Big Hit At Harpeth Hall
Eighty-five educators from 131 schools shared best practices and brainstormed
ideas to encourage more girls to pursue careers in science, technology,
engineering and math.
Westover Students Set New High-Water Mark On AP Exams
Students post high scores
all of the 18 Advanced Placement exam subjects, with fully 96 percent of
test-takers receiving scores of 3 or more.
A Soldier Fights for Empathy
The Iraq War came to
Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart the other day in the form of a young
woman.
Castilleja Featured on 'Today' Show
The school's Fitness & Wellness program -- from yoga to homework-free
weekends -- is featured as 'Today' profiles successful techniques for easing
teen stress.
San Domenico School's Plan to Go Solar Gets Support
Plans are moving forward to install electricity-generating photovoltaic panels
on two school buildings and on a campus hillside.
