Tuesday, July 26 - Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center, Glen Allen

WHY ATTEND?
Are you new to independent school teaching and want to know more?
Do you want to connect to build your toolkit and collaborate with VAIS peers?
Then this is the program for you!

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
New to Independent School Educators (1-3 years in practice)

HOW WILL WE LEARN?
This in-person event features the Keynote, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy + NeuroEducation Practices = Equitable Classroom Environments, with Dr. Ranjini M. JohnBull, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, and the workshop, Looking at Student Work to Uncover Student Thinking with Dr. Amy Nail, from Education Resource Group. Session topics include: Why/How/What of Independent School; Cultivating Belonging; Pedagogical Practices; Design of Learning; Communication; Authentic Assessment; Self-care/Boundaries and MORE! This event will be followed by Cohort MeetUPs throughout the year.

Dr. Ranjini Mahinda JohnBull serves as the faculty lead for the Mind, Brain, and Teaching program. Her work centers on improving educational and life outcomes of traditionally disadvantaged students and children living in poverty through research on teacher beliefs and teacher practice.To that end, she focuses on teacher efficacy, the social contexts in which these beliefs change, and interventions that improve teaching efficacy and teacher practice. This work builds on the body of literature demonstrating that teacher efficacy influences student outcomes. Her research encompasses cultural competence and teacher efficacy studies, an IES-funded, arts-integration and memory study in Baltimore City, and professional development investigations of the Brain-Targeted Teaching model’s effects on teaching efficacy. Prior to joining Mariale Hardiman’s research lab for a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship, she served as a music teacher in two St. Louis City charter schools, provided teacher training and microbusiness strategic development in Uganda with the U.S. Peace Corps, and coordinated the graduate-student assessment data collection for accreditation of the Education Leadership program at the University of Virginia.

LOCATION:
Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center 
1000 Virginia Center Parkway
Richmond, VA

VAIS has a room block with an overnight rate of $109 + taxes per night. To make overnight reservations, call the Virginia Crossings Hotel directly at 888-444-6553 or 804-727-1400, and make sure to identify yourself as a member of the Virginia Association of Independent Schools to receive our Group rate. Individuals are limited to reserving a maximum of three (3) guest rooms under a single name and form of payment. To receive our group rate, please call Virginia Crossings no later than Tuesday, July 5.

REGISTRATION:
Registration includes breaks, lunch, reception, and dinner on Tuesday and breakfast on Wednesday. The registration deadline is Friday, July 15, 2022. No refunds will be issued after that date. (See Cancellation Policy)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE NTI