This page contains a listing of all planned workshops for Biennial Conference 2026. Please note, all information on this page is subject to change. Full details will be released via the conference app.
Workshop Block A
A1 – Faithful Leadership in a Complex Landscape: Legal Essentials for Episcopal School Leaders
Leading an Episcopal school today requires wise stewardship and sound judgment amid increasing legal complexity. Join attorney Kristin Smith for a focused session for heads, board chairs, and senior leaders exploring key legal trends affecting Episcopal schools, with practical guidance to lead with confidence, integrity, and clarity.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Management, Leadership & Governance
A2 – More Than Just Service: Service Learning in the Secondary Grades
Explore All Saints’ Episcopal School’s vertically aligned Service Learning program (MS/US). Our model values learning as much as serving through curated pre-service lessons and post-service reflections. Learn how we scaffold research, empathy, and personalization as students progress, moving them from direct service to a deep understanding of community needs.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Service & Service Learning
A3 – Teaching as Vocation: Campbell Hall’s Faculty Evaluation Model for Appreciative Inquiry
Traditional evaluation models tend to be episodic, compliance-oriented, and deficit-focused; they do not fully honor teaching as an intellectual, relational, and vocational practice. Campbell Hall’s academic philosophy calls us to joyful, purposeful learning, deep relationships, courageous conversation, and reflective practice.
- Grade Level(s): Elementary School, Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, School Management
A4 – L.O.V.E.: A Parent Framework for Mission-Aligned Engagement
This presentation describes L.O.V.E., a parent group exploring Episcopal identity, diversity, and belonging. Now in its second year, the group builds community using Bishop Curry’s “love as action” framework. Attendees will learn how the group empowers parents through activities and reflection, reinforcing core values both at school and in their lives. Ideal for mission-aligned parent engagement.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging
A5 – Nurturing Creativity: Teaching Art and Documenting Learning Through Reflection, Presence, and Care in the Preschool Classroom
This session explores how art and documentation in Reggio Emilia–inspired classrooms create space for stillness, reflection, and meaning-making. Through intentional art experiences and reflective documentation, educators are invited to pause, observe, and honor children as capable learners, making learning visible while nurturing creativity, connection, and care.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K)
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging, Leadership & Governance, Service & Service Learning
A6 – Student Chapel Leadership & Episcopal Identity
Over the past several years, the US/MS chapel program at my school has moved from virtually no student leadership in chapel to a robust, formal chapel leadership program. This workshop/discussion will provide an overview of how I launched and built up that program and examine how student leadership has changed and improved chapel culture and strengthened Episcopal Identity.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, Chaplaincy
A7 – Our AI Journey: Balancing Innovation and Mission
As generative AI rapidly reshapes the educational landscape, school leaders face the challenge of harnessing its potential while remaining anchored in mission, relationships, and academic integrity. This session shares our school’s journey as we explore the challenges and opportunities of AI within our teaching and learning practices and how we balance innovation with our Episcopal identity.
- Grade Level(s): Secondary School
- Topics: Teaching & Curriculum
A8 – Defining Episcopal Identity for Your School Community and Why It Matters
How can schools define and renew Episcopal identity to deepen belonging and strengthen culture? This workshop explores the process, hurdles, and the value identity work brings. We will offer strategies to move beyond abstract language, name what Episcopal identity looks and feels like in your community, and authentically engage all stakeholders in living out Episcopal values.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity
A9 – Fostering Trust and Shared Vision: Strategies for Building an Effective Fundraising Partnership
A candid dialogue between St. Stephen’s Head of School Chris Gunnin and Director of Advancement April Speck-Ewer discussing the school’s $85 million campaign and the strategies they’ve used to clarify roles, build mutual trust, and maximize giving.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: School Management, Leadership & Governance
A10 – Haiti Episcopal School Partnerships: Living With Hope
As Haiti suffers, hope is alive in the 250+ rural Episcopal schools which provide education, stability, and even emergency shelter. U.S. Episcopal schools have maintained their partnerships, and a few new ones have even emerged. Join a dialogue about co-partnering with existing partnerships, ways to stay connected, best practices in partnerships, and hopes for the future.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, Service & Service Learning
A11 – Spirituality of Children Through a Lutheran Perspective
What word comes to mind when you think of children’s spirituality? Join our conversation about how Lutheran theology shapes our understanding of children’s spirituality and grow your vocabulary and faith practices.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity
A12 – Helping Students Discern Their Greater Purpose
This workshop explores how educators can help students cultivate a sense of greater purpose. Participants will learn what “greater purpose” is, why it matters for adolescents today, and how schools can—through chapel, DEIJ programming, service and social innovation, and the college counseling process—support students as they discern and discover their purpose in life.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, Community & Belonging, Chaplaincy, Service & Service Learning
A13 – The Head’s Dual Role With The Board: Leading and Following
Most board governance sessions focus on board training and board leadership. Often overlooked in these presentations is the head’s role in leading the board. This session will explore how heads can establish strong relationships with board chairs and members, collaboratively work to ensure board professional development, and guide the board to work more effectively.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Management, Leadership & Governance
Workshop Block B
B1 – Beyond Discipline: A Path to Redemption
How do schools support students who have violated community norms (identity-based harassment, cheating, bullying, etc.) after disciplinary action? While many institutions have strong support systems for those harmed, fewer have structured pathways for the offending student’s reentry into the community. This session explores a redemptive approach that moves beyond punishment toward transformation.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging, Chaplaincy
B2 – Sacred Work, Sustainable Schools: Leading Episcopal Urban Schools with Clarity, Courage, and Calm
Aligned with “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:11), this panel explores sustainability practices in EUSA schools. Leaders will share strategies for funding, governance, staffing, partnerships, and Episcopal identity in daily practice—helping schools lead with calm, clarity, and mission integrity.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, School Management, Leadership & Governance
B3 – Presentation and Dialogue: “Be Still and Know…”: A Student Center Tea Room as In-School “Retreat”
This session will convene a presentation and discussion of ‘Iolani School’s new Student Center Tea Room as an “in-school retreat center.” Programmed and unprogrammed, the low-stimulus space, located by a Zen garden, will offer resources for tea, rest, prayer, meditation, emotional regulation, mindfulness, and spiritual formation.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, School Life & Culture, Chaplaincy
B4 – From Vision to Practice: Building a Student-Led Community Life Summit
Our schools often live in bubbles, doing amazing work to promote gratitude, service, wellness, sustainability, equality, and inclusion among our students and community, but we rarely have the opportunity to share this work outside our community. Kent has created a Community Life Summit to allow student leaders and faculty from schools to come together to share our work and vision with one another.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging, Service & Service Learning
B5 – Beyond Curiosity: Deep Wondering and Education for Human Flourishing
This workshop explores Godly Play as a model for cultivating deep wonder. Drawing on Anders Schinkel’s work, it distinguishes between active wonder and deep wonder, identifying the value of deep wonder for education of the whole student. We will explore how Godly Play practices create conditions for deep wonder and how these can be adapted to classroom settings with children and youth.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: All of the Above
B6 – An Instructed Eucharist Service: Bridging Early Childhood Faith and Episcopal Worship
Participants are invited to experience an instructed Eucharist through examples and reflection. It demonstrates how age-appropriate teaching, student participation, meaningful roles, and worship practices are intentionally woven together to draw on knowledge obtained in earlier years to nurture and support students’ spiritual formation.
- Grade Level(s): Elementary School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging
B7 – Growth That Benefits Every Constituency
We added grades 1–3 to our 65+ year-old preschool program as a novel experiment in Baltimore: comprehensive early childhood education built from the ground up. We listened broadly and determined that we would only seek to grow if every constituency could benefit. We will present the story of our success, its challenges, growing pains, and surprises.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School
- Topics: Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, School Management, Leadership & Governance
B8 – Empowering Students as Future-Shapers
In this workshop, participants learn how students can become future-shapers—identifying real human needs and using design thinking to meaningfully develop solutions with empathy and creativity. This workshop shows how we can empower students not just to imagine a better future, but to begin building it today, with empathy as their compass and creativity as their engine.
- Grade Level(s): Elementary School, Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging, Service & Service Learning
B9 – From Plan to Practice: Operationalizing Your Strategic Plan Without Losing Momentum
Schools spend significant time creating strategic plans—then the urgent overtakes the strategic. This session focuses on how OES operationalized its plan through a distributed leadership framework. Learn how a cadence of beginning, mid, and end-of-year updates tied to outcomes, metrics, and action steps keeps stakeholders informed and drives real results.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, School Management, Leadership & Governance
B10 – What I Wish I’d Known: Lessons from Women Who Lead Episcopal Schools
A reflective, story-driven presentation with practical wisdom. Presented by two experienced female heads of school, it is rooted in a shared calling to leadership in Episcopal education. Designed for aspiring and current female heads, plus mentors, it provides guidance and perspective, naming both the challenges of the role and the joy of faithful leadership. The presentation seeks to prepare and inspire future women leaders in Episcopal schools.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, School Management, Community & Belonging, Leadership & Governance
B11 – Using Picture Books in the Classroom to Facilitate SEL Discussions
Learn how to use picture books in early elementary classrooms to facilitate SEL discussions. The workshop will highlight the integration of verbiage around emotions, intrapersonal relationships, and perseverance. Facilitators will demonstrate how to frame discussions, walk students through progressions of emotions and regulation techniques, and incorporate reflections into practices in the classroom.
- Grade Level(s): Elementary School
- Topics: School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging
B12 – Starting from the Beginning: K–6 Human Development
When human development concepts are introduced early and revisited with increasing depth, students develop the critical thinking skills and self-understanding necessary to approach adolescence with confidence rather than confusion. This session will explore the building blocks of a comprehensive K–6 HD program and offer practical strategies for implementation and securing school-wide support.
- Grade Level(s): Elementary School
- Topics: Equity & Justice, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging
B13 – The Servant Leader: Leadership Upside Down!
Turning the power pyramid upside down. This session invites educators to explore what it means to be a servant leader and how this approach reshapes school culture. Participants will examine how leadership grounded in service strengthens relationships, supports teachers and students, and sustains the leader as well.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, Leadership & Governance
Workshop Block C
No workshops are scheduled for Block C. Additional programming for this time will be announced at a later date.
Workshop Block D
D2 – Episcopal Identity: Not Just for Chapel Anymore…
Episcopal identity in the business office? At carpool? In college counseling? Yes! School leaders need to be able to explain what it means to be an Episcopal school with more than just “We go to chapel.” SAES staff will lead a discussion of how to think about, expand, and articulate your school’s Episcopal identity throughout all aspects of your school’s programs and operations.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, All of the Above
D3 – Shared Ground, Shared Mission: A Parish–School Partnership in Practice
What does it mean to share a campus—and mission—between a parish church and an Episcopal school? A head of school and rector dialogue about how they grew a partnership that led to a ground lease and shared-use agreement, and how the process strengthened relationships between the church and school. The session models the dialogue it encourages: honest, respectful, and rooted in Episcopal identity.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Leadership & Governance
D4 – The Justice League: One School’s Efforts to Combine the Work of Chaplaincy, Community Engagement, and Equity & Inclusion to Work Toward Justice
At OES, we have been working to de-silo the offices of chaplaincy, community engagement, and equity and inclusion, affectionately referred to as the OES Justice League. Together, these offices support students in putting love into action as we live into the call to educate the whole person to become compassionate and engaged citizens through what we say, what we learn, and what we do.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School, Middle School, Secondary School, All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Chaplaincy, Service & Service Learning
D6 – Empowering Students to Plan and Lead Chapel
Our students lead worship on all three campuses. At the middle school and upper school campus, over 150 upper school students serve on the student vestry, planning and leading the chapels. We will look at how the chaplains empower and equip our students to be the spiritual leaders of their peers while crafting creative and interactive chapels, staying true to scripture and the traditions of the church.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Chapel & Worship, Chaplaincy
D7 – School Chaplaincy: What Are Prospective Candidates Looking For?
School chaplaincy searches are challenging, given the limited number of candidates and the needs of Episcopal schools. What is important to students completing their seminary education, and what might draw them to school opportunities? Two people familiar with these perspectives will share their insights.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, Chaplaincy
D8 – A School for All: Articulating and Living Into Episcopal Identity
In our changing religious landscape, it is challenging to articulate the value of an Episcopal education. Drawing on leadership experiences in an increasingly secular environment, leaders of the Episcopal School of Nashville will share how they cast a vision for Episcopal education that speaks to faculty, staff, the board, and families, and integrates Episcopal identity across the life of the school.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, Study of Religion, School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging
D9 – Alternative Investments: Innovative Strategies for Asset Allocation
The power of alternative investments derives from their versatility to offer innovative strategies that align with sophisticated investors’ financial goals. At Morgan Stanley, our global resources enable us to offer investment opportunities that may help member schools enhance returns, reduce volatility, and generate income through a curated platform of alternative investments.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, School Management, Leadership & Governance
D10 – Methodology + Mission: Using Financial Aid to Support Your School’s Mission and Strategic Goals (While Saving Time and Money)
How does your financial aid process sync with your mission and your school’s identity as an Episcopal school? In this session, we’ll discuss recent trends in financial aid and, with RJ Johnsen, Director of Enrollment Management at St. Albans School (DC), delve into how financial aid methodology can help build a community that aligns with your values.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, School Management, Community & Belonging
D11 – More Than the Classroom: Understanding Extracurricular Engagement in Independent Episcopal Schools
This session shares findings from a mixed-methods study conducted in an Episcopal independent school exploring how extracurricular participation relates to academic outcomes and student well-being. Participants will gain insight into how ECAs support growth, time management, and belonging—even when academic indicators remain unchanged.
- Grade Level(s): Secondary School
- Topics: Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging
D13 – Teaching Religion Without Being an Expert
Teaching religion and faith formation can be overwhelming, even scary, without religious training. How do you teach something if you don’t have mastery of the subject matter? In this workshop we will discuss:
- Religion and faith: same or different?
- Age-appropriate lessons
- Choosing the right Bible and curriculum
And we’ll share stories of successes, nightmares, and likely some laughter!
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Teaching & Curriculum
Workshop Block E
E2 – The Church, Mission, and Episcopal Identity
In the spirit of the newly formed Anglican Communion Schools Network, this workshop draws on educational settings in both the United States and South Africa to explore Episcopal identity as it relates to the mission of the church. Our premise is that the integrity of Episcopal identity includes concretely embodying the church’s mission to contribute to a more just society.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, School Management, Community & Belonging, Chaplaincy, Service & Service Learning
E3 – High-Impact Governance: Assessing and Advancing Head/Board Effectiveness
This dynamic workshop is designed to explore the Governance Health Index—a framework that defines six core competencies essential for effective, mission-aligned governance in today’s evolving educational landscape. Together, we’ll examine each competency, reflect on board and leadership roles, and use a practical self-assessment tool to evaluate your school’s current governance health.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Leadership & Governance
E4 – From Programs to Practices: A Practical Framework for the Next Iteration of DEIJB in Independent Schools
Independent schools are at an inflection point in DEIJB work. While many have launched initiatives and trainings, today’s shifting social, demographic, and economic realities call for more integrated, values-rooted practices. This session focuses on practice-based DEIJB leadership, helping schools assess how belonging, dignity, and inclusion are experienced.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School, Middle School, Secondary School, All Grade Levels
- Topics: Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, School Management, Community & Belonging, Leadership & Governance
E5 – Threading the Needle: Clearly Defining Our Episcopal Identity in a Crowded Independent School Landscape
Episcopal schools are faced with the challenge of clearly defining who they are. This challenge is especially present in markets with both evangelical and secular school options. However, if defined clearly and accurately, our schools’ Episcopal identities can be particularly winsome, even to prospective families and employees from outside of the Episcopal tradition.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, School Life & Culture, School Management, Community & Belonging, Chaplaincy
E6 – Student-Led, Student-Centered Chapels
The rhythm of worship in an Episcopal school offers an invaluable opportunity for young people to see their essential role in sacred community and make Episcopal liturgy meaningful to them. How can we offer age-appropriate experiences for students to take ownership of their worship? How can we support their leadership in a chapel context? Where do we offer choice and creative space?
- Grade Level(s): Elementary School, Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, School Life & Culture, Chaplaincy
E7 – Dog Is Love
Raising a service dog in training is a transformative experience for a school community! Learn how students contribute to healing and hope while also growing empathy, resilience, and respect—and enjoying the gift of unconditional love in a welcoming wag and a soft paw. Through storytelling, reflections, and examples, we hope to inspire other schools to consider joining this much-needed work.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Chapel & Worship, School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging, Chaplaincy, Service & Service Learning
E8 – New Location, Same Mission: Revamping 7th Grade Service
After the Los Angeles fires forced St. Matthew’s Parish School to relocate, we seized the challenge as an opportunity. Discover how our 7th-grade service course was renewed and revitalized, harnessing the unique strengths and needs of our new community to create impactful, student-driven service learning experiences that built resilience and connection.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging, Service & Service Learning
E9 – Show Me the Money! You Can Make Admissions Everyone’s Business.
The biggest challenge admissions professionals face in recruiting and retaining families is teacher culture. Schools are businesses and operate in an ever increasingly and challenging independent school landscape. It is possible to shift the mindset of teacher culture to one of shared ownership for enrollment, engagement in the work of admissions, and embracing a business approach to their work.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School, Middle School, Secondary School, All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, School Management, Leadership & Governance
E10 – When the Unthinkable Happens: Facing Tragedy, Managing Trauma, Embracing Lament, Learning, and Love
In this workshop, we will reflect on the 1986 Mt. Hood tragedy at Oregon Episcopal School and consider how a community moved through trauma with lament, learning, and love. Through story and case study, we will explore trauma-informed leadership, thoughtful risk management, and the enduring power of experiential education to shape resilient communities.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum
E11 – Pause, Play, Be Present: The Tech Balance Our Young Learners Need
“Be Still and Know” inspires and informs a fresh, vibrant approach to tech balance in early childhood. Let’s share creative ways to help young learners pause, play, wonder, and stay present. Discover simple routines, unplugged challenges, and tech-light practices that spark focus, joy, and healthier digital habits for students and educators.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School
- Topics: School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum
E12 – Practicing CPR for Community: Curious, Probe, Redirect—A Pedagogy of Belonging in Times of Conflict
In an age of national crisis, polarization, ICE raids, and misinformation, educators and chaplains are increasingly called to serve as first responders to conflict and fear in school communities. This workshop introduces CPR (Curious, Probe, Redirect), a de-escalation practice developed by A Long Talk, as a spiritually grounded methodology for cultivating belonging.
- Grade Level(s): Middle School, Secondary School
- Topics: Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging, Chaplainacy, Leadership & Governance
E13 – The Least of These Are All Around Us: A Curriculum for Awakening
Theology as lived experience, not abstract doctrine. Students trace a powerful arc: from Queen Emma’s legacy of compassionate leadership, to José Andrés feeding millions, to their own community partners. Through Tutu’s “God Has a Dream” and Matthew 25’s radical call, they discover what it means to serve “the least of these”—and meet Christ in the process.
- Grade Level(s): Secondary School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Study of Religion, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging, Service & Service Learning
Workshop Block F
F1 – Creating a Research-Based Instructional Framework to Guide Improvement
In this presentation, we will share how we at Breck School created an instructional framework to guide improvement. The three domains—cultural awareness, intentional environments, and deeper learning—are deeply rooted in our Episcopal identity. We will share how the framework is integrated into teacher inquiry and coaching, and how attendees might adapt it to meet their own school’s context.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Equity & Justice, Teaching & Curriculum
F2 – From Purpose to Practice: Leadership, Service, and Episcopal Identity
Episcopal schools are called to form leaders through purpose-driven service. This interactive session explores how authentic, reciprocal, and durable partnerships—using Horizons as a case study—animate Episcopal identity, deepen leadership formation, and advance equity. Participants will reflect on their school communities, engage a practical framework, and leave with actionable next steps.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, School Management, Community & Belonging, Leadership & Governance, Service & Service Learning
F3 – Servant Leadership in Episcopal Schools
At Canterbury School, our commitment to our Episcopal identity has transformed our understanding of service. Our Servant Leadership program for grades 6–8 structures such deep student reflection on off-site service learning that students are equipped with the tools and self-knowledge to become servant leaders not just in the community but in classes, in relationships, and in their futures.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, Teaching & Curriculum, Chaplaincy, Service & Service Learning
F4 – Belonging and Behavior: How Bias Incident Data Can Inform Discipline and Community Life
Rooted in Episcopal values of accountability and grace, Trinity School leaders share how six years of bias incident data shapes policies and culture. Learn to define and track bias incidents, use data for institutional self-reflection, and strengthen your school’s witness to justice and the beloved community.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging, Leadership & Governance
F5 – Community Engagement That Works
This workshop will explore low-cost strategies that help childcare centers and schools increase community recognition while authentically responding to local needs. Participants will examine ways to build relationships with families, congregations, schools, and local organizations. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas to implement immediately to strengthen enrollment and community impact.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging, Leadership & Governance
F6 – AI Literacy for Chaplains and Educators
AI is already reshaping how students learn, write, and think—and most school leaders are figuring it out on the fly. This session offers a grounded introduction to generative AI for chaplains and educators: what it actually is, how it can be faithfully implemented, where the pitfalls lie, and how to help students engage it safely, with integrity and discernment.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Equity & Justice, School Life & Culture, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging
F7 – Life Together: Building a Rigorous and Mission-Centric Religion Curriculum that Orients Our Love Toward God and Neighbor
Attention is one of our scarcest and most valuable resources. This session will walk through how to envision and implement a religion academic curriculum that embodies school mission, stirs imagination, trains attention, and centers relationship. We will explore curriculum storyboarding as an effective process for big-picture thinking, backward design, consensus building, and marketing.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, Study of Religion, Teaching & Curriculum, Community & Belonging
F8 – From the Trauma Bay to the Hallway: Being Still In God’s Presence
Join Russell, a veteran Level 1 pediatric trauma chaplain, for a deep dive into the spiritual heart of school ministry. Drawing on 20 years of stories, he explores the ministry of presence, the mystery of suffering, the hope of the Paschal mystery, and blueprints for self-care. Learn to “be still” amidst the noise and rely on God as you lead your community toward the promise of the Resurrection.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, Community & Belonging, Chaplaincy
F9 – Strengthening Safety
Discover how the “I Love U Guys” SRP and SRM can transform emergency readiness in Episcopal schools. This session provides practical guidance for replacing outdated plans, improving staff confidence, and creating a unified, easy-to-train safety framework across classrooms, chapels, and campus life.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School, Middle School
- Topics: School Life & Culture, School Management
F11 – Unlocking the Power of Collaborative Social Media Teams
In this workshop, we’ll share strategies for staying ahead in today’s ever-changing social media landscape. Learn how cross-functional collaboration and diverse skill sets amplify a school’s voice, blend marketing and strategic communication, and create compelling stories—plus practical tips tailored to small school teams, from beginners to seasoned pros.
- Grade Level(s): Early Childhood (P-K), Elementary School, Middle School, Secondary School, All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, School Management, Community & Belonging
F12 – The K-8 Advantage: Building Bridges
In markets saturated with established PK–12 schools, K–8 institutions must articulate their value beyond the promise of continuity. This session aims to explore how partnerships with preschools and secondary schools can serve as a strategic enrollment management tool—strengthening school identity, culture, and long-term sustainability.
- Grade Level(s): Elementary School, Middle School
- Topics: Episcopal Identity, School Life & Culture, School Management, Community & Belonging
F13 – Lessons in Credible Crisis Leadership
In times of crisis, school communities need credible, compassionate, and accessible leaders. In this session, Alley Michaelson, Head of St. Matthew’s Parish School, shares leadership lessons from the Palisades fire, while AKCG’s Chris Lukach explores proven strategies to strengthen a school leader’s CODE Score—credibility, authority, and trust.
- Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
- Topics: School Life & Culture, School Management, Leadership & Governance