See You Next Week at the NAIS Conference In NYC

Girls' Schools as Entrepreneurs; Motivating Girls in Sci-Tech-Engineering-Math

02/20/2008

NCGS Co-Executive Directors Meg Milne Moulton and Whitney Ransome will be among the presenters at the 2008 annual conference of NAIS, the National Association of Independent Schools, to be held in New York City.

The subject of the conference, Schools of the Future: Embracing the Educational ReNAISsance, perfectly resonates with traditional NCGS themes of the renaissance witnessed among girls' schools over the past decade-and-a-half, as well as the need to continually innovate and demonstrate leadership for the years to come. We are grateful to NAIS for inviting our participation in this important event!

The NCGS sessions:

Gaining and Retaining Girls in the STEM Pipeline

Thursday, February 28, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

STEM -- for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math -- is a crucial component of today's education for girls and young women. These are fields that are shaping the future we will all share, but which also demand an early grounding in a student's formative school years. Ms. Ransome will share details of a new initiative from NCGS -- with support from internet pioneer Google, Inc. and the Margaret Hall Foundation -- that identifies successful STEM practices and gathers a variety of resources into one comprehensive web portal for educators, their students and all who work to ensure the achievements of girls and young women. Ms. Ransome will be joined in her presentation by Eric Walters, Chair of the Science Department at the Marymount School in New York City and and a member of the academic team of NCGS teachers who have been working with us on the project.

Girls at the Center: Innovation, Enterprise, Opportunity

Friday, February 29, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

Ms. Moulton will examine the ever-increasing pressure on girls' schools to be nimble and entrepreneurial, to reinvent what it means to educate young women for shifting roles and new opportunities. Ms. Moulton will be joined by Marja Brandon, Head of Seattle Girls' School;  Joan Countryman, Head of Atlanta Girls' School; and Kathleen Ponze, former principal of The Young Women's Leadership School and now Director of Education for The Young Women's Leadership Foundation. Together they will spotlight programs that are transformative in their educational intent and reflect the unique capabilities of girls' schools to model innovation, enterprise and opportunity.

For further details on the NAIS conference, including instructions on signing up for the NCGS presentations, please visit the NAIS website at www.nais.org.